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Page 1: The Thinks You Can Think!

Good-bye Mr. WintersJonathan Winters brought us joy and laughter and

influenced an entire generation of comics, p. 5

Nation’s Polo Champs!Fourth-seeded Westmont Men’s Polo Team beats Colorado State in Texas final, earning

national title, p. 32

The Way It WasAdobes, built for “speed and cheapness,” featured in this year’s Pearl Chase Society

Historic Homes Tour, p. 21

The Voice of the Village S SINCE 1995 S

The best things in life are

FREE18 – 25 April 2013Vol 19 Issue 16

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 38 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

Sunset near for Café del Sol? Venerable eatery sold to Santa Barbara developer; Montecito

No. 3 in annual ZIP code rankings, just behind Beverly

Hills and Aspen, p. 6

Mineards’ Miscellany

– Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated (full story on page 6)

– Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated (full story on page 6) ThE ThINkS You

CaN ThINk!

Annual MUS Carnival features wit and wisdom of Dr. Seuss once again; April 27th event to run from 10 am to 3 pm (story begins on page 13)

– Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated (full story on page 6)

COVER PHOTO: Lauren Dyruff and Paloma McKean

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18 – 25 April 2013MONTECITO JOURNAL2 • The Voice of the Village •

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5 Editorial Montecito will forever miss funnyman and comic legend Jonathan Winters; Fire Station #3

proposal denied6 Montecito Miscellany Café Del Sol sold to Rick Sanders; Margaret Thatcher’s local visits; Montecito third richest

zip code in America; Huguette Clark’s last property sold; Billy Baldwin lauded by brother; Linda Purl stars in The Year of Magical Thinking; S.B. Symphony concert; “Bees Circling Heaven” at Lotusland; CAMA Women’s Board fundraiser; Pacific Pride Foundation’s Royal Ball; Barbara Cook at Granada; UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance production; SBMA’s Atelier event; Camerata Pacifica lunchtime concert; Jonathan Winters passes

8 Letters to the Editor Nancy Gifford and Catherine Gee thank Joanne Calitri; Leslie Bhutani pleased with Richard

Mineards’ story; Mike Stoker shares an artifact from a simpler time; Cotty Chubb and Ralph T. Iannelli: the long debate

10 Coming & Going Roaring ‘Twenties rule at Cold Spring’s annual fundraiser; Spamapalooza at the Barrys’ home11 This Week in Montecito Ken McAlpine speaks at SBMM; Luncheon & Symposium presented by Pierre Claeyssens

Veterans Museum and the Channel City Club & Committee on Foreign Relations; Lynda Millner’s Makeover class; MTF hike; Assistance League’s Prom Dress Boutique; Literacy Gala; Lecture & Luncheon; Tecolote book signing; Mad Hatter Benefit Luncheon; MUS Carnival; SBMM’s Sea Festival; upcoming and ongoing events

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach13 Village Beat This year’s Montecito Union School Carnival theme is “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!”; MBAR

approves Verizon antenna project; four Montecito firefighters promoted; MUS’s Earth Day festivities; donations sought for May Madness; Angels Foster Care hosts Al Fresco Afternoon

14 Seen Around Town Granada celebrates fifth year restoration anniversary; CAMA Women’s Board “Rite of

Spring” fundraiser; Boys & Girls Club 75th anniversary21 The Way It Was This year’s Annual Pearl Chase Society Historic Homes Tour visits six historic adobes and an

artist’s studio23 Sheriff’s Blotter Theft from vehicle on Loureyro Road; woman missing belongings on Hot Springs28 Coup de Grace Grace admires the old oak across the street29 On Entertainment Brad Fiedel stars in one-man show; Synergy at Lobero32 Your Westmont Polo team wins national championship38 Guide to Montecito Eateries The most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito

restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too

39 Our Town African People & Wildlife Fund tea at Gerry and Imaging Spence’s home40 Legal Advertisements Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week42 Calendar of Events New Order and Sigur Ros kick off Bowl season; pianist András Schiff returns; Taj Mahal

plays UCSB; Paul Kelly headlines Sings Like Hell; Freud meets C.S. Lewis in Freud’s Last Session; Art|Architecture on Film series; Angels in Exile screens; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets at Campbell Hall

45 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer

rentals to estate sales47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they

need what those businesses offer

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

p.6 p.42

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18 – 25 April 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 5If you don’t include murder, the crime rate in Washington, D.C. is down – (former D.C. Mayor) Marion Barry

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Montecito’s Favorite Funny Man Passes On

Jonathan Winters hadn’t been as visible over the past year or eighteen months as

he had been for most of the three decades he’d lived in Montecito (He and his wife, Eileen moved here in 1981). World famous and humble to a fault, he died on April 11 at the age of 87.

What made him famous around the world was prob-ably his role in “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, the 1963 Stanley Kramer-directed comedy that featured stone-faced Spencer Tracy as Police Captain T.G. Culpepper, along with just about every top-name comic alive at the time, includ-ing Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry Thomas, Jim Backus, Joe E. Brown, Andy Devine, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner, Arnold Stang, all Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, and cameos by Jack Benny and Jerry Lewis. That was the company Jonathan Winters kept.

I first saw him in black & white when he starred in his own 15-minute “Jonathan Winters Show” in 1956. The entire show was all Jonathan all the time and it was a most wonderful interlude for a budding teenager to enjoy.

One never really had a “conversation” with Mr. Winters. He was the conversa-tion, and he usually included one or more of the personalities he’d created to join in. You simply were along for the ride, and more often than not it was a joyride.

Jonathan Winters and his wife, Eileen, who died nearly four years ago, lived together comfortably high in the hills above Montecito. He was generous with his time, patient with his fans, and respectful towards his wife, who battled various ailments the last few years of her life.

Jonathan Winters was the very first Grand Marshal of Montecito’s Fourth of July Parade & Celebration, launched in 1996. He marched down School House Road from Upper Manning Park, through Montecito Union School’s parking lot, across San Ysidro Road, and down to Lower Manning Park, resplendent in his Marine Corps full-dress uniform and ceremonial sword. He meant a great deal to Montecito even then.

We’ll miss his quirks, his stories, his “evil” smile, “suspicious” stares, and his various outfits. (Once, when publishing the Santa Ynez Valley Journal and cov-ering a story in Los Olivos, I ran into him there. He was dressed as a butcher, complete with bloodstains, carrying what looked like a dull-bladed machete. As far as I know, he had no plan in mind other than to walk down the center of town to scare and/or entertain whoever noticed him.)

He was indeed a funny man. And, there won’t be another like him. Ever. May he rest in peace.

Court Orders Fire Board to Start Over with Station #3

(Editor’s note: This is late-breaking news, as reported by Associate Editor Bob Hazard. We’ll have the full report in next week’s issue)

After spending two years and an estimated $750,000 on an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for a third Montecito fire station at 2500 East Valley Road, plus several hundred thousand more in architectural and engineering studies and legal costs, Superior Court Judge Thomas P. Anderle on Tuesday rejected the approval of the former Montecito Fire Board of the proposed Fire Station #3, and also vacated its consultant-driven EIR. Judge Anderle found that the EIR was “fatally defective” in relying on the Palmer Jackson East site’s zoning for 93 estate homes at Rancho San Carlos, instead of its actual current use as highly productive agricultural land when performing the required environmental analysis, and thus did not comply with the mandates of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act). – Bob Hazard •MJ

Multi-talented Jonathan Winters, seen here with longtime friend Rick Maiani just before his one-man art show at the then Maiani Gallery on Coast Village Road, was not only a comic legend, but also an accomplished artist and a writer of renown

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18 – 25 April 2013MONTECITO JOURNAL6 • The Voice of the Village •

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MISCELLAnY Page 184

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The popular eatery has been leased by restaurateur Jack Sears and his wife, Emilie, from nonagenarian own-ers Paul and Lilly Ceidow, since 1989.

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18 – 25 April 2013MONTECITO JOURNAL8 • The Voice of the Village •

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The best little paper in America(Covering the best little community anywhere!)

Thank you so much for the amaz-ing article on Big Splash, written by Joanne Calitri in last week’s

Montecito Journal (Our Town MJ # 19/15). The Arts Fund is very grate-ful for the time and thoughtfulness she put into composing her excellent review. She took much care in speak-ing with each artist about their diverse approaches to depictions of water in many forms. Without diligent writers like Joanne, we would all be working in a vacuum. Thank you Montecito Journal for all you do to support the local arts and non-profit community.

Nancy GiffordMontecito (Editor’s note: Ms Gifford is a board

member of the Contemporary Arts Forum; she is also an art collector and an artist – J.B.)

Joanne Reigns Supreme

The article Joanne Calitri produced for The Arts Fund is truly magnificent.

The thought she put into this arti-cle is remarkable. It feels fluid and inviting… just like the show. Her journalistic talent is supreme among the writers in Santa Barbara. Thank you Joanne and Montecito Journal for your support in the arts community!

Catherine GeeDirectorThe Arts Fund(Editor’s note: Geez, we had no idea

that Joanne’s piece would produce such an outpouring of gratitude and praise! – J.B.)

Lovely LutahWe are thrilled about the recent

article by Richard Mineards in the MJ regarding our upcoming docu-mentary about local architect, Lutah Maria Riggs. Lutah created some of Santa Barbara’s most inspiring archi-tectural images, yet she has gone largely unrecognized for her con-tributions. As we have delved into research for this project, many peo-

ple throughout the community have come forward with thrilling details about Lutah. The volunteers and col-lection at the Montecito Historical Archives have proved to be invalu-able, and countless local architects and authors have graced us with their experiences with Lutah herself.

If you have information about Lutah Riggs, please contact: lutah [email protected]. We are excited to continue our exploration of Lutah’s legacy and our first film festival submission for this documentary will be to the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. To check out the Lutah film’s trailer, visit www.vimeo.com/63723775.

Leslie BhutaniLutah Maria Riggs SocietyMontecito

Unsteady ScienceAround 1970, when I first began to

get seriously involved in the weath-er, forecasting was pitiful. Weather forecasters were the scientists who most often got sand kicked in their face. It was so bad, “meteorology” was hardly considered a science. Many of the guys who currently rule the meteorological world started out in this atmosphere. Then suddenly the future of the universe was in their hands; Congress and heads of state want to hear from them. It would be a remarkable person who did not let this go to their head. Not to mention the money. Imagine how difficult it is for them now to turn back?

I also believe the collapse of the Berlin Wall came at a crucial time. Remember the “Peace Dividend?” How we suddenly lived in a hap-pier, safer world? Politicians and the media need to frighten us. No one sells a newspaper with a headline such as, “Global warming no longer considered very important.” No one ever got elected saying, “Things are just fine; when I get to Washington I intend to do very little.” So, with the Soviet bogeyman gone away, a whole lot of people needed a new villain.

Enter “Global Warming!” and when that got a little iffy, “Climate Change!”

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A Simpler FormEvery now and then I just have to

forward off to you some gems that I come across. With April 15 having been tax day, I just thought send-ing this to you would be appropri-ate. Here is the first Form 1040 the Federal Government provided back in 1913. Note the top bracket of 6% for those that make over $500,000.

Today, they talk about simplifying our tax code. I say we just go back to using this form with the same percentages that were used 100 years ago. Heck, I would even support elimination of all deductions if they stick to the percentages assessed.

And, as for the 1% for those mak-ing $20,000 or less… keep in mind that $20,000 in 1913 would equal over a million dollars in 2013 dol-lars.

Mike StokerCarpinteria(Editor’s note: It is interesting that

you suggest $20,000 in 1913 would be equal to $1,000,000 today. We have lit-tle doubt that in another hundred years, a billion dollars today will be worth a million or less in 2113! – J.B.)

Stubborn FactsThe Letters page of the Montecito

Journal is usually good for a couple of amusing screeds from wealthy readers who feel abused by some-thing or other, and your previous issue has a nice one from Ralph T. Iannelli in an elegantly phrased rebuttal to an earlier contributor (“Economic Meltdown Rebuttal” MJ # 19/15). In it he approvingly quotes John Adams on the immutability of facts and then goes on to tell a couple of whoppers.

Mr. Iannelli correctly states that the economic collapse of 2008 had many fathers (mostly fathers, I think, though there were certainly some mothers in there [Wendy Gramm comes to mind for her heroic work on deregulation]). Democrats were as one with Republicans on many of the issues that allowed the finan-cial services industry to leverage its scant capital to dizzying heights and create debt instruments of incompre-hensible complexity and insignifi-cant social utility. (I mean you, Bob Rubin and Larry Summers.)

More NonsenseBut he strays off into nonsense by

trying to lay the blame for the col-lapse at the feet of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Yes, the bursting of the housing bubble was responsible for a great deal of devastation and personal loss of wealth, particularly among those without a whole lot of it to begin with. Mr. Iannelli is right to reflect on that pain.

But the Federal government had very little to do with that. Only quite late in the game did those two oft-demonized quasi-public entities – Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – get into the business of pushing loans out to unqualified borrowers, in a foolish effort to keep a fraction of their previous market share (and to justify the stunning salaries their [Editor’s note: politically appointed]

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CEOs were being paid). By then, private enterprise had grabbed the housing loan market with both hands, selling deceptive loans to unsophisticated buyers using drive-by appraisals (if there were any at all), promising a free lunch, deliver-ing heartbreak, and getting rich in the process. Did the Federal gov-ernment create Angelo Mozillo, who remains to this day obscenely wealthy from Countrywide’s decep-tive business practices?

Mr. Iannelli goes on to doubt President Obama’s bona fides on the desire to reduce national spending. When national income collapses, tax receipts tumble and insurance pay-ments (food stamps, unemployment insurance and the like) explode. Of course the debt increases. It should, in times of trouble. Federal spending was what stood between us and the massive unemployment of the 1930s, or now in Europe, where debt fears have brought “austerity” and pun-ishing poverty to millions without jobs. Indeed there probably wasn’t enough of it, given the unemploy-ment rate today.

No Big SpenderBut let’s not single out President

Obama on issues of spending. A simple chart from the Fed, how-ever – http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=hvg – dem-onstrates that Federal expenditures nearly doubled from 2000 to 2008 (um, who was President?), spiked during 2009-2010 as the effects of the collapse started to hit and required Federal response, and have pretty much leveled off since then. The myth of Obama the Big Spender is just that: a legend.

(And before someone offers credit to the House Republicans for the money-saving effects of the seques-ter, let’s just wait and see how much that decline in expenditure trans-lates into recession, along with the steep decline in medical, legal and other services for the millions of people who are neither virtuous nor lucky enough to live in Montecito.)

His most ridiculous assertion, that the Obama administration spent $2.2 billion on “free cell phones,” inspired this letter. As the invaluable Snopes points out <http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cell-phone.asp>, it’s true that “a federal program subsidizes providers who supply telephone services to low-income consumers;” but it’s false that “the Obama administration created a program to provide cell phones and service to welfare recipi-ents.” I presume Mr. Iannelli refers to the Lifeline program, which began under Reagan, was expanded under Clinton, and first included cellular service under G.W. Bush. Paid for

by the service providers under a mandate from the FCC (most of the charges are passed on to regular cus-tomers), it’s not a “government pro-gram.” It’s not in the Federal budget. Obama had nothing to do with it, except that under his administration in 2012 the FCC began a compre-hensive overhaul because the costs ballooned when private enterprise jumped in to make a profit from it. Check out <http://www.freegov-ernmentcellphones.net> for a vivid example of what I mean.

Vote SuppressionFinally, Mr. Iannelli states with

regard to Voter ID laws but with little regard for the facts that “Each and every state offers – at minimal or no cost – the opportunity for anyone to obtain valid identifica-tion.” This is demonstrably false. Many Americans, particularly poor Americans or of minority birth, lack the documents required to prove their nationality, due to lost records or other reasonable circumstances. The cost of getting to the State cen-ters, particularly in rural areas, par-ticularly for people who cannot “take the morning off” to travel thirty miles to a county seat, is not trivial if one is working for minimum wage or very old or disabled or without a car or subject to the daily privations of so many in America. This may be a difficult reality for Mr. Iannelli to imagine.

If these new laws were not dis-criminatory and political, given that there is simply no evidence of exist-ing voter fraud on any non-trivial scale, why did the laws erupt from Republican-controlled legislatures? Why did that Republican leader in Pennsylvania brag that this would deliver Pennsylvania for Romney? Why did a three-judge Federal District Court panel toss Texas’s law on the grounds that, in the New York Times’ words, “the law would hurt turnout among minority voters and impose ‘strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor” by charging those vot-ers who lack proper documentation fees to obtain election ID cards?

Indeed, John Adams is correct. Facts are stubborn things. Mr. Iannelli writes well; his charity, as he describes it, is without question. But he should look more closely at his assertions to see if there is any factual basis for them. All too often, there is not.

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quit my day job so that I have more time to respond to those who have taken the time to respond to my let-

ters to the editor. Unlike the prior responses, Mr. Chubb is more direct with an attempt to incorporate fact and less about emotion in his let-ter. I wholeheartedly endorse his approach.

In his first challenge to the factual integrity in my letter he attempts to diminish or eliminate Barney Frank or Chris Dodd as being part of the problem rather than part of the solution to the financial meltdown of 2008. My statement about the Congressman and Senator’s refusal to address the problem of allowing unqualified persons to buy homes is factual in every sense of the word. Fact: Mr. Frank accused the Bush administration of trying to kill the dream of home ownership. He and Senator Dodd, two of the largest beneficiaries of campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie, chose to demonize Secretary Snow, Senator McCain and President Bush as it regarded their concern about this budding problem. It was and is the responsibility of Congress to reduce or eliminate programs that are at the root cause of so many of these problems.

I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Chubb, and said so in my letter, that people in the private sector caused a large part of the problem. I also said

that those individuals who chose to push the envelope or in some cases break the law could not do either if the laws were not on the books for them to stretch or break. Once again Congress is made up of Republicans and Democrats and both must share in the blame for this debacle.

Friends Of AngeloWhile both parties are to blame,

Mr. Frank and Mr. Dodd were in leadership roles during much of the time that this crisis developed. As a non-factual aside, it is laugh-able that the landmark Dodd-Frank financial regulation legislation is in fact named for these two former members of Congress. I would also ask Mr. Chubb if he has followed the investigation of Senator Dodd, among others who were “Friends of Angelo” and who may have been given preferential treatment by Countrywide and other lending institutions.

Mr. Chubb also may remember the congressional investigation of Bank One Boston, a bank that was headquartered in Mr. Frank’s con-gressional district. The bank, which had Stanley Livingston (husband of Representative Maxine Waters)

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About 150 partygoers attended the Cold Spring School Foundation’s annual fundraiser at Montecito Country Club over the weekend; this year’s theme and inspiration was “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of the Roaring ‘Twenties and the flapper society that inhabited the era. Cold Spring par-ents responded with enthusiasm and donned costumes that would have been appropriate dancing the Lindy or the Charleston, or ordering bathtub gin at a speakeasy circa 1922. There were some dapper dads but it was the flapper femmes that set the proper (or improper, as old money would have said back then) tone of the evening.

All proceeds from the event will go to support the various special-ists at Cold Spring School: a certifi-cated librarian, along with a technol-ogy, PE, and music specialist. All are being eliminated from public schools throughout the state, and so what-ever funds are raised will go towards keeping those specialists on. The Foundation also supplies a starter set of iPads for kindergarteners and first-graders.

“We also have a new ‘strings’ pro-gram,” Cold Spring School principal Tricia Price says loudly above the din inside the Country Club. “Every second and third grader has their own violin,” she continues, “and we’re beginning to build an orches-tra.” Students had to leave the violins in the classroom when the program was first started, “But now that we have a full set, they get to take them home and practice,” Tricia says with

a smile. There is no final test when they are through with the third grade and move on, but many of the kids are apparently quite accomplished. “The violin is not an easy instrument to play,” Tricia explains, “but they all do it and they do it well.”

When Ms Price was principal at Summerland School, it had a strings program, and when Ron Zecher was teaching music at Montecito Union, they too had a strings program, “so it was kind of his thing,” Ms Price notes (Mr. Zecher is now Cold Spring’s music specialist). “‘We can do this,’ he

Jules Kramer (on the right), sporting an extrava-gant pink boa, has a first grader “and one incom-ing,” Carmen DeForest (left), wearing an extremely fashionable golden skullcap, has a first grader at the school

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Literacy GalaThe Junior League of Santa Barbara (JLSB) will host the Sixth Annual Literacy Gala, The Giving Tree, at the Four Seasons Biltmore Coral Casino. This year’s theme is the beloved children’s book The Giving Tree by author and poet Shel Silverstein. Guests will enjoy a cocktail hour, live music, silent and live auctions as well as dinner and dancing. The event benefits the Junior League of Santa Barbara and its efforts to improve youth literacy in the community. Formal attire is suggested. When: 5 pmWhere: 1260 Channel DriveCost: $140 per personInfo: www.jlsantabarbara.org or 963-2704

TUESDAY APRIL 23

Lecture & Luncheon “What Karl Marx Really Taught” and how it relates to the progressive movement and the fundamental transformation of the United States by President Obama will be discussed by blogger Don Jans at the monthly meeting of Santa Barbara Republican Women, FederatedWhen: 11:30 amWhere: Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit RoadCost: $35 prepaid, $40 at the doorReservations: 699-6756

THURSDAY APRIL 25

Book Signing at TecoloteLife Skills Coach Eve Briere will be at Tecolote to sign her book, a good day, about creating a successful schedule and other organizational tips. The event will include an intimate presentation and raffle giveaway. When: 4 pmWhere: 1470 East Valley RoadInfo: 448-2397

THURSDAY APRIL 18

Lecture at SBMMSanta Barbara Maritime Museum presents author Ken McAlpine: Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization; a humorous discourse on life and the Channel Islands. The book gives a humorous and wise look at contemporary American life, and how time spent alone in nature can give us a fresh perspective and greater clarity about what matters most.When: 7 pmWhere: 113 Harbor WayCost: free for members, $5 for non-membersRegistration: www.sbmm.org

SATURDAY APRIL 20

Magic Makeover ClassLynda Millner, author of the book, The Magic Makeover: Tricks for Looking Thinner, Younger, and More Confident, will be teaching a class on how to provide an instant fix for any body. She has taught thousands of women about the 5 Cs: color, clothes, closets, cosmetics and confidence, and she does it with a sense of humor, warmth and energy. You’ll laugh and learn at the same time. She has taught lifestyle seminars on cruise ships, for businesses, department stores and colleges. So let the magic begin!When: 9 am to 3:30 pm

Where: Santa Barbara Adult Education, Schott Center, Room 28Cost: $25Info and reservations: www.sbcc.edu/ce or visit the Schott Center at 310 West Padre Street; (805) 687-0812

MTF HikeMontecito Trails Foundation hosts a 4-mile, 850-foot altitude-gain hike up Hot Springs trail to McMenemy, east to Vincent/Saddle Rock trail, west to Hot Springs, and return. Bring food and water for this advanced hike. When: 8:20 for check-in and release formsWhere: Hot Springs trailhead on East Mountain Drive, west of Hot Springs RoadInfo: Dick, 963-8858

Prom Dress BoutiqueAttention high school students! Avoid the cost of an expensive prom dress by borrowing a dress from the Assistance League of Santa Barbara’s prom dress boutique. Over 400 beautiful dresses in all sizes to choose from. Available to all girls attending a high school senior prom in Santa Barbara County; bring your school ID.When: 10 am to 2 pmWhere: 1259 Veronica Springs Road (off Las Positas)Info: Dianne Harrell, 898-1967

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail [email protected] or call (805) 565-1860)

FRIDAY APRIL 19

Lecture & LuncheonHistory comes alive for the Second Annual Luncheon & Symposium presented in collaboration with the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Museum and the Channel City Club & Committee on Foreign Relations. This year’s

event will be moderated by PCVM board member and Air Force Cross recipient, Col. Philip Conran. The event features four of Santa Barbara’s ‘Greatest Generation’ (all members of the Army Air Corps) Lt. Larry Crandell, Col. James Patillo, Staff Sgt. Jack Patterson and Lt. Bob Scott. An introduction will be hosted by Lt. John W. Blankenship, USN, along with a short film plus slides showing the types of planes the men were assigned to work. Come hear these rare, witty, authentic stories of the men who lived through World War II. When: 11:30 am Where: San Rafael Room at Fess Parker’s Doubletree, 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Info: [email protected] Cost: $35 members, $40 for non-members

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Transition House Fundraiser The 16th Annual Mad Hatter Benefit Luncheon will take place at the Biltmore. The public is invited to come and feast on savory selections, bid on silent auctions items, and enjoy entertainment featuring music and authentic costumes presented by “Hollywood Revisited.” Local celebrity, Andrew Firestone, will be Master of Ceremonies.When: 11:30 amWhere: 1260 Channel DriveCost: $125 per personInfo: Diane, 964-9742

SATURDAY APRIL 27

Montecito Union School CarnivalIt’s carnival time again at Montecito Union School. This year’s fun and games include: rock climbing wall, face painting, a giant slide, 50-foot obstacle course, and cakewalk. The carnival is the school’s largest fundraiser. For more information or to volunteer, contact Annabelle Abba Brown at [email protected]: 10 am to 3 pmWhere: Montecito Union terrace, 385 San Ysidro RoadInfo: 969-3249

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May Madness Music Academy of the West presents its annual massive treasure sale. Items for sale include furniture, rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, hardcover books, board games, music and movies, electronics, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, and sports equipment. Merchandise will be arrayed by type throughout the Academy’s grounds. Proceeds from the estate sale will directly benefit the Music Academy.Parking will be available on the Music Academy campus. Additional parking space and shuttle service will be available at Las Aves complex, located on the corner of Los Patos Way and Cabrillo Boulevard.When: Saturday, May 4, 9 am to 3 pmWhere: 1070 Fairway RoadInfo: (805) 969-4726 •MJ

SATURDAY APRIL 27

Maritime Fun for the Whole FamilySanta Barbara’s rich maritime history comes to life during the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s annual Sea Festival. Activities include: maritime themed scratch art and printmaking, hard hat diving demonstrations, sea song sing-a-longs, a Chumash tomol boat paddle, live music and two viewings (11:30 am and 1:30 pm) of four of Mike deGruy’s underwater films, in his memory. Dockside tours will be available of the tall ship Bill of Rights as well as SBMM’s Flagship Ranger.

When: 11 am to 4 pmWhere: 113 Harbor WayCost: free for members, nominal fee for non-members, kids under 12 are freeInfo: 962-8404, x115

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Montecito Union School Carnival

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MUS students and parents are gearing up for the school’s most fun and profitable fun-

draiser; the Montecito Union School Carnival is scheduled for Saturday, April 27, from 10 am to 3 pm.

The carnival, now in its 44th year, will once again feature a Dr. Seuss theme: this year: “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!” Organizer Annabelle

Abba Brownell tells us the event is expected to raise over $60,000 for the school, which will go towards various education and extracurricular programs. Raffle tickets are already for sale; raffle underwriters include Montecito businesses Toy Crazy, Kumon, Rori’s Ice Cream and Sky High Trampoline Gym. This year, the Montecito YMCA is partnering with

MUS to highlight its newest program, Healthy Kids Initiative, and American Riviera Bank, which just opened in the Upper Village, is also a sponsor.

Last year, Brownell, who has orga-nized the event the last several years, added new attractions to the tradi-tional carnival games and activities. The school’s parking lot was home to several actual carnival rides, includ-ing a train, swing chairs, and a rocket ride. This year a larger Ferris wheel will be added, Brownell tells us. Back again this year: a Used Book Sale.

The Montecito Mustang Marketplace, which was introduced

last year, will also be back. The Marketplace is set up so students can showcase their skills and help raise funds for the school by offering goods and services. Offerings from student vendors will include balloon ani-mals, handmade jewelry, artwork, sun catchers, painted flower pots, hand-made soaps, manicures, fortune tell-ing, trivia challenges, hand massages and more.

The traditional activities will also be in full swing, including parent-staffed booths featuring a Grinch Lollipop

The Mustang Marketplace at the MUS Carnival, where students provide goods and services to raise money for the school

A Used Book Sale at the MUS Carnival is back by popular demand; the carnival takes place April 27

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If there is a “Who’s Who” list in Santa Barbara, they were all at the Granada when it celebrated its

fifth year restoration anniversary with a gala. And what an evening it was; an evening of surprises, one after the other. Glamorous guests in black tie and gowns gathered in the lobby for a welcome reception. The entertainment began with emcee Hal Conklin intro-ducing Sio Tepper playing ragtime on the piano. Broadway songs were played by Olivia Siemens on the vio-lin and sung by Bryce Lupoli. Snow Fairy Ballerina Rachel Bergseteren Strange was there too. Spine tingling time was when both staircases filled with the Santa Barbara Choral Society singing the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Then the 190 partygoers moved to the loge for a stage performance by State Street Ballet Young Dancers. That was followed by the debut of the 4K digital projection unit, the result of twelve years effort by Roger Chrisman and wife, Sarah (board president), who

gave $100,000, and another matching gift was received from the Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation. This will add film to events the Granada can book.

Next we gathered in the McCune Founders Room and heard jazz by Holly Palmer singing and Peter Smith on the piano. Dinner was served on stage, with stunning crystal chande-liers and more hanging ropes of crys-tals. The tables had six-foot high cen-terpieces of white lilies – all reflecting light.

As we were eating, a scrim came down to block the view of the audi-torium. When it rose there was another surprise – the Santa Barbara Symphony playing with guest con-ductor Francesco Milioto and sopra-no Micaela Oeste and tenor Javier Abreu.

The Granada has eight resident companies: CAMA, The Music Academy of the West, Opera Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Choral Society, State Street Ballet, Theater League and

UCSB Arts & Lectures. There were 100 performances last year by these groups alone.

As executive director of Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts (SBCPA) Craig M. Springer said, “With the reopening in 2008, the Granada emerged in a new form, tak-ing its place as Santa Barbara’s ‘Lincoln Center.’ The honorary co-chairs Sarah and Roger Chrisman and Anne and Michael Towbes said of the guests, “You are our ‘Brilliant Stars’ who have made the Granada Theatre’s historic restoration and growing success pos-sible.” Susan Gulbransen reminded me, “It’s been sixteen years since the founding board members held our first meeting about the Granada res-toration.” A visionary group indeed.

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Granada honorary co-chairs Michael and Anne Towbes with Sarah and Roger Chrisman at the Gala

Granada interior architect Roger Phillips and wife, Diana

Some of the celebrated stars Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz with Annette and Dr. Richard Caleer at the Granada

County Supervisor Salud Cabajal, committee member Sharol Seimens, Perri Harcourt, Carla Hahn and Wayne Seimens on the Granada stage for dinner

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The talented gala committee was chaired by Carrie Ohly-Cusack, and helping were Meg Burnham, Nancy O’Connor, Marla McNally Phillips, Nina Phillips, Sharol Siemens and Prudence Sternin. They outdid them-selves and certainly none of us who were there will ever forget this spec-tacular evening in the Granada. May she carry on for another 90 years!

The Rite Of SpringCAMA Women’s Board and the

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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 6)Arroyo, who has been with us for more than twenty-five years, wants to do. We can either close perma-nently or find another location else-where.”

The new owner, who did not return calls regarding his future plans for the site, has developed and owns a variety of properties in Santa Barbara County, northern California and Phoenix, Arizona, including five mobile home parks, industrial properties, a hotel in Goleta, retail and office buildings in Santa Barbara, and raw land.

In 2004 he partnered with the John Tynan Group to develop the 197-room Hotel Andalucia, now the Canary, downtown.

He and his wife, artist Ro Snell, own a 20-acre property in Santa Ynez, which has been featured in the Los Angeles Times magazine.

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Thatcher’s Regular Visits

As Britain commemorated the life of longtime Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with one of the grandest funerals seen since the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, I learn the Iron Lady used to stay in our tony town.

“She would stay at the ARCO

Conference Center, which the Atlantic Richfield Company purchased in 1978, on Channel Drive when she would visit President Ronald Reagan at his ranch here,” says Trish Davis, whose friend, Bettie DeWitt, looked after the property. “I don’t think the main house was big enough for guests and the security associated with them, so, like former Soviet Union presi-dent Mikhail Gorbachev, she was

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)Walk, Look Book Nook, Stop Thing 1 & Thing 2, Green Eggs and Ham Toss, The Sneetches’ Coin Toss, Who Hair-Do’s, Face Painting, Bounce houses, climbing walls, slides and more.

Live entertainment this year includes aerial acrobatics, Teen Star winner Allie Nixon, Teen Star finalist David Schaeman, Santa Barbara Dance Arts, Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble, and bands The Caverns and Technical Difficulties. The entertainers will be onstage before and after the live auc-tion takes place at 12:45 pm.

Live auction items include an oil painting of Butterfly Beach by art-ist Jeremy Harper, a weekend at Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, active wear by Lole, coveted parking spots, sing seats and the chance to be principal for a day. Raffle tickets will also be sold during the carni-val; prizes feature gift certificates or goods from Montecito Sports, Via Vai, San Ysidro Ranch, Tecolote Books, Los Arroyos, George Pet Shop, Eye Society, Pressed Juicery, Santa Barbara Polo, Blenders, Disneyland, Montecito Barbers, Montecito Country Club, the Biltmore, Wine Cask, Montecito Yoga, the Stonehouse, Arigato Sushi, the Upham Hotel, Eat Drink Garden, Dianna Van Wingerden Personal Training, El Encanto, and other local businesses.

Food will be available for purchase, as well as homemade treats at the Carnival’s popular bake sale. Each year an art contest is held for students to design the promotional poster for the carnival; this year the winning design was submitted by 5th-grader Julianna Slater. The MUS Green Team will again “green” the event with composting bins and a solar-powered generator.

Brownell says this popular event could not happen if not for local busi-

nesses and the Montecito community. “Don’t miss out!” she says. For more information about getting involved, please email Brownell at theonlyab [email protected].

Verizon Wireless Granted Approval

Earlier this week, Montecito Board of Architectural Review granted final approval to an antenna project on Santa Angela Lane, close to a year after neighbors appealed the project, which was originally approved by Montecito Planning Commission in May 2012.

The original project included the

installation of nine Verizon Wireless panel antennas behind a parapet wall on a building located at 512 Santa Angela Lane, which already houses another carrier’s antenna. The need for the project came about early last year after the owners of the QAD property on Ortega Hill Road decided not to extend the cell phone carrier’s lease; the majority of Verizon Wireless’ coverage of the Montecito area was provided by the antenna at QAD.

The project was stalled when neigh-bors and El Montecito Presbyterian parishioners and preschool parents complained about the antenna’s prox-imity to homes, the church, and the preschool. Backed by the Montecito Association, the group appealed the project to the Board of Supervisors. Instead of letting the BOS hear the dispute, Verizon Wireless staff looked for alternatives in the neighborhood, identifying and then eliminating 18 other properties in which to locate the antenna, and an above ground prefab-ricated equipment shelter.

In March, it was decided that Verizon Wireless would continue to pursue the Santa Angela Lane location, but with a design alternative that would raise the antennas further away from ground level. The new design includes the installation of an antenna disguised as a 75-ft pine tree, located near another

similar tree, helping it to blend in to the neighborhood. Last month the appellants gave their support of the new design, saying it was a good com-promise and a suitable agreement.

On Monday, MBAR approved the design after planner Megan Lowery and Jay Higgins, agent for Verizon, color-matched branch samples with the existing trees on site. MBAR weighed in on the color and branch samples; they want Verizon to match the faux tree located on Overpass Road in Goleta in terms of tree shape and branch density. In order to do that, Verizon has agreed to reduce the number of antennas on the very top of the “tree,” so it will have a more coni-cal and realistic shape.

Once Verizon Wireless submits all the final clearance items, a Zoning Clearance will be issued by the County and the “tree” will be installed.

Firefighters PromotedThe Montecito Fire Protection

District promoted three firefighters with a ceremony Monday afternoon during the Board of Directors meeting at Fire District Headquarters.

Todd Edwards was promoted to Shift Battalion Chief. Todd began

Captain Evan Skei, Battalion Chief Todd Edwards, and Engineer Loren Bass (photo by Drue Holthe)

A faux pine tree disguises wireless antennae on Overpass Road in Goleta. Montecito Board of Architectural Review has approved a similar proj-ect for Santa Angela Lane.

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Ms Beresford is a retired English and American his-tory teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

Despite the lack of rain, this spring in Santa Barbara, as e.e. cummings would have said,

“is mudluscious.” In fact, we seem to be wallowing in it. Sullivan and Goss started the season with a water-color exhibition of 21 adobe missions painted by Edwin Deakin between 1897 and 1900. The Santa Barbara Historical Museum has been up to their ears in mud with repairs and restoration of the Covarrubias and the Historic Adobes. In keeping with that effort, they opened De la Tierra: Art of the Adobe, which features works by renowned artists and photographers that illuminate the rustic beauty and timeworn romance of Santa Barbara’s adobe structures.

The 14th Annual Pearl Chase Society Historic Homes Tour jumps into this “puddle-wonderful” world on May 19 when it visits six historic adobes and an artist’s studio inspired by the now-venerable style. Past pro-ceeds from the annual tour have sup-ported a myriad of preservation and restoration projects in Santa Barbara. (For information and tickets call 805-961-3938 or go to www.pearlchaseso ciety.org)

One of the adobes on the tour is the Arellanes-Kirk Adobe. Carefully restored and renovated by a new owner, the people of this aged adobe lived fascinating lives and had con-nections to Montecito.

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The 1872 Guide to Santa Barbara Town and County instructs readers that most houses in town are of wood frame design. “But for speed and cheap-ness,” the author says, “an adobe house of common earth can be built by natives working at $20 per month. Such houses have walls that are two to three feet thick, which make for a

comfortable house that is cool in sum-mer and warm in winter.”

Built between 1853 and 1867, the first owner of the Yankee-era adobe was Barbara Dominguez, wife of Geronimo José Francisco Arellanes. Both were descendents of men and women who played significant roles in the expanding Spanish empire that enveloped California over two centu-ries ago

Barbara Dominguez’ paternal grand-father had enlisted with the expedition organized by Capitan Fernando Xavier de Rivera y Moncada to escort a group

Francis M. Kirk purchased the Arellanes Adobe for $350 gold coin (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 20)his career in 1985, and worked as a paramedic in both Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. In September of 1991, he was hired as a firefighter/paramedic by Montecito Fire.

In addition to his paramedic skills, Todd has a depth of wildland fire-fighting knowledge that comes from many career accomplishments, including his participation on a Type 1 Interagency Management Team for the past 10 years. As a Team member, Todd has responded to many large wildland fires across the nation as well as other natural disasters, includ-ing five major hurricanes. He has completed and maintained California State Fire Officer and Chief Officer Certifications as well as thousands of hours of specialized training.

Todd has been the coordina-tor of past probationary Firefighter Academies and the coordinator of the District’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Program. He also authored the District’s Technical Rope Rescue Manual as well as the Executive Summary on Early Warning Notification Systems, which led to the District’s adoption of the HEARO home alert system.

Todd was recently recognized by the Montecito Rotary Club and honored with their Vocational Service Award for his commitment to Montecito. He and his wife, Lorrie, have four children: Greg, Nathan, Ambria, and Anjalie.

Evan Skei was promoted to Captain. In June of 2001, Evan left American Medical Response (AMR) to become a firefighter/paramedic for the Montecito Fire District. As a fire-fighter/paramedic for the District, he became a USAR Medical Specialist Crewmember until he was promoted to Engineer in May of 2010. During his tenure, he has earned and main-tained California State Fire Officer Certification.

Evan has completed over 1,000 hours of specialized training and served on the District’s Apparatus Committee and Electronic Patient Care Report (EPCR) Committee. He is currently the Vice President of the Montecito Firemen’s Association. Evan and wife,

Janelle, have a 3-year-old son, Reid, and are expecting their second child in July.

Loren Bass was promoted to Engineer. Prior to being hired by Montecito Fire in March of 2002, Loren was a firefighter for Yosemite Fire, California Department of Forestry and the Moraga-Orinda Fire Protection District. He holds an Associate’s Degree in Fire Science, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts.

Loren has earned and maintained California State Certifications as a Fire Officer, Hazardous Materials Specialist, and USAR Heavy Crewmember. He also completed the District’s qualification process required for the promotion to the rank of Engineer. Loren has served on the South Coast HazMat team, the Mapping Cadre, the Apparatus Committee, the District Housing Committee, and the Station 3 Design Committee. He is currently the sec-retary for the Montecito Firemen’s Association. He and his wife, Carly, are expecting their first child at the end of August.

Earth Day in Montecito Montecito Union School celebrated

Earth Day last week with a series of events including a movie night, sci-ence fair and festival. On Thursday, April 11, students spent their lunch-time on the school’s blacktop and in the garden where they took part in “green” activities.

Kicking off the lunchtime festival was a performance by Mr. Eco, an “environmental rap superhero” who uses Earth-friendly music to inspire kids to care for the planet. Mr. Eco (aka Brett Edwards) is a Cal Poly stu-dent who performs at school assem-blies on the central coast, and has been featured in local news outlets. After the performance, the kids perused activities including a blender pow-ered by a bike, canvas bag decorating, garden planting, soda bottle rockets, bubble activities, solar powered race cars and cookie making.

Moms Dagny Dehlsen and

Mr. Eco (and his sidekick) and Montecito Union stu-dents during the school’s Earth Day Festival

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Shannon Murray co-chaired the events, which have become an annual tradition at the school.

Next Tuesday, Crane Country Day School will welcome Robert Thurman, who will speak at the library in honor of Earth Day. Thurman will share thoughts from his book, Why The Dalai Lama Matters, and discuss responsi-bility to the environment for future generations.

Thurman is a scholar, author, former Tibetan Buddhist monk, co-founder (with Richard Gere) of Tibet House in New York City, a father of five children, and a close personal friend of the 14th Dalai Lama. Time maga-zine named him one of the “25 Most Influential Americans,” and he has lectured all over the world.

Thurman writes, “What I have learned from Tibetans has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science par-ticularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live. My desire is to share some of the profound hope for our future that they have shared with me.”

Mr. Thurman will begin speaking at 8:15 am at the Crane School Library. For more information, call 969-7732. Earth Day is Monday, April 22.

Art Donations SoughtDonations of works by Santa

Barbara artists are being sought for this year’s May Madness event at the Music Academy of the West. For the first time, works by area artists past and present will be available for purchase at the annual treasure and estate sale, which benefits the Music

Academy’s full-scholarship program.Donations should be brought to

the Music Academy, located at 1070 Fairway Road in Santa Barbara, between 11 am and 3 pm on these days: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, April 16 through 18, and Monday, April 22, through Friday, April 26.

For additional information on art donations, call 687-6582.

This year’s May Madness event will take place from 9 am to 3 pm on Saturday, May 4, at the Music Academy. Donations can be dropped off in the lower parking area at the Music Academy (follow the signage upon entering the campus). Clothing donations may also be delivered to The Rack, the Music Academy’s on-campus resale apparel shop, during regular business hours. The Rack is open 12 to 3 pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays. For clothing donation inquiries, call 969-0190. To arrange the pick-up of a large donation item, call 708-3139.

Al Fresco AfternoonAngels Foster Care will host its

2nd annual Al Fresco Afternoon on the Riviera, a benefit luncheon, in the gardens of the Four Seasons Biltmore. The event will take place on Friday, May 3, at 11 am. Guests are invited to shop in the Angels Marketplace, filled with items ranging from jewelry, home goods, fashion accessories, food items and florals, with a percentage of all sales going to Angels.

The luncheon will be served “Al Fresco” and the menu is an array of European-inspired food from Italy,

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Theft on Loureyro RoadWednesday, 13 March, 8:04 am – Deputy Amjadi was dispatched to Loureyro

Road in Montecito on report of a theft from a vehicle. The victim said she parked her husband’s vehicle in their driveway the night before, and she left her brown leather wallet in the center console. When she returned the next morning her wallet was gone. The wallet contained her driver’s license, a few credit cards, and a nominal amount of cash. Her husband needed to use the vehicle for work, so it was not on the scene at the time. The woman had left the doors of the truck unlocked. A report was taken.

Lost Property on Hot Springs RoadTuesday, 26 March, 11:29 am – Deputy Amjadi responded to a residential com-

munity on Hot Springs Road and spoke with a woman who was missing some belongings. The woman stated she was preparing to travel out of the country, and she was unable to find her passports, which she had stored in a top drawer of a desk in her bedroom. She said she was also missing her birth certificate, bank documents and a Spanish legal document. She said the last time she had seen those documents was in November, when she moved to the assisted living facility. She told the deputy in order to get a new set of documents, she had to show a police report stating they were missing. •MJ

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Since 2006, Angels Foster Care has rescued abused, neglected and aban-doned babies and placed them in loving Angels foster homes in Santa Barbara County. The non-profit orga-nization was established to offer car-ing, stable foster homes with a stay-at-home parent for children aged two and under (and their siblings up to age five) who are entering foster care for the first time. In seven years, Angels Foster Care has placed 128 babies in local homes.

According to event committee member Sheela Hunt, numerous studies speak to the importance of infant attachment, which occurs when a child bonds to a consistent set of caregivers during his or her first 24 months of life. Angels foster parents

take only one child (or sibling group) at a time and agree to keep the child until reunification with the birth par-ents or adoption occurs. A twelve-month commitment is usual, which allows the child to receive stable care and prevents movement within the foster care system.

Tickets are $125 per person or $1,250 for a table of ten, and may be reserved by visiting www.AngelsSB.com/alfresco, or by calling the Angels office at 884-0012. All proceeds from the event will fund training programs for Angels foster families and sup-port the agency’s foster care program. Event sponsors include Coast2Coast Collection, Juliska, Vietri, The Biltmore Four Seasons Resort, Montecito Bank & Trust and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Due to critical shortages, there is an urgent need for certified foster homes. Information is available at www.AngelsSB.com. •MJ

Scholar, author, and former Tibetan Buddhist monk, Robert Thurman, seen here with the Dalai Lama. Thurman will be at Crane School next week speaking on behalf of Earth Day.

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“One particular occasion in 1990, when she had resigned as Prime Minister after eleven years in office, she received an invitation from both President Reagan and ARCO’s chair-man, Lodwrick Cook, to visit Santa Barbara to celebrate Reagan’s 80th birthday. She had not been to California since 1969, so readily accepted and spent two nights with her husband, Denis, at the property before being flown in the ARCO helicopter to Los Angeles for a celebrity packed event.”

Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner, whose principal home is just a leisure-ly jog away, purchased the property about 13 years ago for around $16 mil-lion, reportedly with plans to remodel it into The Breakers Spa and Club.

Until recently it had a “For Sale” sign on it.

Pricey PlaceMontecito is the third richest zip

code in America outside of New York City, according to Coldwell Banker Real Estate’s annual Luxury Market Report.

Beverly Hills 90210 leads the rank-ings with the most home sales over $10 million last year, with a total of 21 opulent properties being snapped up.

Aspen, Colorado – 81611 – was sec-ond, but, despite the aprés ski, most millionaires – or billionaires – still prefer a place in the sun it seems,

with eight of the top ten, excluding the Big Apple, being found in either California or Florida.

Our rarefied enclave had 15 sales for ultra-luxury homes followed by 90077 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, where 10 properties sold for $10 million or more.

These were followed, in order, by Miami Beach, Brentwood, Malibu, Atherton, Greenwich, Connecticut, and Miami.

“The activity we are seeing for tro-phy home sales speaks volumes about the value of these markets,” says Budge Huskey, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker. “Overall, the luxury real estate market is doing incred-ibly well, giving us many markets to watch.”

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Clark died in May 2011, weeks short of her 105th birthday, and spent the final two decades of her life in seclusion in New York’s Beth Israel Hospital.

She wasn’t ill – but it was her fear of illness and dying that saw her effec-tively give up her life 20 years before her death.

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Baldwin, 50, gets high praise from his even more famous brother, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin, in the May issue of Vanity Fair.

Billy, who lives in our Eden by the

Beach with his singer wife Chynna Phillips, is one of Alec’s three broth-ers, including Stephen and Daniel, but is described by Alec, 55, in the personally written article as “the easi-est one to be around.”

Plus points include him being a rabid sports fan, especially a New York Yankees supporter.

“He’s also an endless source of innovative fund-raising ideas – from

working with the New York City marathon charity program to auction-ing a walk-on role on 30 Rock – for the many causes he supports, most notably the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.

“He’s also a great dad who has made sacrifices in his career and per-sonal passions to raise three kids.”

Alec, an Emmy and Golden Globe winner, adds: “When I’m with him, I can relax. We can say stupid things we said forty years ago and still make each other laugh... I know if I needed something and he had it to give, he would help... He is as bighearted as anyone you can imagine.”

And, by coincidence, we all used to share the same New York agent, the late J. Michael Bloom, when we were starting our on-screen careers...

Magical ThinkingAuthor Joan Didion’s book The

Year of Magical Thinking, which chron-icles the loss of her novelist husband John Gregory Dunne from a heart attack and, soon after, the death of her 39-year-old daughter, Quintana, after a long illness, was completed in just 88 days.

It translated wonderfully to a Broadway play in 2007, directed by David Hare and starring Vanessa Redgrave, and six years later has finally arrived in Santa Barbara with the Ensemble Theatre Company at the Alhecama, one of the last productions at the rustic venue before the com-pany moves to the 300-seat New Vic.

Under longtime friend Jenny Sullivan’s direction, Linda Purl is a mesmerizing one-woman tour de force in her first ever solo perfor-mance, which came about after the original choice, One Day at a Time actress Bonnie Franklin died from cancer at the age of 69 in February.

Purl, who appeared on HBO’s True Blood, deals admirably with the many challenges brought in the haunting and poignant one hour and 45 minute intermission-free production, which brought a standing ovation from the packed audience.

Billy Baldwin (seen here in A Plumm Summer) lauded by his brother, Alec, in Vanity Fair

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 21)

of colonists known as Los Pobladores from Loreto to California in 1781. He and his family had signed on with the group headed for Santa Barbara where he was to serve as a Presidio soldier. Born in Santa Barbara, her father was baptized at the Presidio church.

In 1839, Barbara married Francisco Arellanes, a descendent of an old family prominent in events of colo-nization, exploration and conquest of the New World. His father, Don José Teodoro Arellanes, was a blue-eyed Castilian from Sonora, Mexico. In the 1840s he was awarded two land grants, Guadalupe Rancho and El Rincon. By 1853, Teodoro Arellanes owned several adobe complexes and parcels of land in the town of Santa Barbara, none of which remain today. Members of this branch of the family came to Mexico with Hernán Cortez, who defeated the Aztecs and secured the lands of Mexico for Spain.

In 1866, one of Barbara and Francisco’s daughters, Maria de las Angustias Crisogona Arellanes mar-ried a gringo, Francis M. Kirk, in the adobe church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, which was located on the corner of State and Figueroa streets. In 1872, the parents deeded the land

to Francis M. Kirk for the sum of $350 gold coin. Over the years Frank supported the family as a carpenter, and by 1880 he and Angustias had five children, of which Carlos was one.

At some point Carlos Kirk, as boys are wont to do, carved his initials in the frame of the front door, and his mark has been preserved to this day.

The McCurdy/Hart Connection

In 1887, Alice McCurdy Hart and her sister, Gertrude G. McCurdy, became owners of the Kirk-Arellanes Adobe. The Harts had come to Santa Barbara from Ohio in 1872 for the health of Alice’s banker and merchant husband. After he died, Alice and her 10-year-old daughter, Louise, lived with her elderly farmer-turned-capitalist father, A.L. McCurdy, her sister Gertrude, and their Chinese servant Ah Fou. A. L. McCurdy was quite wealthy and invested heavily in Santa Barbara real

estate. He died in 1886, and the fol-lowing year the sisters purchased the historic adobe.

In 1896, Alice McCurdy Hart pur-chased land in Romero Canyon and established El Refugio. She partnered with W.A. Alexander and Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, creator of the Arcady estate in Montecito, to form a water company, which tunneled into the wall of the canyon to leach water from the sandstone formation. After her death in 1912, her half of the Kirk-Arellanes property was deeded to her daughter Louise who retained control of the Romero Canyon ranch and its rambling single story ranch house.

Whitehead and his wife, Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, were students of the social reformer John Ruskin and devotees of the Arts and Crafts movement. They had moved to Santa Barbara in the hopes of establish-ing a utopian artistic community. Contemporaries described their home as romantically pre-Raphaelite with a mystic quality that was far removed from the world of that day.

Louise Hart was considered to be a brilliant, artistic, and eccentric woman. She found the Whitehead’s lifestyle quite alluring, and she caused quite a scandal dancing under the moon-light in diaphanous gowns on vari-ous Montecito estates. Many believed her friendship and interest in Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead led to the tempo-rary separation of Jane and Ralph.

“As I remember Miss Hart,” wrote Ike Bonilla, who lived on the Montecito ranch in 1916 and whose step-father worked for her, “she was

a very thin woman with a funny yel-lowish complexion which my family said was because she was an opium user.” Her Chinese cook and house-boy was her constant companion on the ranch, and Ike’s mother would not let her offspring go up to main house because “there were things going on there children shouldn’t see.”

Louise also had a reputation as a wild and fast driver. Ike said, “I remember vividly while passing the Miramar Hotel one time she took her hands off the wheel while doing close to sixty to light a cigarette.” She was too frail to crank her Pope-Hartford so she would park on a hill to let the car roll to start it. In town she always parked by the fire station so the fire-men would start it for her.

Louise had a town home at 1120 Laguna Street and often brought the Bonilla kids to town. On two of these occasions, she drove “straight to a large house on a hill at Figueroa and Garden streets where she let them off.” Though Ike didn’t know it, this was the old Arellanes-Kirk Adobe which she co-owned with her aunt Gertrude.

Louise was wont to wear a kimono that fell open in the front and under which she wore nothing but loose shorts. Ike recalled, “She did not seem to care how much of her body she showed even though it was far from being beautiful.” Though he was only 11-years-old at the time, the worldly Ike felt he was quite knowledgeable in these matters, having helped his uncle with janitorial work at the local vaudeville house. “I had seen enough of girls’ bodies,” he wrote, “to know that Miss Hart’s was not in this cat-egory.” At some point, Ike’s mother had seen enough, too, and finally laid down the law. She made his father quit the job and return the family to town.”

After Louise died in 1921, the Adobe passed very quickly through several owners and residents such as Chester E. Jordan, the Supervisor of the U.S. Forest Service, and later Frank Robinson, the Assistant Superintendant of Agriculture for the U.S. Forest Service. Robinson pur-chased the adobe in 1925, by which time it had grown some frame addi-tions.

John and Marie Gorham rented the frame and adobe home in 1933, and Marie petitioned the City Planning Commission for permission to oper-ate a lunchroom. She wanted to serve healthy luncheons to about twelve persons by appointment only. She promised to not put a sign out and said her next-door neighbors had no objection. “It would be an advantage to the many winter visitors to get the food their doctors order, and added interest to get it in an old adobe,” she wrote in her letter to the Commission.

Angustias Kirk, seen here with one of her sons, could trace her lineage to soldiers of the Presidio and compatriots of Cortez (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Louise Hart, seen here in exquisite oriental garb, shocked her neighbors with her convention-free lifestyle (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Marie Gorham on the porch of the adobe where she wanted to open a lunchroom in the 1950s (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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Several subsequent owners honored the old adobe, now over 100 years old, with great love and care. The new owner purchased the property in 2007 and made extensive restorations, renovations and additions in a sensi-tive and beautiful manner that high-lights the adobe sala and incorporates design elements that complement the adobe style.

(Sources: http://www.militarymu-seum.org/Rivera.html; obit Morning Press, 31 Dec. 1912; Vertical files at Gledhill Library: Arellanes-Kirk Adobe and Louise Hart; the work of Rosario Curletti; City Directories, Ancestry.com; the 1903 Burton Index to the Burton Map; Mission baptis-mal, marriage, and death records; family trees; Bancroft; City Planning Address and Sanborn map; Post and Hazeltine’s Phase Two Architectural Resources Report and Concept Design Review, Dec. 10, 2001.) •MJ

A recent remodel and addition have mindfully incorporated and enhanced the historic Arellanes-Kirk Adobe (Brooks student photo courtesy of Allen Zimmer)

Inside the adobe sala, the furnish-

ings add to the warmth of the

organic building material

One can still see Carlos Kirk’s initials just under-neath the bell

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Coup De Grace by Grace Rachow

Ms. Rachow says every big, old house is better with kids and dogs and interesting things going on in the trees.

The Old House Across the Street

There’s a commotion coming from the neighbors’ oak. It’s beautifully shaped and just the

right accent for the 85-year-old Dutch Colonial two-story home across the street. The tree has always remind-ed me of the one the Swiss Family Robinson lived in.

A couple of years back, the house was sold temporarily to a middle-aged couple from Los Angeles who wanted to remodel the house and take that oak out. Otherwise they seemed like nice enough people, but the fact that they didn’t love that tree bothered me.

Luckily these buyers got cold feet when they learned that the house had been extensively colonized by honey-bees. And the renovation itself would include the works, a new foundation, plumbing, heating and electrical, not to mention a fleet of sanders to remove the decades’ worth of peeling paint on the clapboard and multi-paned windows.

The house was sold again, this time to a couple with two young boys.

I’d always thought the big, old house needed a family with kids, but I wondered if this young family had the capital and the emotional stamina it would take to see this rehab project through to the end.

The renovation across the street began in 2011 on the heels of a year-long rebuild our next-door neigh-bors had just completed. So we were accustomed to the hammering and frequent whine of power saws.

Our street continued to be lined with the pickup trucks of the con-struction workers. I stopped count-ing debris-filled dumpsters at 20. This big old house was exchanged, bit-by-bit, for a house that looked the same as the old, but beautifully transformed, almost as if it had been Photoshopped into perfection.

It wasn’t magic. It was hard work, and this family clearly was keeping the building industry alive and well on the South Coast.

Of course, it can be challenging at times to live in the midst of some-one else’s construction project. It helped a lot that all our neighbors are extremely likeable, wonderful, funny, friendly people. Besides, we had our own projects and new pups, Tashie and Nell, to keep us distracted for the duration.

After more than a year, the build-ing permit was signed off, and our across-the-street neighbors moved in. I figured there’d be a few months of

finish work. Then the Colonial would be the perfect gem of the neighbor-hood, and peace would reign. The very day I had that thought, I noticed a gigantic backhoe parked across the street. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, our neighbors were going to have a back-yard pool.

Digging, pouring concrete, and finish work took three more months. While the rumbling went on out-side, the interior decoration projects went on inside. The summer was dusty and hot, and the neighbor boys waited eagerly for their swim-ming hole. Finally, on a particularly hot day in August, the pool was ready. The sounds of construction were traded for the splashing of exuberant cannon balls… a lovely sound to behold.

I’d said many times that old house across the street needed kids, and the boys definitely made their presence known now. To perfect the picture, all they needed was a great family dog.

A few months later, once it was too cold and rainy to swim, these neigh-bors got a pair of puppies, Simon and Angus, curly-coated males of spec-ulative origin. Probably there was poodle in the mix, but the rest was a mystery. The first question everyone asked was, “What kind of dogs are they?”

We advised them to make up a breed. “I think they’re Yucatan otter hounds,” my husband suggested. And so it came to pass that our female pups got handsome boyfriends from south of the border. And our neigh-bors had the challenge of incorporat-ing the training of puppies into their perfectly renovated and redecorated home. They’d managed to stay calm and cool throughout their remodel-ing project, something I know I could not have managed. I wondered if the addition of destructive puppy teeth would create the tipping point to sour their good-natured outlook about it all. Amazingly, our neighbors contin-ued smiling and kept coming up with more and more home improvement projects.

That brings me back to the com-motion in the oak across the street. The neighbors’ pups are barking below, and a ladder leads up into the branches. The dad and the two boys are working up there with tools, building materials, and architectural plans approved by the Swiss Family Robinson.

I always thought that old oak need-ed a tree house. •MJ

LETTERS (Continued from page 9)as its Board Chair, was accused of a number of banking violations and had taken TARP funds, which to the best of my knowledge have not been repaid. I believe the investigation is still continuing.

In final response to Mr. Chubb’s assertion that I strayed into non-sense by suggesting that Fannie and Freddie, along with Mr. Frank and Mr. Dodd, were a large part of the housing collapse, I will let the public decide who is more nonsensical – Mr. Chubb or me.

Obama The Big SpenderRegarding Mr. Chubb’s concern

that I am being non-factual when I state that Mr. Obama has not made an honest effort to rein in spending, I will once more ask Mr. Chubb to think about the facts. Mr. Obama admit-tedly inherited an economy that was challenged when he took office on January 20, 2009, but the fact is that he has been given most everything he has asked for by Congress and any fair-minded person will tell you the money has not been well spent. Reducing spending is not the same as reducing the growth in spending. The rationale behind Mr. Chubb’s comment that “government spending has declined markedly, once you fac-tor out the automatic spending trig-gered by the collapse,” reminds one of Marion Barry. The former Mayor of Washington commented: “If you don’t include murder, the crime rate in Washington, D.C. is down.”

Mr. Chubb is correct that spending on social welfare programs increase when people lose their jobs. Fact: for each new job created during the Obama administration seven more people went on Food Stamps. How to solve that problem? Help create more jobs, not manage the percent-age of unemployed for political rea-sons. What do I mean by that? If the same number of people that were looking for jobs in January of 2009 were looking for jobs today, the per-centage of unemployed would be in excess of 10%. That is a fact.

I am still trying to understand why the number of people receiving disability payments has increased over 25% since the President took office. One more fact while I am at it: the President and his party have not attempted to enact even one of the recommendations of Simpson-Bowles.

Obama PhonesNowhere did I say that the free cell

phone program was started under President Obama, and I was wrong if I gave the impression that it was a federal government program. What I did say is that over 40% of those who receive the benefits of this program do not qualify to receive the benefits.

If the Federal Government started to investigate whether the providers were trying to make an excess profit on the program (the government definition of excess profit is often syn-onymous with any profit), one hopes they would use their good offices to make sure the people receiving free cell phones were qualified to do so in the first place.

Finally, let me respond to Mr. Chubb’s assault on me for being in favor of making it more difficult for certain groups of people to vote. I would only respond to Mr. Chubb by saying that for the first time in his rebuttal he strays toward emo-tion. I am sorry that in order to receive a privilege in this country it sometimes requires work on behalf of the beneficiary. In that past cen-tury when this country denied the right of women to vote it would have been a travesty for women to have given up because there were some roadblocks between them and the achievement of their goal. As I have stated, this is not about deny-ing anyone the right to vote; it is about simple fairness of process. I have to believe that if anyone really wanted to vote and were denied access to the voter booth because of money, some organization –gov-ernment or privately funded group – would resolve that issue. Wait! I just thought of a solution: let’s go to the folks at ACORN and ask if they can help. Wait! Just fact-checked: one of the President’s favorite organiza-tions is not functioning as robustly as it once did.

In closing, Mr. Chubb, I am glad I was able to provide you with a little amusement as that certainly was my goal when I first responded to Ms Wilkinson’s letter. I am some-what saddened that you make the presumption that I am wealthy, as we do not even know each other. If you define wealth by one having a great family and wonderful friends, I am one of the richest men in the world. If you define wealth by dol-lars, frankly that fact is between Governor Brown, Barack Obama and me; after what they take each year, please give them a call and tell me if I am rich. It is unfortunate that you would use class warfare thinking in your response. So, Mr. Chubb, why don’t Ms Wilkinson, you, and I get together for a cup of coffee some-time? I know some really good non-political jokes.

Ralph T. IannelliMontecito (Editor’s note: We apologize to a num-

ber of letter writers whose prose failed to make it into this issue because of the rather lengthy give and take between Mr. Chubb and Mr. Iannelli. Those letters, however, will be printed in our very next issue. – J.B.) •MJ

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Fiedel Having Time Of His Life With ‘Borrowed Time’

On Entertainmentby Steven Libowitz

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to Montecito Journal for over ten years.

To borrow a line from his most famous film score, Brad Fiedel is baaack.

The composer of Terminator, True Lies and Blue Steel, to name just three of his most popular movies, stepped away from the Hollywood scene after 25 years in the business to begin a search for more meaning in his life and career. That nearly 15-year saga took him deep into surfing and then working on a planned big Broadway musical before he realized he needed to strip things down and get more personal.

The result is Borrowed Time, a new one-man musical that traces his artistic career and the choices and compro-mises he made along the way, and the eventual path to greater self-fulfill-ment. The heartfelt journey plays out in songs that he had already composed before working on the show, but none of which had ever been played in pub-lic despite his vast commercial success in scoring for film and TV.

With his wife, actress Ann Dusenberry, serving as director, Fiedel is premiering Borrowed Time April 25-26 at Center Stage Theater in downtown Santa Barbara. He talked about the genesis of the show earlier this week.

Q. The one-man show is basically the story of your career, is that right?

A. Everything that happens in the show is true. But it’s in shorthand. It’s about my artistic journey, the breaks, the disappointments, the awakening, all of which I play out in scenes, but also songs that I wrote.

How did it come about? We started working on it eighteen

months ago. I had come through my career and left Hollywood, and got into some other things. I learned how to surf at age fifty and later took on a proj-ect of building a mini surf hotel down in Mexico. But I hit this place, maybe feeling a bit stuck and depressed, and eventually I realized I really hadn’t used my voice, actually sat down and played the piano and sang for many years. So I made this commitment that I was going to get up every morning and play and sing for at least a half hour. And in doing that, I started remember-ing all these songs I wrote as a young guy years ago. Then there were things I’d developed for projects that never got produced. The songs started to come back to me and I eventually I was reminded what my dream was as a sixteen year old coming of age in the ‘sixties: that I’d help the world, help wake people up, with songs I wrote about what I saw in the world. But my

life had gone a different way. I can talk about it almost like it’s

someone else even though it’s me and I’m playing it. Because we did have to simplify it and play with the chronol-ogy to make it work as a show, and have more of a dramatic shape. To me it’s about a musician’s dream of what to do with his talent, and how he got seduced into another direction before he eventually finds his way back to his soul’s purpose, to things that make him feel right with the world.

You talk about sacrifice and struggle, and dissatisfaction. But you made it. You wrote scores for many successful movies, made a lot of money, moved to Montecito and all that. Maybe this is just playing Devil’s Advocate, but why weren’t you happy?

Frankly, that is one of the challenges I had with the show. From the out-side, there was that stereotypical idea of what happiness is. A lot of musi-cian friends don’t get it, either. What was my problem? But the way that I am built – I graduated high school in 1969, and I started hanging out with Black Panthers and Weatherman and got tear-gassed in Washington – there was this real sense that we were going to change the world. That was instilled in me. So I felt that somehow I had to do something and not just be success-ful and make money. So I was doing well, but it wasn’t all rosy. It’s mostly in hindsight, but I was melancholy. It took me a long time to understand what was bothering me. I knew in my heart and soul I wasn’t living the life that I had promised myself I would.

Can I switch gears and ask you about the Terminator score?

It was Jim’s (Cameron) first real movie, he had this vision and he was like a bull-dog. Stuck to his guns. And one of those things he wanted was me because he’d heard some of my experimental work of synthesizers with piano, a combo of organic and electronic sound. I had a pretty strong rhythmic sense, too, and I think it really intrigued him… We were all at the right place at the right time. I felt his energy, and the relentlessness and edge of this film, which was taking Sci-Fi and action to a new level, and I challenged myself musically to find new ways to support his vision. I wanted the music to sound like the heartbeat of this bizarre mechanical but smart thing. And the love theme, I chose to score it with solo piano, and when Jim first heard it, he was like “Whoa, I would never have gone that way, but I love the emotional-ity you’re bringing out.” It was a good collaboration.

You’re doing these shows as a bene-fit for the Center Stage Theater’s Renter Scholarship Fund. How did that come about?

It’s one of the best places in Santa Barbara for people to do new work. You can live out your creative ideas on stage and be out there with good lights and sound and whatever seating arrangement you want because it’s a black box that you can mold to how-ever you want it. And they even give grants. I’ve been very successful and I want to give back to the arts.

What’s next for Borrowed Time? This is like a calling card. But it’s

more. We hope to go into communities with the show because we think it’s a universal story. The core center of it is about following your dream, putting into action that thing you have inside you that is unique, or at least pursuing it. I’m hoping we’ll take it on tour as a benefit, working with organizations that support the arts in their commu-nities. Ideally, I’d like for Ann and I to go in and have a workshop over a weekend after doing the show. There is a very limited idea of what the arts can be for kids. It’s not just violin or draw-ing still life. It’s about creative thinking whether it’s science or math. So we need to train our kids to improvise and make things up and who knows where that will become of service to humanity. It’s like I’m an evangelist of improvisa-tion and creativity.

Brad Fiedel performs Borrowed Time at Center Stage Theater next Wednesday and Thursday, April 25-26. Tickets cost $25 general, $20 students. Call 963-0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org.

BASSH Turns Into Mash-Up

For more than a decade, local profes-sional dance teachers and their stu-dents got together for a weekend of performances dubbed BASSH, repre-senting the styles that made up the events’ acronym – Ballroom, Argentine Tango, Swing, Salsa and Hip Hop. But now it’s gone.

In its place is Synergy, a “genre-blend-ing” collaboration that features much of the same personnel – hip-hop regulars Tamarr Paul and Kara Stewart, swing veteran Derrick Curtis, and Latin fave Felipe Castanẽda among them – but in a brand new format. The chore-ographers were required to combine dance styles in a “Glee”-style mash-up rather than simply showcasing them individually in the mish-mash that was

BASSH. And while the result isn’t quite as mushy as something that might come out of a Vitamix on high, the concoctions created will assuredly have some unusual flavors. What comes out is purely up to the creative imagination of the choreographers themselves.

“We wanted BASSH to morph into something more modern,” explained Sheila Caldwell, the executive director of the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance, the umbrella organization that is spon-soring “Synergy.” “The whole commu-nity worked on bringing it all together.”

The line-up includes Perfect Harmony, blending Hip-Hop, Chinese Dance and Martial Arts; City Life, bringing together Hip-Hop, Salsa, Latin and Tap; and Let’s Fly Away, combin-ing Aerial and Ballroom. Kara Stewart and Audrey Uhland are co-creating a hip-hop and ballet blend segment, the UCSB Dance Company is pairing with WHAT to mash-up contemporary and street dance, and Santa Barbara veteran Robin Bisio is coming together with La Petite Chouette’s Ninette Paloma to make a modern/aerial concoction.

“Each one has its own little story,” Caldwell said. “They shared ideas, and tried to figure out what to do that would be cohesive. The idea wasn’t just to have two things going at the same time, but marry them together.”

For Bisio, who also choreographed the bee-related piece that premiered at Lotusland last weekend and is far more familiar with site specific work via previous work with the Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the assignment represented an exciting challenge.

“Mostly, Ninette just looked at the film we’re also using, and devised movements for her aerialist,” Bisio said. “I wouldn’t have had any idea how to match something to what she does. So her dancer is making movements in the air that go with what we’re doing on the ground below. We’re working on having it connect even more, on emo-tional and aesthetic levels. I’ve learned a lot about rope and sling, more about aerial dancing that I ever thought I would. So now we’re hopefully not speaking two completely different lan-guages anymore. I’ve got a lot more respect for other genres now.”

So perhaps Synergy has already accomplished part of its purpose of bringing the local dance community together.

“It’s about learning about each other, working together and honoring each other,” Caldwell said. “It’s great having all these different genres playing off each other, like they’re playing together in a sandbox.”

Synergy takes place at 6pm Sunday night, April 21 at the Lobero. Tickets are $30 gener-al, $18 students [$50 patron tickets include a post-performance soiree with refreshments and appetizers]. Call the Lobero at 963-0762 or visit www.lobero.com. •MJ

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went into the banquet room for lunch and a fashion show from Saks Fifth Avenue. Chef Patrice Martineau treat-ed us royally with curried asparagus soup and crab and an array of entrées paired with Rusack wines donated by Bitsy Bacon.

The big hit of the live auction was an adventurous afternoon with Channel Islands Aviation picking up the win-ner and eight friends for a flight to Santa Rosa Island where a National Park Ranger in his 4-wheel drive vehi-cle would take you on a tour of the island. Of course, there is a gourmet picnic lunch as well. After a bidding war, auctioneer Steve Epstein sold three tours.

Judy Writer called the El Encanto, “The Biltmore of the Riviera.” She also told us, “CAMA’s children’s’ program has been so successful it has caused a run on violin lessons in Goleta. They want to learn classical music.”

Sak’s Marketing Manager Kristi Marks coordinated a fashion trend

presentation telling us, “Super sat-urated colors are in. Bold primary colors, colored jeans and lace. Also geometrics of the 1960s mode and gladiator sandals.” The Romans have nothing on us, so flaunt fabulous fash-ion this year. Member models were Chris Emmons, Carla Hahn, Judy Hopkinson, Patti Ottoboni, Michele Saltoun, Betty Stephens, Ed Birch and Bob Montgomery. Women’s Board fashion show chairs were Deborah Bertling and Ruth Matuszeski. The event chairs were Bitsy Bacon, Beverly Hanna, Patti Ottoboni and Diana Phillips. Top sponsor was Leatrice Luria with many others helping at different levels.

My good friend, the late Eric Friden who owned the hotel for 30 years, would have been proud of what the Orient Express hotel chain has done with his property, as is his widow, Kerin.

75th AnniversaryThe Boys & Girls Club of Santa

Barbara pulled out all the stops for its big 75th Anniversary fundraising gala at the Bacara. The clever theme was all about that childhood game Monopoly and “Pass Go for Kids.” Remember that little man with the black top hat and white mustache pictured on the box? Greeting guests were a dozen of him – all boys and girls from the club decked out in tuxes and mustaches. Very cute!

There was a huge silent auction prior to dinner in the ballroom. Giant Monopoly boards were shown on flat

President of CAMA Andre Saltoun and wife, Michelle, at the “The Rite of Spring” event

Seated is Boys & Girls Club honoree Jerry Thede, and in back, board president David Edelman, Chumash hon-orees David Dominguez and Kenneth Kahn, with sponsor Montecito Bank and Trust presi-dent and CEO Janet Garufis

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Executive director Carolyn Brown introduced the emcee, Nancy Cartwright, who is the voice of Bart Simpson as well as an actress and phi-lanthropist. She spoke of the “Good Choices” program where kids watch videos of kids being treated well. She asked some of the local boys and girls club members what they got out of it. “To not steal. I started helping my mom, setting a good example for younger children, leadership,” were among the values they learned.

The event’s honorees were Gerald Thede and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Eidelman told us,

“Gerald has been on our board for twenty years. He is a true supporter and advocate for increasing services to our children. He has led and been a participant in numerous campaigns. In honoring him we help to honor the past. We honor the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians because it has supported the club for many years. They think about how they can use their financial, personal and personnel resources for the greater good.”

The dessert dash is a favorite game of this event with the table bidding the most getting to run for their dessert first. This year it raised an impressive $20,000.

There are 1,500 kids who attend the club, learning to have self worth and to become productive and responsible citizens. As they say in Monopoly, “Pass Go and Go For It!” •MJ

Boys & Girls Club execu-tive direc-tor Carolyn Brown, emcee Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) and event chair David Beard at the Bacara

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“The game was very close and hard fought the whole way through,” team captain Patrick Uretz says. “The CSU Rams played amazing, it was a fast-paced battle until the end, but we were able to play strong as a team and grind out the win in the end.

“I will remember bringing the national title back to the West Coast for the first time since 1986, winning Westmont’s first-ever national polo title and being able to share that win with my brother, Tony.”

The Warriors beat defending cham-pions University of Virginia 15-13 on April 11 and Southern Methodist University 19-12 on April 9 to reach the finals. Last year, the Warriors came in second place after narrowly losing to UVA in the national championship game at Cornell University in New York.

This year’s Westmont team includ-ed David Samaniego, Tony Uretz, Ky Koebele, Jake Bergman and Taylor Longo. The players workout with John Westley five to six days a week from November through April, riding horses on loan from the Santa Barbara Youth Polo Association.

“I’ve tried to get to nationals for twelve years and never have been able to,” says John Westley, owner/operator of the Santa Barbara Polo School who has coached the team for the past 13 years. “Going in the tournament seeded fourth or fifth and winning the whole thing is a David-and-Goliath story. We’ve always been on the back burner, little Westmont with 1,200 kids, and we ran over the top of them. It’s very satisfying. I am proud of them.”

Unlike students at larger universi-ties, the Westmont team members do not receive scholarships to play polo. “The NFL has a salary cap and owners can only spend a certain amount on players, otherwise just the rich guys get the good teams,” Westley says. “We don’t have a cap in collegiate polo. Westmont gives scholarships for academic attributes rather than polo-playing ability.”

When the team arrived in Texas, Westley learned that two of his top players, Patrick and Tony, were bat-tling flu-like symptoms. “I thought this isn’t going to be our year because there are still a lot of good players on UVA, CSU and SMU,” Westley says. “I said next year will be our year since all three of my starters will be playing, and we’ll be strong. But as luck would have it, we ended up getting it done this year. It was quite a surprise.” •MJ

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(from the left) Lisa Ishikawa not only teaches kindergarten but she also has a sixth grader, Tamra Murphy’s two first-graders attend Cold Spring School, and Jaci Dow, the school’s business manager is retiring at the end of the school year; she has spent 32 years at Cold Spring and a total of 44 years in the school system

(from left) President of the Cold Spring School Foundation Jacques Marcillac, Cold Spring School principal-superin-tendent Tricia Price, Cold Spring School Foundation President-elect Blair Whitney, and Heidi Whitney, who have a first grader and a third grader at the school

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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 25)The Year of Magical Thinking runs

through Sunday...

Seasons at the SymphonySanta Barbara Symphony’s latest

concert at the Granada created quite a colorful splash when scenic artist Jett Green, who began her career at movie producer George Lucas’s Industrial, Light and Magic, joined the talented musicians in painting her interpreta-tion of the music on four canvases during the performance of Russian Alexander Glazunov’s 1899 work, The Seasons, which was projected onto a large screen above the stage.

The seasons theme pervaded the show, which kicked off in grand style with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with the orchestra under Hungarian guest conductor, Gregory Vajda, former maestro of the Oregon Symphony for seven years.

Soloist Nigel Armstrong, who recently came to international atten-tion as a finalist in the 14th Tchaikovsky International Competition, played the work admirably in the penultimate concert of the symphony’s 60th sea-son.

Another evening to savor...

Creating a Buzz“Bees Circling Heaven,” a dance

opera by Santa Barbara choreogra-pher Robin Bisio, had fans swarming to Lotusland to catch the performance in the estate’s theatre garden.

The show, performed in conjunc-tion with the Nancy Gifford-curated exhibit “Swarm: A Collaboration With Bees,” which opened in the Pavilion Gallery last month, featured Montecito quartet Weslie Ching, Bonnie Crotzer, Monica Ford and Kaita Lepore suitably costumed in bee yellow outfits designed by State Street Ballet’s Anaya Cullen.

Accompanying the show was the band Ghost Tiger, with the musicians Alixandra Macmillan-Fiedel, Emma Huston, Kevin Evans, Christopher Norlinger and Christopher Stansell performing a number of original songs.

Afterwards guests, including Gretchen Lieff, Christopher Pilafian, Joanne Holderman and the garden’s executive director, Gwen Stauffer, attended a reception featuring, appro-priately enough, honey tastings and specialty drinks.

A buzzing occasion, to be sure...

Enchanting El EncantoThe new re-opened El Encanto’s

ballroom hosted its first charity event when the CAMA Women’s Board organized “The Rite of Spring” lunch for 150 guests at the tony hostelry, raising around $20,000.

The bash, co-chaired by Deborah Bertling and Ruth Matuszecki, featured supporters, includ-ing Chris Emmons, Carla Hahn, Betty Stephens, Ed Birch and Bob Montgomery, in a Saks Fifth Avenue fashion show organized by Bitsy Bacon, Beverly Hanna, Patti Ottoboni and Diana Phillips.

Before the lunch, guests includ-ing Sara Miller McCune, Leni Fe Bland, Lee Luria, Catherine Gee, Tim Owens, Mary Garton, Sheila Bourke McGinity and Kimberly Phillips, quaffed champagne and oriental canapés from French chef, Patrice Martineau, who formerly worked at the Peninsula in Tokyo.

Classical guitarist Chris Fossek and harpist Lynette Johnson provided musical accompaniment.

A live auction, conducted by Steve Epstein, featured dinner for ten at a Montecito estate, an air tour to the Channel islands and a four-day stay in New York.

A most swellegant debut...

Royal Ball The Pacific Pride Foundation’s sec-

ond annual Royal Ball at the Bacara was undoubtedly the ritziest and cre-atively colorful shindig of the year.

Inhibitions most definitely left at the door, more than 600 guests gar-ishly garbed in the most outrageous of outfits or next to nothing, partied the night away, with tickets to the boffo bash sold out months ago.

Montecito event planning czarina, Merryl Brown, pulled out all the stops along with Rrivre Works, draping the swank hostelry’s massive ballroom in gray fabric with crystal chandeliers and crystal drops of varying length hanging throughout the room, which

had a series of royal boxes, each deco-rated in opulent European style with couches, chaises and oversized coffee tables, all with floating candles and fresh flowers.

“It really was a major party of con-trasts,” gushes Merryl. “Star and fire, elegance and humility, conservative meets eccentric. We wanted to cre-ate something visually unique and awe inspiring, with thought provok-ing and decidedly unusual eccentric elements.”

Costumed stilt walkers, drag queens and go-go dancers only added to the vibrant gala, which was co-chaired by actor Neil Patrick Harris and hus-band, David Burtka, Iron Chef Cat Cora and wife, Jennifer, 20th Century Fox TV’s chairman Gary Newman and L.A. talent attorney wife, Jeanne, actress Jane Lynch and her wife, Lara Embry, and actor and singer Shaun Cassidy and his wife, Tracey.

Among the guests, helping to raise more than $100,000 for the cause, were Mike Towbes – fetchingly dressed in a leather studded dog collar –, and wife, Anne – in a gold and diamond stud-ded bra –, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Scott Reed, Christopher Pilafian, Justine Roddick, Tab Hunter,

Ensemble Theatre director Jenny Sullivan and actress Linda Purl (photo credit: David Bazemore)

Nancy Gifford, Gwen Stauffer, Alixandra Macmillan-Fiedel, Robin Bisio, and Kaita Lapore at Lotusland (photo by Priscilla)

Michael and Anne Towbes at the Pacific Pride Foundation’s Royal Ball (photo by Priscilla)

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nue Barbara Cook continues to impress if her UCSB Arts & Lectures perfor-mance “Let’s Fall in Love” at the sold-out Granada was anything to go by.

Cook, who starred in major

Broadway shows like Candide and The Music Man, before beginning a successful cabaret career in the ‘70s, where I last caught her singing at Manhattan’s Cafe Carlyle while regu-lar, the late Bobby Short, was on vacation at his home in the south of France.

After 23 years absence, she returned to the Great White Way three years ago in Sondheim on Sondheim, which garnered her a Tony nomination, some 53 years after getting her first award for The Music Man.

Singing an eclectic selection of songs, including, of course, Cole Porter, her silvery soprano and warm tones couldn’t fail to please...

Blood, Thought, Muscle & GraceOver at the Hatlen Theater it was

UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance that impressed with “Blood, Thought, Muscle & Grace,” under concert director Mira Kingsley.

The seven-part performance kicked off with “Submarine Races,” an amus-ing piece choreographed by Molly McCord featuring several female dancers paying apparent homage to a cut out of a body builder, with the first half wrapping with “Requiem of Bubbles,” an aquatic and acrobatic delight about a boy’s grief over the death of his goldfish arranged by Christina McCarthy.

The show ended with Jose Limon’s Suite from “Psalm,” which debuted in 1967 at the American Dance Festival in New London, Connecticut, which was designed and re-constructed by Alice Condodina, cutting the original

length in half.A religious experience, indeed...

Sabor LatinoThe Santa Barbara Museum of Art

was heaving when it threw its latest popular Atelier event, Sabor Latino.

The intimate evening featured Afro-Cuban rhythms and folk musi-cians, performances inspired by the current exhibition, “Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection, 1930-1990.”

The SB Garden Club once again paired with the venerable institu-tion to create colorful floral displays inspired by the art on view.

A blooming good evening, to be sure...

Cheers, CatherineA nearly one-hour long Schubert

work Quartet for Strings in C Major filled Camerata Pacifica’s lunchtime concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, the penultimate show of the current season.

Longtime violinist Catherine Leonard, who makes her final per-formance with the chamber group next month before moving back to her native Ireland, joined fellow vio-linist Ara Gregorian, violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill, and cellists Ani Aznavoorian and Zuill Bailey, a reg-ular with the symphony orchestras of Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto, among many others.

An entertaining, highly energized concert...

Rest In PeaceOn a personal note, I mourn the loss

of rubber-faced comedian Jonathan Winters, who has left us at the age of 87.

Known for his improv work that inspired a host of contemporary stand-up comedians, including Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, Jonathan was never off stage, “performing” to complete strangers, be it at the Montecito Coffee Shop, one of his favorite hangouts, or in front of mil-lions on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar and Johnny Carson.

Fortunately his memory lives on in notable roles in such ‘60s films as It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The

Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.

Jonathan was an enormously jolly character who will be very much missed...

Sightings: Saturday Night Live alum-nus and Minnesota senator Al Franken noshing at Trattoria Mollie... Former Sopranos star Michael Imperioli downing a vegetarian sandwich at Three Pickles on East Canon Perdido... Author and interior designer Barclay Butera lunching with artist Tom Mielko and wife, Eileen, at Tydes

Pip! Pip! for now

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

Barbara Cook impresses at the Granada

Patsy Hicks, Kee and Paul Flynn at SBMA’s Atelier event (photo by Priscilla)

Jonathan Winters passed away at age 87

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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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African People & Wildlife Fund

Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld, Executive Director of the African People & Wildlife Fund (APW) arrived

in our town from Tanzania, courtesy of Montecitean Ann Smith. Ann, a board member of the APW for eight years, splits her time between Montecito and Jackson Hole, Wyoming; she spends all of her time preserving endangered wildlife and nature.

Ann invited me to write an exclu-sive on Laly’s visit to Montecito, and attend a fundraiser tea at the home of Gerry and Imaging Spence, described by Ann as an “inviting place full of art and fabrics from all over the world.” And indeed it was. The tea was attend-ed by Tipper Gore and her daugh-ter Sarah Gore Lee, Haley McGuire, Carolee Krieger, Jutta Maue Kay, Marilee Gordon, Annie Trout, Pam Strickfaden, Helga Morris, Heather Sturgess, Barbara Savage, Marilyn Gevirtz, Diana Basehart, Allison and Glenn Leopold, and Bonnie Munroe Burgess.

Laly told me that she always had a desire to work in Africa, and to find her niche to help its people and wildlife. A research affiliate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Laly has over 15 years of experience in East Africa working with large carnivores, local communities and village-based con-servation programs. She received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005 for her research combining wildlife ecolo-gy and social ecology in an interdisci-plinary study of human-lion relation-ships, interactions and conflicts. She is a member of the African Lion Working Group, the Yale Large Carnivore Group as well as a recipient of the Fulbright Award. Her work has been featured on National Geographic Wild and the Discovery Channel Canada. Her organization, APW, began in 2001 as the People & Predators Project, a non-profit organization based at Yale University. Originally focused on applied research and the challenges of conserving Africa’s large carnivores,

the organization made its final transi-tion to the African People & Wildlife Fund, reflecting both its expanded mission and its long-term commit-ment to the African continent in 2008. In addition, the Tanzania People & Wildlife Fund (TPW) was registered in the United Republic of Tanzania as APW’s first sister organization.

Q. How are you involved in Laly’s orga-nization and where do you see it heading?

Ann: I met Laly and her husband, Charles, eight years ago in Jackson Hole, and after visiting them in Tanzania, realized that they have a very special vision and dedication to the Maasai people and to the wild-life of Tanzania. I decided to join the board and have visited them on six occasions and continue to be astound-ed by the innovative programs they are introducing to the adults and chil-dren of the Maasai Steppe. Lions and leopards are being protected by mini-mizing conflicts between the Maasai people and these large cats, and their work is being recognized by National Geographic and others. I believe that in the near future, people will recognize her name just as they do Jane Goodall.

What separates the African People & Wildlife Fund from similar organizations?

Laly: Our unique attributes include our place-based approach, the com-prehensive breadth of our programs, and our deep community relations.

With these attributes, we are build-ing what we intend to be the most comprehensive and effective model of community-based conservation in Tanzania and more broadly.

Tell us about the handbags for auction and where they are made.

Ann: The purses are made in Nairobi, Kenya by African Lily. The company was founded by a couple who spent their lives in Italy work-ing for a high-end leather company and when they retired to Nairobi, they were bored and felt they were not making a contribution to society. They founded the company and hired fifteen HIV positive men and women from the slum who they trained to produce the purses and other items made from leather, which is abundant in Kenya. The results are stunning, fashionable and durable. So it is a win-

win for everyone! I have been to the workshop and observed the people who are so proud of the finished prod-uct. I purchase the items and donate them to our sales so that 100% of the proceeds go to the African People & Wildlife Fund.

Where will the money raised by the auc-tion be earmarked for the Fund?

Laly: Funds raised at the event will be put towards our on-the-ground activities on the Maasai Steppe includ-ing Living Wall installations (environ-mentally-friendly lion proof livestock corrals), youth and adult environmen-tal education and the support of our Warriors for Wildlife teams to combat poaching.

For more information about the African People & Wildlife Fund and African Lily, visit www.afrpw.org and www.africanlily.com. •MJ

Board member Ann Smith with host of the fundraiser event Imaging Spence and Founder of the African People & Wildlife Fund Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld

Longtime friends Carolee Krieger and Haley McGuire

Showing off the African Lily handbags on auction are Tipper Gore, Imaging Spence, Sarah Gore Lee and Ann Smith

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mentalfrosting, 5304 Star Pine Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Hasan Sadiq, 5304 Star Pine Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2013. 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. 2013-0001167. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nerds To The Rescue, 3433 State Street, Ste E, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Techease Computer Solutions, LLC, 3433 State Street, Ste E, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 28, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001014. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ITSWEB, 1035 Orilla Del Mar, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Brian D. Skelton, 1035 Orilla Del Mar, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 11, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001201. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following

person(s) is/are doing business as: The Clearing House, LLC, 1917 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The Clearing House, LLC, 1917 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 3, 2013. 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. 2013-0001081. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Age Well; Age Well Fiduciaries, 1406 Garden Street #11, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Courtney Desoto, 1730

Narrows Court, Oxnard, CA 93035. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. 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. 2013-0001113. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Pops Association, 535

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

BID NO: 3674 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3674 for the ZONE 6 (FISCAL YEAR 13) SLURRY SEAL PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, April 25, 2013 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, “ZONE 6 (FISCAL YEAR 13) SLURRY SEAL PROJECT, Bid No. 3674". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Repair various streets by grinding of failed areas and repair, skin patching areas, apply temporary traffic striping and markings to City streets, perform traffic control and signing, notification, and perform other related work as necessary to provide a complete project; all in accordance with the Standard Specifications, City Standard Details, plans, and these Special Provisions. The Engineerʼs estimate is $1,000,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at http://tinyurl.com/CityofSantaBarbara-eBidBoard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Ashleigh Shue, Project Engineer, 805-897-2507. In order to be placed on the plan holderʼs list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. 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: Montecito Journal April 10 & 17, 2013

ORDINANCE NO. 5611

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 10.36.031 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 9, 2013. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (Seal) /s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5611 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on March 26, 2013, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 9, 2013, by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Frank Hotchkiss, Grant House, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTENTIONS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 10, 2013. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 10, 2013. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

Proposed Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2014

and 2015, Including Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2014

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara has scheduled Public Hearings to consider the Proposed Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015, including the Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2014. The Council will review departmental budgets as well as proposed adjustments to fees and charges. All hearings will be held in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The dates and times are as follows:

Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 2, 2013, 1:00 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:00 p.m.

Monday, May 13, 2013, 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 9:30 a.m.

Monday, May 20, 2013, 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 9:00 a.m. (tentative; only if needed)

Monday, June 3, 2013, 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 3:00 p.m. (tentative; only if needed)

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 9:00 a.m. (tentative; only if needed) Members of the public are invited to attend, and interested persons desiring to be heard shall be given an opportunity to address the City Council during the public hearings at the above-referenced dates and times. Written comments are welcome and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerkʼs Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. All hearings will be held in conjunction with special meetings of the City Council dedicated to the public review of the budget. A schedule of public hearing meeting topics, which is subject to change on short notice, will be available beginning on April 16, 2013, on the Cityʼs website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. The City Council is scheduled to adopt the Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2014 on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the 2:00 p.m. regular City Council session. Copies of the Recommended Budget will be available for public review on April 16, 2013, at the reference desks of the Central and Eastside Libraries, in the City Clerkʼs Office at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and on the Cityʼs website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Copies on CD-ROM can be obtained from the Finance Department located in City Hall. For more information, contact the Finance Department at 564-5334. Copies of fee resolutions with proposed changes will be available for public review on April 16, 2013, in the Finance Department at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and on the Cityʼs website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov; click on Budget & Financial Information, and then click on the Proposed Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015. Agendas and Staff Reports for City Council meetings are available 72 hours prior to the meeting in the City Clerkʼs Office at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and at the Central Library. These documents are also accessible online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov; under Quick Links, click on Current Council Agenda & Packet. Meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on TV Channel 18 (broadcast schedule is available on the website, CityTV18.com). These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet; under Quick Links at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov, click on City Meetings & Videos Online, and then click on City Council Meetings. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at 564-5305 or inquire at the City Clerk's Office on the day of the meeting. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases. Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Published April 17, 2013 Montecito Journal

PUBLIC NOTICES

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State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Santa Barbara Pops Orchestra, 535 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 4, 2013. 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. 2013-0001097.

Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Vintage Trailers, 204 Boeseke Parkway, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Brainstorm Gardens, LLC, 204 Boeseke Parkway, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2013. 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. 2013-0001023. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Helena’s Healing Touch: Massage Therapy, 1187 Coast Village Drive, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Elena Arguello, 2011 Oak Avenue, Apt 8, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. 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. 2013-0001105. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chief Sweep Chimney Service, 1197 Tyndall Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93427. Ashley Lauritson, 276 Riverview Drive, Buellton, CA 93427. Richard Lauritson, 1197 Tyndall Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93427. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 22, 2013. 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. 2013-0000959. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GN Device Group, 1381 Danielson Road, #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Greg Nitka, 1381 Danielson Road, #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. 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. 2013-0001103. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kevsteele Photography, 2976 Glen Albyn Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kevsteele, LTD., 2976 Glen Albyn Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 25, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0000968. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Labella, 528 Chiquita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Maria Violeta Ros Labella, 528 Chiquita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001045. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Super Chalice, 1172 Hilltop Road #B, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Todd Malhmood, 1172 Hilltop Road #B, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

BID NO: 3673 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3673 for the ZONE 6 (FISCAL YEAR 13) PAVEMENT PREPARATION PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, April 25, 2013 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, “ZONE 6 (FISCAL YEAR 13) PAVEMENT PREPARATION, Bid No. 3673.” The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Repair various streets by grinding of failed areas and repair, skin patching areas, apply temporary traffic striping and markings to City streets, perform traffic control and signing, notification, and perform other related work as necessary to provide a complete project; all in accordance with the Standard Specifications, City Standard Details, plans, and these Special Provisions. The Engineerʼs estimate is $1,400,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at http://tinyurl.com/CityofSantaBarbara-eBidBoard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Ashleigh Shue, Project Engineer, 805-897-2507. In order to be placed on the plan holderʼs list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. 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: Montecito Journal April 10 & 17, 2013

FAIRVIEW225 N. Fairview - Goleta

PASEO NUEVO8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B.

RIVIERA2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.

Information Listed for Friday thru Thursday - April 19 - 25

FIESTA 5Features Stadium Seating

916 State Street - S.B.

CAMINO REALFeatures Stadium SeatingCAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE

Hollister & Storke - GOLETA METRO 4Features Stadium Seating

618 State Street - S.B.

RENOIR (R)Fri & Mon-Thu - 5:00 7:45Sat/Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:45

Tom Cruise OBLIVION (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:30 6:30 9:25Mon-Thu - 1:20 4:10 7:00

Lou Diamond PhillipsEdward James Olmos

FILLY BROWN (R) Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:15Mon-Thu - 1:40 4:40 7:20

THE CROODS (PG) 2DFri-Sun - 12:40 3:10 5:30 7:50Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:30 7:10

SCARY MOVIE V (PG-13) Fri-Sun -

12:50 3:00 5:10 7:20 9:35Mon-Thu - 2:10 5:00 7:30

EVIL DEAD (R) Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:30 7:10 9:45Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:15 7:40

Tom CruiseMorgan Freeman

OBLIVION (PG-13) 1:00 2:30 4:00 5:30

7:00 8:30 9:55Playing on 2 Screens

Ryan Gosling....Eva MendesBradley Cooper....Ray Liotta

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R)1:30 4:10 6:50 9:20

Harrison Ford....Lucas Black42 (PG-13)

12:45 3:40 6:40 9:35

Charlie SheenSCARY MOVIE V (PG-13)

12:35 1:45 4:40 7:15 10:00

EVIL DEAD (R) Fri-Wed - 2:40 5:00 7:25 9:45Thu 4/25 - 2:40 5:00 7:25

Thursday 4/25 - 9:00 PAIN & GAIN (R)

BLANCANIEVES (PG-13)Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:00Sat/Sun - 1:45 4:20 7:00

Chris O’DowdTHE SAPPHIRES (PG-13) Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:15Sat/Sun - 2:00 4:45 7:15

A Steven Spielberg FilmJURASSIC PARK (PG-13) 3D: 1:30 4:20 7:15

DreamWorks AnimationTHE CROODS (PG)

2D: 1:45 4:35 7:00

Bruce Willis (PG-13)G. I. JOE: RETALIATION2D: 2:00 4:50 7:30

Jason Bateman....Hope DavisDISCONNECT (R)

Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:35Mon-Thu - 2:10 4:50 7:40

Harrison Ford....Lucas Black42 (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:30 6:30 9:25Mon-Thu - 1:50 4:40 7:30

Ryan Gosling....Eva MendesTHE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R)

Fri-Sun - 12:40 3:40 6:40 9:45Mon-Thu - 2:00 5:00 8:00

TRANCE (R)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 6:50 9:15Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:15 7:50

Tom CruiseMorgan Freeman

OBLIVION (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:15Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:15 8:00

Dwayne THE ROCK JohnsonG. I. JOE: RETALIATION2D: (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 7:00 9:40Mon-Wed - 2:10 4:40 7:30Thu 4/25 - 2:10 4:40

A Steven Spielberg FilmJURASSIC PARK 3D (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:50 7:45Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50 7:40

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R)Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:40 7:20 10:00Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:00 7:50

Thursday 4/25 - 9:00 PAIN & GAIN (R)

Features Stadium SeatingPLAZA DE ORO371 Hitchcock Way - S.B.

Denotes ‘SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT’ Restrictions

877-789-MOVIE www.metrotheatres.com

THE FINAL MET Opera 2013

Saturday - April 27 - 9:00 amArlington Theatre Presents

Handel’s GIULIO CESARE

FloydMayweather vs. Robert

Guerrero

HD LIVE - Las Vegas - on the Big Screen! Now On Sale!

Saturday, May 4 - 6:00 pmMETRO 4

Mark Wahlberg / ‘The Rock’

PAIN & GAIN (R)

THURSDAY - April 25 - 9:00 pm

Camino Real Metro 4

THURSDAY - MAY 2 - TICKETS ON SALE IRON MAN 3 (PG-13)

ARLINGTON - 9:00 pm in 2DMETRO 4 - 10:00 pm in 2D & 3DCAMINO REAL - 9:00 pm & Midnight in 2D & 3D

FAIRVIEW225 N. Fairview - Goleta

PASEO NUEVO8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B.

RIVIERA2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.

Information Listed for Friday thru Thursday - April 19 - 25

FIESTA 5Features Stadium Seating

916 State Street - S.B.

CAMINO REALFeatures Stadium SeatingCAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE

Hollister & Storke - GOLETA METRO 4Features Stadium Seating

618 State Street - S.B.

RENOIR (R)Fri & Mon-Thu - 5:00 7:45Sat/Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:45

Tom Cruise OBLIVION (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:30 6:30 9:25Mon-Thu - 1:20 4:10 7:00

Lou Diamond PhillipsEdward James Olmos

FILLY BROWN (R) Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:15Mon-Thu - 1:40 4:40 7:20

THE CROODS (PG) 2DFri-Sun - 12:40 3:10 5:30 7:50Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:30 7:10

SCARY MOVIE V (PG-13) Fri-Sun -

12:50 3:00 5:10 7:20 9:35Mon-Thu - 2:10 5:00 7:30

EVIL DEAD (R) Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:30 7:10 9:45Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:15 7:40

Tom CruiseMorgan Freeman

OBLIVION (PG-13) 1:00 2:30 4:00 5:30

7:00 8:30 9:55Playing on 2 Screens

Ryan Gosling....Eva MendesBradley Cooper....Ray Liotta

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R)1:30 4:10 6:50 9:20

Harrison Ford....Lucas Black42 (PG-13)

12:45 3:40 6:40 9:35

Charlie SheenSCARY MOVIE V (PG-13)

12:35 1:45 4:40 7:15 10:00

EVIL DEAD (R) Fri-Wed - 2:40 5:00 7:25 9:45Thu 4/25 - 2:40 5:00 7:25

Thursday 4/25 - 9:00 PAIN & GAIN (R)

BLANCANIEVES (PG-13)Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:00Sat/Sun - 1:45 4:20 7:00

Chris O’DowdTHE SAPPHIRES (PG-13) Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:15Sat/Sun - 2:00 4:45 7:15

A Steven Spielberg FilmJURASSIC PARK (PG-13) 3D: 1:30 4:20 7:15

DreamWorks AnimationTHE CROODS (PG)

2D: 1:45 4:35 7:00

Bruce Willis (PG-13)G. I. JOE: RETALIATION2D: 2:00 4:50 7:30

Jason Bateman....Hope DavisDISCONNECT (R)

Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:35Mon-Thu - 2:10 4:50 7:40

Harrison Ford....Lucas Black42 (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:30 6:30 9:25Mon-Thu - 1:50 4:40 7:30

Ryan Gosling....Eva MendesTHE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R)

Fri-Sun - 12:40 3:40 6:40 9:45Mon-Thu - 2:00 5:00 8:00

TRANCE (R)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 6:50 9:15Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:15 7:50

Tom CruiseMorgan Freeman

OBLIVION (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:15Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:15 8:00

Dwayne THE ROCK JohnsonG. I. JOE: RETALIATION2D: (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 7:00 9:40Mon-Wed - 2:10 4:40 7:30Thu 4/25 - 2:10 4:40

A Steven Spielberg FilmJURASSIC PARK 3D (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:50 7:45Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50 7:40

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R)Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:40 7:20 10:00Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:00 7:50

Thursday 4/25 - 9:00 PAIN & GAIN (R)

Features Stadium SeatingPLAZA DE ORO371 Hitchcock Way - S.B.

Denotes ‘SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT’ Restrictions

877-789-MOVIE www.metrotheatres.com

THE FINAL MET Opera 2013

Saturday - April 27 - 9:00 amArlington Theatre Presents

Handel’s GIULIO CESARE

FloydMayweather vs. Robert

Guerrero

HD LIVE - Las Vegas - on the Big Screen! Now On Sale!

Saturday, May 4 - 6:00 pmMETRO 4

Mark Wahlberg / ‘The Rock’

PAIN & GAIN (R)

THURSDAY - April 25 - 9:00 pm

Camino Real Metro 4

THURSDAY - MAY 2 - TICKETS ON SALE IRON MAN 3 (PG-13)

ARLINGTON - 9:00 pm in 2DMETRO 4 - 10:00 pm in 2D & 3DCAMINO REAL - 9:00 pm & Midnight in 2D & 3D

PUBLIC NOTICES

20, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0000928. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Concors Construction, 1019 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Concors Development, Inc., 1019 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 14, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0000832. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Light the Sky Productions, 922 West Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Casey Rae Stouffer, 922 West Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2013. 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. 2013-0001040. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fine Olde Briars, 349 Ash Ave., Spc. 58, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Robert L. Denholtz, 349 Ash Ave., Spc. 58, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 20, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0000903. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spudnuts Donuts, 5718 Hollister Ave Ste. 101, Goleta, CA 93117. John Chang, 309 Ladera St. Ste B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 19, 2013. 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. 2013-0000880. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M & M Properties, 210 Arden Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Kelly Meza, 1521 Crestline Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Mark Meza, 1521 Crestline Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 26, 2013. 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. 2013-0000988. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Firesafe Solutions; The Yoga Doctor, 4285 Encore Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Marc Russo, 4285 Encore Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 27, 2013. 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. 2013-0000998. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A-OK Weed & Brush Abatement Service; Agri-Environmental Landscapes, 4285 Encore Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Marc Russo, 4285 Encore Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 27, 2013. 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. 2013-0001013. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Luce Salon, 1822 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Anderson, Erminia, 5516 Tellina Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2013. 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 Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0000931. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Global Digital Protection, 4612 Via Roblada, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. MPH Development, Inc, 4612 Via Roblada, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 26, 2013. 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. 2013-0000649. Published March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 2013.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 18

Bowl’s New Order – Actually, things have not changed dramatically over at the already gorgeous amphitheater at the intersection of Milpas and Anapamu that serves as Santa Barbara’s answer to Red Rocks, our own little slice of summer concert heaven. What is happening is that New Order, the hugely successful British band that re-formed one more time just 18 months ago, kicks off the season at the outdoor venue tonight. The band, which formed out of the remnants of Joy Division way back in 1980, successfully blended new wave rock and dance-electronica to create a new sensation that captured ears on both sides of the pond. Bad Lieutenant bassist Tom Chapman replaces original member Peter Hook in the New Order’s current lineup which also includes keyboardist Gillian Gilbert returning to the fold after a decade joining original members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris. There’s even a new release: Lost Sirens, an eight-track album of cuts excised from 2004’s Waiting for the Sirens’ Call, New Order’s last album of new material. Opening is Johnny Marr, a fellow Brit who co-founded The Smiths at 18 in 1982, and whose other output includes projects with New Order’s Sumner in 1988, 1996 and 1999. Most recently, Marr worked with Hans Zimmer on the electronic heavy score to Christopher Nolan’s trippy time/space-shifting film Inception… The second part of the grand opening

weekend’s one-two punch of modern rock comes tomorrow night with Sigur Rós, the Icelandic ambient/post-rock band whose ethereal but propulsive sound comes courtesy frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s falsetto vocals and the use of bowed guitars. Sigur Rós’ ninth CD Kveikur, comes out in June. Oneohtrix Point Never, aka Brooklyn-based ambient/experimental musician Daniel Lopatin, opens. WHEN: New Order/Johnny Marr 7pm Friday, Sigur/Oneohtrix 7pm Saturday WHERE: 1122 N. Milpas Street COST: $48.50-$78.50 tonight, $40.50-$55.50 tomorrow INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

Schiff’s Bach – Pianist András Schiff returns to the Lobero to play Bach’s complete English Suites, BWV 806-811, as part of his 2012-2013 Bach Project Tour. The Hungarian-born master musician has earned a sterling reputation for his concentrated studies of the major keyboard works, with focused recitals of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann and Bartók, but post Glenn Gould, he’s assuredly the most prominent proponent of the keyboard works of Bach, who he has long proclaimed stands at the core of his music making. The critics agree: “There is nothing more reliable in the world of classical music today than András Schiff playing Bach,” raved The New York Times. His performance

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, APRIL 19

Mahalo Mahal – Blues great Taj Mahal has nearly 50 years of recording, 25 albums, two Grammy awards and a whole host of rock and roll legends – from the Rolling Stones to Etta James and Eric Clapton – as friends and collaborators. One of the most influential figures in late-20th century blues, Mahal is also a passionate purveyor of roots and world music, often incorporating elements of any number of genres, from Caribbean and Cuban to jazz, zydeco and gospel into many of his projects. His most recent

release is a well-deserved re-visitation of his Complete Columbia Albums Collection, which came in February. Taj is no stranger to Santa Barbara, having played several venues around town in various configurations. Tonight, he returns to UCSB in a trio format that also features guest vocalist Shemekia Copeland, the daughter of the late Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland who was newly-crowned “Queen of the Blues” in 2011. Copeland is no genre-bending slouch herself: the latest album of her 15-year career, 2012’s 33 1/3, which features covers of Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, Randy Weeks, Lucinda Williams and her dad, was nominated for a Grammy. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $45 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

More offspring blues – Lurrie Bell was only 5 when he first picked up his father’s guitar and taught himself to play. But he had pretty good genes: dad is Carey Bell, the famed blues harmonica player who spent years in Muddy Waters’ band, and also often exposed young Lurrie to Chicago blues greats including Eddie Taylor, Big Walter Horton and

Sunnyland Slim, among others. At 7, Lurrie did the reverse migration, leaving Chicago for Mississippi (and his grandparents) for seven years, where he honed his skills in gospel in church. By 19, back in Chicago, he was in a band called The Sons of Blues with Freddie Dixon (son of Willie) and Billy Branch, and at 20 he joined Koko Taylor’s band. After a series of personal problems, Bell resurfaced in the 1990s to release a slew of albums on his own and in collaboration with his dad and others, and in 2008 he was named Living Blues Magazine’s Artist of the Year, and earned a Grammy nomination in 2011 for a project with Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer and Billy Branch. Bell’s singing and playing remains lyrical and elegant, but also intense and stinging is the best Chicago style. Saturday afternoon, he leads his band for a blues brunch concert at soho, a rare afternoon blues show at the popular nightclub/restaurant. WHEN: 11:30am-3pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 ($5 discount with food purchase) INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

in Santa Barbara Friday night is one of just nine such recitals in the United States on this special Bach Project tour, for which we once again have CAMA to thank. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido Street COST: $48-$63 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

From Down Under to Hell – Veteran Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is a virtual national hero back home, but has always been more of a cult favorite in the U.S., despite having a vast and impressive catalogue marked by songs that are both far-reaching in exploration of human emotions and economical in construct. Kelly has just released Spring and Fall, his 19th studio album but first of new material in five years and one that exhibits depth and verbal eloquence in what he calls a spare song cycle that showcases Kelly’s ability to pack a lot of material into terse offerings. The collection features fine new additions to the Kelly catalogue including the thematically related “When a Woman Loves a Man,” “New Found Year,” “Someone New” and “Time and Tide.” Perhaps it might be enough to earn the Aussie hero some stateside love, too, as Kelly is coming back ‘round the world for a lengthy American tour that begins Saturday night in Santa Barbara, when the master musical storyteller headlines in the next to last Sings Like

Hell concert before the Lobero Theatre undergoes a six-month renovation. Opening is Sam Baker, a singer-songwriter who had to relearn the use of his body and brain after a Peruvian train bombing almost killed him in 1986. He released a trilogy of hauntingly spare and evocative albums called mercy, pretty world and cotton from 2004-09; say grace, his newest collection, is due this summer. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido Street COST: $39.50 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

Deity or disbelief? – What might have happened if the religiously inspired writer C.S. Lewis and the avowed atheist and father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud had gotten together for a little discussion about the existence of God? That’s the premise behind Freud’s Last Session, a 2010 play by Mark St. Germain that takes its inspiration from Dr. Armand S. Nicholi Jr.’s 2003 book The Question of God. The meeting of the minds is set in Freud’s London office in 1939, just a few weeks before Freud’s death and a full decade before former atheist Lewis would begin writing The Chronicles of Narnia. Former Montecito actor Ed Giron and local thespian Justin Stark, who appeared together in Frost/Nixon, portray Freud and Lewis, respectively, and their familiarity should help in this piece that finds the principals debating and analyzing

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18 – 25 April 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 43Silence is one of the great arts of conversation – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Acclaimed Author of The Fever

Sonia ShahThe Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 YearsTHU, APR 18 / 8 PM UCSB CAMPBELL HALL

Co-author of The Memory Bible

Gary Small, M.D.Keeping Your Brain Healthy: Preventing Alzheimer’sSAT, APR 27 / 3 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL$20 / $10 UCSB students

An Evening with

David SedarisTUE, APR 30 / 8 PM ARLINGTON THEATRE

“David Sedaris just may be the funniest man alive.” Time Out New York

Back by Popular Demand

Blues Night Out Taj Mahal Triowith Special Guest Shemekia CopelandFRI, APR 19 / 8 PM /UCSB CAMPBELL HALL

“One of the enduring figures in American blues.” Rolling Stone

Jennifer Koh, violin & videoBach and Beyond Part IIWED, APR 24 / 7 PM / HAHN HALL MUSIC ACADEMy OF THE WEST

“Fiery and impassioned playing.” The StradProgram: Bach • Phil Kline • Bartók

1927 TheaterThe Animals and Children Took to the StreetsTHU, APR 25 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL

“A mind-blowingly beautiful piece of theatre.” Time Out London

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Art|Architecture on Film – UCSB Arts & Lectures’ film series that reveals the stories behind some of the most fascinating art, artists and architects returns for second year with screenings of four Sunday afternoons in the next month. This year’s films include a profile of controversial performance artist Marina Abramović, the riveting tale behind world-famous painter Egon Schiele’s stolen “Portrait of Wally,” an incisive and lyrical look at reclusive abstract painter Gerhard Richter, and a portrait

of visionary Southern California architect John Lautner. Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present, Matthew Akers’ 2012 documentary that kicks off the series, examines Abramović’s career and follows her as she prepares herself for undertaking a three-month retrospective at New York ’s Museum of Modern Art in which she sat silently at a table without eating, drinking or moving, as onlookers were invited to sit across from her, for 7 ½ hours a day. Audience members ages 21 and older are invited to stay after the screenings for complimentary receptions. WHEN: 3pm Sunday (other screening held April 28, May 5 and 19 WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: $10 general, $5 students INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

Animal invasion – The London-based theater company 1927’s new show The Animals and Children Took to the Streets was a big hit at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, and has since gone on to receive rave reviews from critics all over Europe and the U.S. The action takes place in The Bayou, a dystopian metropolis squirming with cockroaches and unrest described as equal parts Charles Dickens and Tim Burton. When Agnes Eaves and her daughter arrive late one night, does it signal hope in this hopeless place, or has the real

horror only just begun? The piece is a journey of startling originality that features live music, clever performances and stunning animation, a genre-smashing marvel that comes across like a graphic novel burst into life. “Animals” was called “jaw-droppingly clever and gloriously subversive parable” (The Guardian) and “A mind-blowingly beautiful piece of theatre” (Time Out London) back home in Britain, but the Washington Post was also blown away, saying, “The amazing dreamscapes illuminated by the actresses and their beautifully drawn co-stars allow (the show) to act like triple shots of espresso to the imagination.” 1927 Theater, founded in 2005 by writer, performer and director Suzanne Andrade and animator and illustrator Paul Barritt – who are also the creative team behind “Animals” – makes its Santa Barbara debut Thursday night at Campbell Hall. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $38 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

each other in both comedic and dramatic exchanges covering subjects beyond faith, including the purpose of love, the joy of sex, the meaning of life, and the utility of philosophy. Freud’s Last Session has received strong reviews, particularly in its long-running Off-Broadway production, which The New York Times lauded as “not just a powerful debate, (but) a profound and deeply touching play about two men who boldly addressed the greatest questions of all time.” The newly-thriving Plaza Playhouse Theatre might be the perfect, intimate venue for the production, directed by Montecito resident Jerry Oshinsky. WHEN: 8pm tonight, April 25-26 and May 2-4, plus 2pm tomorrow, April 28 and May 5 WHERE: COST: $17 general, $12 students and seniors INFO: 684-6380 or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com

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Also at Pollock – The state-of-the-art screening palace on campus at UCSB unspools the documentary Angels in Exile, which premiered at the most recent Santa Barbara International Film Festival last winter. The documentary challenges viewers to look past the violent and often graphic image of homeless youth to see them for what they are –- children who are struggling. The movie delves into the difficult lives of the street kids of Durban, South Africa who face constant violence, rape, trafficking, abductions and murder, and have next to no way out. Director Billy Raftery and producer Adam Paul Smith will be on hand for a Q&A session following the screening. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: $45 INFO: 893-5903

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COMInG & GOInG (Continued from page 34)are impossible,” says incoming Parent Club President Jenn Hall. “An auc-tion is not an auction without Matt,” she says.

After dinner, guests were ushered into the “Speakeasy,” where Area 51 (with vocalist Michael Andrews, a Cold Spring parent) provided the dance music.

SpamapaloozaIt was called a “Spamaluck” (as

opposed to a “potluck”) but it really was a Spamapalooza, aptly named by the resident Music and Songwriter Hall-of-Famer Jeff Barry, who, along with his wife, Nancy, invited parents and students involved in the upcom-ing SBHS production of Spamalot to join them in a potluck lunch at their

Tuscan-styled Montecito home. The only catch was that everyone who brought a dish had to include Spam as a main ingredient.

Ted Simmons, looking tired and spent, was there with his talented wife, Kelly, and exasperatingly detailed how difficult it was adding Spam to the menu. The pair finally came up with a winning idea: Spam Rueben-style sliders with sauerkraut (they were later tagged “Spamburgers”). “It was a vicious morning,” he says, “it took us at least an hour and a half” to put the dish together. “The worst part was opening the can of Spam,” he adds. “I felt like a World War Two veteran.”

Katie Cusimano arrived a little late, no doubt because of putting the finishing touches on her own win-

The three-judge Spamapalooza panel consisted of Spam experts (from the left) Dani Hahn, Laura Lewis (whose daughter, Allison Lewis was Santa Barbara’s very first Teen Star), and Bill Hahn; it was unani-mous: the Spam Rueben-style sliders put smiles on their faces (and a significant amount of agitation in their lower intestines) and won hands down.

Katie Cusimano’s traditional Spambrosia featured sour cream, heavy cream, and Marshmallow Fluff, surrounded by a bouquet of Maraschino cherries, and of course, chopped Spam sprinkled with a garnish. The dish won for creativity but, curiously, no one dared taste it

Ted and Kelly Simmons, seen here visibly worn out from the gargantuan effort of creating their prize-winning Spam Sliders with arugula, quail eggs (“The only place in Santa Barbara we could find quail eggs was Lazy Acres,” Ted says), farmers cheese, balsamic vinegar and sauerkraut

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Another big hit at the Barrys’ Spamapalooza were these pre-packaged 100% Hawaiian Macadamia Nuts with Spam, a favorite of North Shore surfers and Samoans of all sizes

ning dish: Spambrosia was awarded first place for “Best Name” and “Best Presentation.” Second place was King Arthur’s Crown (puff pastry with cheddar cheese and Spam). “The bean dish,” Ted notes, “was disqualified because there was no Spam in it.” The Simmons received a Spam dinner at Louie’s Restaurant in Santa Barbara for their Herculean effort, as did Ms Cusimano.

As for Monty Python’s Spamalot, the play: “This is the most elaborate set we’ve ever built,” says SBHS Drama Department head Otto Layman of the

set being constructed for the upcom-ing high-school production. Which would be impressive indeed, as mem-ories of the spectacular “Beauty and the Beast” production continue to lin-ger fondly in many minds’ eyes. “It certainly rivals Beauty,” Layman says. “It has the same feel.”

The show, directed by Otto Layman, choreographed by Christina McCarthy, with costumes by Lise Lange, set and lights from Mike Madden, music directed by Jon Nathan and vocal direction by Sarah Eglin, begins Friday, April 26 and con-

tinues Saturday April 27, Thursday through Saturday, May 2, 3 and 4, all at 7 pm. There will also be a special Senior Farewell Performance matinee on Sunday May 5 at 2 pm (followed by dinner in the Meadow). Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and stu-dents. If you want to sit up close (and more seriously support Mr. Layman’s superior productions), there are some $25 seats available in the front, cen-ter. All performances are at the High School Theater on 700 East Anapamu; for tickets go to www.sbhstheatre.com or call 888-979-3667. •MJ

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Padaro Lane Beach Home $2,950,000Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663Lovely 3,750 SF 3/2.5 Fr. Country w/1/1 gst qtrs w/ beach access. www.3199PadaroLane.com.

Grand Southern Estate $4,500,000Jason Streatfeild 805.280.9797Grand southern estate in Montecito. 5 bed/3.5 baths + 1/1 guest house. www.260Sheffield.com

Solimar Beachfront! $2,945,000Lori Ebner 805.729.4861Solimar Beach Colony, 2+ bed, 2+ bath with soaring ceilings on the sand with 360° views.