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5 Editorial The Journal takes a look back at the long and winding history of the “new” Miramar6 Montecito Miscellany Robert Eringer’s legal woes with Prince Albert of Monaco continue; S.B. Teen Star finalist;

Sports Drive success; Nancy Gifford’s home featured; SBMA exhibit; birthday celebration at Café Del Sol; Mike Towbes honored; The Secret Garden debuts; Oprah’s Manhattan penthouse for sale; Julia Fischer shines at UCSB; S.B. Chamber Orchestra concert; Yuri Scheffle\r’s yacht heading to S.B.

8 Letters to the Editor Eric Beecher responds to Frank Hotchkiss; Calvin Marble has a novel idea; Raymond and

Sherry Huerta congratulate Richard Sanford; April Horowitz displays results of Heart of a Horse Foundation

10 This Week in Montecito Framing workshop; Double Energy Twins sign book; Liquor & Wine Grotto wine tasting;

literary event at Tecolote; mini-retreat; Evening of Thanksgiving; Summer For Kids activity day; Anthony Curatolo art exhibit; Jass Club event; MBAR meets; Board of Supervisors meeting; Story Theater; Chancellor’s Community Breakfast; MUS food drive; MERRAG meeting; Gutsy Gals honors Kathy Ireland; events coming up and ongoing

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach12 Village Beat Montecito Confections comes to Coast Village; village updates; membership month

at Montecito Library; Providence Hall singers chosen to perform in Western Division Convention

14 Seen Around Town Opera Santa Barbara throws an “Affair to Remember”; Maritime Museum celebrates the

bicentennial of Old Ironsides; Sally Bedell Smith signs latest book 20 Sheriff’s Blotter Residential burglaries; parolee found with methamphetamine21 Coming & Going Maritime Museum celebrates ten years; Howard School turns 10023 The Way It Was Ms Beresford delves into the history of the Arlington Jockey Club26 Conversations The “Ultimate Thinking Machine” Ray Kurzweil answers questions ranging from intelligent

life to the future of human privacy 27 n.o.t.e.s. from downtown Jim turns 59, and contemplates mortality as a result28 On Entertainment Lila Rose Kaplan’s Entangled premieres at UCSB; Quebe sisters grace the stage at Campbell

Hall; pop happenings 30 Notes From Napa The Mazzas’ new adventure is underway, and Matt must figure out how to balance wine and

work32 Summerland by the Sea Café Luna now serves dinner; Summerland updates34 Your Westmont Lady Warriors win GSAC championship; Marianne Robins speaks on Christian rescuers

during Holocaust 35 Our Town Bill Jersey’s new film debuting at UCSB; Sir Ken Robinson’s visit 40 Calendar of Events 1st Thursday; SB Chorale Society series; SB Dance Arts & Arts Mentorship Program; all-

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you are thirteen years younger. Thirteen years…

enough time for you to have given birth to a couple of children who are now entering their teenage years…

That’s how long Montecito Journal has been writing about the proposed “new” Miramar. First, Studio 54 enfant terrible Ian Schrager – with the help and genius of French designer Philippe Starck – was going to turn the Miramar into a new hip seaside resort… Things, howev-er, didn’t work out as planned for Mr. Schrager, who closed the Miramar and then ran into the events of 9/11/2001. Luckily, he was presented with a well-financed out: Montecito’s new Golden Boy, Ty Warner, he of the prodigiously successful Beanie Babies who had just bought the nearby Biltmore. Ty bailed Schrager out, bought the property, and played around with a number of ideas, although he never actually shared any of them with County planners.

Warner, at the time, had a number of smaller projects in the pipeline and was subsequently pummeled by groups of “activists” who insisted that Ty follow their landscape plans for the section of Channel Drive that had fallen into the ocean and that wrapped around Ty’s newly built home. A little later, the County demanded Ty add an ADA-approved ramp onto the sand if he wanted to rebuild the steps to the beach that had been washed out by a recent storm. And, oh, he was advised that putting planters on the brick entry to the beach was, well, just not Montecito-ish. Besides, those plants (bougainvillea, I believe) made the pillars look too much like a private entry to the sea, whereas it was meant to be a public access. Concurrently, a small group of Coral Casino members nitpicked Ty’s plans for rehabbing the aging and somewhat shabby edifice, forcing him into major concessions. Eventually he agreed to nearly 100 “conditions” and putting into storage the insect-eaten remnants of the original building.

All that was enough for Mr. Warner, who then unloaded the Miramar onto the well-financed shoulders of L.A. developer Rick Caruso, who put for-ward plans to build a Southern plantation-looking, 48-foot-high clubhouse, along with the re-designed “cottages.” It was not what most were hoping for. Most disapproved of the new look and Rick began the inevitable re-design. Unfortunately for Caruso (and us), the banking debacle of 2008 occurred, put-ting pretty much every construction plan in the universe on hold.

And, here we are. The Miramar is still there, kind of. Previously unknown species of mold have flourished in many of the older still-standing cottages. Chain link fencing has become the new norm in and around Miramar Avenue, and the fabled seafront units look dangerously close to sailing away with the next suitable suitor or storm, whichever comes first.

Yet, hope remains – dormant though it may be. Now that his bid for the L.A. Dodgers has been turned down, Caruso himself, we believe, is pre-pared to state his case in front of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 6. He’s not asking for much, really. He wants the County to agree to give him the right – in perpetuity – to build a hotel on the property. In addition to that, he also wants the Board to agree to rebate the 10% Transient Occupancy Tax for ten years after re-opening, if and when that occurs. In exchange, he’ll take down the rotting buildings and clear the property of all debris. He’ll also pony up the $1.4 million shakedown required for “affordable” and “transient” housing.

At this point in time, we fervently hope the Board of Supervisors listens carefully and then approves this latest plan for the Miramar property. Even if nothing is ever built there again, at least we’ll have a cleared lot, enclosed though it may be by a combination of redwood and chain-link fencing.

In other words, folks and fellow citizens: let’s allow Caruso to get on with this. •MJ

Editorial by James Buckley

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“Our case against Monaco has just been filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court,” says Robert, 56, whose protracted litigation against the 800-year-old nation state could reach the three-year mark later this year.

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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 four years ago.

Writer Robert Eringer continues his legal broad-side against Prince Albert


“It is fundamentally unfair that an American citizen, working in the U.S., cannot seek redress for his wage claims in a U.S. Court,” thunders Brigham.

Robert, whose David versus Goliath battle has been featured in major mag-azines and newspapers in Europe, is a major thorn in the side of Albert, and is described as “a shakedown artist” by the Palace in Monte Carlo.

The peripatetic royal also broke his silence last fall in an interview with Monaco Hebdo magazine, painting his antagonist as “a bitter person who spews his venom and resentments on the Internet.”

Robert has even been threatened with imprisonment for using his Monaco Intelligence Service badge on the site, eringer33.com.

“Our latest action is cutting edge and might potentially break new legal ground,” explains Robert.

But it would appear to be a lose-lose situation for Monaco, the 482-acre postage-stamp-sized country, wedged between France and Italy.

“If they lose, they must pay what they owe me,” says Robert.

“If they ‘win,’ they demonstrate to the world that no independent con-tractor should ever trust the principal-ity to pay for goods or services. It is astonishing that Monaco fails to under-stand the implications of ‘winning.’” Stay tuned...

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No “Spiking” Here

I am writing you today regarding a letter from City Councilman Frank Hotchkiss you published

(“Gone To The Dark Side,” MJ # 18/7). I understand he was recapping the mayor’s proposals and I have no issue with that. What I do have an issue with is the inaccurate comments made about our public safety benefits and the email exchange with Mr. Hotchkiss that you also published.

People seem to forget that public employee pensions did not cause the economic collapse in California but sub-prime loans and greedy banks did. PERS (Public Employees Retirement System) did lose billions of dollars because of Wall Street but they did not take a federal bailout. In 2007, PERS was over 97% funded. In the last year or more during the economic recovery PERS has made back $70 billion. PERS is the largest and strongest pension plan in the country.

Many, many years ago the City of Santa Barbara came to us “Public Safety” personnel and asked us if they –The City – could pay our portion of the pensions in lieu of giving us a 9% pay increase. We did this as a favor to the city and agreed. Take that 9% pay increase compounded over the years and the fact that for several years the city did not have to make PERS pay-ments because they were super-funded has saved the City of Santa Barbara millions of dollars over the years. So now the City says we are not paying

our fair share? I would have rather paid my portion of the retirement and taken the 9% pay increase. I would have been much further ahead and I would not have to hear people talk about our pensions who are being mis-led by the propaganda of city govern-ments and who are using the economy as an excuse to take away a retirement that we have been paying into. We do not pay into Social Security and will not be collecting that benefit.

We do not get to add overtime to our last year of our retirement. Overtime is not calculated into our retirement salary; only our base pay and we do not all retire at age 50 with 90% of our pay. Actually only about 1% of PERS employees can retire at age 50 in California, and in Santa Barbara it is less. The average age of public safety employees when they start is between 26-28 years of age. They would have to work to the age of 56-58 to retire with 90%. This is a good benefit, but you have to realize the physical- and stress-related aspects of our jobs that statisti-cally take ten years off our lives. That means if you live to be 75 years old, I will only live to 65. The people you see retiring with $100,000 + pensions are supervisors, managers, staff heads and city administrators, not your average police officer or firefighter.

The “tax free” disability is also mis-leading. Very few people use this ben-efit and it is only used if the employee was injured on the job. In a medical

retirement the employee only gets 50% of his base pay tax-free based on his service time. This also means he or she is injured to the point they can no lon-ger work because of their injury.

Councilman Hotchkiss appears to have inaccurate facts, as there is no pension spiking being done here. I think it is important for people – espe-cially City Council members – to know the history of how these benefits came to be and not use the economy to mis-lead people to believe that our city is in a financial crisis. The City of Santa Barbara is financially sound and I urge the citizens of Santa Barbara to look for themselves as all the financial informa-tion for the city is posted on the city’s website.

It is interesting to me that when these types of articles are released to the pub-lic, which seems to be every day lately, no one asks public safety employees what our side of the story is or does any real fact finding before printing.

Mr. Buckley I am asking that you print this, as you did with Mr. Hotchkiss’s comments. I thank you for your time and consideration.

Respectfully submitted, Eric BeecherPresidentSanta Barbara Police Officers

Association (Editor’s note: Thank you for your let-

ter. Our understanding all along has been that law-enforcement retirees are not only allowed to add overtime to their last year’s salary level in order to increase their retire-ment income, but are also able to apply for – and in a great majority of the cases, receive – additional tax-free disability bene-fits upon retirement. If someone is disabled, we certainly support disability payments, but in many cases – we are told – these are simply pro-forma approvals that have little or nothing to do with actual disabilities. You claim, however, that “very few people use this benefit,” so we need to research that. We’ll have some conversations with officials – elected and otherwise – to deter-mine the accuracy or fallacy of any of these assertions. We deeply appreciate your will-ingness to engage on this subject and are eager to print any clarifications that may be forthcoming. – J.B.)

Unreciprocated Presidential Apologies

In this space, I recently complained (“Fasten Your Revisionist Seat Belts” MJ # 18/6) about the unhealthy trend whereby legislative bodies and elect-ed politicians have been “re-writing” American history an incident at a time through the passage of questionable laws and the issuance of proclama-tions, executive orders, and even press releases. In passing, I noted that a close second cousin of such politi-cally correct behavior has been the episodic high-profile public apology rendered gratuitously by presidents

of the United States. It is a phenom-enon invariably unreciprocated by the heads of state of other countries when our country is insulted by its citizens, as with the plethora of flag-burnings besetting Old Glory in a multitude of venues outside the United States.

I had in mind, as a prime example of such meaningless gestures, President Clinton’s formal apology on Congress’s behalf in 1993 to express American regrets to the defunct Kingdom of Hawaii’s non-existent royal family for the heavy-handed, late-19th-century power grab in the islands by American citizens before their annexation to the U.S. by treaty. In this case, all that was missing was President Clinton’s famil-iar assurance that he felt the late Queen Lili’uokalani’s pain.

The sad spectacles unfolding in Afghanistan and Washington in recent days provide the most recent example of unreciprocated high-pro-file American apologies. Even after an incredibly sincere expression of regret by the four-star U.S. Army gen-eral commanding the NATO force in Afghanistan, a gesture followed by the murder of two American military officers on duty within the headquar-ters of Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry and a rash of televised flag burnings, President Obama felt the need to go the extra mile by adding his own apology. For me, a resulting cartoon by syndi-cated editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel depicting President Obama apologiz-ing to the Afghans for burning Qurans as the caskets of the two murdered officers are unloaded from the back of an airplane says it all.

William P. MacKinnonMontecito

Burn Them DownWhy not let Montecito firefighters

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you ever thought of running for office? We sure could use someone with an eye towards practical, simple, cost-conscious solutions, such as you. – TLB)

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Handouts vs. “Get your own”

Although Mr. Stersic makes valid points with valid examples in his recent letter to the editor (“Up From Slavery,” MJ # 18/8), he unfortunately misses the core issue. The solutions are not in selecting one of your polar extreme examples, but rather a blend of the two.

Work hard… true! But I simply ask you to look at any impoverished nation (the majority of the humans you speak of live in poverty) and tell me that any one of the millions of impoverished can simply resolve their respective cir-cumstance by “working hard.” All the bricks in the world still won’t elevate this circumstance in today’s world. After centuries of a systematic estab-lishment, there are no jobs to apply your singular philosophy. And shall we really open the door on the inequality of publicly funded education, lack of

available educational institutions; costs. I know people of all races who didn’t have the computers I had in every classroom. I may be oversimplifying to make a point here, but short of extreme luck, without a few handouts, lift-ups and opportunities provided, the rungs to climb oneself out just do not exist. Metaphorically, you provide the rungs and I will provide the manpower.

You and I may share a different phi-losophy; fortunately our United States was founded to allow for respectful expression of differences. However, I take great exception to the disingenu-ous (and what appears to be purpose-ful) representation of Du Bois to make your point. To that end I must clarify your belittlement. Du Bois did grow up fortunate, experiencing little rac-ism. However, he did in fact make best use of his fortune: an example would be his being the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. Du Bois was also one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

As a community leader who wanted equal rights, he did oppose Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise, which if you did your research, is widely accepted as a crafty unwritten deal Washington struck in 1895 with Southern white leaders who had ille-gally taken over government after the failure of Reconstruction. The agree-ment provided that Southern blacks would illegally submit to discrimina-tion, segregation, lack of voting rights, and non-unionized employment; that Southern whites would permit blacks to receive a basic education, some eco-nomic opportunities, and justice within the legal system. We can look to the South in the 1950s and ‘60s to see how well that worked.

Du Bois instead believed in full civil rights and increased political repre-sentation, and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership. The major singular con-

Richard Sanford holding his certificate with his family at his side at the induction ceremony into the Culinary Institute of America’s Vintners Hall of Fame, held in the Barrel Room at the Institute (Photo by Faith Echtermeyer)

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Opera Night at Tre LuneTre Lune invites you to a dinner with opera performances by singers of Opera Santa BarbaraWhen: 6:30 pmWhere: 1151 Coast Village RoadInfo: 969-2646

thursday MarCh 8

UCSB Chancellor’s Community Breakfast Howard Giles, professor of communication at UCSanta Barbara since 1989, will discuss age and aging at the Chancellor’sCommunity Breakfast. Giles’s speech is titled “Talking Age and Aging Talk: Communicative Recipes for Successful Aging.” His current interests and areas of study revolve around intergenerational communication and lifespan aging – from a cross-cultural perspective – as well as law enforcement-civilian interactions and community policing issues. When: 7:30 amWhere: Santa Barbara Club, 1105 Chapala StreetCost: $20, includes breakfastReservations: 893-2877

MERRAG Meeting and TrainingNetwork of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This month: disaster operations. When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro RoadInfo: Geri, 969-2537

FrIday MarCh 9

Gutsy Gals Award Ceremony and FestivalGutsy Gals Inspire Me will be presenting local resident Kathy Ireland the 4th annual Gutsy Gals Inspire Me Award at the International Women’s Festivals at the Santa Barbara City College Leni Fe Bland Plaza. On Saturday, the S.B. Women’s Festival will include speakers Lynda Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com; Heidi Kuhn, founder of Roots for Peace;

suNday MarCh 4

Jass Club EventOn the first Sunday of each month, the West Coast Jass Club presents New Orleans style “Jass” at The Piper’s Winery, located high atop Rincon Mountain. On March 4, the event will be a potluck-type barbeque, and guests are invited to bring their own barbeque for themselves, and optionally bring a salad or side dish to share with others. Food will not be available for purchase. Wine tastings will be free, and donations are appreciated. When: 1 until 5 pm Where: 6500 Highway 150, Carpinteria Info: 391-1203

MONday MarCh 5

MBAR MeetingMontecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of MontecitoWhen: 3 pmWhere: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

tuEsday MarCh 6

Story Theater at the Montecito LibraryThis interactive performance is a blend of storytelling and theater for children. The children help choose the action throughout the show and the storyteller acts out the story and narrates. An entertaining introduction to improv and theater for children over the age of 2.When: 4 pm to 4:40 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: www.storytheater.weebly.com

thursday MarCh 1

Framing WorkshopThe Frameworks and Jane Deering Gallery invite you to an event featuring master framer Christi Westerhouse. Bring in your artwork and Westerhouse will take you through the many possibilities for framing. Refreshments will be served. The Frameworks will offer guests 20% off framing. When: 6 pm to 8 pmWhere: Jane Deering Gallery, 128 East Canon Perdido StreetInfo: 966-3334

FrIday MarCh 2

Writers on the Edge Literary EventDiana M. Raab, editor of Writers on the Edge – a book of essays, memoirs, and poetry about addiction and dependency – and Santa Barbara poet laureate emeritus Perie Longo convene at Tecolote Book Shop for readings from Writers on the Edge, refreshments, and insight into the world of addiction. When: 5 pmWhere: 1470 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-4977

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Centering Prayer Practice RetreatOn the first Saturday of each month, La Casa de Maria offers a mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer Practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection and

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FrIday MarCh 2

Wine TastingIvo Jeramaz from Grgich Hills Estate will discuss his wine making skills, as well as pour Grgich Fume Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot and Napa Cabernet. Note the day change as this is a special event at the Liquor & Wine Grotto. When: 4 pm to 6 pmWhere: 1271 Coast Village RoadCost: $1

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Book SigningJudi and Shari Zucker, “The Double Energy Twins,” sign their latest book, The Ultimate Allergy-Free Snack Cookbook at Chaucer’sWhen: 6:30 to 8 pmWhere: 3321 State StreetInfo: 682-6787

centering. Beginners welcome. Suzanne Dunn, Mark Benson and Annette Colbert share facilitating and teaching. When: 9:30 am to 1 pmWhere: 800 El Bosque RoadCost: DonationInfo: 969-5031

Evening of ThanksgivingEl Montecito School at San Roque hosts An Evening of Thanksgiving at the Biltmore featuring Tyrone Wells live in concert. Included in the event are hors d’oeuvres and drinks during a silent auction before dinner, a live auction, and the concert. When: 5 pmWhere: 1260 Channel DriveCost: $85 and upInfo: 962-3091

Activity DaySummer For Kids is hosting a free book reading and activity day for children ages 2 to 5. The book reading will begin at 11 am and will be followed by arts and crafts, and access to the new playroom that features new toys. When: 11 amWhere: 1235 Coast Village RoadInfo: 565-2277 or [email protected]

Art ExhibitAnthony Curatolo invites the public to his art exhibit titled “Perpetuating.”When: Saturday, March 3 from 2 pm until Sunday, March 4 at 7 pmWhere: 1567 East Valley RoadInfo: 415-806-0347

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Board of Supervisors MeetingThe Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will hear multiple items, including a request by Miramar owner Rick Caruso for a time extension on his Coastal Development Permit for the project. When: Meeting starts at 9 am

Where: BOS Hearing Room, 105 East Anapamu Street

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MUS Registration NightMontecito Union School hosts a kindergarten orientation and registration night for the 2012-2013 school year. Students must be age 5 by November 1, 2012 to be registered for kindergarten. When: Tuesday, March 13, 6 to 7:30 pmWhere: MUS auditorium, 385 San Ysidro RoadInfo: 969-3249

Barbara Ireland Walk for Breast Cancer ResearchThe 12th Annual Barbara Ireland Walk for Breast Cancer Research is hosted by Barbara Ireland, her family, and the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. Participants will enjoy a beautiful 10-mile beachfront walk/run, followed by a celebration featuring live music by the NEWCATS, lunch, and a spa zone to rest and rejuvenate.All proceeds from the Walk remain in our community, supporting cutting-edge clinical breast cancer research at Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. When: Saturday, March 17, 7 am registration; walk begins at 8:30 amWhere: Chase Palm Park; Casa Las PalmasInfo: 898-2116 or www.ccsb.org/irelandwalk2012 to register

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Ganna Walska: Collections and KeepsakesLotusland presents the exhibit, “Ganna Walska: Collections and Keepsakes.” This eclectic mix – most of which has never been seen by the public – features some of Madame Walska’s personal possessions ranging from correspondence and photographs of famous friends to clothing, accessories and keepsakes. On display in the Pavilion, Madame Walska’s private residence, the exhibit reveals the personality of this remarkable woman in an intimate setting.The exhibit will be included in Lotusland’s regular docent-guided tours. The cost for non-members is adults $35; ages 5 through 18, $10; 4 and under, free. Reservations are

required and may be made by calling 805-969-9990 or by sending an email to [email protected]. A confirmation and directions to the Visitor Entrance will be provided on receipt of your reservation. For more information about Lotusland, visit www.lotusland.org.When: Now through Saturday, April 21

MONdays

Story Time at the LibraryWhen: 10:30 to 11 amWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-5063

Connections Early Memory Loss ProgramWhere: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus LaneInfo: Susan Forkush, 969-0859 x15

tuEsdays

Boy Scout Troop 33 Meeting Open to all boys ages 11-17; visitors welcomeWhen: 7:15 pmWhere: Scout House, Upper Manning Park, 449 San Ysidro Road

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Story TimeStories read to little ones at Montecito toy store, Toy Crazy. All books are discounted 10% for purchase during story time mornings.When: 11 am to 11:30 amWhere: 1026 Coast Village Road (in Vons shopping center)Info: 565-7696

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Pick-up Basketball GamesHe shoots; he scores! The Montecito Family YMCA is offering pick-up basketball on Thursdays at 5:30 pm. Join coach Donny for warm-up, drills and then scrimmages. Adults welcome too.When: 5:30 pmWhere: Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa LaneInfo: 969-3288

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Coast Village Road’s newest business addition, Montecito Confections, is poised to open its

doors next Tuesday, March 6. Located in the former home of Whodidily Cupcakes, Montecito Confections will be a full service bakery, featuring the baked goods of owner Katie Teall, who started the business in 1993.

Katie and her husband, Paul, have been busy preparing the shop for busi-ness; the former home of Montecito Confections was located in Santa Barbara’s funk zone and was mainly used as a kitchen for preparing her cakes and desserts. Katie says she is thrilled to have an actual storefront to display her creations, which customers can enjoy at tables located in the shop as well as on the front patio.

The bakery cases will be filled with traditional baked goods, including cookies, cakes, bars, pies, cinnamon rolls, scones and various pastries. Katie, who hails from Cheshire, England, will also feature her native eats, including flatbreads, savory pies, quiches, and chicken pot pies. A small lunch menu will feature a cheese and prosciutto plate and other items, and a candy counter is set to be installed before opening, which will boast handmade caramels, chocolates, and truffles.

“We’ve hired two new girls, who have lots of dessert experience,” Teall told me. One of the new hires is Leslie Quinn, former pastry cook at Spago in Los Angeles, who was elbow-deep in chocolate during our interview, pre-paring truffles to be sold next week. Nissa Anderson has also joined the

team; she is the former chef at the Simpson House Inn in Santa Barbara.

Katie is known around town for her elaborate custom cakes; she works with local hotels designing and provid-ing cakes for weddings and various other events. She has already booked over 60 weddings this year.

The new Montecito Confections received health department clearance last week, so the ladies have been busy keeping up with custom cake and treat orders while preparing to open the shop’s doors. “We didn’t have a kitch-en for awhile during the transition, so now we are catching up,” Katie said. The space features new equipment, as well as the oven used by Whodidily. Dave and Wendy Jones, owners of the cupcakery for over three years, are supportive of the new bakery, Katie

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In addition to bread and bakery items, Montecito Confections will serve Intelligentsia Coffee, a cult favor-ite among coffee drinkers. Espresso drinks and various flavored mochas will also be available, and in a nod to her roots, Katie will sell a selection of tea. She says she plans to apply for a beer and wine license in due time.

Montecito Confections will be open 7:30 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, and closed on Sunday. The doors open on Tuesday, March 6; a grand opening is planned for the end of March.

News Briefs: Miramar Latest

Tuesday, March 6, Rick Caruso will be in front of the Board of Supervisors asking for an extension on his Coastal Development Permit for the Miramar

Hotel. The meeting, held at 105 East Anapamu Street, begins at 9 am.

No New Location Yet

As of press time, the Read ‘N Post on Coast Village Road has yet to find a new location; their lease is up in April. Store manager Jan Hendrickson tells us she is still following up on leads, and remains hopeful a new location will be found on Coast Village Road.

Hot Springs Canyon UpdateThe Land Trust of Santa Barbara

County has negotiated an extension of the close of escrow to purchase the Hot Springs Canyon property. The close of escrow is to be March 15, 2012.

The Land Trust of Santa Barbara raised $8.7 million to purchase the 462-acre property last year, but ran into issues when the Forest Service, who was to take over the property for maintenance, refused to take over the property because of ground water right issues. The Montecito Water District, which owns ground water and well rights on 40 acres of the property, has since agreed to take ownership of the 40 acres; 442 acres

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Nissa Anderson, former chef at Simpson House Inn, puts the finishing touches on a Montecito Confections cake

Read ‘N Post postal clerk Robin Richardson-Romero and manager Jan Hendrickson in the store; items remain on sale as the shop has lost its lease. Hendrickson is still searching for a new location for the popular store.


The invitation looked like a vintage Valentine with all the romantic trimmings for an

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The silent auction was dedicated to jewelry for the ladies, fine wine for the gents and art for both. There was also a table filled with Valentines that you could send to someone in the room – hand delivered. A sweet idea. The live auction with Andrew Firestone wielding the gavel had several opera items including a stay in Santa Fe with

tickets to Arabella and Pearl Fishers, plus a preview dinner and backstage tour. The auction also included tickets for two in the director’s box at the San Francisco Opera.

Honorees of the evening were arts patrons Herb and Elaine Kendall who have long supported Opera Santa Barbara and many other community groups. As Herb said, “The love in this room is unbelievable. That we’re doing three operas a year is incredible – a little seaside town.”

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Opera Santa Barbara guests of honor Herb and Elaine Kendall with executive director Steven Sharpe at the “Affair to Remember” gala

Co-chairs of the romantic Opera Santa Barbara event Sandy Urquhart and Joan Rutkowski (board 1st vice president) center, with their husbands beside them – Bob Urquhart on the left and Geoff Rutkowski on the right

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to party,” according to board presi-dent Duncan Mellichamp. Executive Director Steven Sharpe told us the soprano who was supposed to sing the arias had to cancel due to illness. Micaela Oeste filled in at the last min-ute singing duos with Alexey Sayapin throughout the evening accompanied by Nino Sanikidze.

The two ladies responsible for this romantic fundraiser were co-chairs Sandy Urquhart and Joan Rutkowski along with Carmody Cutter, Meg DiNapoli, Eric Oltmann, and Bernadette Pometta. Some of those

at Roger Crissman (former yacht club president) and wife Sarah’s (Opera board) VIP table were the executive director of the Granada Craig Spencer and architect Barry and Jo Berkus.

Opera Santa Barbara is introducing opera to area schools with a visiting group of singers and pianists who do an interactive program with the kids. Dress rehearsals are usually open to schools and there are $6.00 matinee tickets if they come with an adult. The next opera is Marriage of Figaro on March 23. See you at the Granada.

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The group gathered in the Munger Theater as vice president of the board Willard Thompson began the intro-duction, remarking, “This is the old-est continuous commissioned war ship in the world.” President George Washington named it after the United States Constitution. Willard remem-bered begging his parents when he was 13 to take him to Boston so he

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Then it was time to meet the com-manding officer of Old Ironsides from 1995 to 1997, Dunn School headmaster Michael Beck. He began by talking about moments in one’s life of great privilege. For him, commanding the ship was one of them. And the other things to guide his life were values and vision.

After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1977, he was assigned to one of the fastest ships, the Pegasus, which went after drug runners in the Caribbean. Beck spoke of the 1991 cheating scandals where the midship-men felt they needed grades more than character and how that bothered him. After a stint in the Pentagon he was one of five to be interviewed for the Old Ironsides position. When asked, “Would you sail it?” he was the only one that said, “Yes.” He got the job. The ship had been sitting in the harbor for safekeeping all those years.

His ten-year-old son asked him, “Why are you going from the fastest ship to the slowest?” Michael decided his mission was to represent the value, courage and honor of our nation. The USS Constitution bought us the freedom of the seas by defeating the

mighty British navy. She fought 40 undefeated battles.

Michael said at his change of com-mand ceremony when he wore the 1812 uniform and with all the pomp and circumstance, he felt like he was being ordained. If the ship was to sail, it needed sails. Money had been spent to refurbish the ship (25% is original, as is the mast), but there was none left. So Beck instigated a penny campaign for the school children all over the U.S. He got his half million but the navy decided it was too dangerous to risk the ship on the open sea.

When asked how could they disap-point all the kids, the Admiral replied, “Sail the damn ship and do it safely.” And so on July 21, 1997 just before noon, the wind miraculously came up and she sailed out to sea for the last time.

After retirement, Beck became a schoolteacher believing that he could continue to protect the free-dom of this nation by teaching stu-dents those values represented by our founders.

The museum just found in their archives a wonderful model of the ship and it is now on display along with the Hans Skalagard ship paintings exhibition. To date, more than 62,000 schoolchildren from 140 area schools have participated in the Maritime Museum’s educational programs. The

SBMM board member Mary Ellen Tiffany with her son, MacLean, in front of the USS Constitution model recently discovered at the Maritime Museum

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Once when in a receiving line and asked, “What do you do?” she didn’t know how to respond. No one had ever asked before. As Sally related, “The Queen has no driver’s license but she drives like a bat out of hell on private roads!”

The Santa Ynez horse whisperer Monty Roberts is a close friend. He has trained her horses for many years. He was supposed to be at the Channel City luncheon, but the Queen had invited him to England. Maybe a bet-ter invitation?

I think I’m busy going to events for the Montecito Journal, but the Queen has an astonishing 400 engagements a year. And what does she carry in that ever-present purse on her arm? According to Sally mostly practi-

cal items such as: coin purse, comb, Kleenex, coffee sweetener, glasses and a purse hook for the table. She is known to apply her lipstick at the table after a meal. Really!

Winston Churchill was her favorite prime minister. Margaret Thatcher was humor challenged, but Queen Elizabeth is not and she is not a snob. When Thatcher was 80 and suffering from dementia, the Queen took her hand and led her through the whole reception they were attending. Life is not all glamorous events, as she reads government documents every single day and stays fully informed.

When I was a little girl we used to play princesses (Elizabeth and Margaret). Now I can read a book all about the Princess, now a Queen. •MJ

Author of Elizabeth the Queen Sally Bedell Smith signing books for Stephanie Ortale and Dolly Granatelli at the Channel City Club luncheon held at the Montecito Country Club

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anthem at various events and starred in the production of West Side Story at the Lobero last year.

“He was told by friends about the competition and thought he’d have a go.”

In the finals, David, who also plays guitar, will sing one song and the ten contestants will then be whittled down to just three, singing another arrange-ment. Then the victor is chosen by the audience voting electronically with cell phones. The winner will receive $1,000, sessions in a local recording studio and radio appearances.

All proceeds from the competition, which is now in its third year, go to the performing arts program in Santa Barbara county schools.

Music to everyone’s ears...

Sports Drive SizzlesThe third annual Sports Drive, orga-

nized by local students from Laguna Blanca, Montecito Union, Cold Spring, Crane and El Montecito, among others, goes from strength to strength.

The event at the Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club, to help youngsters get sports equipment they might other-wise not afford, has rocketed to around 2,000 recipients, nearly 80 percent more than last year, when I dropped in last weekend.

With the help of Steve Yapp, who donated several giant PODS contain-ers, stationed at various school loca-tions as collection points for the drive, the group managed to meet its target, and then some.

Now one of the containers is sta-tioned at the club year round to collect equipment.

Eddie Conk, 16, a Laguna Blanca student who helped found the Sports Drive with Matt Wagonhurst and the likes of Nicky von Wiesenberger, Elijah Bittleston and Mason Pereira, says the first year only had 600 recipi-ents.

“But it seems to have really caught on and the donations have soared. This year we had thirty bikes and twenty bags of golf clubs, as well as tons of other equipment. It’s a great feeling for all of us involved.”

Well done!...

Artistic AbodeArtist Nancy Gifford’s 42-year-old

newly renovated Montecito manse is front and center in an eight-page fea-ture in the latest issue of California Homes.

The feature, written by Leslie Westbrook, a contributor to this illus-trious organ, is accompanied with pho-tos by Ciro Coelho.

“When I was approached by the writer and editor about doing a layout on the house, I was hesitant because my husband is very private,” says Nancy, a former model.

“But they were very enthusiastic about the aspect of our story that is centered around the art in our home. We do not have a high-end blue chip art collection, so that surprised me.

“But they really seemed to under-stand what we were trying to do here,

which was build a serious collection centered mostly around non-tradi-tional local contemporary artists and expose those artists in a great setting to the local community.

“We have many events for the non-profit community and arts organiza-tions, so it seemed like a perfect fit.”

But Nancy, who moved to our rar-efied enclave with Michael, former head of the Rank Organization in London, seven years ago, did have one stipulation.

“If any art showed in the photo-graphs, I asked that a credit went to the artists. So often in home decor magazines they mention the designers, architects and furniture manufacturers, but rarely can you find the name of the artist who did the art on the walls.

“It was very heartening to see so many of their names listed. Mission accomplished on my end!”...

Lasting Legacy

The galleries of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art were socially grid-locked when the venerable institution opened its latest exhibition, “Pasadena

to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969.”

The eclectic Julie Joyce-curated show, part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 initiative, focuses on the legacy of two of southern California’s leading venues for contemporary art since the 1940s – the SBMA and the Pasadena Art Museum, known since 1975 at the Norton Simon Museum.

The two tony institutions pioneered what is now perceived as a common strategy – exhibiting the work of local contemporary artists – alongside the work of influential modern and con-temporary artists from other parts of the U.S. and Europe.

Museum director Larry Feinberg says a lot of the credit goes to Thomas Leavitt, given the years coincide with his positions as director of PAM from 1957 to 1962 and then SBMA from 1963 to 1968.

His legacy at both institutions is one of the exhibition’s focal points and included, in Pasadena the scheduling of the famous Marcel Duchamp exhi-bition in 1963, the artist’s first U.S.

Leading members of the extremely successful Sports Drive on the job, Mason Pireria, Elijah Bittleston, Eddie Conk, Matt Wagonhurst, and Nicky von Wiesenberger

Artist Nancy Gifford publicizes the arts

in magazine spread

SBMA director Larry Feinberg, exhibit curator Julie Joyce and guest speaker Peter Plagens at the “Pasadena to Santa Barbara” exhibit opening (Photo by Priscilla)

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the VIP reception were Robert and Christine Emmons, Perri Harcourt, George Schoellkopf and Gerald Incandela, Mike and Anne Towbes, Sigrid and Frederick Toye, Nina Dunbar, Leatrice Luria, and Arnold and Jill Bellowe...

Where Everybody Knows Your NameMontecito’s popular watering hole,

Café Del Sol, was in decidedly birth-day mode when owner Jack Sears’ bubbly wife, Emilie, celebrated her big date with manager, Alfredo Arroyo, marking the 11th anniversary of his 40th.

Also joining in were regulars Bill Davis, with his 66th, and Chris Hunt, 47.

“This really is a fun spot, given all the locals and celebrities who have hung out here,” says Alfredo. “It’s our very own Cheers!”

Among the 40 guests watching the quartet cut the giant chocolate and vanilla birthday cake were Marv and Gray Bauer, Monika Klein, Jackie Andrew, Laird Koenig, Kyler Barbee, Gary Cummins and Rema Rainsford....

Commendable CowboyA record 160 guests turned out

for the fifth annual Garden Court Endowment fundraiser honoring Montecito banker and philanthropist Mike Towbes at the Canary.

The boffo western-themed bash, co-chaired by Alyce Parsons and Barbara Allen, raised around $50,000 for the charity, which helps frail, low-income seniors live independently.

A six-minute black and white film featuring Mike was shown and ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter, John Palminteri, played auctioneer, with lots including a Mexican vacation and

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compiled by Flora Kontilis from information supplied by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, Carpinteria Division

SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

Olive Mill Residence Victim of BurglaryWednesday, 22 February, 11:37 am – Deputy West was dispatched to a residence

on Olive Mill Road based on burglary reports. West spoke with the victim upon arriving on the scene. The victim told West that his home was burglarized the day before. He left his home at 8 am on February 21, and he returned 5 pm the same day. When he entered his home, the victim noticed several dresser drawers open in his bedroom. The victim also noticed several items missing, including four wrist watches valued at $100. The victim told West that he believed landscapers were responsible for the crime; his roommates also fell victim to theft during another time landscapers were working at the residence. West observed that the suspected thief entered the room through an unlocked window. The deputy obtained six latent fingerprints from the window. A report was taken.

Theft from Renter’s Home on Danielson RoadWednesday, 22 February, 4:20 pm – Deputy Gallaher was dispatched to a

residence on Danielson Road based on a burglary report. Gallaher contacted the victim at the scene; he told Gallaher that he owns and rents out the home on Danielson. The victim left the home at 4:30 pm on February 21; he returned at 3 pm on February 22. When the victim returned, he immediately noticed the living room TV was missing. He continued to search his home, and found another TV and paddleboard missing. The victim stated that when he was at the home on February 21, he locked all the doors and the front gate to the property was closed. The victim does not suspect a past renter for the crime; however, the victim told west that he recently received emails from a prospective renter asking when the home would be available. The victim did not have any more communication from the interested renter after the victim told him the home would be available on Monday. A report was taken.

Parolee Driver Carries Methamphetamine on East Mountain Drive

Friday, 24 February, 1:43 am – On patrol, Deputy Farley spotted a truck parked in a turnout of East Mountain Drive; Farley pulled up to the truck to investigate, and the truck immediately drove away. The deputy followed the truck and observed it had a trailer hitch obstructing the view of the license plate; Farley initiated a traffic stop for this violation. During the stop, Farley obtained the driver’s identification and ran a records check; records indicated that the driver was currently on parole, so Farley called for another deputy to assist. Deputy McSkimming arrived, and then Farley proceed to exercise a parole search on the driver. During the search, Farley discovered a “used glass methamphetamine pipe” and an open bottle of vodka. Farley wrote the driver a citation for both violations and confiscated the drug paraphernalia. A report was taken. •MJ

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The goal of the purchase has always been to keep the property free from development, and to maintain the hik-ing trails so often used by Montecito and Santa Barbara residents.

Escrow has been extended as title and road access agreements still need to be re-written. Executive Director Michael Feeney, in a letter to donors, explained that this project has been particularly challenging, given the entitlement issues. He says the Land Trust is still looking to raise $65,000 to close the gap needed to finalize the sale.

For more information, or to donate, email [email protected].

Friends of Montecito Library

March is membership month for the Friends of Montecito Library (FOML), the non-profit group that supports our local library through bequests and contributions. The organization, founded in 1975, has 15 board mem-bers and over 1,000 members who help fund staffing and materials at the library, according to board member Antonia Robertson.

The Montecito Library services over 6,000 library goers, and turns over 115,000 library items each year. Robertson tells us that Santa Barbara County has one of the least-funded library programs in the state, and that if it were not for FOML, the library

would only be open twice a week. She says that Montecito taxpayers pay just $5.80 per year in library funding.

“With new technology such as eBooks and readers, the needs of the library have increased. That tech-nology is exciting, but expensive,” Robertson said. FOML is currently holding a membership drive to get the word out about the group and gain more “friends” who want to contrib-ute to the library. Board members will be at the library throughout March passing out flyers and answering questions.

In addition to private donations, FOML help secure grants; recently the Montecito Foundation granted FOML over $4,000 to help cover the cost of updated materials for the library. FOML also holds fundraisers such as book and bake sales.

FOML meets as a board once a month; their April meeting will be open to the public as Scott Love from the central library will be pre-senting on how to use eReaders and eBooks. “Central Library recently had an eBook demo event in Goleta that was mobbed, including people from Montecito,” Robertson said.

For more information about FOML, stop by the library or visit www.mon tecitolibraryfriends.org.

Providence Hall Singers

Eight Providence Hall singers have been chosen from hundreds of middle school and high school students who auditioned to perform in the American Choral Directors Association’s Western Division Convention, to be

held February 29 through March 2 in Reno, Nevada.

“I am so proud of them,” says Ms Rebecca Hodson, Providence Hall’s director of performing arts. “This can be a life-changing experience to sing with the best at their level and to share a common passion. Performing with top middle and high school singers from five Western states is an experience that no one school can provide.”

To audition, students sent in an MP3 file with a recording of an art song (an Italian classical solo) and a piece to demonstrate their voice range.

Seniors Mandy Kellog and Hannah Sommers were selected for the Women’s Honor Choir, which will perform a college-level repertoire.

Garrett Gish (junior), Nathaniel Hodson (sophomore), and Andrew Meyer (senior) were given places in the 100-voice Men’s Honor Choir.

Madeline Meyer and Ashley O’Brien, both freshmen, were invited to be a part of the Junior High Girls Honor Choir, as was incoming fresh-man, Katie Hodson.

Participating in the convention requires rehearsing six to eight hours per day with world-renowned con-ductors, culminating in a public con-cert at the end of the week.

Nearly half of Providence Hall’s stu-dent body participates in a vocal music ensemble. Choir members currently are preparing selections for their spring concert at Trinity Episcopal on May 12.

Visit www.providencehallsb.org for information on upcoming events. Providence Hall is located at 630 East Canon Perdido Street in Santa Barbara. •MJ

VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)

Friends of Montecito Library board, with library supervisor Jody Thomas (far left) and Heather Brophy (center, holding dog), the daughter of Barbara Baring-Gould, who founded the non-profit group in 1975. Brophy was honored back in November for her mother’s contribution to the library.

Providence Hall singers that have been chosen to perform in the American Choral Directors Association’s Western Division Convention (from left): Choir director Ms Rebecca Hodson, Garrett Gish, Madeline Meyer, Hannah Sommers, Mandy Kellogg, Nathaniel Hodson, Andrew Meyer, and Ashley O’Brien


tion items included a private tour of the Whetsone Wine Cellars, dinner for ten at the Olivos Del Mar Ranch on the Gaviota coast, a Park City off-season getaway, and many more curious, intriguing, and unique offer-ings.

There were only two judges assigned to taste and test every one of the 14 food vendors, four winer-ies, two breweries, and two vodka importers: Tommy Tang and Michael Hutchings. The two men, clip-boards and pens in hand, studiously tested and tasted everything. Both Hutchings and Tang were more than

qualified for their task. Hutchings is a longtime Santa Barbara chef-caterer whose Michael’s Waterside eatery set the standard for fine food and wine in the Santa Barbara area back in the mid 1980s, and was a favorite of Julia Child. Mr. Tang, a native of Thailand, has been host of a PBS Cooking and Travel series since 1994; he is also the famous progenitor of his namesake Tommy Tang’s restaurant that he founded in West Hollywood in 1982 and which made its way to New York as Tommy Tang’s in 1986. Mr. Tang

The ninth annual Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Annual Celebration held on Saturday,

February 25 turned out to have been an unacknowledged ten-year anniversary for the museum itself. “It’s cutting news,” Cindy Makela, Director of the Maritime Museum, tells me only half-jokingly; the din inside the elegantly decked out museum was too loud to conduct an interview, but there were lulls in between the bidding for a plethora of live auction items that allowed for some conversation.

One especially desirable live auc-tion item featured two entrance badges to the Saturday and Sunday final rounds at this year’s Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, along with three-nights accommoda-tion in a private home. As a golfer, the value of this particular item was indeed “priceless,” as advertised. Unfortunately (for me, fortunately for

the Maritime Museum), the bidding surpassed my penny-pinching limit early and the package went for big bucks. For sailors and would-be sail-ors, there was a Yacht Adventure that included a two-and-a-half-hour sail on Dennis Conner’s America’s Cup 12-meter yacht Stars & Stripes in San Diego Bay, along with four nights in a waterfront hotel.

Other items included an auto-graphed Jimmy Buffett acoustic gui-tar, an electric guitar signed by all the Rolling Stones band members, a private charter for “up to 140 of your closest friends” on board the Condor Express, a “Fighter Pilot Adventure” that promised an experience of being a fighter pilot in a light attack fighter in air-to-air combat, and this expe-rience is not in a simulator. Along with the fighter pilot adventure was a four-night stay in a Hyatt Hotel and round-trip airfare within the continental U.S. Additional live auc-

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Meredith BaxterUntied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering

Jenna McCarthyIf It Was Easy They’d Call the WholeDamn Thing a Honeymoon

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Maritime Museum Director Cindy Makela (left) is vice president of Santa Barbara Olive Company and owner of Olivos Del Mar; Maritime Museum board member and event chair Elsbeth Kleen (right) broke the news that the Maritime Museum is officially ten years old

a Honorary celebrity judges and taste testers Michael Hutchings (left) and Tommy Tang; Tommy flew in from Thailand to be in Santa Barbara for Maritime Museum’s ninth annual Harbor Treasures Celebration

Carol Kallman (left), enjoying herself at the Maritime Museum’s event, announced that she has just become not only the first woman to hold the position, but she is also the youngest CEO ever of the 65-year-old Channel City Club; Judith Hill will stay on as president. Carol is with Hiroko Benko, who along with her husband, Fred, owns and operates the Condor Express. The two are major supporters of the Maritime Museum.

Coming & Going by James Buckley

A Merry Maritime Mixer

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1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 23Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession; I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first – Ronald Reagan

“The members of the Jockey Club are not many, but are exceptionally handsome and

manly men; and to see them dashing about town on their spirited horses, with Mexican saddles heavily mounted in silver and all their gay trappings dressed in their jaunty riding suits, and wearing their wide sombreros, is something worth beholding.” So wrote an Eastern visitor in 1892 for her hometown paper, the Newport Rhode Island News.

Founded in January/February 1890 by a few local residents and several wealthy winter visitors from the East and San Francisco who inhabited the Arlington Hotel for the season, that first year the club “met” four times at the Agricultural Park racetrack.

Their rules and regulations stated that the object of the club was “First, to encourage racing and sports in gener-al in Santa Barbara. Second, to promote the racing of native bred horses to the exclusion of thoroughbreds…” In fact, except for special announced events, all hot-blooded horses were banned.

In her memoir, Elizabeth Eaton Burton says it was through the

The Way It Was

by Hattie BeresfordThe Manly Men of the Arlington Jockey Club

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

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efforts of the Jockey Club that the first polo ponies were trained out of native stock. “Needless to say,” she wrote, “all the occupants of the Ontare Rancho took out memberships and Wild West shows with branding, rop-ing, and dare devil riding were staged with great gusto for the benefit of the Easterners.”

The First YearThe Club’s inaugural “meet-

ing” was held on February 8. One special event was a Mexican Fancy Riding Sweepstakes with Sheriff R. J. Broughton acting as judge. On February 28, the Programme included the quarter-mile Black Hawk (Stable) Stakes with a $30 purse; the quarter-mile dash Holiday Stakes with a $45 purse; the one-furlough Donkey Race with a $5 purse; and the half-mile dash Arlington Stakes with a $100 purse.

The Morning Press reported, “The day was perfect for racing, the atten-dance was large, the track was in good condition and the sport was good. There were a number of gaily decorated carriages on the track, sev-eral teams filled with Arlington guests displaying the colors of their favor-ites, the yellow poppy of the Duryea stables predominating.

In the first race, Jockey Club mem-ber Pierrepont H. Duryea was riding Killjoy when he broke both girths and came under the wire riding on his horse’s neck. The final winner was Tom, owned by local resident Seth Loomis and ridden by Frank Stoddard of Montecito.

In the Holiday Stakes race, the press reported, “Charley Diver rode his own horse and won, hands down, in 25 ½ seconds. For the Arlington Stakes, Duryea rode Grimbo of the Santa Barbara Stables and won easily.

Frank Stoddard rode Lima Beans, but the horse was out of condition and scarcely in the race.

“An eighth-of-a-mile donkey race created plenty of amusement,” the press reported. “The contestants were Fred Poett, on his little burro, and Steve Raffeur, on a somewhat larger animal, which was chiefly ears. Steve had a whip formed of a tin can tied to the end of a stick, which gave him such an advantage that he won with time to spare. The time was announced as 23 seconds.”

At one of the events at the March 11 meeting, only 5 of 7 registered horses arrived at the starting gate. The press reported, “Domino, one of the missing ones had taken a fancy to the green hills and started for them a day or two ago and as he had not yet returned it was finally decided to proceed with-out him.”

In keeping with their goal of pro-moting all sport, the club held a pigeon shooting match against a team repre-senting Santa Barbara on March 27 at Kinton Stevens’ Tanglewood estate in Montecito. The Morning Press report-ed, “A neat canopy tent had been erect-ed for the use of the ladies, of whom there were a goodly number present, chiefly guests of the Arlington, with a sprinkling from town and Montecito, and a large crowd of gentlemen inter-ested in sport. Sherman Stow acted as judge, W.W. Burton was scorer, and Henry Stoddard manipulated the traps.”

These were no clay pigeons that Stoddard threw up, but live birds. The Arlington team of Herman B. Duryea, Pierre Lorillard, Jr. (V), and Bayard Thayer seriously outscored the Santa Barbara team of Frank M. Gallagher, Kinton Stevens, and John Bailard. After the regular match, a

Members of the Arlington Jockey Club circa 1890-1892 on the steps of the Arlington Hotel. Standing, left to right: Clinton Hale, Ronald Thomas, unknown, Addison Thomas, unknown, William Starbuck Macy. Seated, left to right: unknown, unknown, Pierrepont H. Duryea, Herman B. Duryea (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Agricultural Park racetrack and grandstand in 1891 just off Santa Barbara Street between Montecito Street and the ocean (photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

In 1894, the Arlington Jockey Club was housed in a home at Sola and Anacapa streets across from Arlington Avenue. Mrs. Wm. N. Campbell (Rebecca Stoddard) identified the members and says the clubhouse stood (in 1959) on the Mansfield property (if that means anything to anyone, please let me know!). Left to right: William Starbuck Macy, John Beal, Herman B. Duryea, William Norman Campbell, Charles Fay, Charles Bigelow, Ronald Thomas, Pierrepont H. Duryea, and Walter Cope. (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)


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Beethoven’s ThirdsSanta Barbara Chamber Orchestra,

under conductor Heiichiro Ohyama, was in fine form when it presented “Beethoven’s Thirds” at the Lobero Theatre.

Featuring the German composer’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C minor, with Korean pianist Tong-ll Han, and Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, the show was a music lover’s delight.

Han, who has played with some of the world’s finest orchestras, was a particular joy with his deft touch on the keyboard and his self-deprecating character during the well-deserved ovations...

Serena Surfaces in the Sea In due course we may see a harbor

light show that puts Las Vegas in the shade.

A $330 million Italian-built 439-ft mega-yacht, Serena, reportedly owned by Russian vodka oligarch Yuri Scheffler, was spotted off Los Angeles at the weekend heading north.

The ninth largest yacht in the world, with seven decks and nearly 50,000-

sq-ft of interior space alone, has a most impressive array of amenities, including storage space for a minia-ture submarine.

But the piece de resistance is with-out doubt the turquoise-colored neon runners that outline the massive float-ing palace at night.

If the runner lights weren’t enough, there are two full helipads and a salt-water swimming pool.

According to Forbes, Scheffler is worth more than $850 million, gain-ing much of his wealth from several well-known vodka brands, including Stolichnaya.

I’ll drink to that...

Sightings: Oscar nominee Edward James Olmos strolling on State Street... Laura Dern and mom Diane Ladd noshing at Lucky’s... Billy Baldwin, wife Chynna and mom, former Mamas and Papas singer, Michelle Phillips, watching the cou-ple’s daughter perform a piano recital by the Malia Wieczorek school at the Ennisbrook clubhouse

Pip! Pip! for now

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


He is a visionary, an inventor (the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first print-to-speech

reading machine for the blind, the first music synthesizer that could recreate the keys of a grand piano), an entrepreneur, and has been described as a “restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal; he is also a New York Times best-selling author. Ray has been credited with predicting the fall of the Soviet Union, the year when a computer would beat a human being at chess, and the explosive growth of the Internet. He now predicts that artificial intelligence will outpace the human brain by the year 2045. He was awarded the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize for innovation, is recipient of the National Medal of Technology, has received 19 honorary doctorates and has authored six books. UCSB Arts & Lectures is proud to present as part of its Innovation Matters series, Raymond Kurzweil’s upcoming illustrated public lecture: Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies, at UCSB Campbell Hall on Tuesday March 6, beginning at 8 pm.

UCSB Senior Writer Karna Hughes informs us that Mr. Kurzweil was “recently featured as one of the tech pioneers in Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial. Ray is also a National Inventor Hall of Fame inductee. His ideas and inventions, like the Kurzweil music synthesizer and flat-bed scanner, have been touted by legions of fans, from Stevie Wonder to William Shatner. Dubbed ‘the ultimate thinking machine’ by Forbes magazine, he is the subject of the 2009 film Transcendent Man, which explores his prediction of a future where man merges with machine, a point in time he calls ‘The Singularity.’ Bill Gates claims Kurzweil is ‘the best in the world at predicting the future.’ Kurzweil is also the author of The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence.”

Mr. Kurzweil has proven so adept at foretelling the future that we decided to ask him a small number of ques-tions that have bedeviled us. The fol-lowing questions and answers took place via e-mail.

Q. How is it that mammals dominate the animal kingdom?

A. Everywhere we look around the globe, there is a layer of sediment that represents 65 million years ago which points to the “Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event,” which led to the rapid demise of many species that

could not adapt quickly enough. Mammals, which were relatively new, and which had a neocortex that was capable of hierarchical thinking could adapt. This was the turning point for neocortex-capable mammals to take over their ecological niche. In this way, biological evolution found that the hierarchical learning of the neo-cortex was so valuable that this region of the brain continued to grow in size until it virtually took over the brain of homo sapiens. It represents 80% of the human brain.

Do you still believe human life spans

will be extended an additional fifty years by 2030?

By about 2025, we will be add-ing more than a year each year to our remaining life expectancy. So, that’s not a guarantee, but it is tipping point. As we continue to go further in time, life expectancy will continue to grow. The whole concept of life expec-tancy is already obsolete because it is based on the past, whereas the future is going to be very different.

How will we ever communicate with

other civilizations in the face of the enor-mous distances that separate us?

My speculation is that other civili-zations probably don’t exist because if they did we would be aware of them. Due to the law of accelerating returns (which refers to the exponen-tial growth of information technolo-gies), progress is extremely rapid once a civilization gets to the point of hav-ing radio capable technology. Given that other civilizations are likely to be spread out over cosmological time (that is, millions of years), it is incon-ceivable that we would not be aware of another civilization with advanced technology. I discuss this argument in more detail in the last section of chap-ter 6 in The Singularity is Near.

If there were other civilizations and we

could communicate with them, what does that communication look like and does it even matter that we communicate with those on distant planets?

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Although it is speculated that an advanced civilization may progress to methods of communication beyond electromagnetic signals, it is very unlikely that we would not at least be generating vast amounts of electro-magnetic information anyway.

When artificial intelligence outpaces

human intelligence, where will that leave the human race? Will humans continue to have a function and/or purpose?

AI is not an intelligent invasion from Mars. These are brain extenders that we have created to expand our own mental reach. They are part of our civilization. They are part of who we are. So over the next few decades our human-machine civilization will become increasingly dominated by its non-biological component.

What does medical surgery look like in, say, fifty years?

By the 2030s, we will routinely use nanobots (robots the size of blood cells with multi-nanometer features) that combine intelligent computation and robotics to keep us healthy from inside. So they will continually be performing microsurgery fixing our cells, removing plaque and debris, destroying pathogens, and so on at the cellular level.

Will any human in the future be allowed

to go off the grid, or will all humans be under some sort of surveillance from here on out?

I think we will be able to maintain privacy. It is a complex technical issue but the technologies of privacy (for example, encryption) have outpaced the technologies of surveillance (such as decryption). The grid is already how we stay connected with other people, with society and with our exponential expanding knowledge base. So few people really want to stay off the grid for very long.

How close are we to a smart drug, or

at least one that substantially increases brainpower and/or memory?

In the 2020s there will probably be drugs that can make us some-what smarter. But that is not nearly as interesting as directly connecting our brains to artificial intelligence, much of which will reside in the cloud. At that point, our intelligence will grow exponentially the way we see com-

puters doing already. This will start to happen in the mid to late 2030s.

At what point do humans cease prolif-

erating? How many humans can Earth reasonably accommodate?

We can actually accommodate a greatly expanded biological popula-tion. We have 10,000 times more sun-light than we need to meet 100 percent of our energy needs. The total amount of solar energy produced each year is doubling every two years and has been for thirty years and is only about seven doublings from meeting all of our energy needs. There is a similar analysis with water and food and pro-duction of housing. The vast majority of land is not used today for human habitation. But ultimately – about a century from now – we will be more concerned with resources for our non-biological brains and bodies than our biological ones.

On a similar plane: when do humans

cease propagating? Will having babies even be allowed?

Old technologies fade away very slowly. We still have horse and bug-gies and vinyl records.

Will space travel ever become real?A century from now, we will send

swarms of intelligent nanobots to explore other celestial bodies. There is no reason to send large squishy crea-tures like humans.

What is the next step for computers?Over the next decade, we will

see realistic virtual reality that is ubiquitous as well as augmented reality. We will gain mastery of our biology and will start to update the outdated software that runs in our bodies. Computers will master natural language. They won’t wait for you to ask them a question, they will be watching us and listening in and will offer help that they see we need. They will know our needs before we do.

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I’ve been told my peepers are as blue as Lake Tahoe and as soulful as Barry White. Or was that Betty White?

I turned fifty-nine-years-old on February 27. Turning 59 makes a guy think about mortality.

The first thing I had to do was get out my American Heritage and look up mortality. The second thing I did was look up mort. Why? Because mort was right above mortality in the dictionary and while at fifty-nine you can have too big of a prostate, you can never have too big of a vocabulary.

Turning fifty-nine made me reflect on several things, not the least of which is the possibility of life after death, which is a little like wondering if you’ll still be in the church choir

after decapitation. I’m really hoping there’s a Heaven because there are some people I’d like to see again, and even more importantly, there are a number of people I’d love to confirm didn’t make it. Such as a certain for-mer girlfriend who shall go unnamed, an employer I had back in the ‘eight-ies, and the person responsible for raising movie ticket prices to $9.50.

When I grasped that I’m a breath away from 60 I asked myself three questions. One: When was the last time you tried something new? I know this must be incorrect, but the most recent thing I could come up with was Pop Tarts. Two: What can you do today that you couldn’t do five years ago? This was easy. I can now take both a morning and an afternoon nap. Three: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? Again, easy – 8. In my mind’s eye I’m still young, thin, and able to solo an entire large pepperoni and anchovy pizza without taking Prilosec. I’m so delusional that when I heard the sad news about Heidi Klum and Seal’s breakup I wondered if maybe I wasn’t too hasty when I married Lora after our thirty-year engagement. With Heidi soon to be on the market again, I truly believed I could be in the run-ning if only I were single (stop laugh-ing; this is not the funny part).

After all, don’t most magazine sur-veys say the first thing women are attracted to in a man is his sense of humor followed closely by his eyes? Well, I majored in Sense of Humor at GTI (Goleta Tiddlywinks Institute) and even though my eyelids now resemble mini saddlebags filled with suet, I’ve been told my peepers are as blue as Lake Tahoe and as soulful as

n.o.t.e.s. from downtown by Jim AlexanderHappy 59th To Me

Mr. Alexander is a former professional gigolo; the restraining order awarded to Heidi Klum against him is set to expire in 2020

Barry White. Or was that Betty White?Obviously, any rational person

would know that I stand as much of a chance getting a date with Heidi Klum as Newt Gingrich does with Ellen DeGeneres. Heck, even in my prime, which unfortunately in my

case occurred when I was twelve, I couldn’t have gotten even a kiss on the cheek from Heidi if said cheek were slathered with truffle oil. My point is, at a certain age, usually around the same time we realize we can no longer do a sit up without a winch, many men become delusional. I did a recent sur-vey and 58% of men in my age bracket think that if given a fair shot, they’d also have a good chance at winning Heidi’s broken heart. Coincidently, the exact same percentage of men think the moon is made of baba ganoush. The other 42% think baba ganoush is the prime minister of Pakistan.

Another thing I thought about when I recognized I was approaching the winter of my incontinence is retire-ment. My retirement plan is quite simple, if not slightly suspect. It has two straightforward steps – collecting social security and selling my four unpublished novels to Jeff Bridges who’ll then turn them into blockbuster movies making my name synonymous with Mel Brooks, Quentin Tarantino, and Baba Ganoush.

If for some unfathomable reason my master retirement plan doesn’t work out, at least I picked a profession that can easily be executed by a man of declining years – house painting. I can see my business card now. It’ll show an old man in painter’s whites leaning on a walker with the words, Residential and Commercial. Eighty years of experi-ence. Please don’t ask me to do baseboards unless you’re willing to help me up.

Actually, I think I’m going to have a good 59th year. I have my health, a new bride I love, a rich fantasy life filled with Heidi Klum and Jeff Bridges, and a mort of friends. That’s right, mort – look it up.


No one would mistake a theoretical physics institute for a writing lab, but for

contemporary American playwright Lila Rose Kaplan, a three-month residency at UCSB’s Kavli Institute provided the perfect impetus for creating her new work. Entangled, which was also nurtured by faculty member Risa Brainin (who directs) as part of the university’s Launch Pad program, has its world premiere at the Hatlen Theater this weekend, just steps from where the seeds were germinated.

“Entanglement” is a term used in quantum theory to describe the way that particles of energy or matter can become correlated to predictably interact with each other regardless of how far apart they are. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.”

Kaplan calls it a great idea for a play. “The idea that two particles can

become linked and then can affect each other from millions of miles away – and that if you study one of them you know exactly what’s happening to the other because they’re always in opposite states? To me that seems so magical and theatrical,” Kaplan said over the telephone last week from her home in Santa Barbara. “It made me think a lot about twins and siblings.”

Kaplan did her research at Kavli last fall as the first non-journalist to partake of the prestigious institute’s writer-in-residence program. But it wasn’t her first dabble in the science.

“I’ve always loved physics,” explained the playwright whose sci-ence-related Biography of a Constellation, about a group of women at Harvard at the turn of the last century who were called “The Computers,” was honored last spring at The Kennedy Center. “I don’t claim to understand it very deeply, but in high school I made my physics notes into poems that were published in the poetry magazine. The language of physics has always seemed so beautiful and connected to humans, to me. In a way, I started writing this play a long time ago.”

Still, immersing herself in Kavli was an experience that at first brought up comparisons to Alice in Wonderland.

“It was disorienting, like going to another country,” she said. “For them too – I think the idea of having a play-wright in their midst who wanted to write about what they were doing took a little getting used to.”

But Kaplan broke through by join-ing the scientists in the customary afternoon tea at three every weekday, asking a lot of questions and soaking up the atmosphere, language and con-cepts. She ended up being influenced by the way the physicists explained

the concept of entanglement. “They used dance to convey the

ideas to me, that the particles fall into pairs, and dance around each other,” she said. “I don’t know if that was just because I wasn’t a scientist, but it appealed to me because I’ve always wanted to use movement in my plays.”

She also came away most impressed with the openness and opportunities for working together.

“Even the building itself is geared toward collaboration,” she said. “There are blackboards everywhere, in the hallways, common spaces, the courtyard. Wherever you are, you hear all sorts of languages being spo-ken, and all kinds of ideas… Physics and writing are similar in that you do a lot of your work alone. At Kavli you get a chance to talk about things.”

The end result is a play that uses entanglement as a jumping off point for examining an evolving relation-ship between twin sisters set at a boarding high school for exceptional twins. The school’s dance instructor, Leigh, is not happy to learn that her long-estranged twin sister, August, is returning to teach physics at the acad-emy they founded together 25 years earlier. August brings some eccentric lessons on entanglement which pulls the students into the family rift, and as a dance teacher, Leigh uses lots of movement, which helps represent what’s going on between the charac-

Dramatic Entanglement

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.

ters, Kaplan said. “I’m interested in theater that asks

questions, invokes dialogue,” she said. I want to use the stage to ask big questions about the world we live in. And I’m interested in bringing people together from different backgrounds who think about these things. Theater is one of the last communal experi-ences we have left.”

Ultimately, though, Kaplan said she hopes audiences walk away with questions about their own lives and relationships. “The play ends up being about balance, how we are entangled with people in our lives, but it’s not the only thing. Coming together and breaking apart are important to have a complete life.”

As for what the creator of quan-tum physics might have thought of Entangled?

“Oh, Einstein would have liked it,” Kaplan surmised. “He had a good sense of humor and it’s a funny play.”

Entangled previews Thursday and Friday at 8, opens 8pm Saturday and plays 8pm March 8-10. A special 2pm matinee this Sunday is followed by a talk-back with Kaplan. Tickets cost $13-$17. Call 893-7221 or visit www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu.

Swinging SistersHulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe

are just 19, 22 and 24 respectively, but they’ve already been playing together as a band for nearly a dozen years. The sisters, fiddler all, from Fort Worth, Texas, specialize in west-ern swing, cowboy songs, vintage country, and traditional Texas fid-dle tunes, all peppered with intri-cate three-part harmony singing that weaken the knees are just one of five acts that make up “Don’t Fence Me In: Songs, Music & Poetry of the American West,” a national tour cel-ebrating the region’s artistic culture that makes its final tour stop at UCSB on Friday.

Also on the bill are western sing-er and yodeler Wylie Gustafson; Northern Plains drum ensem-ble North Bear; Tex-Mex conjunto band (and 2010 Grammy winner) Los Texmaniacs, and rodeo poet Paul Zarzyski. Each will perform sepa-rate sets before joining up for the grand finale. But it’s the Quebes who have drawn jaw-dropping reac-tions from country musician Jimmy Buffett to billionaire businessman Warren Buffett; the latter jammed on ukulele with the sisters at one of his conventions then brought ‘em back to play at a news conference. (Marty Stuart, Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson and Larry Gatlin are fans, too.)

We hauled the girls out of a diner en route from San Diego earlier this week for a joint interview via cell phone.

Q. Why the fiddle? Grace: We got into it after we went

to a fiddle contest and heard it for the first time. Kids our own age were playing and it just looked like so much fun. I think the reason we all picked it up was because my mom always loved the violin. And when we found the style of Western swing, the tradi-tional style, it worked out well for all of us to play together, which is some-thing we wanted to do. And we start-ed taking lessons together, so we’ve always all been at the same level.

Your teacher, Joey McKenzie, is in your band now as the guitarist. How does that work? Does he still offer tips and instructions?

Sophia: It’s pretty cool. It started out that he just played with us on some of those early gigs, and the band just formed out of that, almost unintentionally. It’s really fun to make music together, and our styles really mesh. He does all the arrangements, too, including the three-part vocals. He’s a fantastic multi-instrumental-ist – guitar, fiddle, mandolin. But he doesn’t really teach us anymore. We just get together and work on songs. But you’re always learning. That’s how music is.

You started out as an instrumental band, and that how it was the first album. When the second one came out and sud-denly you were singing. Where did that come from?

Hulda: We hadn’t planned on doing it at all. I remember the first time we met Ricky Scaggs he asked us if we sang, and we thought, no no we could never do that. But we decided to learn. It’s a whole different dimension and a way to express yourself… We’re really blessed to have similar voices. We do have an advantage over other bands in that the close harmony comes natu-rally.

Did you take a lot of cues from sis-ter bands of an earlier genre: Andrews Sisters, etc.?

Hulda: Yeah, definitely. We’ve tried to search out the best sister sing-ing groups to emulate. One of our favorites is the McGuire Sisters. Their technique is the best. But we’ll listen to everybody to the Mills Brothers to the Beatles – how they stack the har-monies and create the sound that they get. You can learn from anybody.

You play several different types of tra-ditional music. What, for you, is the dif-ference between country swing, western swing, Texas fiddling, etc.?

Grace: That’s a great question. People say Texas swing, but it’s a loose term. Western swing did originate in Texas with Bob Wills, but he also played in Oklahoma and California and there were lots of other players

Anne Torsiglieri as Leigh (and August) in Lila Rose Kaplan’s Entangled, playing in Hatlen Theater at UCSB starting Thursday, March 1 (Photo by David Bazemore)

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How do you find the balance between keeping the vintage sound, the traditional approach and having your own voice or style, not copying?

Grace: Obviously we get the stan-dard sound from the style we sing and the way we play our instruments. But even if it’s a traditional song, we’re still going to have our own sound with it, because Joey created the arrange-ments. Sometimes we change keys to match our voices, so we can do har-mony for our voices. The fiddle fills are something new that we work up.

Is there sibling rivalry amongst you? Still best friends or are there some con-flicts? How are decisions made?

Hulda: Oh, man. We’re like any-body else. We have silly disagree-ments. But we get over them. The arguments are usually about one of us not getting out of the shower on time. But we all agree on almost everything that matters. We get along very well and have a lot of fun on the road. And for us, it’s how it’s always been: we were home schooled together, are in a band together and live our lives on the road together. But we think we’re fortunate to spend so much time with our siblings.

Tell me about the tour. How did it come together? Do you feel a special responsibil-ity as the Western swing representative?

Grace: It’s really fun. We’ve got to hear lots of music that’s new to us, like Native American powwow music. The audiences will get a really good mix. It’s a very balanced view of the

music… There aren’t that many triple fiddle bands around, so we want to represent it, play authentically to our style. We all want the audiences to experience what the music is all about form the perspective of tradition.

“Don’t Fence Me In” plays at UCSB’s Campbell Hall at 8pm Friday. Tickets cost $35. Call 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

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Michael McDonald, the five-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter blessed with a breathlessly beauti-ful voice, plays the venue Saturday night with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Walls – Santa Barbara Street Medicine, which pro-vides free healthcare to the under-served population in our midst. The evening begins with the first annual Takin’ it to the Streets Award, which

ENTERTAINMENT Page 414Fiddle-playing sisters Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe bring their blend of country and swing music to UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Friday, March 2


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I was quite a long way from home in a certain sense, and I’d just clear-ly revealed it to my puzzled-looking counterpart. Time stopped as he fur-rowed his brow and considered my inadvertent mistake.

I knew better, of course, but my tongue sometimes works (far) faster than my mind. I’d learned to control my compulsive speech patterns as a litigation attorney over the past near decade but after months of time away from the rigors and stoic composure of the working lawyer I’d lost some of what I once had gained. I’d long ago shuttered my Santa Barbara-based law

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What can I say? I slipped up. I was conversationally rusty. And I simply couldn’t stop savoring the delicate handcrafted wine in my glass.

Bad combination.I’d been standing in my new back

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Notes From a Napa Valley Neophyte

by Matt Mazza

Matt was a lawyer up until June 2011, when he closed up shop and left Montecito with his wife and kids to travel around the world. Read his (and his family's) full story in the newest edition of the Montecito Journal (glossy edition), on newsstands now.

The famous Napa Valley sign, near the Mazzas’ new home

1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 31Don’t vote; it only encourages them – Author Unknown

that had been specially crafted by local winemakers as auction lots for Premier Napa Valley, one of the Valley’s stand-out events catering to the wine and food industry. The auction was ulti-mately held at the Culinary Institute of America, Greystone – just a few blocks from our new house – and raised a record $3.1 million for the Napa Valley Vintners Association. It may well be a great year in the Valley.

I got with the program and (some-what reluctantly) spit my wines into the paper cup that was provided – most of the time, anyway – and dili-gently took notes as the winemakers

described their painstaking processes in a beautiful conference room over-looking the Valley at the Auberge. The Monday lunch interview with the potential chef went smoothly. In fact, it led to a new hire.

This is going to be fun. Wish me luck.

If you are interested in talking to Matt about his new gig or his related experi-ences in the Napa Valley, feel free to email him at [email protected]. And if you are interested in his time traveling the world with his wife and kids, check out their website and photos and Matt’s blog at www.towheadtravel.com. •MJ

mouth-watering aromas wafted out over the yard. We’d just taken a slow walk amongst wintery vineyards up the street.

The game was about to start and it was almost time to eat. People were scrambling toward the kitchen.

But Mark wasn’t moving or look-ing away. He stared at me, silent and wide-eyed. Incredulous.

We’d both recently gone out on a limb of sorts. From his perspective, he’d made the decision, with his long-time business partner, Ron Goldin (another old friend), to bring me aboard to help run his Calistoga-based restaurant group. From mine, I’d just

moved my family from Montecito to the Napa Valley – after months of travel through Europe, Africa and Asia – to take a new direction, profes-sionally and personally, in the restau-rant business.

I think he may have been ques-tioning his judgment. I was certainly questioning how I’d said something so obscenely silly.

Seconds went by like hours. I await-ed my fate.

Finally, mercifully, Mark looked down, chuckled softly, eyeballed me, and sipped his wine. He paused again, and then he spoke. A half-smile danced across his lips.

“You spit, Matthew. Let’s go eat.”And he turned and walked inside.It was either Mark or the gentle

breeze playing tricks in the trees, but I swear I also heard, “Welcome to the Napa Valley, you moron.”

He let me off easy, and we both knew it.

Thank goodness I didn’t mention that I had no idea how I might inter-view an experienced chef for a key position in the restaurant group. Let’s just say that they don’t teach you that skill in law school.

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Lily sporting Matt’s hat from Padang Padang, Bali

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Café Luna Now Serving Dinner

Summerland by the SeaLeslie Westbrook is an author, freelance writer, book coach, memoirist and chief bottle washer at LeslieWestbrook.com. Her latest book, Insiders’ Guide to Santa Barbara (5th edition), has just been released by Globe Pequot Press.

by Leslie A. Westbrook

It really feels like a change is a coming on in Summerland. There seems to be a shift of energy in the

air. Maybe it’s that we are creeping up on Daylight Savings Time soon. Or perhaps it’s just folks anxiously slipping out of winter into nearly spring mode. Whatever the reasons, business seems to be picking up around town, the sunsets have been spectacular and there’s a new dinner spot (well, old spot now open for dinner). I like it.

Although The Nugget has been too full to take a reservation for dinner the last few Monday nights, I’ve had no problem popping into Café Luna for dinner. With a desire to expand its ever-popular morning coffee, muffin, breakfast and lunch business, own-ers and married couple Dan (he’s Santa Barbara born) and Janette Van Hirtum have made some changes by opening for dinner and seem to have

worked out most of the kinks. They “warmed up” by having a really neat traditional wood-burning pizza oven hand-built in back by Sicilian native Giuseppe Crisa of Forno Classico. The oven was fired up on weekends only to begin with, and tasty pizzas accompanied by live music, wines by the glass (from nearby Summerland Winery and Rancho Sisquoc, among others) and friendly weekend crowds added to the festive atmosphere. Summerland was happy.

More recently, Café Luna “at night” has added white linen tablecloths set with votive candles on the tables and, voila, we now have a quiet place to dine in the evenings and a menu that includes thin-crust pizzas and deli-cious fire-roasted chicken cooked in the outdoor pizza oven served with mixed green salad and white can-nellini beans with arugula. There’s also lasagna on the menu and I heard

lamb roasted in the outdoor oven was served on Valentine’s Day. I did order a wood-fired artichoke that sounded divine on one visit that somehow morphed into an artichoke salad. (They promise to correct this next time).

The couple has hired a dinner chef – David Bishop – who has cooked his way around Italy for the past 12 years and is not in the least bit fazed by the “challenging” kitchen set-up. Cheers to daytime chef Andrew Robinson, as well as the staff at Café Luna who perform miracles in small spaces.

I have a feeling the menu will expand over time, as evidenced by “piccolo” amuse bouche magically appearing from the kitchen, and that Café Luna will become quite the pop-ular evening spot now that the word is out. Don’t expect perfection, but do expect something close to it and hon-est, tasty meals served by the hard-working staff. In fact, with a little light dimming (hint: morning regular Walter, get some dimmer switches up please!), twinkle lights in the patio’s grand olive tree and perhaps some outdoor heaters, the only other miss-ing link would be some sweet live classical guitar music to really make this a super romantic spot. Dan prom-ises there will be live music as the light and weather changes in the com-ing months, but for the time being, I am most pleased by the relaxing classical music being played. Outdoor speakers would be a great way to drown out the freeway sound, in fact.

If you are seeking a quiet respite, check out Café Luna for dinner any Tuesday through Saturday until 8 pm. Although I may be shooting myself in the foot if readers stampede and

change the current ambiance.Café Luna has also added chang-

ing artworks for sale on their walls, including photographs by Summerland resident Miguel Fairbanks. And in the same spirit of showcasing Summerlandians, keep your eyes peeled for a literary cel-ebration coming to the café in March. Details to follow in this column, or check the Café Luna chalkboard for “Live @ Luna” listings. If you are a Summerland author who would like to participate, feel free to contact me or the Van Hirtums for further infor-mation.

Summerland ScoopNew sidewalks are going to be

installed along Lillie Avenue… Businesses that will be affected are hoping the improvements don’t take as many months to be completed as the previous work, thus hurting shops in the line of fire, er, brick… The Big Yellow House is looking for tenants and rumor has it, they will host an open house once an elevator (!) is installed… A new jewelry store is going to open in the original post office at the corner of Lillie and Colville. Nathan Modisette of BoMo Design is doing the remodel for Waxing Poetic. His father Dan once had a real estate office in the historic cottage… The sale at Mediterranee Antiques and Garden showroom continues to burn hotly… new items keep floating to the surface weekly.

Summerland news? Go ahead, write me the old-fashioned way: c/o P.O. Box 1440, Summerland CA 93067. I dare you. (Or [email protected] but my email box overfloweth.) •MJ

Dan and Janette Van Hirtum have expanded their breakfast and lunch business at Café Luna and are now serving dinner five nights a week

Café Luna owner Dan Van Hirtum stands

ready for dinner customers at the

newly extended hours and offerings from

the wood-fire oven at the Summerland eatery

Tables are set with cloth tablecloths and votive candles for evening dining at Café Luna

After 12 years of cooking throughout Italy, new din-ner chef David Bishop is turn-ing out dinner fare with an Italian flair, including lasa-gna and wood-fired pizza and chicken at Café Luna


has probably been the most influen-tial figure in the discovery and sub-sequent popularity of Thai cooking in the U.S.

“I represent Thailand if I have to,” Tang laughed when asked if he thought of himself as an ambassa-dor. “But I also represent the U.S., because now I am an American cit-izen,” he added. He went on to explain that he will represent the U.S. State Department on an upcom-ing trip to Southeast Asia, whereup-on he will promote U.S. ingredients.

Our top choices: Chuck’s Waterfront Grill’s “Death By Chocolate,” Christine Dahl’s slight-ly sweet but oh-so-mouth-meltingly good dessert squares, Spoon's straw-berry chocolate-chip gelato and Richard and Thekla Brander’s Alma Rosa Chardonnay.

The troop of U.S. Navy Sea Scouts that volunteered to help and who could be seen helping out all over, were defined as “a visual delight” by Elsbeth Kleen, the Planning Committee Chair, “because they stand straight; they smile, and they have such a perfect sense of respect. It’s a perfect fit. They’re doing a ser-vice for them and a service for us. And,” she added proudly, “there’s no money exchanged.”

The $70,000 netted from this eve-ning’s celebration will go toward supporting the museum’s education-al and curatorial programs.

A Howard School CentennialA Special Report by Carla Mager

The oldest private school in the Santa Barbara area, The Howard School, hosted an elegant evening bash at Montecito Country Club February 11. Montecito resident and school parent Elisabeth Zahm, apparently impressed with both the school and the fundraiser, said, “I’m just glad to be a part of a school that doesn’t teach what to know, but how

to learn,” Zahm said. “The school’s philosophy is based on the principle that who you are is just as important as what you know. It’s exciting to see the involvement here,” she noted, “including the granddaughter of the founder herself!”

The event was overflowing with supporters, including a delighted Anne Howard Barnes, 1940 alum-na and descendent of The Howard School founders, who established

the small private school in 1912.“Here tonight we have guests who

have supported the school in the past and the present,” Barnes said. “I am learning so much about the rich his-tory of our school through teachers’ and students’ stories,” she added. “Tonight kicks off the beginning of the 100th year, and that’s a testament to the quality of the institution.”

The success of the fundraiser was due in large part to the support

Montecito Country Club Executive Chef Michael Blackwell, and his wife, event planner Jackie Blackwell.

“Food touches everyone,” Chef Blackwell said. “I have a skill which is needed. Chefs have kids too, but not enough chefs are participating. We need to be role models and a part of these schools, both as profession-al chefs and volunteers. Hopefully what I do as a cook is intriguing to them for a possible profession, but also how I live my life, providing community service.”

One of the many highlights of the evening was a video and photo pre-sentation documenting the school’s long history. According to Sharmin Mansarek and her husband, Pablo Mansarek – parents that dedicated countless hours to the producing the video – “Our hope is to pre-serve these stories and photos for the future generations of our school.”

For more than 80 years the school was based in Montecito before relocating to its current location in Carpinteria. If you would like more information on this event or upcom-ing alumni centennial celebrations contact the school at 805-745-8778, www.thehowardschool.org or Facebook, at The Howard School. Past photos are available as well. •MJ

COMING & GOING (Continued from page 21)

Among those offering their wares at this year’s Maritime Museum event were (left) Erin Casey, owner of Spoon, Santa Barbara Gelato, which she founded four years ago at 1222 State Street, right next to the Granada. Kacy Lynd (right) refers to herself as Erin’s Gelato back. “I am her assistant, like a bar back,” Kacy explains.

Barbara Carpenter McDonald, Anne Howard Barnes and Hugh Carpenter, 1940 Alumna and descendent of The Howard School founders. Carpenters are brother and sister, and the Carpenter Family bought the school from the Howards.

Alumni from the Graduating Class of 2010 are (from left) Andrew Robbins, Emily Wanek, Talia VanWingerden, and Bryant Perez

Stars of the event included Executive Chef Michael Blackwell of the Montecito Country Club, Event Co-Chairs Ida Kane, Sharon Reed and Beth Bailey and Howard School’s Headmaster Joel Reed

Howard teachers included Angie Miller, Jennifer Gonzalez and Megan Gildred


The Westmont women’s basketball team captured its first-ever Golden State Athletic Conference

(GSAC) regular season championship February 21, and the players took turns cutting down the net in Murchison Gym. The Warriors will host another playoff game on Friday, March 2, assuming they win February 29.

The lady Warriors have been led this season by 6-foot-2 junior forward Tugce Canitez, a native of Izmir, Turkey. Canitez, or “Tooch” as her teammates call her, has been named the GSAC Player of the Year while head coach Kirsten Moore earned GSAC Coach of the Year.

Canitez led the GSAC in scoring, tal-lying 560 points (averaging 19.3 points per game). She was second in rebound-ing (averaging 10.3 per game) and fourth in field goal percentage at 50.4. She sank more than 75 percent of her free throws, ranking seventh in the conference.

“She’s not just a scorer, she’s also an incredible rebounder and passer,” says Moore, who is due to have her

first child in July. “She makes everyone around her better. She’s a good defend-er and she has a high basketball IQ and understanding of what’s going on with the game. I believe the completeness of

her game is why she was honored as the Player of the Year.”

Canitez, who transferred to Westmont this year from North Idaho City College, joined Katie Kittle on a trip to Colusa during a four-day holiday last fall. During the seven-and-a-half hour drive back to Montecito, Kittle had the idea to bring Canitez’s parents to the U.S. to watch their daughter. “I believe God planted a seed in my heart and gave me the pas-sion and vision to make it happen,” says Kittle, a senior captain who was named to the ALL-GSAC team.

The team kept the plan a complete secret from Canitez, contacting a coach in Turkey who put them in touch with Canitez’s parents, Nuri and Birsen. “We broke the news to her on her birthday,” says Jillian Wilber, a junior from Fillmore who was named a GSAC Scholar-Athlete. “We had a little party and gave her a card to read. In the card we taped a copy of the airplane tickets, showing that her parents were coming out to visit. At first she just set the card down and said thank you, which is when we knew she hadn’t even read it. We made her read it again, and then on the third try she freaked out, having realized what we had just told her. She started crying and everyone gave her a huge group hug. It was such a beauti-ful and special moment.”

Lisa Peterson, a senior captain and All-GSAC team member from Citrus Heights, says it took a team effort, working together to raise the funds and make the necessary arrangements. “This was definitely a bonding experi-ence – everyone was able to contrib-ute in some way,” she says. Peterson remembers near the end of Canitez’s parents’ visit, they prepared an authen-tic Turkish dinner for the entire team. “The food was delicious and overall it was a great evening with the entire Westmont basketball family.

“This experience has taught the team how much we love each other and how important everyone is on our team. Everyone matters on this team and if we really want to accomplish some-thing, we have the tools to make things happen.”

Wilber says it was amazing to wit-ness the joy of Canitez interacting with her parents. “We worked together for something that was greater than our-

selves and greater than basketball and it brought us closer than any victory or winning season could do.”

Talk Examines Complexities of Jewish Rescue

Marianne Robins, Westmont pro-fessor of history, reflects on the rescu-ers of Jews in a French region near the town Le Chambon in a lecture,

“Doing Justice to the Righteous: Christian Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust,” Monday, March 5, at 7 pm in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Lecture is free and open to the public.

During the Holocaust, the French people of Plateau Vivarais-Lignon took a stand and quietly shielded thou-sands of Jews from the Nazis, espe-cially children. The actions of these remarkable people have inspired many books and movies. The rescue is fea-tured prominently in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and in 2009, President Barack Obama included it in a speech for the national commemoration of the Days of Remembrance.

Robins’ research shows there were many factors why the people of Plateau Vivarais-Lignon acted so selflessly. “I’ll provide missing historical context and point out the complexity of the situation as a departure from the iconic story of the documentary,” Robins says. “You can’t reduce it to a moralistic axiom.”

Robins, a native of France, has taught at Westmont since 1996. She earned a master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Paris 1-La Sorbonne. She has written two books in French, Christians and Dance in Modern France, and Words of the Gospels: Four German pamphlets of the 1520s. •MJ

Westmont basketball player Tugce Canitez has helped the Warriors win its first GSAC champion-ship; “Tooch” has been named the GSAC Player of the Year

History professor and French native Marianne Robins will lecture about Christian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust on March 5 in Kerrwood Hall

Six-foot, two-inches junior forward Tugce Canitez cuts the net in Murchison Gym after solidifying the Warriors GSAC championship

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1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 35Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in – Andrew Jackson

I love shooting. I still do. It’s the fun part, the note taking, the discov-ering through the lens. And because the camera can zoom in and focus on specific areas of a face or location, it provides a view that the human eye does not. The camera allows you to experience things on a level you can-not get humanly. This style of filming is freeing and requires a level of disci-pline, as you make more decisions in the camera.

In my case it’s liberating to share what people didn’t know they knew even if they were there for the event or were experiencing it.

Tell us about your company Quest Productions.

I only worked at NBC for three years because I never wanted to be on anybody’s payroll. So I started Quest Productions. I moved back and forth from my home on the east coast to the Bay Area over the years. I went to Los Angeles for my college education in filmmaking [MFA, University of Southern California], then moved to NYC for work and relocated for the next thirty years to Berkeley, to work in film and lecture at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and San Francisco State University. Since I am back east, I now lecture occasionally at NYU and Columbia.

How did your military experience shape you into the arts, both dramatic and paint-ing?

I volunteered for the Navy to get out of the house. I was stationed on the west coast on the USS Arkansas. It was an old wooden deck ship, proba-bly the last one made. I was a Seaman First Class for sixteen months. From there I went to college.

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The Filmmaker and Painter

Bill Jersey’s newest film, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, made in collaboration with

Jason Cohen and narrated by James Franco, will debut in our town on Sunday, March 4 at UCSB’s Pollock Theater. The film took seven years to make, which Bill admits is sadly the usual pace for documentaries to accrue funding. The film is a re-visit of modernist design icons Charles and Ray Eames, a husband and wife artist team who initially became famous for their new design of a chair, through their works at their LA studio called “The Eamery.” For over forty years, Bill Jersey has been known for his provocative documentaries on network and public television.

As we chatted on the phone this week, Bill shared his views on film-making, and his journey there and back to painting, his first love.

Q. What or who inspired you to make the documentary?

A. A young friend of mine, Jason Cohen, who wanted to make his first long form documentary, brought the concept to me. I knew very little about Eames except the famous Eames chair that I came across back in the day only because my girlfriend at the time liked it. Jason felt the story had not been told well in a previous film about Eames. I interviewed Jason ten years ago in the Bay area. He writes really well and so I went with it. We have been working on it for over seven years, as it's hard to get money, espe-cially of substance, for a documentary. We have James Franco narrating the film, as PBS always wants celebri-

ties in its programs. The film will be shown on PBS American Masters.

Is there an aspect of that genre you are most interested in communicating to your audience?

Yes, you really have access to expe-rience people and things to the degree you wouldn’t normally have; that is, to arrive at worlds other than your own. Words are just a symbol of real-ity and so is film. Second-hand real-ity is film making. Any opportunity to understand another human being, another culture, even faces of the enemy, is worth celebrating. The idea of dealing with people in the most intimate, personal way is through making documentaries. Filmmaking appeals to me. I lucked out and was asked in 1962 to do a prime time show for NBC in New York City by Irving Gitlin. I made three documentaries for each season of the DuPont show. He trusted his own judgment; there are very few people like him in the world today.

How did you discover and decide to use cinéma vérité in your work? Do you find it successful for your expression?

I was in NYC working with pros that were working with lighter weight cameras and one could go anywhere with these cameras. When I started Quest, I bought a French handheld camera, and you don’t need a tripod, which is too restrictive and restrain-ing.

To capture the moment you have to be ready, rolling the tape. It's like the decisive moment one finds in the images of Henri Bresson.

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Filmmaker Bill Jersey’s first passion is painting. This piece, titled Amish Barn, shows his palette knife technique, and was purchased by the Gratz Gallery, Pennsylvania.

Documentary Filmmaker Bill Jersey on location


WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 23)

sweepstakes shoot was improvised, which the Santa Barbara team turned into a practical joke. Bayard Thayer stood poised to shoot when, instead of the expected dove, a chicken hawk shot out of the trap. So surprised was Thayer that he did not fire, and “the hawk got away in a chorus of shouts from the jokers, and the ladies pres-ent.”

The day after the final meeting of the Arlington Jockey Club, the Arlington gang began trickling northward to Hollister’s Rancho Santa Anita for the rodeo. That same month the Arlington Hotel was sold, and the Club would soon move into other quarters for their winter activities.

Out-of-Town and Townees

The out-of-towners who created the Arlington Jockey Club came from influential and well-to-do fam-ilies in San Francisco or the East. The two most influential members were Hermanus Barkulo Duryea and his brother Pierrepont Haliburton Duryea who together with their wid-owed mother Mary Peters Duryea

often wintered in Santa Barbara. Their father, H.B. Duryea, Sr. had been a leading lawyer and attor-ney general of New York. Herman Jr. was a member of the New York Yacht Club and an avid yachtsman. Later he became a devotee of horse racing and when the state of New York prohibited betting, moved his stables to Europe. Pierrepont, who suffered a long list of debilitating ail-ments, died in Santa Barbara in 1896. Initially interred in Santa Barbara Cemetery, Pierrepont’s remains were moved three years later to the first family mausoleum constructed on the cemetery grounds. Mary joined her son in 1900.

Locally, Walter Burton Cope, a lawyer and superior court judge in Santa Barbara who once hailed from San Francisco, was an early member. William Starbuck Macy of Massachusetts lived in Santa Barbara for a while and tried his hand at poultry farming. He married Anne B. Alexander in 1894 and lived at vari-ous addresses in Montecito, includ-ing Ashley and Mesa roads. William Norman Campbell of Vermont was a member by 1892. After his first

wife died, he moved to Santa Barbara permanently and married Rebecca Stoddard. I.G. Waterman of the Mira Vista estate in Santa Barbara, Sherman P. Stow of La Paterna Ranch, W.W. Hollister, son of the colonel and owner of Rancho Santa Anita, and Clinton Hale, who married a Hollister, were all avid local members of the club.

Club HouseAfter that first year, according to

Edward Selden Spaulding’s history of the Santa Barbara Club, the members of the Arlington Jockey Club rented a residence on Victoria Street for the winter and installed their equipment, including a well-stocked bar. It was all very informal and members poured their own drinks. At the end of the season, the members divided the total bill evenly.

Had she seen it, the Jockey Club’s ardent Rhode Island fan would have been less than impressed with the excitement on State Street caused by a saddle horse belonging to Herman Duryea. The Morning Press reported, “It seems the animal became fright-ened at the saddle turning on its back and began rolling on the pavement. In doing so the horse smashed and other-wise damaged the saddle which was a costly affair with silver mountings, and was rendered almost worthless.”

By 1892, the Club was hosting monthly receptions for the fairer sex. Their Rhode Island fan wrote of the clubhouse, “The rooms, are bright and sunny and made most comfort-able with heavy rugs and many deep divans piled high with cushions of the gayest colors. Fine engravings adorn the walls…. Wood fires burned mer-rily on the hearths, and big clusters

of roses filling the glass bowls and pitchers standing on the tables and mantel pieces gave out their delicious fragrance.”

She said the members wore yellow ribbons, the club color, in their but-tonholes, and an excellent salad and punch was provided as well as enter-tainment by a Spanish band whose “sweet singing to the accompaniment of guitars produced a deep impres-sion…”

A few weeks later, the Club gave a grand ball at the Amateur Musical Club hall on Anapamu Street. The hall was lushly decorated with clusters of oranges and leaves and palms, bam-boo, and other tropical plants. At the entrance to the parlor, yellow flowers formed the letters A.J.C. which hung above a magnificent floral horseshoe. Over a hundred invitations had been sent, and the cream of Santa Barbara Society attended.

Right about the same time, meet-ings were being held to form a young man’s social club for locals, which would also offer memberships to non-residents who had been promi-nently associated with Santa Barbara. They wanted a club that would be available all year round. At least 73 members were accepted immediately. They named themselves the Santa Barbara Club and rented a house on Figueroa Street. Following the lead of the Jockey Club, they promised to host receptions once a month. While many local members of the Arlington Jockey Club joined up initially, the Duryeas were conspicuous by their absence. The Arlington Jockey Club, however, continued to exist at least through 1894.

This one’s for J.J. Hollister who asked the question. •MJ

The circles on the 1898 Bird’s Eye View Map of Santa Barbara show two possible houses for the Clubhouse of the Arlington Jockey Club in 1894. Notice how convenient they were to two different sta-bles, one on Arlington Avenue (the street bisecting the block in front of the Arlington Hotel). The street with poles on it is State Street.

The Duryea Mausoleum was the first family vault in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Pierrepont Haliburton Duryea (1896) and his mother, Mary Peters Duryea (1900) are interred there. (Photo courtesy of author)

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1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets – Will Rogers

be an excellent documentary filmmak-er, the key is understanding yourself and understanding the world, so you can be ready with the camera rolling to capture the moment. My return to painting is where I am at right now. My inspiration is the landscapes of Vermont, Italy, Nova Scotia and California.

Sir Ken Robinson VisitsSponsored by the Orfalea

Foundation, Lynda.com and Mary and Gary Becker, Sir Ken Robinson came to our town to deliver two pre-sentations on his take of current state of educational programs in developed nations. As part of my coverage of his talks, I first met with Lois Mitchell, President of Orfalea Foundation. She shared that UCSB asked the Foundation if they would like to help sponsor the talks, since it is “commit-ted to improving and enriching early childcare, educational programs, and other community services.”

The Foundation has local education-al programs that use creative learning techniques with much success, such as the Outdoor Classroom and the ICAN (Incredible Children’s Art Network). The ICAN program serves 2,300 area

kids and its outcomes reported by the parents include increased self-confidence and self-esteem in their children because their kids got to create, experiment and enjoy art in a supportive environment.

In preparation for Sir Ken’s visit, the Foundation selected the SB Middle School’s Teen Press kids to make a video about these two programs and one more about the Middle School’s Diamond Time Program. The SBMS Teen Press is a group of youngsters that covers newsworthy events and reviews films and concerts in Santa Barbara and beyond. The videos were part of Lynda Weinman’s hosting and interviewing of Sir Ken at her Lynda.com “Café” on Tuesday, February 21.

At the Café, the program began with Lynda’s interview, noted to be refreshingly succinct. The following are excerpts from the interview.

Q. What could we be doing differently to foster creativity in public education?

A. Everything! The problem is systemic and ideological. Most cur-riculums are based on ten subjects. We need to change the perception of what and how we learn and the relationship between schools and the community.

What is your perception of online edu-cation?

Most people don’t know what their talents are. The current educational system isn’t designed to develop indi-vidual talent. Academic ability is con-fused with intellect. Online education provides an opportunity for individu-als to set their own programs. Good teachers always did that. If you are actively engaged you learn better. We need refined critical judgment, not more information.

Do you have any ideas for school to foster critical thinking?

Debating societies and practical tech-niques of improvisation and drama in the classroom and the Montessori School programs. Promote creativity with critical judgment.

Sir Ken commented that finding your passion changes everything. “To have an attitude that you deserve it,” he stated. He reacted with a seemingly passive approval on the Orfalea Foundation’s educational

outdoor and art programs, saying, “It’s not the program it's about the teaching. If you are a teacher, you are the educational program.” And later added, “If you cut art educa-tion from schools, you are giving kids something incomplete in their education. Educational systems are predicated on utility and are based on a false premise that one knows how one will turn out.”

His lecture at UCSB later that day was mostly rhetorically similar to the “Café” interview, only thinned out with anecdotal humor filling more than half the presentation. He did offer some “how to’s” to change education, such as person-alized learning, a range of classes to choose from, increased teacher-to-student relationships, and cre-ating a climate for learning and educational programs that link to the local community. Following his talk and a half hour Q&A, he signed copies of his books and met with the SB Middle School kids backstage for a photo op. •MJ

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Lois Mitchell, President of the Orfalea Foundation, presenting local educational programs to Sir Ken Robinson at Lynda.com headquarters with Lynda Weinman Co-Founder and Executive Chair

Sir Ken Robinson having fun with Santa Barbara Middle School Press kids backstage at UCSB Campbell Hall, after his long day of lectures in our town. Front row: Teen Press Reporters Sarina Wasserman, Oli Schultz, Alex Cheng, Dia Rabin. Back row: Teen Press Advisor John Seigel Boettner, Sir Ken Robinson, Teen Press Advisor David Teton-Landis (Photo by James Robinson)

James Franco, narrator for the film Eames: The Architect and the Painter, with film-maker Bill Jersey. The film will be screening on Sunday, March 4 at UCSB’s Pollock Theater.


trast between the two men was their approach to education. (Hey, this was your key point!) Washington felt that African-American schools should limit themselves to industrial education top-ics like agricultural and mechanical skills; Du Bois felt that black schools should also offer a liberal arts curricu-lum (including the classics, arts, and humanities), because liberal arts were required to develop a leadership elite. Sounds like you’re backing the wrong fella. Unless you’re suggesting black folks stay out of boardrooms and the-atre halls… (Ouch, but I just couldn’t resist).

In 1961, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1950 McCarran Act, (a key piece of McCarthyism), Du Bois did in fact join the Communist party… at 93 years of age and to sim-ply demonstrate his outrage at the Court’s ruling. That same year, Du Bois was invited by the first African governor of the Republic of Ghana to manage and collaborate on the encyclopedia project, Encyclopedia Africana. It was in 1963 at the age of 95 that Du Bois renounced his U.S. citizenship as a responding symbolic gesture to the United States for its refusal to renew his passport. He became a citizen of Ghana. He died that same year. Hardly the anti-American image you paint.

Okay, enough of histories… I fur-ther take exception with your lump-ing Obama in with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who are, in my own words… knuckleheads). No father figure and now first black President deserves better from you; whether you agree with his politics or not. There are few of us (especially resid-ing in America’s Riviera) who has overcome his life’s hurdles. Politics or not, he embodies hard work, edu-cation and perseverance. He is the poster child of your entire argument. But because you disagree with his politics you belittle the man; despite your suggesting you would honor any man who worked hard and cre-ated success. I guess you only honor those who agree with your politics.

You’re entitled to your views and I respect that and them. But the, “I got mine, now you go out and get yours” sentiment of yours saddens me. Whether inherited or earned, I want you to enjoy yours. However, I hope you never lose it and are in need of assistance. For then you will understand the effects of your senti-ment and systematic economic bias.

Handouts aren’t the solution, but neither is “get your own.” None of us knows the exact and best solu-tion. But I can say that no matter what the final solution is, no matter when the final solution is discovered, the first step is compassion. With compassion, we all might be willing to give a little, so that those willing

to accept help can feel empowered to get their own. To your defense, you did exhibit some compassion by expressing concern on the issue. Hopefully, I have convinced you (and others) to express more.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Jr.

(just kidding)Santa Barbara(Chuck Stersic responds: Dear Bill Du

Bois Jr. (just kidding),Thank you for your thoughtful and

articulate reply to my letter. You are obvi-ously much younger than me. When I was in school, no one had a computer. They hadn’t yet been developed by “American Free Enterprise.” One of the few advan-tages of old age is the ability to experi-ence what “works” and what doesn’t work. Please allow me to suggest for your consideration a not so famous quote: “It ain’t so much the things you don’t know that get you in trouble. It’s the things you know that just ain’t so.” – [Artimus Ward, 1834-1867]. Is it possible that what you learned about U.S. history just ain’t so?

I suspect that the major conflict in our opinions is the same as that between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: individualism and personal freedom vs. collectivism. Or to be more specific, “Is the concept provided by our Founding Fathers, (and all human history), of indi-vidual’s control over their own lives by severely limiting government’s power over them more in accord with man’s basic nature, or should we be seduced into believing that demagogues in government are capable of making our personal deci-sions “for our own good” is best and only they can make things “fair?”

The real history of individual freedom and competitive free markets is that it consistently produces the highest qual-ity and innovation while providing the lowest price. The very largest business is never free from the challenge of a small person with a better idea. Government’s only legitimate, constitutional power is to prevent illegal force from distorting that free market. Each individual votes with his own purchases. Whenever, wherever and to the degree it is applied, the depend-able result is progress, prosperity and an increase in the standard of living for everyone.

George Washington said, “Government is not eloquence. It is not reason. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote, “Our leaders will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legiti-mate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence, their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintain-ing peace, by defending property and by observing strict economy in every depart-ment of state. Let government do this; the

people will assuredly do the rest.” It should not go without notice that the

unprecedented prosperity resulting from American Free Enterprise and its natural reward of virtue has produced by far the most freely charitable society in all human history.

You speak of the impoverished nations of the world where “after centuries of systematic establishment, there are no jobs.” There is also, not by accident, no free enterprise there. No one has oppor-tunity except government officials. One example is the once free and prosperous Rhodesia, which has become the now impoverished Marxist Zimbabwe.

Your hero, W.E.B. Du Bois was an original founder of the NAACP, but split from them because they weren’t radical enough. He wrote the book “A Marxist Interpretation of the Post-Civil War Era.” He won the Soviet Lenin Peace Prize, officially joined the Communist Party, renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Ghana. Is Marxism – a concept that killed and enslaved millions – okay with you? Except being a “community organizer,” a questionable occupation, Du Bois, like Obama, never really held a productive job nor produced anything of value for society. Both only wanted to socialize America. Obama is succeeding.

Booker T. Washington Said this in 1911: “I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

My suggestion, for whatever it’s worth, would be to question your liberal professors’ rhetoric, study for yourself the Declaration, Constitution, Federalist papers, learn to love America’s system, take the opportunities still remaining and build something worthwhile of your life. Or, find someplace you think is bet-ter, go there and make it better. But stop the blind hate for America. – Chuck Stersic)

A Healthy, Happy Horse

I wanted to share these photos of Lazarus with you so that you can see what your support has helped us accomplish. The first photo is of Lazarus when Heart of a Horse Foundation rescued him from starva-tion last September. The other is of Lazarus today. We are now planning to train him as a therapeutic horse for children and a symbol of rescue.

April HorowitzHeart of a Horse Foundation(Editor’s note: Montecito Journal

fully supports the work of Heart of a Horse Foundation. Anyone interested in adding support is urged to visit the website www.heartofahorse.org for more information. – TLB)

Isn’t It Ironic?The food stamp program (now

called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), part of the Department of Agriculture) is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever (46 mil-lion people).

Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “Please Do Not Feed the Animals,” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.

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Avoid Foreign Entanglements

Before he left office, George Washington cautioned Congress to avoid foreign entanglements.

Did Congress ever follow that advice? Let’s see: Apart from sev-eral forays into Latin America, we can add World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and this absurd continu-ous obsession with Israel.

Sorry, George; you must be turning in your grave.

Robert T. BradleySanta Barbara •MJ

Lazarus, as he looked when first rescued by April Horowitz’s Heart of a Horse Foundation

Lazarus today

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1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 39If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics – Will Rogers

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1st Thursday – Globetrotting is a very loose theme for the final 1st Thursday of winter, as galleries and other spaces exhibit art and culture reminding us that it is a small world after all. Visit Ireland via The Book Den, for example, where Russ Doherty, who performs regularly on Thursday evenings at the James Joyce with the band Dannsair, will sign and discuss his book, The Quiet Man Fiddles: Musical Journeys in Ireland. Paintings of the “Nile and Beyond” by Lockwood de Forest grace the walls at Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery as part of its “Search for the Source” exhibit. Head to The Press Room on East Ortega to check out Montecito Journal’s own Trent Watanabe’s artwork while DJ Murj spins before and after local band the Wools plays. A special trunk show at Encanto in La Arcada Court features hand blocked textiles from India, Turkey and Morocco, while Jane Deering Gallery hosts Gina Werfel’s large abstractions of landscapes in California, Italy and France. Brooks Institute’s Gallery 27 exhibits photographer Nick Brandt’s “On This Earth, A Shadow Falls,” the latest work from the founder of the Big Life Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of East Africa’s wildlife and ecosystems. Of course, Santa Barbara and other California environs show up in lots of our local artwork, too, and this month is no exception. Channing Peake Gallery hosts Allan Hancock College film/video instructors Michele Simonsen and Tim

Webb, who explore the beauty of light flowing through water in the Trinity River in Northern California. Five local painters who celebrate living on the American Riviera make up the exhibit “American Riviera: Paintings of the Local Landscape,” showing, aptly, at American Riviera Bank. Sage, an Andy Warhol-inspired urban artist now based in Santa Barbara, exhibits his current work of hand cut and carved stencils, mixed media, acrylics and more at Plum Goods, while CASA’s gallery features Kate Yarbrough’s oil-on-canvas works that capture the color and light of the Central Coast. It’s a broad stage on the performance arts front this month, too, as opportunities range from Panzuma proffering West African Drum & Dance, Bollywood, Djun Djun Mamas, Kododun (Taiko) drumming and more on the Marshall’s patio; to award winning songwriter Vic Moraga playing an array of world music styles at State & Anapamu; to jazzers Chris Judge (guitar), James Connolly (bass) and Christy Martin (vocals) at Encanto; to generations-spanning rock ‘n’ roll from Bad Jack & the Blue Suns at Paseo Nuevo Court. Be sure to check out CAF, which always offers intriguing performance art, this month featuring “Happy Foot, Sad Foot,” from New York-based artist Sarah Paul Ocampo, whose theater-music-film piece was inspired by her five years of living in LA without a car. Finally, El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park presents “Presidio Pastimes by Candelight,” its first-ever evening event, which offers candlelight tours of

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 this 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 prior to publication. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to [email protected] and/or [email protected]

by Steven Libowitz

saturday, MarCh 3

Masterworks at San Roque – The second installment in the Santa Barbara Chorale Society’s new series at the acoustically and visually stunning San Roque Church features an ambitious program combining a much-loved classic with a West Coast premiere. The 100-voice Choral

Society and orchestra, with special guests the Westmont College Choir, perform Maurice Duruflé’s ethereal Requiem before presenting the local debut of American composer Rollo Dilworth’s fascinating work, “The Rain Sequence.” Dilworth, Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at the North Park University School of Music in Chicago who has written several books on choral instruction for elementary and secondary school choirs, composed three movements for the piece “In Time of Silver Rain,” based on a Langston Hughes poem of the same title; “When Storms Arise,” taken from the first line of a poem entitled “Hymn” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with the famous hymn “Amazing Grace” serving as a motivic thread; and “Didn’t It Rain,” based on the traditional African American spiritual depicting the story of Noah and the flood. The audience gets the rare opportunity to participate in the movement’s gospel-style by making percussive rain sounds during the two-measure breaks of the closing section. WHEN: 8pm Saturday, 3pm Sunday WHERE: San Roque Catholic Church, 3200 Calle Cedro COST: $25 general, $20 students & seniors or advance purchase general INFO: 965-6577 or www.sbchoral.org

MONday, MarCh 5

Duck, duck loose – When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers and read up on Arctic science and geography. But he found that one question led to another, and his quest took on the characteristics of an ocean current, carrying him away on a much deeper journey. The resulting book, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists,

and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, became a bestseller and critical favorite in 2011, as Hohn’s accidental odyssey jumped off from the 1992 spill of a Taiwanese cargo ship containing thousands of floating bath toys to touch on issues from plastics pollution and global manufacturing to oceanography and literary history in a narrative filled with humor and inquisitive drive. “Moby-Duck” is this year’s book for UCSB-Santa Barbara Reads, which brings together the campus and community over a single book and a theme – this year it’s “Making an Impact. What’s Yours?” The program culminates with Hohn’s public talk on Monday. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

the facility and demonstrations of soldiers cleaning their muskets, the comandante addressing officials, and music and dances of early California. WHEN: 5-8pm WHERE: Up and down lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com

saturday, MarCh 3

‘Configuration’ reconfigures – After three years of selling out four shows on a single weekend, Santa Barbara Dance Arts & Arts Mentorship Program, from directors Steven Lovelace and Alana Tillim, has expanded the time frame for its annual dance concert to five events over two weekends for its 14th show. Configuration showcases repertory from the pre-professional companies comprised of dancers ages 10-18 who train weekly in jazz and ballet, participate in weekly rehearsals, and sign contracts just like a working dance company. The show includes original works by professional choreographers and six student works covering jazz, contemporary and hip hop styles that are up for the annual Student Choreography Award. This year’s student choreography includes an anthropomorphic look at birds from Aryanna Aronson (age 16), Emily Stokes (15), and Maddy Rotman (13), who transform themselves into majestic winged creatures. Senior choreographer Hayley Kay (17) has set a powerful, tribal number that she says is “like Lord of the Flies with girls.” New choreographer Larry Daniels, a recent graduate of UCSB, set a poignant piece on the Axis Dance Company that tackles the topic of bullying, juxtaposes anger, sorrow, and healing. Other highlights include a high-

energy tribute to Madonna. WHEN: 7pm Saturday, 2pm Sunday, 7pm March 9, and 2 & 7pm March 10 WHERE: Center Stage Theater, upstairs in Paseo Nuevo mall COST: $17 general, $10 students (matinees only) ($50 VIP patrons) INFO: 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org or www.sbdancearts.com

Zoo tunes – Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals is an obvious choice for the first-ever all-ages concert at the Santa Barbara Zoo, featuring musicians from the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, Junior Strings and Strings Workshop. The youths aged 12-20 (and even younger in the Strings Workshop) will also play Lalo Schifrin’s score of Mission Impossible, Sibelius’ Finlandia, and many other works. This is the only concert of the year where all three Youth Symphony Program participants will perform together on one stage. Following the concert, attendees can try out instruments used in the performance at the “Instrument Petting Zoo,” which will be hosted by the Santa Barbara Symphony’s Music Van. And you can check out the sounds and all the other habits of the zoo’s non-human inhabitants both before and after the concert. WHEN: 2pm WHERE: 500 Ninos Drive COST: free with regular zoo admission ($14 general, $10 children 2-12 and seniors 65-plus) INFO: 962-5339 or www.sbzoo.org or 898-9386 or www.thesymphony.org

MONday, MarCh 5

25 years, plus a millennium – The female a cappella quartet Anonymous 4 celebrate a quarter-century together with a special “Anthology 25” retrospective concert, with the program consisting

1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock – Will Rogers

tuEsday, MarCh 6

‘Ultimate thinking machine’ – That’s what Forbes magazine dubbed Raymond Kurzweil, the inveterate inventor whose creations include the Kurzweil music synthesizer and the flat-bed scanner. The man who came up with the cell-phone favorite text-to-speech technology is also a visionary futurist with a remarkable 25-year track record of accurate predictions. No less an authority than Bill Gates claims Kurzweil is “the best in the world at predicting the future.” Kurzweil has written four national best-selling books, including The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology and The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed

Human Intelligence. His work has earned him the prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest U.S. award in invention and innovation; the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest technology honor; 19 honorary doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil will discuss “Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies” in a lecture as part of Arts & Lectures’ Innovation Matters series. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 general, $10 youths 18 and under INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

tuEsday, MarCh 6

Jump in – Why just watch another dance performance when you could actually dance on stage instead? DANCEworks 2012 is putting out an open to anyone in the community who would like to learn a group dance choreographed by Brian Brooks, the 2012 choreographer-in-residence during the month of March who will create the new work on the stage of the Lobero. Not only don’t you have to have any experience, you don’t even have to audition. Just show up

to meet Brian and begin work, as long as you can make the rehearsal schedule. The dance will be performed March 30-31 alongside the Brian Brooks Dance Company’s new work, “Big City,” which the choreographer is creating for his seven dancers and featuring an architectural set design that is built as the dance unfolds – boldly spilling off the stage and throughout the theater, playfully shifting the audience’s experience. Get all the details, schedule and residency events online at SBDANCEworks.com. WHEN: Open call 6-8pm Tuesday WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: free INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

of works from each of their harmonia mundi CD releases. The quartet has won praise since first forming in 1992 for an ability to combine musical, literary and historical scholarship with contemporary performance intuition. Renowned for a virtuousic vocal blend that has been described as unearthly, the four women will offer a riveting selection of medieval, Renaissance and traditional music, plus their interpretations of some contemporary composers, the heartfelt laments, plainchants and sacred songs ranging from their very first recorded song, the prosa Gaude Virgo Salutata (An English Ladymass) to a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang. Kudos to CAMA Masterseries for getting Santa Barbara a date on the tour. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $33 & $43 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

WEdNEsday, MarCh 7

Before the talkies – It’s a good bet that the folks who put together England’s National Theatre Live events had no idea

that The Artist and Hugo – two current films that look back on the early days of film – would enchant the world not to mention sweep up nine Academy Awards between them last weekend. More likely it’s simply good timing that Travelling Light, a similar love letter to the movies focusing on the Jewish folk culture that formed the basis of American cinema, screens at the Lobero tonight as part of the NTL’s Hi-Def transmissions of new theatrical works. Nicholas Wright’s play tells the story of the fictional Motl Mendl, now a famous American film director, recounting how he was entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph 40 years earlier and set about to create his own moving picture dreams. Directed by NTL’s ubiquitous Nicholas Hytner and featuring award-winning actor Antony Sher, Travelling Light has received raves as a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $18 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com or 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu •MJ

is why McDonald is so apropos for this benefit as his song of that title marked his first effort as lead vocal-ist with the Doobie Brothers after a stint in Steely Dan. That collabo-ration also yielded “It Keeps You Runnin’,” “Minute by Minute” and “What a Fool Believes” (co-writ-ten with Montecito’s own Kenny Loggins before McDonald left for a solo career, where such songs as “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near),” “You Belong to Me” (co-written with Carly Simon) and “On My Own”, a duet with Patti LaBelle. Tickets for the 7:30pm event cost $50-$100 depending on seat location; $250 VIP tickets include a meet-and-greet with McDonald in the Lobero courtyard.

Michael McDonald is likely not one of the pop music legends to be revisited the night before at the Lobero, when Hale Milgrim pres-ents “Go To Hale: Quips & Clips, Vol. III (Even Deeper into the Vaults).” As the name suggest, Milgrim – the retired former president of Capitol Records who got his start at a record store in I.V. and now has a Sunday morning show on 99.9FM KTYD – is digging deep into his personal col-lection of rare live concert footage dating from the 1960s to current times. The visual musical journey features the thoroughly personable Milgrim’s always fascinating and insightful commentary and illumina-tion straight from behind the scenes.

Expect clips from Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Wilco, Crowded House, Richard and Linda Thompson, the Rolling Stone, Paul Simon, and many others, plus a few surprises. Admission is free, reservations are required.

Elsewhere, banjoist Jayme Stone, who plays an early show at SOhO on Thursday, isn’t a house-hold name in the U.S., but he’s won two Juno Awards (Canada’s equivalent to the Grammy) up north… Later that night SOhO hosts Delta Rae, a North Carolina band whose four-part harmo-nies (three siblings plus a friend) have been described as Mumford & Sons meets Fleetwood Mac. Santa Barbara via the Mississippi Delta blues man Rusty Lindsey opens…

Bay Area blues sing-er-songwri ter-gui tar i s t Teresa Tudury, who adds a little Bette Midler sass to her Bonnie Raitt-style grit, headlines the next Cambridge Drive Concert

Series show on Friday, with the local singer-songwriter couple Mark Alciati and Sherie Davis opening… Friday also marks the return of a the flamboyant folk, alt.psych-acoustic band He’s My Brother She’s My Sister to SOhO just in advance of the release of a long-awaited soph-omore CD… Quick & Easy Boys, the latest visitors from Portland, bring their funk, psychedelic rock, and garage-soul as evidenced on their 2nd album Red Light Rabbit to Whiskey Richards on Saturday, which is also when the hip hop artist known as Immortal Technique – he of the 500,000-plus downloads of his mix tape – performs at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, and English new wave-ska band English Beat return to SOhO…

On Sunday, SOhO hosts the Santa Barbara Jazz Society’s monthly con-cert, featuring Kristin Korb, a bass-ist-vocalist who got her start study-ing with the legendary Ray Brown, who lent her his band for her debut CD. Pianist-singer John Proulx and drummer-singer Dave Tull round out the trio for today’s show… That night, Midwest-bred singer-songwrit-er Alice Peacock returns to the club, this time as part of a duo project with fellow Nashville-based trouba-dour Danny Myrick. The Minnesota minister’s daughter and Mississippi preacher’s son found a deep chemis-try while collaborating on Peacock’s 2009 solo album, Love Remains. •MJ

ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 29)

He’s My Brother She’s My Sister returns to SOhO on Friday, March 2 before its sophomore album release as part of its “Road to SXSW Tour”


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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 Span-ish 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)Montecito’s only Chinese restaurant, here you’ll find large portions and modern décor. Take out available. (Montecito Journal staff is especially fond of the Cashew Chicken!) China Palace also has an outdoor patio. Open seven days 11:30 am to 9:30 pm.

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

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M O N T E C I T O E AT E R I E S . . . A G u i d e include fish and vegetarian dishes, and fresh flatbreads straight out of the wood-burning oven. The Bistro offers local wines, classic and specialty cocktails, single malt scotches and aged cognacs.

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

Peabody’s $1198 Coast Village Road (969-0834)

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 fireplace. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extend-ing until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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 pack-inghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a lounge with full bar service and separate dining room with crackling fireplace and creekside views. Chef Jamie West’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. Scoopie also offers a full coffee menu featuring Santa Barbara Roast-ing Company coffee. Offerings are made from fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farmers’ Market, and waffle cones are made on site everyday.

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

Montecito Deli1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717)Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm. (Closed Sunday) This eatery serves home-made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its specialty, The Piadina, a homemade flat bread made daily. Owner Jeff Rypysc and staff deliver locally and cater office parties, luncheons or movie shoots. Also serving breakfast (7am to 11 am), and brewing Peet’s coffee & tea.

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

The Barbecue Company $$3807 Santa Claus Lane (684-2209)

Cantwell’s Summerland Market $2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5894)

Corktree Cellars $$910 Linden Avenue (684-1400)Corktree offers a casual bistro setting for lunch and dinner, in addition to wine tasting and tapas. The restaurant, open everyday except Monday, features art from locals, mellow music and a relaxed atmo-sphere. An extensive wine list features over 110 bottles of local and international wines, which are also available in the eatery's retail section.

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, salads, pastas and more. Jacks offers an ex-tensive espresso and coffee bar menu, along with wine and beer. They also offer full ser-vice catering, and can accommodate wedding receptions to corporate events. Open Monday through Friday 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 op-tions, 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

Andersen’s Danish Bakery &Gourmet Restaurant $1106 State State Street (962-5085)Established in 1976, Andersen’s serves Danish and European cuisine including breakfast, lunch & dinner. Authentic Danishes, Apple Strudels, Marzipans, desserts & much more. Dine inside surrounded by European interior or outside on the sidewalk patio. Open 8 am to 9 pm Monday through Friday, 8 am to 10 pm Saturday and Sunday.

Bistro Eleven Eleven $$1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the bistro serves breakfast and lunch featur-ing all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of traditional 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.

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.

El Paseo $$813 Anacapa Street (962-6050)Located in the heart of downtown Santa Bar-bara in a Mexican plaza setting, El Paseo is the place for authentic Mexican specialties, home-

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. . . E AT E R I E Smade chips and salsa, and a cold margarita while mariachis stroll through the historic restaurant. The décor reflects its rich Spanish heritage, with bougainvillea-draped balconies, fountain courtyard dining and a festive bar. Dinner specials are offered during the week, with a brunch on Sundays. Open Tuesday through Thursday 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, and Sunday 10:30 am to 9 pm.

Enterprise Fish Co. $$225 State Street (962-3313)Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lob-sters 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.

The Harbor Restaurant $$210 Stearns Wharf (963-3311)Enjoy ocean views at the historic Harbor Restaurant on Stearns Wharf. Featuring prime steaks and seafood, a wine list that has earned Wine Spectator Magazine’s Award of Excel-lence for the past six years and a full cocktail bar. Lunch is served 11:30 am to 2:30 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am to 3 pm Saturday and Sunday. Dinner is served 5:30 pm to 10 pm, early dinner available Saturday and Sunday starting at 3 pm.

Los Agaves $600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, us-ing 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 in-gredients, 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.Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Here the focus is on artisanal pizzas and antipasti, with classic toppings like fresh moz-zarella, seafood, black truffles, and sausage. Salads, innovative appetizers and an assort-ment of salumi and formaggi round out the menu at this casual, fast-paced eatery. Private

dining for up to 32 guests. Both the ristorante and the pizzeria are open for lunch Monday thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a week (from 5 pm).

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

Renaud’s $ 3315 State Street (569-2400) Located in Loreto Plaza, Renaud’s is a bakery specializing in a wide selection of French pastries. The breakfast and lunch menu is composed of egg dishes, sandwiches and salads and represents Renaud’s personal favorites. Brewed coffees and teas are organic. Open Monday-Saturday 7 am to 5 pm, Sunday 7 am to 3 pm.

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, halibut, 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.

Ojai

Maravilla $$$905 Country Club Road in Ojai (646-1111)Located at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, this upscale eatery features prime steaks, chops and fresh seafood. Local farmers provide fresh produce right off the vine, while herbs are har-vested from the Inn’s herb garden. The menu includes savory favorites like pan seared diver scallops and braised beef short ribs; dishes are accented with seasonal vegetables. Open Sun-day through Thursday for dinner from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Friday and Saturday from 5:30 pm to 10 pm. •MJ

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6:40 7:50 9:00 10:10Playing on 2 Screens

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JOURNEY 2: (PG)THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

in 2D: 1:20 6:50 9:15in 3D: 4:00

ACT OF VALOR (R)1:40 4:40 7:20 9:55

THE VOW (PG-13)1:50 4:30 7:00 9:30

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

ARLINGTON

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Winner of 5 Academy AwardsHUGO (PG) in 3D1:30 4:30

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Sequel toPHANTOM OF THE OPERA


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Winner of 5 Academy Awardsincluding BEST PICTURE!

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BULLHEAD (R) Daily - 5:00

Academy Award Winner!THE DESCENDANTS (R)

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DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (PG)in 3D & 2D at both: Fiesta 5 & Fairview

PROJECT X (R) Metro 4 Camino Real

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R)Plaza De Oro

Wednesday, March 7 - 7:30 pm - in HD at METRO 4Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIESThe Sequel to ‘PHANTOM OF THE OPERA’

Thursday Night - MIDNIGHT - March 22nd - ON SALE!THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13)

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PROJECT X (R)12:50 2:00 3:10 4:20 5:30

6:40 7:50 9:00 10:10Playing on 2 Screens

SAFE HOUSE (R)1:10 4:10 7:10 9:45

JOURNEY 2: (PG)THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

in 2D: 1:20 6:50 9:15in 3D: 4:00

ACT OF VALOR (R)1:40 4:40 7:20 9:55

THE VOW (PG-13)1:50 4:30 7:00 9:30

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

ARLINGTON

1317 State Street - 963-4408

Metropolitan Theatres


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Academy Award Winner!Best Foreign Language FilmA SEPARATION (PG-13)Fri & Mon-Thu - 4:45 7:45Sat/Sun - 1:45 4:45 7:45

Winner of 5 Academy AwardsHUGO (PG) in 3D1:30 4:30

PINA (PG) in 3D: 7:30

PROJECT X (R)Fri/Sat - 1:45 4:40 7:10 9:45Sun - 1:45 4:40 7:10Mon-Thu - 2:35 5:15 7:50

ACT OF VALOR (R)Fri/Sat - 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:35Sun - 1:30 4:15 7:00Mon-Thu - 2:25 5:00 7:40

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JOURNEY 2: (PG)THE MYSTERIOUS ISLANDin 2D: Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:50

Mon-Thu - 3:00 5:30

Wednesday, March 7 - 7:30 pmLOVE NEVER DIES

Sequel toPHANTOM OF THE OPERA


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Winner of 5 Academy Awardsincluding BEST PICTURE!

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Winner of 2 Academy AwardsBest Actress - Meryl StreepTHE IRON LADY (PG-13)Daily - 2:00 4:30

THE VOW (PG-13)Fri/Sat - 1:30 4:10 6:50 9:20Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:50Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:00 7:30

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METRO 4Features Stadium Seating

225 N. Fairview - Goleta

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Michelle WilliamsMY WEEK WITH MARILYN

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Academy Award Winner!THE DESCENDANTS (R)

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Montecito HeatReal Estate View by Michael Phillips

Michael is the owner-broker of Phillips Real Estate, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and [email protected]

The Montecito Heat Index measures present demand for Montecito single-family

homes and provides the answer to the question, “How is the Montecito market doing today?”

More precisely, the Heat Index cal-culates homes presently under contract (pending) as compared to the number of homes available for purchase (listed) in six price sectors. And since demand is highly seasonal, today’s Heat is compared to this date a year ago. The result informs us as to present market strength, and as opposed to sold data, trailing by at least a month or more, the Index provides leading data that illustrates both present buyer focus and predicts future sales numbers. All data is from the Santa Barbara MLS and, although not guaranteed, is uniformly deemed reliable.

Under $1m Sector Leads

In June 2007, when the Heat Index first appeared here, price sector measurement began at $1m simply because there just weren’t houses for sale below that number or at least not enough to measure. Today this sec-tor is now as populated as the $4-5m

sector and requires independent mea-surement. Not surprisingly, our new “low end” scored extremely high with a robust score of 44, surpassing our overwhelming favorite of the last few years, the $1-2m sector. All are short sales and thus the asking price is less than the mortgage obligation and may or may not be below market value.

The $1-2m Group Continues to Attract

The $1-2m sector scored a 17, out-performing last year’s score of 8 with demand evenly spread throughout the group. About 10% of these homes are bank-involved sales. Strong first time buyers, investors and folks with young families with an interest in Montecito elementary schools contin-ue to find value in this sector.

Mid Market $2-3m and $3-4m Sectors Underperform

There were 42 properties competing in the $2-3m sector last year; today there are only 27, and yet despite con-siderably less completion, this group registered a 4 compared to last year’s 5. The $3-4m group found no interest at all in spite of a varied selection of significant properties.

$4-5m Group Breaks Out

This is a surprise. For many, this sector is where the Montecito market begins to self identify – long gated driveways, guest houses, swimming pools, large rooms and views of the mountains and/or islands. And in spite of estate quality and the lowest inventory of the price sectors, it has been the least in demand for over four years now. More often than not it has scored a zero – no one has wanted these homes for a long while. Today it is different. This group is hot. With a score of 65, it is easily our most in demand group. There were no dis-tressed sales here and all interest is in the higher end of the sector.

High-End Buyers Gain Confidence

The high-end, $5m plus group continues to attempt to attract and with a score of 8 nicely outperformed last year. Activity in this sector is welcomed and when looked at in

conjunction with the $4-5m market, we are perhaps seeing some long awaited buyer confidence in our estate markets. A large redone Cliff May designed estate on over 4 acres on East Mountain near San Ysidro Ranch with an asking price of $19m was among those chosen. Still available in this sec-tor, among over 60

others, is the highest priced estate in Montecito, a 1929 Reginald Johnson on five acres on Tollis near Buena Vista with an asking price of $29.5m.

Sales and Prices Trending Higher

Since the first of the year, the num-bers of sales in Montecito are up a striking 75% over last year. However, and in spite of some demand for the high end today, our median sales price continues to erode. It is now $1.738m, down 14% from last year. On this date in ‘08, the median price was $3.557m.

The Chief economist for the California Association of Realtors believes the 2012 housing market will be better but not really great or even good for most Californians. The prob-lem is that a full 30% of California homeowners are underwater or owe more than their home is worth, cre-ating a de facto “squatters econo-my” where foreclosure is ever lurk-ing. Although she believes the worst is most likely over (unless Europe implodes and/or Iran explodes), it will take years for California to return to, if not the good old days, a more stable, healthy market. So in spite of both housing and financing on sale at unprecedented levels, it will take years for the California market to fully correct. In the meantime, we are see-ing strong improvement and should buyers continue to come forward and should banks actually decide to make loans again, our return will be much sooner. •MJ

This circa-1929, 9-bedroom, 8-bath-room Reginald Johnson estate on Tollis Avenue is on the market for $29.5m, making it the highest priced estate in Montecito currently

1 – 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasure with nothing, and that was the closes our country has ever been to being even – Will Rogers

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