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6 Montecito Miscellany John Cleese’s ways to keep financially afloat; Walter Bortz’s advice for living a long, healthy life; Robert and Margo Feinberg’s modeling career; Industry Home opening; Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag’s possible new TV show; Eric Schmidt’s daughter talks about North Korea trip; SB Dance Theater launches season; Daniel Day-Lewis speaks at SBIFF; Jim Piekarski releases first book; SB Chamber Orchestra’s first concert of year; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns; continued Kardashian clashing

8 Letters to the Editor Hillary Hauser appreciative of donations to Sarah House; John Pate responds to Ernie Solomon; Ty Saxby star-struck; Edith Tipple worried about possible roundabout traffic influx; Maxi Decker wants to know that spoiling Los Patos is not in the cards; Ardene Fredricksen remembers Harry Carey, Jr.

11 This Week in Montecito Santa Barbara Republican Women, Federated dinner and movie; largest circuit class world record attempt; Claudia Hoag McGarry signs book; SB Tea Party Critical Issue Series; Casa de Maria hosts retreat; Tea Dance at Cabrillo Rec Center; MA Land Use Committee meets; Montecito Library hosts teens; Father-Daughter Dance at MUS; Midnight Mynx rocks Wildcat; Friendship Center’s Festival of Hearts; art exhibit opening; Channel City Club lecture and luncheon; Rotary Club anniversary

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat Montecito Fire District Board of Directors votes to withdraw Fire Station 3 application; Rick Caruso holds meeting to mark end of Miramar demolition; Friendship Center’s 14th annual Festival of Hearts; Holiday Haulers honored by Foodbank and SB County; Trudy Ludwig speaks at schools

14 Seen Around Town Trekkies flock to Arlington for “Shatner’s World: We Just Live in it”; SBMA Women’s Board new members’ luncheon

22 Your Westmont Exhibition shows works of quintessential French landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-

Camille Corot 25 Seniority Diana Basehart Foundation helps care for pets 26 SBIFF 2013

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27 Sheriff’s Blotter Man on probation stopped in Vons parking lot29 Book Talk A look at the mischievous and humorous life of Barnaby Conrad Ernie’s World The curious case of Ernie’s missing spleen 30 Montecito at the Movies

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34 On Entertainment Hank, Jr.’s daughter Holly Williams makes local debut at SOhO; Johnny Lee plays Chumash

38 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

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44 Real Estate Mark Hunt’s picks for homes in the mid-$3m range

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The Debate Over Left Lane Ramps on a Widened 101“The widening of the 101 in the Montecito corridor is the biggest change

facing Montecito in over sixty years,” says Jack Overall, a member of the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) and a spokesperson for the 101

Community Coalition Plan. For the last six months, the Montecito Association (MA) and the Community Coalition have labored relentlessly to come up with a 101 widening alternate that is less expensive, offers a shorter construction time and would be far less disruptive to residents and businesses in Montecito.

The Community Coalition Plan for the 101 The MA/Community Coalition has asked Caltrans and elected government

leaders to allow the continuation of left-lane ramps after widening. Meetings have been conducted with personnel from Gov. Jerry Brown’s office; Caltrans District Director, Malcolm Dougherty; Rachel Falsetti, former Caltrans Acting District 5 Director; Tim Gubbins, Caltrans Director District 5; and Bud Shuster, former Pennsylvania 9th District Congressman, who resigned in 2001 as a mem-ber of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Caltrans has evaluated the MA request for a design exception, and repeatedly rejected it, claiming left-lane ramps, though acceptable in highway construction 30 years ago, are not deemed safe under current highway construction standards.

The Caltrans Position Caltrans has insisted that the 101, the second or third most important north-

south highway in California, will not be widened in Montecito with left-lane on or off ramps. Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty, the highest level official in the state for Caltrans and an appointee of Governor Jerry Brown, sent a letter on October 16, 2012 to the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG), which was quite specific on this issue:

“Members of the Montecito community are proposing a Community Coalition Alternative for the interchanges at Hot Springs/Cabrillo and Sheffield Drive. This proposal was also submitted during public comment to the project’s draft environmental document, and we will respond formally within the final document. The stated goal of the proposal is to further reduce the cost and con-struction impacts beyond what has been proposed with the five configurations under consideration. However, the Community Coalition is not viable because it retains existing features that contradict engineering principles for highway safety over the long term.

“It is widely documented that left-side ramps for general use have a poor safety record and cause operational problems. With higher speed traffic flowing in the left lane and slower moving traffic in the right lanes, drivers have learned to expect freeway exits and entrances on the right side. Exiting or entering from the left side creates conflicts when slower moving traffic has to merge with higher speed traffic. This conflict is exacerbated for trucks. With an increase in the number of freeway lanes and traffic volumes, the problems with left-side ramps become worse. Therefore, left-side ramps are not acceptable in current highway design practice and are systematically being removed throughout California and the United States.

“There are no viable redesign alternatives that would allow the left-side ramps to remain. The project’s environmental document studied more than 20 different interchange configurations, and eight of them were rejected because they would perpetuate the use of left-hand ramps.”

On October 18, 2012, SBCAG voted 12 to 1 to request Caltrans to evaluate the MA/Community Coalition proposal in its response to the Draft EIR. Caltrans was already obligated to address the MA/Community Coalition Plan based on MA comments submitted prior to the Draft EIR public comment cutoff date of July 9, 2012.

Legal Liability Concerns Caltrans fears that if they approve an exception for left-lane ramps, the state

agency would be sued and lose every lawsuit involving a truck driver who overturned his rig on a left-lane ramp, or every motorist struck by a truck, van or car which crossed three lanes of traffic to exit on the left. The indefensible position for Caltrans would be: “We knew it was more dangerous when we built it, but we did it anyway, but please don’t find us guilty of gross negligence.”

Editorial by Bob Hazard

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

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Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito five years ago.

The crippling cost of divorce has already forced former Montecito funnyman John

Cleese into crisis measures, includ-ing launching his standup comedy “Alimony Tour” and even moving to another country.

But it would seem he is still looking for ways to keep his finances afloat.

The former Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star has embarked on a massive sale of film props and signed photos he accumulated during his lengthy career.

Items on the Original Memorabilia Company website include a helmet used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and a treasure trove of pictures from various sketches from his TV series.

It’s the same website the 73-year-old actor recently used to sell his 1987 Bentley, which was bought for more than $25,000, as I reported in this illustrious organ.

As part of the deal he agreed to have lunch with the Australian buyer and give a handwritten story of some of the car’s most famous passen-gers, including Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline, his co-stars from the film A Fish Called Wanda.

John, who last year married his fourth wife, jewelry designer Jennifer Wade, 31 years his junior, divorced psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger in 2008 after 16 years of marriage.

But the breakup did not come cheap.

He was ordered to pay nearly $20 million in finance and assets, includ-ing $1 million annually until 2016, and hand over an apartment in New York and a $3 million mews house in London’s ritzy Holland Park.

Faced with such a hefty bill, John was also forced to sell his $10 million beach house in our rarefied enclave and has now set up base in Monte Carlo to avoid a huge tax bill on the divorce payments.

It also prompted him to embark on his standup tour, in which he told audiences: “I am here because, frank-ly, I have fallen on hard times having been through a costly and acrimoni-ous divorce. I call it the Alimony Tour or Feeding the Beast.”

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his first wife, Connie Booth, who co-wrote and starred in Fawlty Towers with him, and his second wife, American actress Barbara Trentham...

Bolting BortzStanford professor emeritus, Walter

Bortz, is a man on the run!Walter, 82-year-old father of

Montecito socialite Gretchen Lieff, has participated in more than 50 mar-athons, including three times in New York and 15 times in Boston.

He will be running again in Massachusetts on April 15.

“Hopefully it won’t be too taxing!” he joked when he gave a talk at the Coral Casino on aging.

Walter, former president of the American Geriatric Society, has writ-ten eight books, including We Live Too Short and Die Too Long and The Roadmap to 100: The Breakthrough Science of Living a Long and Healthy Life.

“I have a sense of mission,” he says. “You can’t escape it, but aging is negotiable. Are you a resource or a liability?

“We don’t die accidentally, we die of choice. It is about maintaining your-self. Use it or lose it. Fitness is an age offset. There is no expiration date to getting better.”

Walter, who was with his wife, Ruth, 82, another marathon runner, says he lifts weights and runs ten to 15 miles three times a week.

Now PBS has approached him about doing a series for the network.

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George Wallace (Democrat, Alabama) ran for president as a segregationist. Every major piece of civil rights leg-islation was passed by Republicans and fought by Democrats. According to Dr. Alveda King, her grandfather – Dr. Martin Luther King – was a Republican, as was her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She says, “It should be no surprise that Dr. King was a Republican. Why? It was the Democrats who Dr. King was fight-ing and he would not have joined the Democratic Party.”

Mr. Solomon’s views, sadly, are prevalent in society today. Is this lack of knowledge of our own history a reflection on our subpar schools or a commentary on how biased and dis-torted the media is?

John PateSanta Barbara(Editor’s note: Good question, John.

The Democrat party that ruled the “Solid South” for nearly a hundred years after the Civil War installed official racism in its region to replace what had been legal slavery. The Southern Democrats aligned themselves with northern Democrat liber-als; their unholy alliance solidified FDR’s government-centered “recovery” efforts during the Great Depression, while allow-ing Jim Crow laws to fester and flourish in the South. After the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 with the help of nearly 80% of Republicans voting for it and most Southern Democrats voting against it, and as black southerners gained increased participation in the political life of the South, Democrats – who already felt quite comfortable with racist policies – intro-duced racism in reverse – Affirmative Action – thereby garnering the vote of the very people the party had held down for so long. It was an impressive achievement and as history books are now written, one would be hard-pressed to learn that George Wallace, Orville Faubus, fire hose-wielding Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene “Bull” Connor, Robert Byrd, Al Gore Sr., and the rest of the Southern rac-ists were all Democrats. Just as one would be hard-pressed to learn that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Bias? Perhaps. Negligent? To say the least. Duplicitous? You bet. – J.B.)

Thank God For Jim Alexander

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I remember when I moved to Santa Barbara twelve years ago. I was wait-ing in line for something and picked up a copy of Montecito Journal. I came across the column n.o.t.e.s. from down-town. I have been picking up copies of the MJ ever since, with the hope that it is the week of Mr. Alexander’s column.

I was fighting off sleep as I listened to Daniel Day-Lewis drone on and on and I reflected that it had indeed been a great night in spite of my present state of boredom. I got to meet the best humor columnist in America. I only regret that I haven’t written to you sooner to thank you for publishing his column. Thank you MJ and thank you Mr. Alexander for all the laughter.

Sincerely,Ty SaxbySanta Barbara(Editor’s note: Well, we are pleased to

learn you were spared from the tedium of Mr. Day-Lewis’s interview, as I was not spared from the boredom of Lincoln, the movie he starred in. When people ask what I thought of it, I have told them I would have enjoyed the movie much more if my wife hadn’t kept waking me up by poking me in the ribs with her elbow every time I started to snore. I do believe that Mr. Day-Lewis deserves and shall surely win this year’s Academy Award as Best Actor. However, Lincoln wasn’t so much a “movie” as it was a “glacial.” I have since renamed it Dead Man Walking. As for Mr. Alexander, we are also pleased to learn that you enjoy his column. However, is that the only reason you pick up Montecito Journal? We hope not! – J.B.)

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Forecasting Future Accident RatesCaltrans and the MA/Community Coalition have competing views on the

public safety of left-lane ramps in a widened highway. Jack Overall suggests that the highway public safety danger may be greater in Fresno or Bakersfield, but it is lessened in Montecito because our ramps are used primarily by local residents. Caltrans notes that the guests in hotels along the beach, or visitors to the Fiesta Parade or Summer Solstice, or beach goers, or the drivers of hotel and restaurant delivery trucks are not all local residents using the Cabrillo/Hot Springs interchange.

Overall also notes that the accident statistics for the existing left-lane ramps in Montecito are as good or better than right-lane ramps. Caltrans responds that, with the addition of a new high-speed third lane in each direction, the potential accident rate for left-lane ramps increases dramatically because slow-speed on-ramp vehicles are merging into high-speed freeway traffic, and slow-speed right lane vehicles have to cross two lanes of higher-speed traffic to exit on the left.

High Risk Poker At the end of the day, what happens if Caltrans continues to say “no” to left-

lane ramps? The challenge facing Montecito is that because the Cabrillo inter-change lies wholly within the boundaries of Santa Barbara, Caltrans will ask the City of Santa Barbara and SBCAG to accept its recommended interchange alternative at Cabrillo/Hot Springs. The City of Santa Barbara Planning still has to certify the final EIR before issuing permits. Similarly County Planning has to issue Coastal Commission permits for the County’s section of the 101, giving the planning commissions some influence over the final outcome.

The MA/Community Coalition could persist in its opposition and challenge the Caltrans final EIR in court. Faced with added delay and an uncertain out-come, Caltrans could well shift state and federal highway funding away from the Montecito corridor to other badly needed highway projects in the state that would welcome its transportation dollars. An editorial by Dan Walters in the Santa Barbara News-Press on January 23, 2013 stated that “California has $538 billion in unfunded transportation needs.”

For Montecito residents, this could mean that the 101 widening funding for our community would continue in its present unfunded time warp, and we would have to live permanently with a two-lane gridlocked freeway. In the early ‘90s we foolishly turned down Caltrans’ offer to fund the widening of the 101 through Montecito, a result we have regretted ever since. It will be interesting to see how negotiations between Caltrans and the MA/Community Coalition play out over the next ten months. The ultimate question is, “What is best for our community?” •MJ

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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5

Montecito Association Land Use Committee MeetingThe Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss new and ongoing projectsWhen: 4 pmWhere: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7

Teen Program at Montecito Library Arts & crafts meet up for all ages; must have manual dexterity for crochet and knittingWhen: 3:30 pm to 5 pm, every Thursday in FebruaryWhere: 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-5063

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8

Father-Daughter DanceMontecito Union School hosts annual dance; daughters can bring their fathers or other special adultWhen: 6 pm to 8 pmWhere: 385 San Ysidro RoadInfo: 969-3249

Midnight Mynx at The WildcatMidnight Mynx is a local, all-women rock band performing an eclectic mix of high-energy rock covers from the ‘60s to now plus originals When: 8 pm to 10 pmWhere: 15 West OrtegaInfo: 689-6683

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30

Dinner & Movie Santa Barbara Republican Women, Federated, will show the movie, Jihad in America: The Grand Deception, at their dinner meeting at Marmalade Café. The 70-minute film is directed by Steve Emerson, author of American Jihad, and investigates the covert structure and growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups in the United States, specifically how they infiltrate politics, entertainment, news media, law enforcement, publishing and museums. When: 5:30 pm Where: 3825 State StreetReservations: 699-6756Cost: $35-$40

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Book Signing at Curious CupAuthor Claudia Hoag McGarry will sign all three of her novels: My Scorpio Soul, My Aries Secret, and Beignet and Grandpa Au LaitWhen: 5 pm Where: Curious Cup in Carpinteria, 929 Linden Avenue

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2

Tea Party EventThe Santa Barbara Tea Party Critical Issue Series presents: “Muslim Brotherhood: The Threat to Western Civilization.” The event, sponsored by the Tea Party & Culpepper Society and Act! For America, welcomes speaker Donald Dix, who will speak on the

Muslim Brotherhood. When: 5:30 pm Where: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo BlvdCost: $8 per person in advance, two tickets for $15, or $10 at the doorInfo and Tickets: 967-7520 or email [email protected]

Retreat at Casa de MariaBy attending the upcoming retreat titled, “The Butterfly Passage: Taking Flight from Transition,” readers can better understand the opportunities presented by change. The facilitators, Cynder Sinclair and Mary Jean Vignone, will focus on the positives offered in life transitions. When: 8:30 am to 4 pmWhere: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque RoadCost: $70 per person, continental breakfast and lunch will be providedInfo and Tickets: 689-2137 or [email protected]

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Tea DanceThe City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music. Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

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Book Signing at TecoloteJohn Aaron, author and artist, will be reading from his illustrated memoir, Romancing the Smoke. Personalized signed copies will be available. The memoir is about Aaron’s successful battle to stop smoking after 40 years. When: 3:30 pmWhere: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-4977FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1

World Record AttemptFitness enthusiast Jenny Schatzle attempts to hold the largest circuit class in the world to raise awareness and support the American Heart Association. Open and free to all, please wear red.When: 6 am to 7 amWhere: SBCC track, 721 Cliff Drive

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Friendship Center’s 14th Annual Festival of HeartsThis year’s theme: “Midday in Paris!” …a festive luncheon with wine, live music, Heart-Art, and live auction, all to benefit Friendship Center. All proceeds from the event support Friendship Center’s H.E.A.R.T. (Help Elders At Risk Today) Program, subsidizing the cost of adult day services for low-income aging and dependent adults and their families.When: Saturday, February 9, 11:30 am to 2:30 pmWhere: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, Reagan Room, 633 East Cabrillo Blvd.Tickets: $100 per person, available online: www.friendshipcentersb.org

Art OpeningRichard Schloss, California Landscape artist presents “California Light & Color”When: now through April 22Where: Easton Gallery, 557 Hot Springs RoadInfo: www.rschloss.com

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Lecture & LuncheonChannel City Club presents U.S. Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, who will speak on “The Growing Al-Qaeda Threat in Africa: From Mali to Djibouti.”Amb. Huddleston was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (2009-2011). She is a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar and to Mali; Principal Officer of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana and Charge d’affairs ad interim in Ethiopia. She was Deputy Chief of Mission in Haiti & Director and Deputy Director of Cuban Affairs at the U.S. Dept. of State.Formerly, Amb. Huddleston was a Visiting Scholar at Brookings Institution.When: 11:30 amWhere: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, Reagan Room, 633 East Cabrillo BlvdCost: $35 for members, $40 for non-members Info: www.channelcityclub.org

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Rotary Club AnniversaryThe Rotary Club of Montecito will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its chartering on February 12. Along with dinner, this momentous occasion includes entertainment by well-known jazz musician Peter Clark, “and friends.” When: 6 pmWhere: Montecito Country ClubInfo and RSVP: Murray Ray (805) 689-3692; RSVP deadline is January 31 •MJ


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At their board meeting on Monday, January 28, the Montecito Fire District Board

of Directors voted 3-1 to withdraw their application for Fire Station 3 from the Montecito Planning Commission hearing scheduled for February 27. The move, which was supported by new directors Abe Powell and Susan Keller, as well as board president John Venable, will allow the district to re-evaluate several factors related to the new fire station.

Directors Keller and Powell (new director Gene Sinser is recused from discussing Fire Station 3 due to his proximity to the proposed location) have been vocal about wanting to thoroughly evaluate the finances, response times and alternative options related to building another fire station in Montecito. Also on Monday, the board established three new commit-tees for Finance, Strategic Planning, and Public Relations. In the past, com-mittees were not an option due to hav-ing only three members on the board.

The decision to withdraw the appli-cation is supported by Montecito Agricultural Foundation (MAF), a group of nearby homeowners who have questioned the need for the sta-tion and feel the project is out of scale with the community. MAF has called the District’s Environmental Impact Review (EIR) of the project into ques-

tion, claiming it did not include all the facts.

According to Joe Cole, MAF’s attor-ney, the move to withdraw the appli-cation will give the new and existing board members – in light of signifi-cant changes over the past 10 years in demographics, finances, emergency risk patterns, development and other material circumstances – to have the good faith opportunity to fully evalu-ate the MFPD’s provision of existing services across the community. “It will also allow the opportunity to assem-ble, understand and share transpar-ently with the community complete information crucial for the new board to fully evaluate the MFPD’s proposal for a new fire station,” he explained in a letter to the board. He says the direc-tors, as well as Chief Hickman, who has been Chief for less than a year, need to evaluate the new station’s size, features, and costs, both to con-struct and to operate, and to consider whether there may be other poten-tially more appropriate and affordable alternatives.

The project, to be located on the Palmer Jackson property on the 2500 block of East Valley Road, includes plans for parking, living quarters, administrative offices, apparatus bays, a 35-foot hose-drying tower, and two driveways. The station, which MFPD says is needed to lessen response

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On March 5, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle is expected to decide whether the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) document associated with the project is adequate as part of the litigation between MAF and MFPD. The Judge will rule whether or not the EIR needs more information added, and whether it will need to be re-circulated. According to MFPD’s Geri Ventura, the District plans on resubmitting the application with the Montecito Planning Commission upon learning Judge Anderle’s deci-sion. In the meantime, the newly formed committees will take a closer look at the ins and outs of the project and any possible alternatives to it.

Miramar Site Demolished

Last week, developer Rick Caruso held a press conference on the grounds of the 16-acre site where he hopes to eventually rebuild his ver-sion of the Miramar Resort. Caruso, along with his team, Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, and representatives from the Montecito Association, held the meeting to mark the end of demo-

lition of the former buildings on the property, which had been vacant and rotting for nearly 12 years.

“We are still one hundred percent committed to this and one hundred percent excited,” Caruso said. The approved plans for the resort call for over 180 guest rooms, a full spa, three restaurants, and full banquet facilities on the property, which boasts 600 feet of oceanfront real estate. “It doesn’t get much better than this,” Caruso said.

While Caruso’s team works on the design details, the building of the resort has stalled due to an impasse at the county level.

In July 2012, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved a countywide Hotel Incentive Program (HIP), in which the county could pay back hoteliers the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) earned at their hotel for the first sev-eral years of operation. The Miramar project was rejected from the program in October 2012 when Caruso’s team was unable to come to an agreement with the county and County Executive Officer Chandra Wallar.

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“Shatner’s World: We Just Live in it” had a lot of folks who wanted to peek inside as the

Arlington filled up with fans. You didn’t have to be a Trekkie to enjoy the full two hours of this one-man show presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures.

At the preshow there were a couple of Vulcan High Priestesses as well as a Romulan and a Borg strolling around the outdoor lobby. They had entered the costume contest trying to win two one-day passes to the Star Trek Convention in Los Angeles. Judges were D. J. Palladino from the Santa Barbara Independent, Carla Hoffman from Metro Comics and Ted Coe from KCSB 91.9 FM.

Before entering Shatner’s World, Miller McCune executive director Celesta M. Billeci welcomed spon-sors, donors at all levels, audience members, subscribers and students. The curtain rose to a star-studded sky and a scene of space projected on a screen. William Shatner kept us riv-eted acting out vignettes of his 50-year career as an award-winning actor, director, producer, writer, recording artist and horseman.

In spite of his varied career, he is still most beloved for originating the role of Captain James T. Kirk in the television series Star Trek and that’s okay with him. He is a prolific writer as well, having authored about 30

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There was a reception after the show in the Arlington courtyard. Fans lined up for a chance to have their photo taken with Shatner and receive a signed poster. Instead of getting “beamed up” we “climbed into our spaceships” and went home.

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) Women’s Board held their annual new members’ luncheon at the Santa Barbara Club. The garden room was full and the 15 new recruits were the biggest group in years. They are Jen Barton, Berta Binns, Melanie Brewer, Gayle Cummings, Jane Dailey, Catey Dunkley, Jeanne Fulkerson, Lorry Hubbard, Diane McQuarie, Fran Morrow, Holly Murphy, Roz Rosin, Helene Segal, Cindy Steffen and Carolyn Williams.

As vice president Cecia Hess said, “This new membership mix of busi-ness owners, art enthusiasts, corpo-rate executives and community lead-ers will be a great catalyst for produc-ing the Women’s Board’s next major fundraising event – the wildly popu-lar ‘Mystery in Masterpieces,’ to be held on June 1, 2013.”

President Mary Maxwell wel-comed former presidents, members

and guests saying, “If you can’t hear me in the back, raise your hand.” “This is the only time of year I get to thank the whole group,” the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Director of SBMA Larry J. Feinberg told the audi-ence. The museum works with sev-eral groups but according to Larry the Women’s Board does the most. “You have moxie and you do fun events which the museum gets credit for,” added Feinberg.

The Women’s Board was founded in 1951, just ten years after the Museum of Art opened. They contribute funds, which go to programs and education-

al activities, but they also underwrite exhibitions and purchase works of art for the permanent collection.

The luncheon committee was co-chairs Karen Chin and Catherine Clark along with Kathy Weber. They want you to save the date on June 1 for the Who? What? Where? event at the museum – Mystery in Masterpieces. There’ll be clue sheets and prizes along with lavish hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, and you get to be a sleuth for a night.

St. Cecilia FundThough it’s always been a secular

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The St. Cecilia Society is the old-est charitable organization in Santa Barbara. The board this year changed the name to the St. Cecilia Fund to further secularize it. This is a group where you can pay your dues and not do anything except come to the annual tea.

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As Argo director and Golden Globe winner, Ben Affleck, was receiving the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Modern Master Award from his friend and co-star, Matt Damon, at the Arlington, Oscar winner Jeff Bridges was just a tiara’s toss or two down the road celebrating his daugh-ter Hayley’s new store, Industry Home.

Hayley, the youngest of Jeff and wife Susan’s daughters, has part-nered with her boyfriend, Andrew Hernandez, his brother, Peter, and Thomas Masker to open the charm-ing emporium, just across from De La Guerra Plaza, which features reconsti-tuted furniture and housewares.

Peter, a Westmont graduate, and Andrew, a UCLA student, started the business as Brothers of Industry a couple of years ago, working in the garage of their Montecito parents, David, a physician at Westmont, and Kate, a former Summerland antiques dealer.

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I would like to suggest that, if there were two lanes at the proposed Cabrillo stoplight – the right one for Montecito roundabout traffic and the left for beach traffic (such as the Carrillo and Mission off-ramps in town) – there would be no need for a costly expansion of the roundabout, and normal Montecito traffic could continue as is without the addition of the many vehicles en route to the beach.

Sincerely,Edith TippleMontecito(Editor’s note: CCAP’s plan is inter-

esting as far as its attempt to leave in place the two left-hand southbound exits at Cabrillo-Hot Springs and Sheffield is concerned. The proposal to convert Los Patos to a southbound ingress onto 101, however, is seriously flawed. – J.B.)

Poor Little Los PatosAfter months of time and seri-

ous negotiation with Caltrans, the Montecito Association seems to have offered a viable plan for making the new freeway through Montecito less expensive, less time consuming and less intrusive. The only “hang-up” that many people are concerned with is the intrusion on Los Patos by the bird refuge. This early proposed south-bound entrance is not only awkward but would cause many dire results for the small community of shops, restau-rants and birds. I hope everyone in the planning stages realizes the negative aspect of this alternative, and perhaps enters the southbound freeway south, in front of the cemetery, where there are no buildings or businesses.

At least, inform concerned citizens that spoiling Los Patos is not the intent.

Sincerely,Maxi DeckerMontecito

Let’s Work TogetherI attended the January 22, 2012

Montecito Association Community Forum after receiving the email from Victoria Greene, executive director of the Montecito Association, asking citizens to attend the forum where MA would “accept input, answer ques-tions and identify how you (neigh-

bors) can help with efforts to move the right project forward.”

The presentation both verbally and visually failed to describe what their plan was in detail. It only said “Our 101 Community Coalition Alternative Plan (CCAP) will take less than two years to construct, will keep all on-ramps and off-ramps open during construction, and will save $50 mil-lion dollars.” They went on to ask for money to hire consultants (read law-yers) and PR people.

But, what is the plan and who are the experts that have drawn it up? The visu-als shown do not suffice. I was told the details are on the website. Well, they aren’t.

Since the HOV widening project was presented by Caltrans in 2010, many citizens have been seeking a solution that would work best for Montecito and still achieve an improved flow of traffic on the 101. We had hoped the south-bound left exit could be retained but it became abundantly clear that wasn’t an option. We asked for further options. Caltrans heard our voices and presented Modified F and Modified M.

Perhaps at that time it would have been wise for the Montecito Association to have hired an objective expert to study the options and recom-mend something workable. Instead they formed the transportation sub-committee, with well meaning, but by no means experts or objective think-ers, who continued to pursue what was becoming an obviously unwork-able solution. There was no dialogue of ideas, nor an outreach to all citizens who were directly affected by final decisions. Members of this committee treated the public input with derision and excluded interested parties from their meetings.

Certainly there are valid concerns expressed by the supporters of CCAP that we can all agree on. Design mod-ifications can be worked out with Caltrans. If we can just stop hedging the truth, insulting and yelling at each other, we would realize we have simi-lar concerns. Let’s work on realistic solutions together.

I am deeply saddened by Montecito citizens’ lack of desire to try to be more informed. Fellow neighbors: ask the hard questions, get the details and do the research. What is the history here? Money donated to MA could be well spent to work with Caltrans, hire an outside expert & mediator to work through design modifications unique to our area’s special needs and keep-ing within the standards of Caltrans. It will delay the project but should get a good result for a beautiful project that will not only serve Montecito, but enhance it for the next 50 years!

Sybil RosenMontecito


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by Scott Craig

The works of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, the most influen-tial French landscape painter in

the late 19th century, will be displayed in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art from January 31-March 23. A free, public reception for the exhi-bition, “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: The Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Collection in the Context,” will feature live French music Thursday, January 31, from 4-6 pm at the museum.

Leslie Ridley-Tree has donated 10 paintings, 12 lithographs and a draw-ing by Corot to the exhibition. The museum will also feature works on

loan from Michael Armand Hammer, Robert and Chris Emmons, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and other prestigious collections that place Ridley-Tree’s works into the context of nineteenth century art.

Judy L. Larson, director of the museum and curator of the exhibition, has worked with a team of scholars to produce a 150-page catalog that includes essays by Larson, along with Amy Kurlander, a Corot scholar from Houston; Charlene Garfinkle, secre-tary of the Association of Historians of American Art; and entries by Laura

diZerega, a UC Santa Barbara gradu-ate student, and Brandon Waybright, Westmont museum outreach and edu-cation coordinator.

Three experts will speak at a symposium, “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Conversations about Connoisseurship,” Saturday, February 9 from 10 am to noon in Winter Hall’s Darling Foundation Lecture Hall (Room 210) at Westmont. The talk includes Kurlander, Scott Allan, asso-ciate curator at the Getty Museum, and Jill Newhouse, a New York gal-lery owner and editor of a definitive catalog on Corot’s drawings.

“Corot’s work celebrates the ethe-real beauty of nature,” Larson says. “Corot was an influential leader among the Barbizon artists. He loved to paint the sunrise and sunset and is among the first landscape painters to capture the specifics of weather and atmosphere by going directly to nature and painting ‘en plein air.’”

The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh owned a Corot paint-ing and praised Corot’s figure paintings.

“Picasso saw a selection of Corot’s figur-al works at the 1909 Salon D’Automne, which likely served as the inspiration of his own classical female figures holding mandolins or violins – a direct bor-rowing from Corot,” Waybright says. “Monet himself praised Corot, calling him ‘the only master. We are nothing to him, nothing …’

“We hope to communicate Corot’s love and appreciation of nature by sharing these paintings with our stu-dents and community on the beauti-ful Westmont campus. We also hope that his work will open eyes to the natural world that surrounds us. For art students, there can be few better ways to learn about how to capture a landscape in movement than by encountering the work of Corot.”

The museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and college holi-days. For more information, please visit www.westmontmuseum.org or contact the museum at (805) 565-6162. •MJ

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live with their caregivers, usually a spouse or child. Programming at the center allows the caregiver to work or complete chores during the day, while his or her loved one is being cared for in a safe environment.

Education and support is also available for caregivers through the center. Transportation, meals, nurs-ing, socialization and various activ-ities are offered for members, and the “Adventuresome Aging” pro-gram provides bi-weekly outings to local destinations specifically for older adults in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.

This year tickets cost $100. The event

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Holiday Haulers Honored

The Holiday Haulers, a group of business owners and volunteers founded by Lisa Cullen of Montecito Landscape, were honored last week by the Foodbank and Santa Barbara County. For the last few years, the group has picked up and delivered

agreement goes against state laws that prohibit taking on long-term indebt-edness, while Caruso maintains that not committing to the 15 years essen-tially defeats the purpose of the rebate plan. “The Hotel Incentive Program is critical to getting the financing we need,” Caruso said, adding that the stalemate with the county will cause the building timeline “to slip.”

Caruso said he hoped to break ground on the project in 2014, with doors open by 2016, but that financ-ing remains an unresolved issue. “We would love to see this project built sooner rather than later,” said Supervisor Carbajal, who noted that talks between the county with the Caruso team regarding the HIP are still in the works. In the meantime, Supervisor Carbajal thanked Caruso for demolishing the buildings, a move many Montecito residents had been asking for. “You’ve taken away the eyesore, and we thank you,” he said.

Friendship Center Festival of Hearts

On Saturday, February 9, Friendship Center will hold its 14th annual Festival of Hearts event to benefit the H.E.A.R.T. (Help Elders At Risk Today) program. Taking on a Parisian theme, the event, to be held at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, will fea-ture French music by the Montecito Jazz Project, a Valentine luncheon with local wines, Valentine’s themed shopping, a live auction and more.

At the center of the Hearts event are whimsical papier-mâché hearts

donated by local artists and stu-dents from area high schools. Guests receive a hand-decorated heart as a party favor; other decorated hearts are available by silent bid. Noted “heart artists” this year include Ellen Orlando, Janice Gilbar Treadwell, Claudia Bott, Margaret Hurley, Heidi Artman, Chia Lee Yeh, Steven Gilbar, and others. The hearts that will be on sale are now hanging on display at Renaissance Fine Consignment in La Arcada Plaza on State Street until Thursday, February 7.

Local merchants and residents have donated goods and services for the event, others have donated gift cer-tificates for the auctions. The live auc-tion features a weekend getaways to San Francisco and the French Quarter in New Orleans, a desert getaway to Palm Springs, wine tasting tours, lunches with local elected officials, and a lobster dinner prepared by Alex Broumand of the Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation and his diving partner Bill Whitaker, and “staycation” packages featur-ing Santa Barbara Zoo passes, hotel vouchers, restaurant certificates and more.

Friendship Center, located on the grounds of All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, has been provid-ing adult day care and respite for caregivers since 1976. In 2011 the Friendship Center also opened a new Goleta facility, located at 820 North Fairview Avenue. The goal of the non-profit organization is to defer nursing home care for as long as possible. Friendship Center members typically

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Barbara addresses dental. Referrals come from various sources like the County Health Department, schools, police and assisted living homes. St. Cecilia can frequently get a discount-ed price on the services. One recipient, after receiving $6,000 for dental, said, “No one has ever done anything that nice for me.” Before receiving the pro-cedure, she always covered her mouth she was so ashamed. Amounts vary from as little as $15 for a co-pay to sev-eral thousand, excluding catastrophic expenses.

Dr. Peter Hassler from the County of Santa Barbara Public Health

Department spoke to the group at All Saints-by-the-Sea Church, which lends the church for the tea. He told us, “Santa Barbara County has one of the highest amounts of poor kids in the state because of North County.” The County Department sees 30,000 patients with 120,000 visits a year.

Instead of horses and carriages, the ladies now have cell phones and com-puters. Instead of long dresses and hats, there are short dresses and no gloves, but the need is still there for helping lives. Membership is open to all and they welcome your help. Check it out on www.stceciliasociety.org. •MJ

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new Foundation Helps People and Their Pets

Long-time Montecito resident Diana Basehart loves animals, and her heart breaks for people

who lack the funds to adequately care for their pets.

In response to the needs of pet own-ers, Diana Basehart recently started a foundation which exists to help elders and others on limited incomes care for and keep their beloved animals by providing support for veterinary and nutritional needs, while also mini-mizing the number of animals being turned over to shelters. While there is great wealth within our community, there are also many people who are struggling financially due to the down-turn in the economy and the high cost of housing. Even people with jobs can often find it impossible to put aside savings. With no money to spare, a medical emergency can quickly turn into a catastrophe. Thankfully, if you or a family member needs urgent medical care you will not be turned away from a hospital, regardless of your ability to pay – unless your family member is of the four legged variety. Your family pet is likely to be refused emergency treatment unless you can pay the bill upfront and in full. Diana Basehart regularly hears from people who can-not afford to pay the bill upfront, forc-ing them to make an unbearable choice – either let their beloved pet suffer or die due to lack of treatment, or have them euthanized.

The foundation gets calls from peo-ple asking for help each and every day. While it would love to be in a position to help all those who need it, for now Diana compares it to a triage approach where they have to decide who is in the most urgent need of assistance and what they can afford to take on.

Diana understands that it is the right time to take on this challenge because so many people have fallen onto hard times. While the founda-tion often helps those who are elderly or disabled, she stresses that we all interact on a daily basis with everyday people whose plight goes unnoticed. These people are our neighbors, our co-workers and our friends. The Diana Basehart Foundation recently helped a woman whose dog desperately needed orthopedic surgery. The woman is not homeless or unemployed. She works for the county and lives in a modest apartment, but lacked the funds nec-essary to pay for her dog’s expensive surgery. Her beloved companion was suffering and losing his ability to walk.

The woman agonized over her dog’s plight. Thankfully, The Diana Basehart Foundation came to her rescue.

Diana has a long history as an ani-mal advocate. Back in 1970, she start-ed Actors and Others for Animals in Hollywood. At that time, there were no celebrities involved in animal rights. Diana knew that her husband, actor Richard Basehart, had the fame and notoriety to reach celebrities who could make an impact on the public and raise awareness of animal rights. It has been 41 years since she started Animals and Others for Animals and it is still going strong. They help other animal orga-nizations that are struggling, have a massive neuter and spay program and put on grand fundraising events every year. Diana recalls that their first fun-draising event was held at her daugh-ter’s school.

In December, the Diana Basehart Foundation held a successful fundrais-er at a Montecito estate. It was a rainy day but that didn’t deter animal lov-ers from both Los Angeles and Santa Barbara from attending. Although it was a great success, the need for addi-tional funding is great and ongoing.

If you are a person who understands the deep love shared by animals and their owners, please consider mak-ing a donation to the Diana Basehart Foundation. Any amount, large or small, would be greatly appreciated. Diana is also hoping that local veterinar-ians will be interested in working coop-eratively with her foundation. For more information, visit www.basehart.org.

You can listen to my radio interview with Diana at www.youngatheartra dio.com. •MJ

Diana Basehart in her home with her beloved pets


What was the most challenging part of the shoot?

Having only thirty-three days for a 155-page script. Just being able to shoot it the way we wanted to in such a short time. But it was also exciting for the movie. There was no down time. Every second demanded full focus and energy and excitement from everyone on the cast and crew. And every day had a least one phenom-enal scene if not more. When you’re on a big movie you can go a long time doing nothing of substance, no memorable moments. But this was big stuff every day. That got everyone all jazzed.

David O. Russell likes to rewrite on the set. Did that pose any difficulties?

No, the opposite. Even Robert De Niro said he thought the lines that as they were originally written were amazing, and then he gets the new pages in real time and found them even more incredible. All the actors have talked about how every change he made helped them to feel even more in their characters. That started on day one. So as a producer it makes my job even easier, because he’s making stuff that’s already great even better. And he’s extreme-ly collaborative, so as a producer I’m busy; he wants my opinion on everything.

Any idea of what you’ll talk about on the panel this week?

We’ll see where things go. But it’s a great group of producers this year. Kathy Kennedy was my mentor on my first movie (The Color Purple). She taught me everything I know about producing. And the way it’s turned out, all three times I’ve been nominat-ed for an Academy Award, she has too. It’s also great to meet the people I didn’t know before, and make new friends in the business.

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Shooting in 3-D, on water, with a CGI tiger, young actors… That all seems fairly complex. What were the most chal-lenging aspects to making the movie and how were they overcome? Was there ever a point where things were not coming together?

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Week Two Preview: Producers Panel

SBIFF 2013by Steven Libowitz

The actors and actresses draw the huge crowds at SBIFF, of course, followed by the directors and

writers, whose seminars on the first Saturday attracted big audiences to the Lobero last week for spirited dis-cussions on the process of creating the scripts and the vision to capture them on film. Somewhere down at the other end of the spectrum are the produc-ers, who operate even further behind the scenes and with whom audiences can’t really put a finger on what they do.

But aside from the fact that the producers are the last folks standing at the podium on Oscar night when the final Academy Award for Best Picture is handed out, the jobs can be very hands-on positions, ranging from raising the money to serving as a buffer between the set and the studio to handling day to day issues from scheduling to planning to anchoring the creative team in making critical decisions on everything from camera placement to script changes.

SBIFF’s producers panel this year is about as high-powered – and varied – as they come, what with seven of the nine current best picture Oscar nomi-nees duking it out on the stage of the Lobero at 11am Saturday. (Three more producers of Academy Award nomi-nated films – Django Unchained’s Pilar Savone, Brave’s Katherine Sarafian and Frankenweenie’s Allison Abbate – join Beasts of the Southern Wild co-screenwriter Lucy Alibar and others on the Women in the Biz panel at 2pm at the Lobero.)

We talked with three of the produc-ers over the phone to preview the panel: Bruce Cohen – who worked with Sam Mendes (American Beauty), Gus Van Sant (Milk), and Tim Burton (Big Fish) prior to teaming up with David O. Russell (“The Fighter”) for Silver Linings Playbook; David Womark, whose only other credit as a full pro-ducer was One More Chance back in 1983 before he signed on to Life of Pi; and Django Unchained’s Stacey Shur,

whose extensive credits include Erin Brockovich, Get Shorty and Out of Sight.

Bruce Cohen (Silver Linings Playbook)

Q. How did you come to the movie? A. I try to pick and develop things

that I deeply love and believe might really move people. That’s the orga-nizing principle, even if directors and studios and genres change. What excited me about this movie is that I remember all these people telling me that they’d loved American Beauty so much they saw it more than once in the theater. It hadn’t happened since, but I thought this might be like that. And it has been, which is wonderful.

David O. Russell and I have known each other for years, and had wanted to work together, but hadn’t yet. He’d sent me an earlier draft before The Fighter and I’d fallen deeply in love with it and wanted to be a part of it. So the day I heard from (the other pro-ducer) that they wanted me, it was an instant yes. You could hear me shout-ing across the neighborhood!

The lead actors were taking on new, pos-sibly career-defining roles, even growing as the movie was being developed. What was that like?

David gave them both a chance to do something they hadn’t before. He talked about the opening shot of the film starting on Bradley [Cooper’s] back then coming around to his face as a metaphor: it was the character, Pat Jr. reintroducing himself to the world to prove that he’s not who they thought he was, and also introducing Bradley as not the actor you thought either. And for Jennifer [Lawrence, who will be honored with SBIFF’s Outstanding Performance of the Year award on Saturday night], those kind of roles just don’t come around very often, one with such depth and many layers and levels. It was an extraordinary chance for her to announcer herself as a major new talent.

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marked patrol car. While traveling on Hot Springs Road, the deputy observed a truck two cars ahead, driving considerably slower than the speed limit. The deputy initiated a traffic stop while the vehicle was pulling into the Vons park-ing lot. When the driver pulled his truck into the parking stall, he went too fast and hit the curb. When the deputy approached, there was an odor of alco-hol coming from the driver. A records check showed the driver’s license was expired and he was on probation for DUI. When the man went to put his license and insurance information back in his wallet, he reached down and produced a bottle of mouthwash, which he took a drink of.

Fifteen minutes later, after several field sobriety tests, the deputy asked the man for a breath sample, which was .052 BAC. Because of the low BAC, the man was allowed to leave via taxi. Later, the deputy researched further, and found a section in the Vehicle Code which prohibits persons on probation for driving under the influence to be operating a vehicle with blood-alcohol percentages of .01 or greater.

The District Attorney is expected to follow up with charges. •MJ

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“We can’t quantify the value of all that you do, it’s that big!” said Foodbank Development and Resource Officer, Jane Lindsey. First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal was on hand to present certificates of recognition to the individuals and businesses. The group of volunteers picked up and delivered over 60,000 pounds of food this holiday season.

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Bullying Discussed at Cold Spring School

On February 4 and 5, children’s author and advocate Trudy Ludwig will be visiting two Santa Barbara elementary schools to give her presen-tations on relational aggression (using

relationships to manipulate and hurt others) to students, staff, and parents.

Cold Spring School and Roosevelt Elementary have joined forces to co-sponsor Ludwig’s two-day author visit. On Monday, February 4, Ludwig will present to Cold Spring School students during the day and, in the afternoon, to staff in an in-service workshop (“Addressing Aggression: Providing a Safer Social & Learning Environment at School”). On Tuesday, February 5, Ludwig will then pres-ent to students and staff at Roosevelt Elementary.

On the evening of February 4, Cold Spring School and Roosevelt Elementary are co-sponsoring Ludwig’s special parent presenta-tion: “Understanding Our Kids’ Social World: Friendships, Cliques & Power Plays.” The parent presentation will take place from 6:30 pm to 8 pm at Cold Spring School.

“We’re excited to have Trudy

Ludwig share her books and exper-tise with our schools about this very important issue,” said Dr. Tricia Price, Cold Spring School superin-tendent.

An award-winning author and speaker, Ludwig has been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, PBS’s Keeping Kids Healthy, the National Crime Prevention Council’s Circle of Respect Program, and most recent-ly as an expert panel member on Sesame Street Workshop’s video series addressing bullying.

Her books, My Secret Bully, Just Kidding, Sorry, Trouble Talk, Too Perfect, Confessions of a Former Bully, and her newest release, Better Than You, focus on helping children thrive in their social world.

For more information about Ludwig and her work, visit www.trudylud wig.com. •MJ

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Barnaby Conrad Update

Last Saturday, Laird Koenig and I visited Barnaby Conrad, founder and former director of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference begun in 1973. He is doing surprisingly well given he’s 90 years old and his heart can no longer support activities like bounding up onto the stage at the Miramar. Those were the days when he’d welcome the 400 or so students each June to the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference for a week of intense workshops, friend-ships and change-of-life directions. In spite of body frailties, he was chip-per and carried on a conversation in typical Barney style with stories and humor. Even the Hospice worker was chortling.

If you have memories of the Conference and would like to send a card or note, please send them to: Barnaby Conrad, c/o Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Montecito, CA 93108.

Perhaps you feel awkward? Take advice from former student and cur-rent workshop leader, Ernie Witham. “I sent an artistic card with a blank inside and wrote him a note. Like most of us, I feel I owe so much to the SBWC and to Barney and Mary for giving me a chance to be a workshop leader.”

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Another Empty SaddleShortly after returning from the

funeral service for Harry Carey, Jr. on Saturday January 12, I picked up a copy of Montecito Journal and was sad-dened to read that in Lynn P. Kirst’s Trail Talk article (“Empty Saddles,” MJ # 19/2), regarding deaths in 2012 there was no mention of Mr. Carey’s passing. She did state that the list was incomplete and perhaps the fact that he passed on December 27, so close to the end of 2012, may be a factor in the omission.

I became acquainted with him and

his wife, Marilyn, through a facil-ity where I worked in Santa Barbara. There was no celebrity ego; they were both friendly down-to-earth people.

Harry Carey, Jr. appeared in many movies with John Wayne, including the movie, The Searchers, which is a Western favorite of many, includ-ing myself. At his service, his son, Tom Carey, and Marty Gish sang the theme song from The Searchers. At the reception following the service, Harry Carey, Jr.’s saddle was displayed. A fitting tribute to a cowboy legend. He will be missed.

I hope if Lynn P. Kirst does another Trail Talk article for Montecito Journal, she will include his passing.

Ardene FredricksenSanta Barbara(Editor’s note: Ms Kirst’s “Trail Talk”

column appears monthly; she has been apprised of Mr. Carey’s death and will likely address it in next year’s “Empty Saddles” roundup – J.B.)

Gun Control In IsraelIn the current debate over gun con-

trol, a letter writer (“As Goes Israel…” MJ # 9/3) writes that “taking our guns

away isn’t the answer.” Incredibly she holds up Israel as the exemplar for her position. She states that in Israel, “every person who graduates from high school goes into the military,” and they all keep their rifles after their service. Over there, she says, “they don’t have these weird problems with people shooting each other or going into schools and doing these atroci-ties.”

This is inexplicably way off the mark. In my various visits to Israel – and to the Palestinian colonies it occupies – I have seen an abundance of weapons. As she suggests, many of these weapons are in the hands of civilians, often maniacal settlers. One has only to remember Baruch Goldstein in 1994. He walked into the Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron, killing 29 Muslims and wounding 129 others, all of them in prayer. The residents of Kiryat Arba (an illegal settlement in Palestine, not in Israel) turned their killer into a folk hero, calling him “a martyr with clean hands and a pure heart,” and they built a monument to honor him. A national poll in Israel reported that 4% of the population was in support of this mass murder.

Then-Prime Minister Yitzakh Rabin described Goldstein as a “degenerate murderer,” but Rabin himself would be shot to death in 1995 in Tel Aviv, by Yigal Amir, who faulted Rabin for supporting peace talks with the Palestinians.

It is not only the settlers who are out of control. The Israeli military routinely shoots Palestinian civilians with impunity. Thanks to the coura-geous reporting of an Israeli news-paper such as Haaretz, some of these crimes come to our attention. Most do not. Israeli soldiers have been seen to sign their mission with graffiti on the walls of destroyed buildings, some in Hebrew, others in naïve English, such as “Arabs need 2 die,” and “Make war not peace.” According to a Norwegian physician who endured the assault on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during “Operation Cast Lead,” Israeli snipers from the Givati Brigate could pur-chase T-shirts depicting a young, obvi-ously pregnant woman in traditional Palestinian dress, her belly centered in the cross-hairs of a sniper’s scope, with the words underneath: “1 Shot 2 Kills.”

The letter is datelined London, England. If she’s at all interested in facts about arms and Israel, I would recommend she take a brief journey southwest to Exeter, to meet with Professor Ilan Pappe, a renowned Israeli historian. If she finds this impractical, she could at least get her-self a copy of Pappe’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2008).

Francis SarguisSanta Barbara(Editor’s note: The letter you reference

was mistakenly attributed to a woman who lives in London. We have not been able to ascertain who wrote it – at this point – so we’ll forego any comments, other than if we are ever forced to choose between Israelis and “Palestinians,” we’re going with the Israelis. – J.B.)

From Butter Knives To Heroin

Everyone is entitled to know who owns, or conceals, dangerous weap-ons. It doesn’t matter whether those objects are tucked under the front car seat, hidden in a purse, strapped around an ankle, stored in a beer cooler or forgotten in a kitchen draw-er.

According to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, there is no such thing as a safe weapon. If she includes steak knives, broken glass bottles, jagged metal, keychain-size gun replicas or ice picks, I’ll agree.

The proposal to “ban” knives may sound ridiculous, but a Google search (“UK Doctors Ban Knives”) will show how this brilliant idea is coming to fruition. Another Google search (“Ice Picks vs. Bullets”) reveals that even a bulletproof vest provides little protection against a combat knife, ice pick or hunting arrow. Perhaps the availability of these cheap, unregistered, easily available “assault knives” needs to be regulated.

Some experts believe that, once innocent kids have been desensitized to butter knives, violent birthday par-ties will likely follow, or once kids learn to be “comfortable” around archery equipment, it’s only a matter of time before they start using heroin, killing their neighbors or become dictators. (Google: “Armed-Piñata Syndrome”)

When a kindergartener is arrest-ed for pointing her finger, or a boy suspended because one of his Lego figures carried a dime-sized plastic machine gun, we are not far from an extremely slippery slope. These, and 50 additional, “zero-tolerance” examples can be found.

If firearms are going to be regis-tered, or concealed-carry permit hold-ers exposed in a newspaper or web-site, isn’t it appropriate that everyone be included? In the interest of “fair-ness” and “equality,” shouldn’t every gun-toting or ammo-hoarding politi-cian (state, local, national), celebrity, sports star and newspaper journalist be clearly identified?

How about “zero-tolerance” for lawmakers who think their lives are more important than the electorates’?

With such fantastic free publicity and political “transparency,” what could possibly go wrong?

Dale LowdermilkFounder NOTSAFE(dot)ORG •MJ

Harry Carey, Jr. (May 16, 1921 – December 27, 2012) then… and more recently, with his wife, Marilyn

31 January – 7 February 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 29If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up – Hunter S. Thompson

BOOK TALK by Shelly Lowenkopf

Barnaby Conrad Shelly Lowenkopf blogs @ www.lowenkopf.com. Lowenkopf’s lat-est book is The Fiction Writer’s Handbook. His short fiction, which has appeared widely in the literary and commercial press, is featured in Love Will Make You Drink and Gamble, Stay Out Late at Night, due in 2013.

near Death Experience

Ernie’s World by Ernie Witham

Please note: I have tried to add humor to a painful incident, but though I poked a bit of fun at them, the staff at the hospital emergency room that treated me

were incredibly caring and efficient.

Barnaby Conrad has said he paints pictures, draws portraits, and carves wooden versions of

such objects as egg beaters, and liv-ing things like crocodiles and brown trout, in order to avoid writing books.

When you pause to consider the number of books – novels and nonfic-tion – he has written, this confession seems an elaborate gesture, in effect a trompe l’oeil come to pass. Conrad has painted, drawn, and carved doz-ens, likely hundreds, of these tricks of the eye from which the genre takes its name in French.

One of his favorite commissions was to paint a swimming pool on a San Francisco rooftop, about which the client then deployed deck chairs, and served drinks to guests.

His books run an eclectic spec-trum, starting with his first novel, The Innocent Villa, of which he and the critics are dismissive, followed by his breakthrough bestseller, Matador, a roman a clef featuring a moody Spanish bullfighter. Some years later, an his-torical thriller featured a character based on his younger self, attempt-ing to foil the escape of a Nazi war criminal from Spain at the close of World War II. His most recent fiction is a fanciful account of the life of John Wilkes Booth, after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln, wherein Booth is portraying Abraham Lincoln in a festival, and is shot by a man portray-ing John Wilkes Booth.

Nonfiction Conrad titles ease from instructions on bullfighting to mem-oirs of his time as owner of a noted San Francisco bistro, to his stay at the Bette Ford Rehabilitation Center. In the heyday of more literate maga-zines, he wrote travel and nostalgia pieces, including portraits of some of his many friends.

At a birthday celebration for him not long ago, the hostess placed two party favors at the setting of each guest. The first was a small wind-up toy with the built-in ability to recognize and stop short of running over the edge of a table. Within moments of being seated, the guests had their toys sashaying over the table at a happy buzz, sound-ing like the aggregate giggle of amused youngsters at a playground.

The other party favor removed any doubt that decorum and dignity were to be shown the nearest exit. A clear plastic envelope held one form or another of an exaggerated, paste-on mustache, ranging from the tooth-brush shrub of Oliver Hardy to the shaggy droop reminiscent of Mark Twain and the Old West. The guests

sprouted their facial furnishings, resulting in the mischievous ambi-ance of a Marx Brothers movie. For the rest of the dinner, Barnaby and Mary Conrad maintained the natural ease and good fellowship of persons who’d been born and raised, wearing exaggerated mustaches.

The Conrad home in the Rincon Beach enclave is in its way an exten-sion of the wind-up toys and mus-taches, although to be fair, there are many features, including Conrad’s own paintings, charcoal portraits, sculpting, and intricate carvings best described without apology as art. Even so, the atmosphere of mischief and irrepressible humor are as much a presence as the iodine tang from the nearby beach and slough. The light switch in the guest bathroom is a case in point. When you’re aware of turn-ing the lights on or off, you’re drawn to the switch, a rascally conflation of a photo of the Michelangelo David and the up-down on-off lever, placed just a tad below David’s waist.

Today, you find yourself in the library, a room that seemingly has more books, photos, paintings, and drawings than it can accommodate. In the center of the room, facing the western bank of windows, you see a large hospital bed, one that eas-ily could be a part of an elaborate Conradian trompe l’oeil.

The bed suggests the care Conrad takes when he renders details. This one has lettering attributing the bed to Hospice. In the corner, two tall tanks of oxygen. What fun Conrad might have had, carving and shaping those. There, in the midst of the bed, a form Conrad might have done as a whim-sical self-portrait, down to the faux Rolex watch purchased from a dis-play outside the Tijuana bullring. The figure’s sidewalls, fluffy and cottony, protrude, as Conrad’s do. A nurse, wearing a Hospice jumper, nudges the figure with gentle concern, wak-ing him from a doze. “You’ve got a visitor,” she says. The figure in the bed comes to focus then leans for-ward. “Another fine mess you’ve got us into,” he says, then motions you to the chair at his side. •MJ

They couldn’t locate my spleen. I’m not even sure what my

spleen looks like or what it does or why it should go into hiding like a common criminal, but it did. My spleen had some ‘splainin’ to do.

Maybe the sound of my ribs fractur-ing sent it scurrying. Maybe all my organs were now standing around going: “Did you feel that?” “You kidding? I practically secreted. an enzyme” “Did we hit an iceberg or something?”

No, my squishy innards, we’ve been in a car accident.

“Oh.” “Right.” “Yeah, guess that makes more sense, was the brain working?”

Good question.They had offered me a ride to

Emergency in the ambulance, but I declined. Partially because the full extent of the pain hadn’t kicked in at that point, and partially because my friend and fellow columnist Jim Alexander told us it cost more to ride in an ambulance than to ride on the space shuttle, but mostly because my wife was there, talking to the police, the tow truck driver, the paparazzi (well I’m sure they would have been there given time) and I knew she would give me a lift. Though, she did refuse to make siren noises on the way.

They took x-rays then wheeled me into a curtained stall to wait for the results.

This gave us a chance to eavesdrop on some of the neighbors. There was the flu guy, who only stopped moan-ing long enough to cough and gasp for air. Our air.

There was the guy who dislocated his finger. They kept trying to pull it back into place but it wouldn’t go. Stalwarts that they were they kept try-ing and we all held our breath waiting for the pop that never came.

And there was the young guy who tried “Robo-tripping,” taking so much cold medicine he couldn’t turn his head and cough if they offered him money.

My x-rays were inconclusive but I had these bruises on my back that my wife kept referring to as “Holy crap!” So they took some CT scans and that’s when they discovered small fractures to two ribs and my hip. But my spleen didn’t show up on the CT scans. So now they were trying an ultrasound.

“This might be a little cold,” the emergency room doctor said, as she put goop all over my stomach.

Colder than the room itself? Colder than my wheelchair trip from Emergency across the parking lot to the x-ray department? Colder than the air blowing up my little cute hospital gown?

“There it is,” she said.My wife and I looked at the screen.

I’m not sure what she saw, but to me my spleen looked like a raccoon’s face. Was it wearing a mask? Was it hiding because it tipped over one of the other organ’s trash cans?

Some of these thoughts may have been courtesy of the painkillers they had given me. Turns out the more you grimace, the more they take care of you. Nice folks these emergency room folks.

“We need to make sure it’s not bleeding or you could die.”

See what I mean? Some doctors may hem and haw, and explain things in such a way as to leave you wondering about your odds, but not in the emer-gency room.

I looked for signs of blood, but the ultrasound was only in black and white – probably a budget constraint.

The doctor cleaned up the goop, packed up the scanner and left. The rest of the staff went to get my take-home package – drugs, crutches and this weird little device I had to use to make sure I kept my lungs fully inflated.

“Or you could get pneumonia, your lung could collapse, and you could die.”

My wife helped me get dressed. “Let’s get out of here.”

That’s when the doctor came back and said they needed to do another CT scan of my spleen using contrast, just in case.

I couldn’t remember the last time my wife undressed me twice in one night, but she hasn’t lost her touch.

“Why can’t I go home and finish my trip?” Robo guy asked, as they gur-neyed me through the ER yet again.

“Because we need to pump your stomach or you could die.”

I was beginning to wonder if any-one made it out alive. •MJ

I’m not sure what she saw, but to me my spleen looked

like a raccoon’s face


Montecito’s Emerging Movie Makers

What follows is a short – very short – examination into what some young men and

women are now doing after spend-ing a usually productive childhood in Santa Barbara and/or Montecito. Among this list of talented, success-ful, ambitious, and inventive current and future filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, actors, and directors are a number that attended one or another of Montecito’s public and private ele-mentary schools, and some that began their budding careers at – of all places – the Montecito Journal.

Matt OrnsteinFor example, Matt Ornstein attend-

ed MUS from the second grade to the sixth; from there, he went on to Santa Barbara Middle School, Santa Barbara High School and then to Bard College, a liberal arts school in the Hudson Valley, about an hour and a half north of New York City. Matt’s writing was featured in the very first issue of Montecito Journal. Matt was a middle school ninth grader and had done an

interview with Dick Tuck, a longtime antagonist of Richard Nixon and good friend of outlaw journalist Hunter Thompson.

Matt chose to attend Bard, “because the other option was USC, which probably would have been better,” he suggests during a short telephone call from his home in Los Angeles. “But I figured since I was from Los Angeles originally, I wanted something differ-ent,” he adds.

At the time, he was eager to begin making films and was frustrated that Bard didn’t have much in the way of filmmaking equipment. Instead, students watched movies, took them apart verbally and put them back together again. “I did get to edit,” Matt recalls, “and was probably one of the last [students] to edit a film using a flatbed editing machine, razor blades and tape.”

He finally did get to make a few short films, “and from there,” he says, “I went to music videos and commer-cials.” In 2003, he was out of college and was offered a job making music videos back in Los Angeles for MTV’s

Total Request Live. Those videos had million-dollar budgets and included big names such as *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and others. “I wandered into that world when it was a hurricane of money. But,” he laments, “it ended when the bubble burst in terms of how much they spent and I, like everybody else, went into commercials.”

Matt’s first film, “Atlantis,” a docu-drama about a couple that meets just before the launch of the last space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, was in last year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival. “We kind of learn about the end of the Shuttle program and watch the final launch through their eyes,” he explains.

After “Atlantis’” premiere in Santa Barbara, Matt brought his film to “eighteen or nineteen other festivals,” he says. “It was well received and, in fact, we showed it at Montecito Union during that time. It was age appropriate except for one kiss that the principal had to fast forward,” he

recalls, laughing.Today, Matt has his own production

company – Sound & Vision (sound- vision.tv) – and is currently co-pro-ducing Out There for cable TV. “It’s an exploration of some fringe scientific ideas, directed by Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void, Irreversible). I’m not directing it, but I am hands-on. It’s a six-episode mini-series and we’re just doing the pilot.”

A Princeton GradMattie Brickman attended MUS

from kindergarten right through sixth grade, graduating in 1995, before going to Santa Barbara Middle School, and then Cate for high school. She went off to Princeton in 2001, where she was accepted into the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. After graduation, she spent one year between college and grad school studying playwriting at UCSB before settling into the Yale School of Drama where she earned her MFA in playwriting in 2009. She spent the next two years in New York City – Manhattan for a year and Brooklyn for a year and a half, but has now settled back on the West Coast.

With a full degree from Princeton, one would have thought Mattie would now be a star in the political arena, but she exposed her hand when she asked for permission to write a play at the Woodrow Wilson School in place of a dissertation. They said no.

While in New York, Mattie col-laborated with a group called Art.Party.Theater.Company that attempts to incorporate the audience into its work. “They had a theater piece in the middle of Bryant Park in the summer of 2010,” she tells us, “called Star Box, where we built this weird box in the middle of the park and created a huge media campaign to get the word out that there would be a ‘star,’ a celebrity, in the box.”

For this effort, Mattie wrote a 90-page script that included thirty actors, “which was essentially a staged media circus around this box. So, people would show up, but they

Matt Ornstein dresses the part for the screening of Atlantis at the Cannes Film Festival

Matt Ornstein holds up the film’s Best Picture and Best Producing award at the Holly Shorts Film Festival in Los Angeles

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weren’t sure if there were actors or real journalists [outside]; there was a mix of both.”

Mattie’s first writing assignment was for… Montecito Journal. She wrote a cover story about her attendance at the Academy Awards (her dad, Paul Brickman, is a film director – Risky Business was his hit and Tom Cruise was his discovery). As a sophomore at Cate, she wrote a column for MJ, called “Upward & Outward,” concentrating on, curiously enough, Montecito kids who were or had gone on to bigger things.

After graduating from Yale, Mattie received a commission from Vassar to write a play about Hallie Flanagan, the woman who founded the the-ater program at the college and the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. Shortly after finishing that, producer Jon Avnet (Black Swan) and TV producer-director Rodrigo Garcia asked her to participate in the creation of a web series about women they were working on for YouTube’s Original Channel Initiative, backed by Google.

“Jon and Rodrigo had each written a piece about speed-dating events and they asked me to write one. I could re-use some of their characters, use some of my own, use their sets, etcetera,” Mattie explains. “I started fresh with the characters, got that to them by the end of January 2012 and we started

production in March.”Mattie’s series features a main char-

acter named Ro, and it follows her through one evening of speed dating, during the course of which Ro comes into contact with her parole officer.

Although Mattie hadn’t done any speed dating herself (she’d been dat-ing someone), she says that “at Yale, they were always offering that. They were always trying to mix the school of drama with the school of divinity, with the school of forestry, with medi-cal students. Go to a bar, have a drink, and meet ten people,” so she was familiar with the process.

Currently Mattie is working on her own TV pilot. She says she loves “the idea of a writers’ room and the col-laboration of it,” and would prefer that kind of work. Her pilot “follows three estranged friends as they recon-nect in New York and scrape together strange and unique ways to pay their bills. The cast consists of two guys and a girl who used to be in a band together.”

You can catch Mattie’s complete web series on: www.YouTube.com/user/wigs, and then click on “Ro.” or: watchwigs.com.

Discovering MavericksSean Maurer was also an MUS boy,

and he, along with director Josh Pomer and others, produced this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival documentary: Discovering Mavericks. Sean is a Montecito kid, but Josh is a northern California guy, although he has lived in Summerland recently. “I grew up in Santa Cruz and have been making surf documentaries for twenty years, since I was eighteen,” Josh says. “The Hollywood version of the film – Chasing Mavericks – con-centrated on Jay Moriarity, but all I needed to do were the interviews, as I had all the footage already, cause I’d been filming [Mavericks] for so long,” Josh explains.

Josh’s earlier film, The Westsiders, about the rise and fall of a surf gang, has been shown and has won acco-lades internationally.

The world premiere of Discovering Mavericks is scheduled for Friday, February 1, beginning at 7 pm at the Lobero. The film is narrated by Dean Winters, the actor that has become a YouTube, cable, and net-work TV star portraying the popular character “Mayhem” in the Allstate

Insurance commercials.Sean Maurer’s Santa Barbara-based

production company is called State & Cabrillo; his father, Michael Maurer, was production manager on the origi-nal Hair in New York City, and his mom, Jane Maurer, not only appeared in that production, but also went on the road for a year with Hello Dolly starring Carol Channing. Michael, who has since passed away, wrote, produced and directed the short-lived but ambitious Broadway produc-tion of The Shroud. Josh has recently stretched out into a feature film that Sean is helping to finance and pro-duce. It’s a horror film that takes place all around the Big Yellow House in Summerland. “We have a rough cut already,” says Josh, who both wrote and directed the film.

Zero Dark ThirtyJ.J. Kandel is another MUS boy

(what was in that water?). He arrived in Santa Barbara in the mid 1980s and attended Crane Country Day School before moving into the Montecito

Producer Jon Avnet and Mattie Brickman during the shooting of Ro

Screenwriter Mattie Brickman on the set of her web series, Ro

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COMInG & GOInG (Continued from page 31)Union School District. After gradu-ating from MUS, he went to Santa Barbara Middle School (there’s some-thing in the water there too), and then Santa Barbara High School (okay, okay). Unlike most of his classmates, however, J.J. didn’t go to college; he knew what he wanted to do and didn’t believe a college degree would be all that useful. He had been study-ing acting in Santa Barbara, but after spending six months in Los Angeles, headed for the place where real actors go: New York City. He wanted to do live theater, on stage, in front of audi-ences; and New York was the only place for that.

In New York, J.J. is both president and producing director at Throughline Artists, a non-profit that produces a theatrical festival at a small the-ater on East 59th Street between Park and Madison Avenues that has been going for seven years. His first screen role was as a sentry in the six-time Oscar winner, Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

“I worked with a friend who was involved in [Hurt Locker] at a the-ater retreat in upstate New York,” J.J. says during a telephone conversation from his home, speculating on how he got the role in the first place. The “friend” is a screenwriter who also happens to be Mark Boal’s brother. Mark Boal was the writer-producer

of Hurt Locker. “His brother, Chris, has seen my work at this retreat,” recounts J.J. “They had some passing emergency with some cast members and sent out a mass e-mail looking to fill some of the roles and I responded.”

J.J. spent a week in Jordan film-ing his brief role in Hurt Locker, and worked directly with Kathryn Bigelow during the filming. “She must have liked me,” J.J. says, “because she hired me for her next film (Zero Dark Thirty). I’m assuming that she asked for me, because I got a phone call ask-ing if I’d be interested in doing a line in this movie. The casting director,

who I knew, said if I wanted the part I’d have to get a visa. I had to sign a bunch of things, got a visa, got on a plane again and went to India.

“It’s a very nice scene,” he contin-ues. “It’s at the beginning of the movie and I’m one of the CIA case officers that works at the embassy there in Islamabad. The character is credited as J.J., so there’s J.J. playing J.J.”

When asked whether he could sing or would consider a role that required singing, such as that required by Russell Crowe in Les Miserables, he responded that he doesn’t really sing and that “the idea of doing musical theater terrifies me. But,” he adds, “if it scares me, there’s a good chance I’m going to find a way to do it, just for that reason. But the idea certainly does terrify me a bit.”

J.J.’s mom, Joyce, is a writer; his dad, Bob Kiken, is a Santa Barbara oral surgeon. As a side note, while attending MUS, J.J. wrote and directed and performed in an onstage skit with some of his classmates, including MJ publisher Tim Buckley. “I remem-ber; in those days, in my early days of producing,” J.J. says with a laugh, “I would put on little shows for the dinner guests. Little did I know what I was doing; it’s just what I did and Tim was enrolled in one of them.” For the record, Tim doesn’t sing, and he whistles out of tune.

If you’d like to learn more about J.J., you are invited to go to: summer shortsfestival.com or throughlineart ists.org.

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Ariana Rubcic is a tenth-generation Californian who was born in Santa Maria and grew up in Summerland. She attended El Montecito Early School, Mt. Carmel, Crane and then Laguna Blanca for high school. Ariana says she doesn’t know how to think about Beasts of the Southern Wild, the making of the film, or her small part in it all.

“It’s all so strange,” she says, “that this little movie I worked on in Louisiana has gotten to be such a big

thing. It’s all so strange,” she repeats. It was the middle of 2010; Ariana was dating someone who had been working with the people involved in making the film and she was hired on to help with the production. (Ariana is listed as an “artist” on her film credit.) “I was in what was called the ‘aurochs’ unit (aurochs are the mythical “beasts” that look a lot like Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs with extra hair and horns).”

Ariana served as an assistant to the production coordinator, “who was responsible for laying out what tools we needed and ways to do things to complete certain shots. We had to cre-ate clouds, for example, with certain chemicals so that a camera could still film through it.” Ariana spent nearly three months – March through May – helping with the movie. “We were sta-tioned in New Orleans proper in an old firehouse that had been converted into kind of an artist’s workshop where we made puppets and costumes, using horns and hair,” she recounts. Ariana says she didn’t have a lot of contact with the star (Quvenzhané Wallis) but she could see there was some-thing “remarkably self-assured” about her. Ariana accompanied the cast and crew to the Sundance Film Festival and then to Brooklyn. “I watched the young girl grow up before my eyes,” she marvels.

Ariana is working on her own short film right now, but didn’t feel free to describe the plot. She has a website

This is the 2007 headshot that won J.J. Kandel the role as a sentry in Kathryn Bigelow’s Academy Award-winning film, Hurt Locker

Ariana Rubcic worked as an artist on Beasts of the Southern Wild, spending three months in New Orleans for the shoot

This is Oliver, the piglet one sees in the close-up shots of the aurochs near the end of Beasts of the Southern Wild

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that she controls via her iPhone: ari anarubcic.com, and says that anyone that would like to follow her progress is welcome to sign in. She lives and works in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.

Film SkilletJeremy Norris was born in Los

Angeles, grew up in Santa Barbara, attended Crane School and has lived “on and off” in the Santa Barbara-Montecito area for the past twenty-five years. His mother lives in Santa Barbara and his father lives in Santa Monica, and works in the film industry.

Taylor Frees was born in Provo, Utah, but only lived there for a month before moving to California and has been in Santa Barbara since 1986, hav-ing moved here as a sophomore and attended Santa Barbara High School.

These two have created a unique website called Film Skillet, an enter-tainment and social networking site whose sole purpose is to discover and promote talented filmmakers around the world.

“More and more people every year stream their entertainment online,” Jeremy says during an interview outside Pierre Lafond in Montecito. “With the onset of mobile devices, you’re seeing these people watching these things on their phones and tab-lets. They are commuting to and from work and they’re entertaining them-selves,” he adds.

Film Skillet offers cash rewards and backing for winners for drama in their film contests. The creator of this sum-mer’s winner, Anamnesis, for exam-ple, got to meet with Jeremy’s father, Emmy Award-winning TV Director

Patrick Norris (Parenthood, Gossip Girl, The O.C., and many others). “They got to go on the set of Parenthood and get their work out in the industry. They’ve been offered walk-on roles on TV and developing alongside other creative people down in Hollywood,” Jeremy points out.

Anamnesis is a look into life at the last stages of one’s life, where a group of people are dreaming and meet in the dream world; the line between waking and the dream world starts to blur. “With Finite Films, creators of Anamnesis,” Taylor says, “we decided to develop a web series based around their short film. We thought it was very good. And, in doing so, we’ve committed ourselves to twenty thou-sand dollars worth of investment, as well as them pitching in financially to make it happen.”

At the end of the process, Film Skillet and Finite Films will have an original series with original content that they then will take through their connections into Hollywood, “and put it in front of networks as an original idea for television. So, it might start off as a short film,” Jeremy continues, “be developed into a web series and made into a television series. That is where the potential is.”

Taylor says there really isn’t any second-place prize for their contest entrants, “but we have taken the best films that come in and are in the pro-cess of creating a series of compila-tions. It’s pretty hard for filmmakers to market an individual short film,” he says. “There aren’t a lot of ven-ues for that, but by compiling them into DVDs, it provides filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their work alongside other talented filmmakers, thereby increasing their international exposure.”

Taylor focuses on another entry that they believe has potential to be made into a series: Suckablood is a five-minute short by Ben Franklin (a Brit) about a young girl that sucks her thumb and lives with her stepmother. Her stepmother puts a curse on her so that should she suck her thumb again, the monster Suckablood would come and eat her in her sleep. And, sure enough, he shows up that night when

the girl sucks her thumb but he ends up going after the stepmother instead.

The Third Letter is a six- or seven-minute long film set in the future: the world is very polluted and everyone suffers from health problems. There is a man that needs a new battery for his pacemaker but his insurance doesn’t cover it. He is recently separated from his wife and needs a letter from her insurance company with her activa-tion code to activate her battery. In desperation, he rips the pacemaker out of his body and enters her code.

All the films are done on extremely limited budgets. “People are pulling off these really great short films for between two and five thousand dol-lars by virtue of favors from friends and relatives,” notes Taylor. “All the films we’ve selected for the site,” Jeremy adds, “have incredible pro-duction values. If you were actually to re-film these in Hollywood, you would be looking at fifty, sixty thou-sand dollars.”

Is there money in a web series, we wondered?

“Any time you can develop traf-fic, there’s money in it. So, if you can develop a web series that builds an audience, there’s money in it. Anytime

you have an audience in the hundreds of thousands, you have a viable prod-uct; anytime you are in the millions, you have a very successful one.

“While everyone can submit their film to Film Skillet, only the top films are selected to be featured on the site,” suggests Jeremy. “This means less time searching and more time watching. When you select an independent film from our library, you can be assured the film has been viewed by our staff and selected for its quality.”

Jeremy and Taylor are currently looking for financial partners to help grow Film Skillet into a major pro-vider of entertainment.

If you’d like to learn more or how to enter Film Skillet’s contests, you can contact Jeremy at: [email protected], or Taylor: taylor.frees@filmskil let.com.

Inventing ShadowsSusan Venable (no relation to

Montecito’s John Venable, she says) is a Santa Barbara artist whose lat-est art project has been made into a film by Ali Lassoued. “The docu-

One of the “costumes” created by the artists for the aurochs, including Oliver, who turned out to be one of the smartest of the piglets

The converted firehouse used as a workspace for the “special effects and cos-

tume” crew that included Ariana Rubcic, is in the Marigny district of New Orleans

Film Skillet co-founders Jeremy Norris (left) and Taylor Frees

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Williams Family Album: Holly’s Holy Emergence

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.

Considering her heritage, it’s hard to believe that Holly Williams didn’t pick up a

guitar until she was almost 18. Her grandfather was the legendary Hank Williams, the acknowledged father of contemporary country music, and her dad is the country outlaw/honky-tonk superstar Hank, Jr.

But protected by her dad – who wanted her to avoid the trappings he’d suffered when his mom had him performing Hank Sr.’s songs at the Grand Ole Opry while he was still in single digits – Holly was raised on a steady diet of teen pop and current R&B before getting into writing and playing at the tail end of high school.

“I didn’t grow up the way people think because my dad didn’t want us on the road with him at all,” she recalled from her home in Nashville, where she was trying to rally from being sick with the flu in time to make it onto The Tonight Show two days later. “It was school and field trips, not concert. He always said, ‘I’m not Bocephus [Hank Jr.’s nickname], I’m daddy.’ So we were very sheltered from all those rowdy things.”

In fact, so much so that she didn’t even really hear her grandfather’s music until it was referenced through artists Hank Sr. had influenced.

“My dad was so famous then that it shadowed Hank Sr.’s music. I didn’t understand the legacy that he’d left. But then at seventeen I heard Sarah McLachlan cover Tom Waits’ ‘Old 55,’ and bought every record of his. After that I got into Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen and of course Bob Dylan, who used to say Hank Williams was ‘his radio.’ To know that the people who influenced me were themselves influenced by my grand-father is such an ironic thing. It really has come full circle.”

Despite Hank Jr.’s successes, he too didn’t offer much help to Holly when she was starting out, and she would have eschewed it anyway, she said.

“He didn’t have any idea what to

tell his fingerpicking, piano-playing folksinging daughter about what to do. And I wasn’t looking to put on a cowboy hat and sign a country red-neck deal. I was in such a different genre. All he could have done is make some phone calls to Music Row, but I didn’t want to sing other people’s songs. I wanted a fan base for my own stories and songs.”

Now, at 31 – two years longer than Hank, Sr. lived and around the same age her dad was when he released his career-altering record Hank Williams, Jr. and Friends – Holly is about to unleash her third CD, The Highway, which comes out on Tuesday, the same day she makes her Santa Barbara debut at SOhO. The album was produced by Charlie Peacock of the Civil Wars and features guest shots from Jackson Browne, Jakob Dylan, Dierks Bentley and Gwyneth Paltrow in an organic gathering much like her dad’s Friends album. It also marks something of another fresh start for Williams, who is putting out the record on her own after stints on two different major labels.

It’s an even more acoustic affair than the others, too, full of more roots than twang and deepening the sto-rytelling angle to her songs. But it was a long time coming, and not just because she’d spent a couple years at home helping her sister to heal from a near-fatal car accident that also injured Holly.

“I wanted to explore characters, people I knew or things I had gone through myself,” she said. “And I thought the album was finished because after nine songs the well had

run dry, and I wanted to get it done. We even mastered it and did all the artwork. But I kept thinking there was something I still had to say but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Then at the gas station one night, I just started singing the chorus [to what became the title track]. It came out of nowhere. But I knew immediately it was the whole point of this record… I have so much wanderlust. I missed being out on the road. And as a singer-songwriter you better freaking love it because if you want a career, you have to build it fan by fan, city by city, tour-ing by van across the country. That’s great, because seeing the way you touch someone, how they’re moved by your songs, you can’t get that any-where else.”

The rest of the record is pretty darn personal, too, including a couple of songs dedicated to her husband, most endearingly “Good Man.”

“The accident happened so quick, so shocking and fast [that] it left me with fear of people around me dying. But I feel like I needed to get it out of me so I’d find a better way to live. It’s hard for me to write a happy love song, so I wanted the world to know if something happened, I’d been with a good man.”

Her own family actually does show up on the album, but only the mater-nal side. Both of her mom’s parents died in the last couple of years, and the emotions came bubbling up in the songs “Gone Away From Me” and “Waiting on June.”

“Every single word of that song is true, from the cotton fields, to the war, the kids, and the separate rooms in the nursing room,” she said. “It’s the hardest song for me to get through when I sing it now, because I miss them so much, and it’s bittersweet. It’s the most personal song I’ve ever

written, the kind I couldn’t have done until now. It’s been a slow build.”

Undoubtedly, Hank, Sr. would be proud.

Holly Williams headlines a schizophren-ic triple-bill at SOhO on February 5 that also features five-time Gibson Female Jazz Guitarist of the Year Leni Stern and her trio [which sadly no longer features Bill Frisell], and Santa Barbara’s own sing-er-songwriter-guitarist-rock bandleader Kirstin Candy. The music starts at 7. Tickets cost $10. Call 962-7776 or visit www.sohosb.com.

‘Lookin’ for Love’ in Santa Ynez

Texas country singer Johnny Lee exploded onto the national scene through his role in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy, which came about via his long association with then-coun-try legend Mickey Gilley, whose self-named nightclub was the main set-ting for the film. “Lookin’ For Love,” featured in the movie, became a massive crossover hit, scoring on country, pop and adult contempo-rary charts and heard on myriad radio stations and dance floors all over the country.

Lee didn’t have to look too far to score more hits in the succeeding decade, either, as “One in a Million,” “Pickin’ Up Strangers,” “Sounds Like Love” all reached the charts, while his cover of the R&B standard “Hey Bartender” hit No. 1. But it’s been slimmer pickins since; Lee has only released a handful of albums of new music after the early 1990s. Which makes him perfect for the casino-revival circuit, including the last day of January at the Chumash Resort. [Tickets: $25-$35; Info: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com] •MJ

Holly Williams makes her Santa Barbara debut on February 5 at SOhO (photo credit: Kristine Barlowe)

31 January – 7 February 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 35Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism – Hunter S. Thompson

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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 18)coming, but austere.

Sophie says citizens “live in a near total information bubble, without any true frame of reference.”

“My understanding is that North Koreans are taught to believe they are lucky to be there, so why would they want to leave? They’re hostages in their own country without any real consciousness of it.”

The four-day trip was led by for-mer New Mexico governor and U.N. ambassador, Bill Richardson.

Her father’s goal, among other things, was to promote a freer internet in the country.

Sophie adds that she and the other eight delegates were always accompa-nied by two “minders” and they never spoke with a citizen who hadn’t been pre-approved by the state government in Pyongyang.

It must be nice to be back in Montecito...

Dance Theater Dazzles

Santa Barbara Dance Theater, under new artistic director Christopher Pilafian, has made a most impressive start.

Launching its season with a thor-oughly entertaining performance with “Leap of Faith” at the Hatlen Theater, it featured a variety of solos, duets, trios and quartets, encompassing orig-inal music by William Pasley and other composers.

The four accomplished dancers – Kyle Castillo, Monica Ford, Tracy Ray Kofford and Christina Sanchez – wearing costumes by Anaya Cullen, were seamless with the 80-minute show which, in 34 segments, explored the relationships of space, time and how humans connect.

“Each segment of the dance seemed to have its own external form and internal logic,” says Christopher, a member of the dance faculty at UCSB since 1990. “The process always involved the dancers’ interpretation of my ideas or improvisation upon a theme... The process has felt to me like a dialogue, informed by mutual respect between choreographer and dancers.”

A wonderful portent of things to come...

Delighted by Daniel

Oscar nominated for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis showed a decidedly mischie-vous side when he accepted the SBIFF’s Montecito Award from his co-star Sally Field, at a packed Arlington Theatre.

Already a two-time Academy Award recipient for My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood, he recounted when, at the age of 12, he was at Sevenoaks School, outside London, and a mem-ber of the cast of South African author Alan Paton’s Cry, The Beloved Country.

“I played a black boy and, need-less to say, just wearing shorts and t-shirt, had to have a lot of makeup applied. Even showering, for what seemed hours, I couldn’t get it all off and would get it all over the sheets on my bed.

“The matron had always disliked me, but couldn’t say anything, given this was the school play.”

Revenge is sweet...

Mastering Your EmotionsCarpinteria author Jim Piekarski’s

first book, Mastering Your Emotions With Your Spouse and Others, comes from more than 30 years of experience as a marriage and family therapist.

Jim, 63, is the clinical director of Phoenix of Santa Barbara, a 41-year-old non-profit that treats adults with mental disorders. He has worked with couples, individuals and families dur-ing his career.

“It took me five years on and off to

do this book,” Jim told me at a bijou launch bash at Tecolote, the lively lit-erary lair in the Upper Village.

“It is learning how people trigger each other’s emotions such as guilt, anger, hurt and fear.”

He is now working on his second tome, about dependent adult children, tentatively titled The Way Out, which he hopes to publish next year...

Magalif’s Magnificent Premiere

Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra’s first performance of the New Year at the Lobero featured the U.S. pre-miere of composer Eugene Magalif’s work “Hummingbird” with Angela Wiegand on flute.

Magalif, 56, who hails from Belarus, gained notoriety in his homeland and other countries that comprised the old U.S.S.R., as a composer of pop songs, many of which hit the top ten in the Russian record charts.

Having moved to America 22 years ago, where he now teaches music at a high school in New Jersey, Magalif turned his attention to the classics with, if “Hummingbird” is anything to go by, considerable success.

The performance, under the capable baton of Heiichiro Ohyama, kicked off with Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, with soloists Judith Farmer, bassoon, Michael Grego, clarinet, Jennifer Johnson, oboe, Jenny Kim, horn, and Wiegand.

Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, featuring the British composer’s ten-part tribute to his composition teacher and suitably combining Bridge’s lyrical style with his own more modern sound, filled the second half of the entertaining performance, ending appropriately with Bridge’s An Irish Melody...

Hubbard Street ReturnsIt was the first time a dance com-

pany had been booked in consecu-tive years to perform as part of UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures series, but watching Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s sold-out perfor-mance at the Granada, it was easy to see why.

Exhibiting world class choreogra-phy, the program featured resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo’s works “Blanco” and “Pacopepepluto,” the latter a series of three frenetic male solos set to the music of the late Dean Martin with minimal clothing in appropriately darkened light.

The show ended with Swede Mats Ek’s “Casi-Casa,” a 40-min-ute work first created four years ago for Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, set to electronic arrangements from Fleshquartet, using a number of domestic objects, including a chair, vacuum cleaners and a television.

An accomplished company full of surprises, without a doubt...

Klashing Kontinues Kim Kardashian claimed she felt

“handcuffed” to basketball star Kris Humphries after he refused to divorce after their short-lived Montecito mar-riage.

But it seems her cuffs are set to stay on a little longer, as Humphries has reportedly turned down a $10 million offer to settle their case.

The athlete is asking for an annul-ment on the basis of fraud, something the reality TV star vigorously denies.

“Kris wants to be able to marry in a church again, with a clear conscience, when he finds someone special,” a source tells RadarOnline.com.

Because of Humphries’ basket-ball commitments, the earliest their divorce trial can commence is the middle of June.

And this is where their bitter feud takes on a soap opera-like quality, for technically Kardashian, 32, will still be married to Humphries, 27, when she is due to give birth in July to current boyfriend Kanye West’s baby.

Watch this space...

Sightings: Reese Witherspoon checking out the wares at Rooms & Gardens on State Street... Oscar nominee Virginia Madsen noshing at Olio Pizzeria... Former pro footballer and CBS analyst Marcus Allen din-ing with jewelry designer Corinna Gordon at Sakana Sushi

Pip! Pip! for now

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

Kyle Castillo, Monica Ford, Christina Sanchez and Christopher Pilafian at the SBDT Leap of Faith event (photo credit: Mo McFadden)

Oscar nominee Daniel Day-Lewis recounts his school days

Composer Eugene Magalif, flutist Angela Wiegand and conductor Heiichiro Ohyama at the SBCO performance

Family thera-pist Jim Piekarski launches first book

31 January – 7 February 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole lifestyle a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect – Hunter S. Thompson

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David B. Agus, M.D.The End of IllnessMON, FEB 11 / 8 PM UCSB CAMPBELL HALL$15 / $10 UCSB students

Event Sponsor: Carla Hahn

Author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood TUE, FEB 12 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL$20 / $10 UCSB students

Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Creative Studies

Event Sponsors: Marcia & John Mike Cohen

Santa Barbara Solo Recital Debut / All-Beethoven Program

Leonidas Kavakos, violinEnrico Pace, pianoFRI, FEB 15 / 7 PM / HAHN HALL

Event Sponsor: Patricia Gregory for the Baker Foundation

Diana ParadisePO Box 30040, Santa Barbara, CA 93130Email: [email protected] Pages: www.DianaParadise.com Prices start at $3200 for a 24”x36” oil portrait of one person.


COMInG & GOInG (Continued from page 33)mentary follows the evolution of my work as an artist over thirty years and it follows my latest piece from concept to completion,” she tells us. “I’ve invented a particular style of working, my own unique invention,” she says, “that came out of my MFA at UCLA. It’s twisted copper wires on a metal grid juxta-posed with encaustic (molten) wax. It’s quite unusual.”

The film is called Inventing Shadows and it is a twenty-five minute docu-mentary that will have a free screening as its public premiere. The screening begins at 6:30 pm, Friday, February 8. It will be hosted by Synergy Business & Technology Center and JM Holliday & Associates, Architecture, and will take place at 1 North Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 102. Both the artist, Susan Venable, and the film’s 31-year-old director, Ali Lassoued, will be in atten-dance. There will be wine and hors d’oeuvres served, beginning at 6 pm.

The Condor’s ShadowJeff McLoughlin has produced a

film on the recovery of the California Condor entitled The Condor’s Shadow.

It screens on Saturday, February 2 at 10 am at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Jeff has lived in Montecito since 1969 and attended Santa Barbara High School. He studied filmmaking at San Francisco State in the late 1970s. When he left the corporate video world in 2010 he decided to pursue documen-tary filmmaking and “grasped around for a project that appealed to me,” he says during a short telephone conver-sation.

“I particularly wanted to do an environmental film that had a posi-tive hopeful story line. You read a lot about environmental issues these days and many of those are quite bleak; I felt there were success stories to be told.”

So, he went out looking for one and coincidentally read a piece in the Santa Barbara Independent, written by Matt Kettmann, called the Great California Condor Comeback. “That story was the inspiration for the film,” he reveals.

One of the more interesting aspects of the recovery of the California

Jeff McLoughlin, director of The Condor’s Shadow, scheduled to unspool at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Saturday, February 2 at 10 am


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

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

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

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

Montecito Deli1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717)Open six days MNJ31S0 MNJ31S018P a week from 7 am to 3 pm. (Closed Sunday) This eatery serves homemade 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

31 January – 7 February 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 39Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory – Franklin P. Adams

so it looks real. We hired an aquatic design group who build waterparks all over the world to reverse engineer a swell tank.

As far as the tiger, what made it so photo realistic was that we worked for a couple of weeks with live ani-mals in order to learn – which only were less than ten percent of the final footage – to have a lot of reference footage of all their movements and habits that we could use with the ani-mators. So we didn’t have to guess what all the details should look like. And we integrated our tiger trainer as a visual effects consultant and quality control guy. In an early test, we thought it looked amazing and he said, but wait, his testicles aren’t swinging back and forth. That was the level of detail.

Ang Lee is a very strong director. Was there a lot of input from the producers in how the film took shape?

It’s an auteur collaboration. All the crew can give him ideas. He usu-ally comes in with a blueprint but then works with each team to get the details right and make it hap-pen. And of course the studio also gave him notes because adapting a book like this you have the invisible line between artistic integrity and commercial appeal. The challenge for everyone was to define where that was, how to keep it accessible with-out losing the intellectual notions so that everyone watching it can take something away. And being a PG movie, we had to please both eleven year olds and grownups.

After this experience, what’s next for you?

I’m not sure. I’m still catching my breath, and still running around with Ang doing all these crazy things.

Stacy Sher (Django Unchained)

Q. You worked with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, his early breakthrough, and not again until now. What’s up?

A. We met before Reservoir Dogs in 1991. The company I had with my partners (Jersey Films) made a blind deal to for the second movie, which was “Pulp.” Then we both did a bunch of other things. I did three films with Stephen Soderbergh, worked with Milos Forman. But we were very good friends, and he would always show me his first drafts and first cuts.

How have things changed after eighteen years?

You know, we talked about it a lot. We’d just look at each other and know we have the same passionate enthusi-astic love of film we’d had when we were just kids starting out. And the same independent spirit, even though you can’t really call us outsiders any-more. But our skill set had surely grown with our experience, and that was really great for both of us. Quentin was always a singular voice of film. Even talking to him about cin-ema, there’s no one like him and never will be again. But with him becoming a more sophisticated filmmaker, more confident, more of a problem-solver, even bolder with more power, I just continue to be knocked out by him every day

When you’re on a Tarantino film, you know it’s going to be violent, and usually controversial. What’s the producer’s role

in that arena? When you have a creative relation-

ship, you bounce things off of each other. Quentin likes to surround him-self with smart people and engage in discussions all the time, so the job has many facets. He wants to be inspired, not just have them take dictation. But make no mistake, he’s an auteur and you serve his vision. This was a complicated film, difficult to shoot, starting with an extraordinary group of actors who wanted to all be in the film, any of whom would be the sin-gular star in any other film. But then we had practical problems, too. It didn’t snow in Mammoth in January for the first time in 100 years. And it was crucial for the film, so we had to move the set – where we’d done everything including removing tree stumps to make room for the horses – and take it to Wyoming, and film in the elk preserve where no one had done that before.

Does anyone really get to rein Quentin in, or just stand back and watch him work?

The best filmmakers are very con-scious of limitations. In somebody else’s hands, this movie – which was considerably under the one hundred million dollar budget that was report-ed – might have been two hundred million. He’s constantly looking for ways to do things economically, but not stint on what’s absolutely needed. It had to be emotionally epic. The genius is in the choosing where that line is. It’s not an indulgent process at all. He doesn’t go back and reshoot. He makes it as he goes along.

Besides moving from Mammoth, what else posed a big challenge?

For the first time ever, we trained thirty-five horses to fall in that explosion. None of that was CG. We had one of the greatest wrangler and stunt coordinators and stunt-men, who worked for months figur-ing out what we could do completely safely. We spent a lot of time seeing where the actors were at with quick draw, riding, etcetera. It was an old fashioned movie with a postmodern tone, classical in the demands. And we built and blew up that planta-tion. Nobody gasps anymore when they see it because we’re so used to seeing it with CG. But I was terrified because Quentin (and others) were in a tiny little box and if the blow-back went their way… I don’t want to think about it. •MJ

Life of Pi producer David Womark will be in town this weekend to talk about the film

Director Quentin Tarantino on the set of Django Unchained; producer Stacy Sher will talk about making the movie this Saturday at the Lobero (photo credit: Andrew Cooper, SMPSP/The Weinstein Company)

SBIFF (Continued from page 26)


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NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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

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

BID NO. 5207

DUE DATE & TIME: February 14, 2013 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

FENCE PROJECT AT EL ESTERO TREATMENT PLANT

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on February 5,

2013 at 11:00 a.m., in the El Estero Conference Room,

located at 520 E. Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to

discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bid

Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at

the pre-bid meeting.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General A or C-13 Fencing

Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: January 30, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

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

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

BID NO. 5208

DUE DATE & TIME: FEBRUARY 20, 2013 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

HVAC Systems Maintenance and Repair at City Airport

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on February 6,

2013 at 8:00 a.m., at the Airport Maintenance Conference

Room, located at 1699 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA,

to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please

allow 3 – 4 hours for pre-bid meeting. Plans and

specifications are available at the Purchasing Office and at

the pre-bid meeting.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-20 contractorʼs license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: January 30, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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PUBLIC NOTICESof the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. Original FBN No. 2013-0000134. Published January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The G Spa, 33 W. Mission, Ste. 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Kathleen Griffin, M.D. Inc., 33 W. Mission, Ste. 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 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 Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2013-0000109. Published January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Resolution Quest Consulting, P.O. Box 1613, Summerland, CA 93067. Gary Robinson, 2559 Whitney Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 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 Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2013-0000113. Published January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Just One Soup, 231 S. Magnolia Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. Carole Bennett, 605 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 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 Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2013-0000023. Published January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Weddings, 1482 East Valley Road #312, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Sarah Farmer, 1944 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 28, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk

(SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0003675. Published January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Asphalt, 2781 Ben Lomond Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Roger Jennell, 2781 Ben Lomond Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 21, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2012-0003647. Published January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Specialty Pharmacy, 174 Aero Camino, Goleta, CA 93117. Marcel Sassola, 7771 Heron Court, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 7, 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 Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2013-0000057. Published January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M&M Metals, 4980 Rhoads Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. L. William Mitarotonda, 4980 Rhoads Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 31, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0003678. Published January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Taub Designs, 5142 Hollister Ave #238, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Ken Taub, 1064 Via Regina, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 11, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. Original FBN No. 2012-0003547. Published January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2013.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1415037. To all

interested parties: Petitioner Katherine Ellen Atkinson filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Karie Ellen Atkinson. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 10, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: March 7, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1414722. To all interested parties: Petitioner Carlos Alfredo Carachure filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Carlos Alfredo Yescas. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 10, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: February 21, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1413978. To all interested parties: Petitioner Dustin Lee Green filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Dustin Lee Hallam. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed December 17, 2012 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: February 21, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6

ARLINGTON1317 State Street - 963-4408

RIVIERA2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.

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

PLAZA DE ORO371 Hitchcock Way - S.B.

Information Listed for Friday thru Thursday - February 1 - 7

FIESTA 5Features Stadium Seating

916 State Street - S.B.

CAMINO REALFeatures Stadium SeatingCAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE

Hollister & Storke - GOLETA

METRO 4Features Stadium Seating


FAIRVIEWFeatures Stadium Seating

225 N. Fairview - GoletaDJANGO UNCHAINED (R)

1:00 4:25 7:50

LIFE OF PI (PG) in 2D: 1:10 7:20 in 3D: 4:10

GANGSTER SQUAD (R) 8:10

LES MISERABLES (PG-13)1:20 4:45

Al Pacino....Christopher Walken STAND UP GUYS (R)

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

7 Academy Award NominationsARGO (R)

Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:30Sat/Sun - 2:00 7:30

Bill Murray.....Laura LinneyHYDE PARK ON HUDSON

Daily - 5:00 (R)

BULLET TO THE HEAD (R)Fri-Sun - 2:15 4:50 7:20 9:45Mon-Thu - 3:00 5:30 8:00

WARM BODIES (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:40 7:10 9:35Mon-Thu - 2:40 5:10 7:40

MOVIE 43 (R)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:40 9:00Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:00 7:30

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

HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS (R)

in 3D: Fri-Sun - 6:50Mon-Thu - 8:00

in 2D:Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:30 9:10Mon-Thu - 3:10 5:40

WARM BODIES (PG-13)1:20 4:10 6:40 9:10

BULLET TO THE HEAD 1:30 4:20 7:00 9:20 (R)

ZERO DARK THIRTY (R)1:00 4:30 8:00

PARKER (R)1:10 4:00 6:50 9:40

MAMA (PG-13)1:45 4:50 7:20 9:45

HANSEL & GRETEL:WITCH HUNTERS (R)in 3D: 9:30in 2D: 2:00 4:40 7:10

A Dustin Hoffman FilmQUARTET (PG-13)


Metropolitan TheatresWelcomes

THE 28th SANTA BARBARAINT’L FILM FESTIVAL

thru Sunday, February 3

Monday, February 4 at 7:30LIVE IN HD:

JOSH GROBAN:ALL THAT ECHOES

Starts Tuesday, February 5:THE OSCAR NOMINATED

SHORT FILMS 2013Animated:

Tue-Thu - 1:00 5:30Live Action:

Tue-Thu - 3:00 7:30

12 Academy Award Nominationsincluding Best Picture!

LINCOLN (PG-13) 12:40 4:00 7:15

8 Academy Award NominationsSILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

1:20 4:35 7:30 (R)



Academy Award Nominee!Best Actress - Naomi WattsTHE IMPOSSIBLE (PG-13)1:45 5:00 7:45




Starts Monday, February 4:8 Academy Award NominationsLES MISERABLES (PG-13)Mon-Thu - 1:00 4:20 7:40

5 Academy Award NominationsDJANGO UNCHAINED (R)

Mon-Thu - 1:10 4:35 8:00

11 Academy Award NominationsLIFE OF PI (PG)

Mon-Thu - in 2D: 4:45Mon-Thu - in 3D: 1:30 7:30

GANGSTER SQUAD (R) Mon-Thu - 2:15 5:00 7:50

Denotes ‘SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT’ Restrictions

877-789-MOVIE www.metrotheatres.com

THE MET Opera 2012-2013

Saturday - February 16 - 9:55 amVerdi’s RIGOLETTO

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Monday, February 4 - 7:30 pmLIVE IN HD:

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ARLINGTON1317 State Street - 963-4408

RIVIERA2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.

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

PLAZA DE ORO371 Hitchcock Way - S.B.

Information Listed for Friday thru Thursday - February 1 - 7

FIESTA 5Features Stadium Seating


CAMINO REALFeatures Stadium SeatingCAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE

Hollister & Storke - GOLETA

METRO 4Features Stadium Seating


FAIRVIEWFeatures Stadium Seating

225 N. Fairview - GoletaDJANGO UNCHAINED (R)

1:00 4:25 7:50

LIFE OF PI (PG) in 2D: 1:10 7:20 in 3D: 4:10

GANGSTER SQUAD (R) 8:10

LES MISERABLES (PG-13)1:20 4:45

Al Pacino....Christopher Walken STAND UP GUYS (R)


7 Academy Award NominationsARGO (R)

Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:30Sat/Sun - 2:00 7:30

Bill Murray.....Laura LinneyHYDE PARK ON HUDSON

Daily - 5:00 (R)

BULLET TO THE HEAD (R)Fri-Sun - 2:15 4:50 7:20 9:45Mon-Thu - 3:00 5:30 8:00

WARM BODIES (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:40 7:10 9:35Mon-Thu - 2:40 5:10 7:40

MOVIE 43 (R)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:40 9:00Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:00 7:30

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

HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS (R)

in 3D: Fri-Sun - 6:50Mon-Thu - 8:00

in 2D:Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:30 9:10Mon-Thu - 3:10 5:40

WARM BODIES (PG-13)1:20 4:10 6:40 9:10

BULLET TO THE HEAD 1:30 4:20 7:00 9:20 (R)


PARKER (R)1:10 4:00 6:50 9:40

MAMA (PG-13)1:45 4:50 7:20 9:45

HANSEL & GRETEL:WITCH HUNTERS (R)in 3D: 9:30in 2D: 2:00 4:40 7:10

A Dustin Hoffman FilmQUARTET (PG-13)





Monday, February 4 at 7:30LIVE IN HD:

JOSH GROBAN:ALL THAT ECHOES

Starts Tuesday, February 5:THE OSCAR NOMINATED

SHORT FILMS 2013Animated:

Tue-Thu - 1:00 5:30Live Action:

Tue-Thu - 3:00 7:30


LINCOLN (PG-13) 12:40 4:00 7:15

8 Academy Award NominationsSILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

1:20 4:35 7:30 (R)



Academy Award Nominee!Best Actress - Naomi WattsTHE IMPOSSIBLE (PG-13)1:45 5:00 7:45




Starts Monday, February 4:8 Academy Award NominationsLES MISERABLES (PG-13)Mon-Thu - 1:00 4:20 7:40

5 Academy Award NominationsDJANGO UNCHAINED (R)

Mon-Thu - 1:10 4:35 8:00

11 Academy Award NominationsLIFE OF PI (PG)

Mon-Thu - in 2D: 4:45Mon-Thu - in 3D: 1:30 7:30

GANGSTER SQUAD (R) Mon-Thu - 2:15 5:00 7:50

Denotes ‘SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT’ Restrictions

877-789-MOVIE www.metrotheatres.com

THE MET Opera 2012-2013

Saturday - February 16 - 9:55 amVerdi’s RIGOLETTO

ARLINGTON THEATREFACEBOOK - ‘Like Us’(Metropolitan Theatres) for access to

Discount Admission and Popcorn Coupons

EMAIL NEWSLETTER Weekly Discounts - Showtimes - Film InformationSign Up.....www.metrotheatres.com (No Solicitation)

Monday, February 4 - 7:30 pmLIVE IN HD:

JOSH GROBANARLINGTON THEATRETickets On Sale!


ENDINg THIS WEEk

‘Vagina Monologues’ at UCSB – The UCSB Women’s Ensemble Theatre Troupe’s annual staging of Eve Ensler’s iconic compilation of poignant, comedic and tragic monologues about women and their bodies comes to a close this weekend. Based on testimonials Ensler created, The Vagina Monologues have been translated into nearly 50 languages and performed in more than 140 countries, nowhere more than the U.S., where various groups stage the work annually. UCSB’s production will be donating most of the proceeds to the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center, with a portion earmarked for One Billion Rising, the campaign to raise awareness about violence against women. WHEN: 8pm Feb. 1-2 & 3pm on Feb. 3 WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $12 available at the door

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1

Play Misty for me – They grow very versatile musicians up there in the Pacific Northwest, with frequent rain producing territory fertile for both verdant green landscapes and uber-talented players. Years ago the scene spawned drummer-turned-front man Dave Grohl (out of Nirvana), and now Fleet Foxes stick man Joshua Tillman has left the group to further pursue his solo career as a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Truth is Tillman had already garnered lots of attention for his beautiful if sad acoustic vignettes that earned comparisons to Nick Drake and Ryan Adams even as he played

drums in earlier bands, and he released the solo effort Year in the Kingdom in 2009. Now, indie-folk crooner Tillman has adopted the pseudonym Father John Misty and put out a 12-track collection called Fear Fun last April that broadens the range, recalling – as critics have noted – Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro and even the more modern (and also fake-named) Edward Sharpe. WHEN: 9pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776/www.sohosb.com or www.clubmercy.com

Dueling duos – The Cambridge Drive Concert Series is not sponsored by Doublemint gum, despite tonight’s double billing of duos. Burns & Kristy are the headliners, befitting since the latter member is Terry Burns, the youngest of the acclaimed folk-oriented Burns Sisters, who made albums with venerable label Columbia Records. Burns later moved to Nashville where she became a successful staff writer for EMI Music, MCA/Universal and others. Ron Kristy is a longstanding film and TV composer whose music has been heard on 20/20, The Dog Whisperer, HBO’s Inside the NFL, Access Hollywood, and Dancing With the Stars. After meeting and marrying in Nashville eight years ago, the pair moved to upstate New York, where they finally released their debut joint CD, Caravan, last July. Opening are singer-songwriters Kirk Mann and Shelby Figueroa, local residents who find spirituality and myth filtering through their songs about relationship, family and longing. WHEN:

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, FEBRUARY 1

KIN SIS 2013 – Santa Barbara’s dance community is clearly close-knit whether that comes off as in-bred or just casually and cleverly connected. This weekend’s annual performances of new contemporary pieces presented by Santa Barbara Dance Alliance surely shows off some of those relationships. Two of the choreographers – SBCC’s Tracy Kofford and UCSB’s Christopher Pilafian – just

finished a year-long collaboration as 40 percent of Santa Barbara Dance Theater’s restructured debut with “A Leap of Faith.” Pilafian’s Kinesis contribution, Solo and Trio, in fact is excerpted from “Faith,” while Kofford’s Grace is a choreographic study based on one solo, performed by four different people using unique dynamics, energy, spacing and partnering. Power/less, from Melissa Lynn Block, who has previously performed in works by Misa & Stephen Kelly, is a dance about female empowerment touching on strength, softness, and ability to both yield and draw boundaries where needed. The Kellys, by the way, have their own work in the program, along with fellow area choreographers Meredith Cabaniss, Melanie Johnson, Lyn Wiltshire and Yvette Johnson, whose piece carries the intriguing title “Poor Roots Grow Rich.” All in all, the sophisticated originals cover such genres as ballet, lyrical, jazz, and American modern dance, all falling under the contemporary umbrella. WHEN: 8pm Friday, 2 & 8pm tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in Paseo Nuevo mall COST: $22 general, $18 students/seniors/SBDA members ($50 patrons include priority reserved seating) INFO: 963-0408/www.centerstagetheater.org or 966-6950/www.sbdancealliance.org

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2

Still tastes great! – Food Confessions, Santa Barbara actress Nancy Nufer’s new ‘saucy’ comedy that that represents her playwriting debut, interweaves stories about our own appetite and the appetites of the people we love. The piece made its debut last fall with three ambitious performances at the Lobero Theatre here in town. Now the show that combines a large helping of food, a dash of family, and a whole lot of crazy travels down the 101 to Ventura for its first full-length run at the Rubicon Theater. Nufer created the play out of some of her own experiences along with those of

friends and family as well as other anecdotes. “Confessions” covers such subjects as personal peeves to bad dates, family dinners, cooking fiascoes, bringing to the table a lighthearted but purposeful look at life, love, why we’re hungry, and what we’re really hungry for. RTC veteran Jenny Sullivan directs a cast of local residents and RTC faves including Nufer herself in four roles, Sara Bashor, Dan Gunther, Robert Lesser and Devin Scott, plus Los Angeles-based actress Kara Revel, while Rod Lathim, who helped steer the work, is associate producer. Our advice: don’t show up too hungry... or too full. WHEN: Opens 7pm tonight (following previews Jan. 31-Feb. 1). Plays Wednesdays-Sundays through February 24 WHERE: 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura COST: $35-$49 INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

7:30pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $10 with advance reservation, $12 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2

Carnaval culture – The annual Santa Barbara Brazilian celebration marks 10 years of Carnaval with three different events that begin tonight with singer Ney Rios. The former singer for Olodum – who played with Michael Jackson, Jimmy Cliff and Paul Simon – fronts Los Angeles-based BatucAxe for a samba-reggae party blending percussion, intoxicating rhythms and mesmerizing vocals. The singer-composer from Salvador, state of Bahia (which is often described as the most African city in the Americas), appears tonight with her brother, Fabio Assis, a former member of traditional Bahia carnaval group Ilê Aiyê. The kickoff also features “Carnaval Queen Contest” where the 2012 Santa Barbara Brazilian Carnaval Queen Kafi Bella will announce the new carnaval queen to be chosen by a team of jurors that will include former Brazilian national soccer player “Palhinha,” first Miss Brazil-USA Ana Ligia and local radio personality Paul Berenson. The celebration continues next Saturday with “Cinema & Lectures” at the Santa Barbara Central Public Library for a “Tour Around Brazil” screening four videos from different regions of the country. The anniversary party closes the next afternoon back at SOhO, an all-ages dance featuring

Rio-style samba school plus a Brazilian culinary experience with Brazilian food, dessert and drinks. WHEN: 9:30pm tonight, 1:30pm on Feb. 10 WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 tonight; $8 (free under 12) on Feb. 10 INFO: 962-7776/www.sohosb.com or 245-5615

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3

Church mystery – Kathie Deviny, a recent transplant from the Northwest, drew on her experience as both a clergy spouse and a retired government employee in the criminal justice system to create her debut novel, Death in the Memorial Garden, a tale of a downtown church on its last legs. Deviny, now a member of the Carpinteria Writers’ group, will read from and autograph copies of the “cozy-style” mystery Sunday afternoon at Curious Cup Bookstore in cozy downtown Carpinteria. Tea and cookies will be served. WHEN: 3-5pm WHERE: 929 Linden Ave. COST: free INFO: 220-6608 or www.curiouscup.com

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Noah fair – Timothy Noah, senior editor of The New Republic, takes a look at the most recent presidential contest and the full election cycle in a timely lecture titled “Inequality and the 2012 Election.” Author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis And What We Can Do About It, Noah’s journalism career includes stints as senior

31 January – 7 February 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 43The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less – Franklin P. Adams

Pollock Theater

Sunday, February 10 3:00 to 6:00 pm Pollock Theater, UCSB

Live accompaniment by pianist Michael Mortilla

Q&A w/ Christel Schmidt

Reception and Book Signing

$20 General | $10 Students | Group DiscountsTickets: www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/Pollock

Special Screening of Pickford’s 1926 classic silent film

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america’s First Sweetheart So Much More than a pretty Face

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Media hero makes SB debut – Here’s your chance to be in the same room with The View’s former co-host Lisa Ling, when the executive producer and host of Our America with Lisa Ling (which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network) makes her Santa Barbara debut at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Ling, who is also an author and a former correspondent for CNN and Nightline, will share stories from her career, exploring how journalism – even as the profession undergoes radical change – plays an important role in the world and can still serve to propel the world forward in new and positive ways. She has reported from dozens of countries, covering stories about gang rape in the Congo, bride burning in India, the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and the Mara Salvatrucha gang in Central America, among others. Now Ling’s

OWN show challenges and entertains viewers with true stories from their own backyards, focusing on positive social change, shedding light on harsh realities and championing true heroes. And it’s likely we’ll get something of a sneak preview of The Job, the new CBS reality competition series hosted by Ling that one-ups The Apprentice and begins airing this Friday. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $38 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Oud and plenty – It should come as little surprise that Simon Shaheen called his New York-based music ensemble “Qantara” – the Arabic word for “arch” or “doorway between two worlds.” A Palestinian who grew up in northern Israel with a family of musicians, Simon Shaheen’s early life was spent studying traditional music on the oud and violin. But in the early

1980s he moved to New York City to complete his graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University, where he formed the Grammy-nominated band that exhibits an unbridled fusion of Arab, jazz, Western classical and Latin American music. Considered one of the most significant Arab musicians, performers and composers of his generation, Shaheen – who received the prestigious National Heritage Award in 1994 at the White House, served on the President’s Advisory Committee at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during the Clinton administration – maintains a legacy of Middle Eastern music while busting boundaries to traverse and explore other frontiers. With his current quintet of master musicians, Shaheen will perform a program of classical Arabic repertoire, including a few of his original compositions, in tonight’s concert sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $38 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

writer and “Chattterbox” columnist at Slate, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, assistant managing editor for U.S. News & World Report, congressional correspondent for Newsweek, and editor of the Washington Monthly. The free event is sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: free INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Ridge, over the ridge – Tales from the Tavern has released another CD culled from its singer-songwriter series at the Maverick Saloon, and the purveyor

of that record is a favorite Santa Ynez local. Wil Ridge Live at The Maverick Saloon - Mercy! compiles songs from his two Tales’ performances back in 2008 and 2011, capturing his gravelly growl over rough-edged songs about inner and outer turmoil including heartache and misplaced passion. Ridge’s record-release concert tonight at the Maverick (where else?) also serves as a lead into Tales’ spring concert series, part of its 10th anniversary season, which gets underway Feb. 13 with John Gorka and Dan Siegal. (Gorka also plays the Ojai Concert Series on Valentine’s Day). WHEN: 7pm WHERE: 3687 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez COST: $10 INFO: 688-0383 or www.talesfromthetavern.com •MJ


Looking At The Mid $3’s

Real Estate by Mark Hunt

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter Sareena, a sophomore at SBHS. His family goes back nearly one hundred years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s

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

This has been a busy time in the Montecito real estate world, as a number of homes went into

escrow in the past week alone, includ-ing four from my “Best Buys” list in the mid-$2- to low-$3-million range, which is basically Montecito’s “aver-age” home price. This price range seems to be picking up increased inter-est, while other price points are not moving so quickly. This can change week to week and month to month, but for those (like me) who watch the market closely and study inventory in every price category, it becomes interesting to note the ups and downs of different price ranges, areas, etc…

For instance, the $10-million-plus market has been slow (compared to this time last year when that mar-ket was moving fast)… the under-a-million range is moving, but still has many listings available that are seemingly good deals. The $5-million range is slower too. However, the hot market currently is the mid-$2-million to mid-$3-million range. There are, as of this writing, 10 homes pending in this narrow price range, out of a total of 26 pending.

When I decided to focus on the mid-$3-million market, and looked to see what properties made sense to profile, four listings jumped out at me as good representations of what is available in different areas and different types of homes in this price range.

They are:

875 Rockbridge Road – $3,450,000

This gated contemporary estate is in the Riven Rock area near East Mountain Road, and has a resort-like feel. The home sits comfortably on 1.07 fenced acres and offers privacy and mountain views. The front yard has a gazebo and Koi pond, and the spacious backyard includes a pool, BBQ terrace, & sprawling lawn. Inside

are three bedrooms, three and a half baths, plus an office-den-nursery. The master bedroom features a walk-in closet with a security “safe room.” Additionally, the home has high ceil-ings, marble and wood floors and is in the Cold Spring School District.

1010 Cima Linda Lane – $3,450,000

This mid-century modern home was recently reduced by $500,000 and is on .7 acres. The property features ocean views from a close-in location. Walls of glass create light-filled rooms and the large living room offers plenty of room for entertaining. The home also features a very private pool area sur-rounded by lush landscaping, areas for lounging and entertaining and a patio for tables and outdoor dining. The master bedroom has a marble fire-place, two baths and head-on ocean views. There are three bedrooms in the west wing of the home, with bedroom number five off the kitchen, which would serve as a nanny or maid’s room. At the front of the home there is a half-circle driveway for formal entry. There is a second, more private access to the home via a small lane, that leads

to the three-car garage with additional off-street parking. This home really feels like a compound and is virtually private to other homes or the street, as it sits up on a small knoll over-looking the city. Cima Linda is in the Cleveland School District.

1512 Miramar Beach Drive – $3,450,000

This beachfront home is right on the sand at Miramar Beach and offers panoramic ocean, island & coastline views, not to mention direct beach access from the back steps. Superb craftsmanship, blending exotic woods, copper, brass and stone into smooth organic forms, is enjoyed

throughout this two-story beach cot-tage. While the home is not large (there is only one formal bedroom), it does provide areas for relaxing, and the patios on both levels allow for indoor-outdoor living. This home has been noted among local beachgoers for its unique design. Miramar is in the Montecito Union School District.

1775 Glen Oaks Drive – $3,495,000

This re-designed mid-century mod-ern compound is on a creek-side acre in Montecito’s Glen Oaks area. The prop-erty and the two homes on it offers indoor-outdoor living and custom fin-ishes done by one of the area’s top builders. Sprawling lawns and moun-tain views are enjoyed in this most quiet and peaceful setting. There is a two-bedroom, two-bath main house, a three-bedroom, two-bath guest house and a detached studio. Glen Oaks is in the Montecito Union School District.

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For more information on these properties, contact your Real Estate agent or if you are not working with anyone, please feel free to contact me, Mark Hunt, through my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com or call/text me at 805-698-2174 for immediate assistance. •MJ

The three-bedrooms, three-and-a-half bath home at 875 Rockbridge Road features both privacy and mountain views

Walls of glass expose and

highlight the expansive views

that come with this mid-

20th-century modern home

at 1010 Cima Linda Lane

Two separate houses and a

detached studio turn this Glen

Oaks Drive home into a family com-

pound

This seafarer’s promontory awaits a buyer for this beach-front home on the sand at 1512 Miramar Beach Drive

31 January – 7 February 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45We would all like to vote for the best man, but he is never a candidate – Kin Hubbard

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C&G (Continued from page 37Condor, Jeff says, “is the broad range of volunteers and peripheral organizations involved in the con-dor’s recovery. Los Padres Forest Watch, for example, does these micro-trash pick-ups, where they go into the forest and pick up small bits of trash that condors are prone to pick up and bring back to the nest. The chicks then ingest these pieces of trash, which might be bottle caps, shell casings, pieces of glass. It’s a big problem and it was having a big effect on the con-dors early on in the program when the chicks were becoming impacted with this trash.”

Jan Hamber of the Museum of Natural History and Anthony Prieto, a coach at Crane School, were intimately involved in helping save the California Condor. “Jan is eighty-two years old and continues to track the birds,” Jeff notes admi-rably.

“The Condor’s Shadow really is uplifting,” Jeff says. “The passion that goes into this program that makes this bird a success is really moving. The mission of the film,” he concludes, “is that, ‘Hey, we can fix this problem if we step up.’ It’s not a matter of laws; it’s a matter of people recognizing their place in the ecosystem. It’s a good story.”

Jeff doesn’t have a fully evolved next project in mind, but says he’s most interested in the unanticipated consequences that human activity has on the environment for other creatures. For more, go to: www.theCondorsShadow.com. •MJ


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