The Transcendent Man

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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 40 MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 42
The TranscendenT Man
REAL ESTATE VIEW P.44
93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY P.45
Matt Middlebrook,
Caruso Affiliated
(full story on page 6)
Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated
(full story on page 6)
Inventor and visionary
Ray Kurzweil, who predicts
man will merge with
machine sooner than we
think, to speak at UCSB
(interview on page 26)
David Schaeman one of ten
finalists in Teen Star Santa
Barbara contest, p. 6
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Te Journal takes a look back at the long and winding history of the new Miramar
6 Montecito Miscellany
Robert Eringers legal woes with Prince Albert of Monaco continue; S.B. Teen Star fnalist;
Sports Drive success; Nancy Gifords home featured; SBMA exhibit; birthday celebration at
Caf Del Sol; Mike Towbes honored; Te Secret Garden debuts; Oprahs Manhattan penthouse
for sale; Julia Fischer shines at UCSB; S.B. Chamber Orchestra concert; Yuri Schefe\rs 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 Tanksgiving; Summer For Kids activity
day; Anthony Curatolo art exhibit; Jass Club event; MBAR meets; Board of Supervisors
meeting; Story Teater; Chancellors Community Breakfast; MUS food drive; MERRAG
meeting; Gutsy Gals honors Kathy Ireland; events coming up and ongoing
Tide Guide
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12 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 Afair to Remember; Maritime Museum celebrates the
bicentennial of Old Ironsides; Sally Bedell Smith signs latest book
20 Sheriffs Blotter
Residential burglaries; parolee found with methamphetamine
21 Coming & Going
Maritime Museum celebrates ten years; Howard School turns 100
23 The Way It Was
Ms Beresford delves into the history of the Arlington Jockey Club
26 Conversations
Te Ultimate Tinking Machine Ray Kurzweil answers questions ranging from intelligent
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27 n.o.t.e.s. from downtown
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28 On Entertainment
Lila Rose Kaplans Entangled premieres at UCSB; Quebe sisters grace the stage at Campbell
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30 Notes From Napa
Te Mazzas new adventure is underway, and Matt must fgure out how to balance wine and
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32 Summerland by the Sea
Caf Luna now serves dinner; Summerland updates
34 Your Westmont
Lady Warriors win GSAC championship; Marianne Robins speaks on Christian rescuers
during Holocaust
35 Our Town
Bill Jerseys new flm debuting at UCSB; Sir Ken Robinsons visit
40 Calendar of Events
1st Tursday; SB Chorale Society series; SB Dance Arts & Arts Mentorship Program; all-
ages Zoo concert; Anonymous 4; Donovan Hohn speaks; Raymond Kurzweil visits UCSB;
DANCEworks 2012 class; Travelling Light screening
42 Guide to Montecito Eateries
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restaurants, cofee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in Santa Barbara,
Summerland, and Carpinteria too
43 Movie Showtimes
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44 Real Estate View
Te Heat Index is improving, with the under $1m sector leading and the $4-5m sector in high
demand
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46 Classifed Advertising
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lose your eyes. Imagine
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
Thats 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, didnt 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: Montecitos 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 Tys 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 Tys 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. Hes 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, hell
take down the rotting buildings and clear the property of all debris. Hell
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 well 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: lets allow Caruso to get on
with this. MJ
Editorial
by James Buckley
The Miramar as it once was
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doesnt have enough bad
publicity with the latest news
of his 24-year-old nephew, Prince
Pierre Casiraghi son of his sister,
Princess Caroline , being involved in
an unseemly New York barroom brawl,
breaking his jaw.
Now comes more news from
Montecito writer Robert Eringer, who
seems to be in an interminable battle
royal with His Serene Highness over
$540,000 in back pay and severance as
53-year-old Alberts spymaster for five
years.
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.
The brief, filed by Roberts Santa
Barbara legal eagle, Brigham Ricks,
claims the trial court erred in finding
the commercial activity exception was
not applicable, consequently dismiss-
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under Americas Foreign Sovereign
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Miscellany
by Richard Mineards
Richard covered the Royal Family for Britains Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York
to write for Rupert Murdochs newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York
magazines 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
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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-
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major thorn in the side of Albert, and is
described as a shakedown artist by
the Palace in Monte Carlo.
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silence last fall in an interview with
Monaco Hebdo magazine, painting his
antagonist as a bitter person who
spews his venom and resentments on
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with imprisonment for using his
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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.
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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...
David Goes for Gold
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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
mayors proposals and I have no issue
with that. What I do have an issue with
is the inaccurate comments made about
our public safety benefts 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 citys
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.
Hotchkisss comments. I thank you for
your time and consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
Eric Beecher
President
Santa Barbara Police Officers
Association
(Editors 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 years
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. Well 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
Clintons formal apology on Congresss
behalf in 1993 to express American
regrets to the defunct Kingdom of
Hawaiis 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 Clintons famil-
iar assurance that he felt the late Queen
Liliuokalanis 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 Afghanistans 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. MacKinnon
Montecito
Burn Them Down
Why not let Montecito firefighters
burn down the old Miramar build-
ings for training purposes? Other fire
departments do this. Montecito fire-
fighters get useful training; Montecito
gets rid of an eyesore; homeless peo-
ple move on; Caruso saves money.
Win-win-win-win.
Calvin Marble
Montecito
(Editors note: We love your idea. Have
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)
Hall of Famer
Richard Sanford
We occasionally have the privilege
of dining at a number of Montecitos
wonderful establishments when in the
village, but they shall remain name-
less, dare we slight one over the other.
However, in regards to wineries, there
are facts and more facts on Local
Wine Factoids (Letters to the Editor,
MJ # 18/7) that must be noted.
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A vintner that must be mentioned
among all others is Richard Sanford,
previously of Sanford Wineries and
now owner of Alma Rosa in Santa
Ynez Valley. In 1970, Richard Sanford
founded Sanford and Bernedict
Vineyard and planted the first Pinot
Noir vines in the western part of
Santa Barbara County. Mr. Sanford
has received worldwide recognition
for his wines, and in 2005 Richard and
his wife, Thekla, founded Alma Rosa
Winery.
On February 20, Mr. Sanford was
inducted into the Culinary Institute of
America (CIAD) 2012 Vintners Hall of
Fame: the first Central Coast resident
ever named to the California Vintners
Hall of Fame. He is the youngest to
join this prestigious group of 2012
inductee vintners, along with Peter
Mondavi, John Parducci, and other
luminaries of the California wine
scene.
One cannot talk wine in Santa
Barbara County without mentioning
Richard Sanford, and that is a fact.
Sincerely,
Raymond and Sherry Huerta
Solvang
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 wont elevate
this circumstance in todays 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 didnt
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. Washingtons 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 Americas Vintners Hall of Fame, held in the Barrel Room at the Institute (Photo by
Faith Echtermeyer)
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Montecito Tide Chart
Day Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt
Thurs, Mar 1
3:08 AM 4.1 11:35 AM 0.8 07:12 PM 2.8 09:58 PM 2.9
Fri, Mar 2
4:33 AM 4.3 12:22 PM 0.4 07:22 PM 3.1 011:28 PM 2.6
Sat, Mar 3
5:36 AM 4.6 12:58 PM 0 07:38 PM 3.4
Sun, Mar 4
12:21 AM 2.2 6:25 AM 5 01:28 PM -0.3 07:58 PM 3.8
Mon, Mar 5
1:03 AM 1.7 7:08 AM 5.4 01:58 PM -0.5 08:20 PM 4.2
Tues, Mar 6
1:44 AM 1.1 7:50 AM 5.6 02:27 PM -0.7 08:45 PM 4.6
Wed, Mar 7
2:24 AM 0.6 8:31 AM 5.6 02:57 PM -0.6 09:13 PM 5
Thurs, Mar 8
3:06 AM 0.2 9:14 AM 5.5 03:28 PM -0.4 09:44 PM 5.3
Fri, Mar 9
3:51 AM -0.1 9:58 AM 5.1 04:00 PM -0.1 010:18 PM 5.6

Opera Night at Tre Lune
Tre Lune invites you to a dinner with opera
performances by singers of Opera Santa
Barbara
When: 6:30 pm
Where: 1151 Coast Village Road
Info: 969-2646
thursday MarCh 8
UCSB Chancellors Community
Breakfast
Howard Giles, professor of
communication at UC
Santa Barbara since 1989, will discuss
age and aging at the Chancellors
Community Breakfast. Giless 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 am
Where: Santa Barbara Club,
1105 Chapala Street
Cost: $20, includes breakfast
Reservations: 893-2877
MERRAG Meeting and Training
Network of trained volunteers that work
and/or live in the Montecito area prepare
to respond to community disaster during
critical frst 72 hours following an event.
The mutual self-help organization serves
Montecitos 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 Road
Info: Geri, 969-2537
FrIday MarCh 9
Gutsy Gals Award Ceremony and
Festival
Gutsy Gals Inspire Me will be presenting
local resident Kathy Ireland the 4
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annual Gutsy Gals Inspire Me Award at
the International Womens Festivals at the
Santa Barbara City College Leni Fe Bland
Plaza. On Saturday, the S.B. Womens
Festival will include speakers Lynda
Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com;
Heidi Kuhn, founder of Roots for Peace;
suNday MarCh 4
Jass Club Event
On the frst Sunday of each month, the
West Coast Jass Club presents New
Orleans style Jass at The Pipers 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 Meeting
Montecito Board of Architectural Review
seeks to ensure that new projects are
harmonious with the unique physical
characteristics and character of Montecito
When: 3 pm
Where: Country Engineering Building,
Planning Commission Hearing Room,
123 E. Anapamu
tuEsday MarCh 6
Story Theater at the Montecito
Library
This 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 pm
Where: Montecito Library,
1469 East Valley Road
Info: www.storytheater.weebly.com
thursday MarCh 1
Framing Workshop
The 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 pm
Where: Jane Deering Gallery,
128 East Canon Perdido Street
Info: 966-3334
FrIday MarCh 2
Writers on the Edge Literary Event
Diana 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 pm
Where: 1470 East Valley Road
Info: 969-4977
saturday MarCh 3
Centering Prayer Practice Retreat
On the frst Saturday of each month, La
Casa de Maria offers a mini-retreat day
for Centering Prayer Practice. There will be
meditation walks, journaling, refection and
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito,
please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860)
FrIday MarCh 2
Wine Tasting
Ivo 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 pm
Cost: $1
thursday MarCh 1
Book Signing
Judi and Shari Zucker, The Double Energy
Twins, sign their latest book, The Ultimate Allergy-
Free Snack Cookbook at Chaucers
When: 6:30 to 8 pm
Where: 3321 State Street
Info: 682-6787
centering. Beginners welcome. Suzanne
Dunn, Mark Benson and Annette
Colbert share facilitating and teaching.
When: 9:30 am to 1 pm
Where: 800 El Bosque Road
Cost: Donation
Info: 969-5031
Evening of Thanksgiving
El 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 doeuvres
and drinks during a silent auction before
dinner, a live auction, and the concert.
When: 5 pm
Where: 1260 Channel Drive
Cost: $85 and up
Info: 962-3091
Activity Day
Summer 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 am
Info: 565-2277 or info@summerforkids.com
Art Exhibit
Anthony Curatolo invites the public to
his art exhibit titled Perpetuating.
When: Saturday, March 3 from 2 pm until
Sunday, March 4 at 7 pm
Where: 1567 East Valley Road
Info: 415-806-0347
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Board of Supervisors Meeting
The 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
and Marlyn Tam, former Reebok and
Adidas executive, among others.
When: 5 to 8 pm Friday, 9 am to 6 pm
Saturday, March 10
Where: 721 Cliff Drive,
West Campus SBCC
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MUS Registration Night
Montecito 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 pm
Where: MUS auditorium,
385 San Ysidro Road
Info: 969-3249
Barbara Ireland Walk for Breast
Cancer Research
The 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 am
Where: Chase Palm Park;
Casa Las Palmas
Info: 898-2116 or www.ccsb.org/
irelandwalk2012 to register
ONGOING
Ganna Walska: Collections and
Keepsakes
Lotusland 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 Walskas personal
possessions ranging from correspondence
and photographs of famous friends to
clothing, accessories and keepsakes. On
display in the Pavilion, Madame Walskas
private residence, the exhibit reveals the
personality of this remarkable woman in
an intimate setting.
The exhibit will be included in
Lotuslands 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 reservation@lotusland.org.
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 Library
When: 10:30 to 11 am
Where: Montecito Library,
1469 East Valley Road
Info: 969-5063
Connections Early Memory Loss
Program
Where: Friendship Center,
89 Eucalyptus Lane
Info: Susan Forkush, 969-0859 x15
tuEsdays
Boy Scout Troop 33 Meeting
Open to all boys ages 11-17; visitors
welcome
When: 7:15 pm
Where: Scout House,
Upper Manning Park, 4
49 San Ysidro Road
WEdNEsdays
Story Time
Stories 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 am
(in Vons shopping center)
Info: 565-7696
thursdays
Pick-up Basketball Games
He 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 pm
Where: Montecito Family YMCA, 591
Santa Rosa Lane
Info: 969-3288
FrIdays
Farmers Market
When: 8 am to 11:15 am
Where: South side of Coast Village Rd MJ
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Village Beat
by Kelly Mahan

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oast Village Roads 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
Barbaras 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.
Weve 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
shops doors. We didnt 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
Nissa Anderson,
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Leslie Quinn prepares handmade truffles to be
sold at the new shop next week
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says. She has toned down the feel of
the space, painting it with turquoise
accents and filling open space with
vintage cake plates and accessories.
Mary Lou Sorrell of Sorrell Design in
Montecito has helped design the space.
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 Update
The 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
VILLAGE BEAT Page 204
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.
T
he invitation looked like a
vintage Valentine with all the
romantic trimmings for an
evening with your Valentine. Opera
Santa Barbara had an enchanted
evening at the Biltmore with the
Loggia Room never looking prettier.
Twas all set in white with huge vases
of red tulips on each table surrounded
by glass cylinders flled with water
and foating candles. There was a
vocalist, Glenn Novak, accompanied
by the Society Jazz Band, who crooned
through classic standards of Frank
Sinatra.
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 directors 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 were
doing three operas a year is incredible
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An Affair To Remember
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
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1 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 15 War is a blessing compared with national degradation Andrew Jackson
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 Sarahs (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.
From Sails To Students
The Santa Barbara Maritime
Museum (SBMM) is celebrating all
things relating to the USS Constitution
or Old Ironsides for its bicentennial
birthday. What better than a man who
was Captain of the ship when it sailed
again for the first time since 1881?
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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could see it, then writing lengthy
stories about the ship, until one of
his professors thought he needed to
spend more time on spelling and lan-
guage. Willard joked, Thus ending
my brilliant literary career for forty
years.
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 ones 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
Museums 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
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum board vice presi-
dent Willard Thompson shakes hands with the
evenings guest speaker and headmaster of Dunn
School Michael Beck
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Elizabeth The Queen
The Montecito Country Club was
bursting at the seams with the crowd
who attended Channel City Clubs
event to hear Sally Bedell Smith talk
about her latest book, Elizabeth the
Queen: Life of a Modern Monarch. She
regaled the audience with anecdotes
of the Queens 60 years on the throne
the longest reign in the world and
arguably the best-known woman in
the world.
Once when in a receiving line and
asked, What do you do? she didnt
know how to respond. No one had
ever asked before. As Sally related,
The Queen has no drivers 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 Im 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 hed 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 everyones ears...
Sports Drive Sizzles
The 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. Its a great feeling for
all of us involved.
Well done!...
Artistic Abode
Artist Nancy Giffords 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 Foundations
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-
1980 initiative, focuses on the legacy of
two of southern Californias 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 exhibitions focal points and
included, in Pasadena the scheduling
of the famous Marcel Duchamp exhi-
bition in 1963, the artists 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)
MISCELLANY (Continued from page 7)
retrospective.
Among the glitterati attending
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 Name
Montecitos popular watering hole,
Caf 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. Its 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 Cowboy
A 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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Sheriffs Department, Carpinteria Division
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Olive Mill Residence Victim of Burglary
Wednesday, 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 Renters Home on Danielson Road
Wednesday, 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
drivers 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
will be granted to the Forest Service.
MWD has agreed to prohibit any
development on the 40-acre parcel.
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 mfeeney@sblandtrust.org.
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 Associations
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 Halls
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
Womens 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 Mens Honor Choir.
Madeline Meyer and Ashley
OBrien, 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 Halls 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 mothers contribution to the library.
Providence Hall singers
that have been chosen to
perform in the American
Choral Directors Associations
Western Division Convention
(from left): Choir director
Ms Rebecca Hodson, Garrett
Gish, Madeline Meyer,
Hannah Sommers, Mandy
Kellogg, Nathaniel Hodson,
Andrew Meyer, and Ashley
OBrien
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 Michaels 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 Tangs restaurant that he
founded in West Hollywood in 1982
and which made its way to New York
as Tommy Tangs in 1986. Mr. Tang
T
he 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.
Its 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 years 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 Conners Americas 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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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 Museums ninth annual Harbor Treasures
Celebration
Carol Kallman (left), enjoying herself at the Maritime Museums 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
COMING & GOING Page 334
1 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 23 Politics 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
T
he 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 Beresford
The 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.
WAY IT WAS Page 364
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 Year
The Clubs 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
horses 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 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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Los Angeles-based choreographer
Josie Walsh debuted her first full-
length commission The Secret Garden
for the State Street Ballet at the
Granada.
The show, based on Frances
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a young boy and girl who discover the
garden and, at the same time, unlock
secrets about themselves, featured
photographer David Bazemores digi-
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Walsh, who has danced with the
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principals Season Winquest, Ryan
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This is a garden that really blooms...
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Pleasing Pianist
German violinist Julia Fischer was
on top of her game when she per-
formed as part of the UCSB Arts &
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Supported by accomplished pianist,
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the show with Mozarts Sonata in
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Beethovens Thirds
Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra,
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Featuring the German composers
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3 in C minor, with Korean pianist
Tong-ll Han, and Symphony No. 3
in E flat major, the show was a music
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Han, who has played with some of
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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-
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But the piece de resistance is with-
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runners that outline the massive float-
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If the runner lights werent enough,
there are two full helipads and a salt-
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According to Forbes, Scheffler is
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Ill drink to that...
Sightings: Oscar nominee Edward
James Olmos strolling on State
Street... Laura Dern and mom Diane
Ladd noshing at Luckys... Billy
Baldwin, wife Chynna and mom,
former Mamas and Papas singer,
Michelle Phillips, watching the cou-
ples daughter perform a piano recital
by the Malia Wieczorek school at the
Ennisbrook clubhouse
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Readers with tips, sightings and
amusing items for Richards column
should e-mail him at richardmineards@
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H
e is a visionary, an inventor
(the frst CCD fatbed scanner,
the frst print-to-speech
reading machine for the blind, the
frst 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
artifcial 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 Kurzweils 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 Buys 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,
thats 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 dont 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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The Ultimate Thinking Machine
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 wont 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.
Admission to Raymond Kurzweils

lecture is $25 for the general public
and $10 for UCSB students with a
current student ID and youths 18 and
under. For tickets or more informa-
tion, call 805-893-3535 or purchase
online at www.ArtsAndLectures.
UCSB.edu MJ
Author, scientist,
and inven-
tor Raymond
Kurzweil will
speak at UCSBs
Campbell Hall on
Tuesday, March 6
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Ive been told my peepers are as blue as Lake Tahoe and
as soulful as Barry White. Or was that Betty White?
I
turned ffty-nine-years-old on
February 27. Turning 59 makes
a guy think about mortality.
The frst 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 ffty-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 youll still be in the church choir
after decapitation. Im really hoping
theres a Heaven because there are
some people Id like to see again, and
even more importantly, there are a
number of people Id love to confirm
didnt 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 Im 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 couldnt 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 didnt know how old you were?
Again, easy 8. In my minds eye Im
still young, thin, and able to solo an
entire large pepperoni and anchovy
pizza without taking Prilosec. Im so
delusional that when I heard the sad
news about Heidi Klum and Seals
breakup I wondered if maybe I wasnt
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, dont 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, Ive been told my peepers are as
blue as Lake Tahoe and as soulful as
n.o.t.e.s. from downtown
by Jim Alexander
Happy 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
couldnt 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, theyd
also have a good chance at winning
Heidis 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
wholl 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 doesnt 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. Itll show
an old man in painters whites leaning
on a walker with the words, Residential
and Commercial. Eighty years of experi-
ence. Please dont ask me to do baseboards
unless youre willing to help me up.
Actually, I think Im going to have a
good 59
th
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. Thats right, mort
look it up.
N
o one would mistake a
theoretical physics institute
for a writing lab, but for
contemporary American playwright
Lila Rose Kaplan, a three-month
residency at UCSBs 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 universitys 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 whats happening
to the other because theyre 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 institutes
writer-in-residence program. But it
wasnt her first dabble in the science.
Ive 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
dont 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 dont know if that
was just because I wasnt a scientist,
but it appealed to me because Ive
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 schools 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
whats going on between the charac-
Dramatic Entanglement
On Entertainment
by 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.
Im 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 Im 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 its 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 its 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 Sisters
Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe
are just 19, 22 and 24 respectively,
but theyve 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 Dont Fence
Me In: Songs, Music & Poetry of the
American West, a national tour cel-
ebrating the regions 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 its 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 Wheels 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 weve
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: Its 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. Its really fun to make
music together, and our styles really
mesh. He does all the arrangements,
too, including the three-part vocals.
Hes a fantastic multi-instrumental-
ist guitar, fiddle, mandolin. But he
doesnt really teach us anymore. We
just get together and work on songs.
But youre always learning. Thats
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 hadnt 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.
Its a whole different dimension and a
way to express yourself Were 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. Weve 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 well 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: Thats a great question.
People say Texas swing, but its 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
Kaplans Entangled, playing in Hatlen Theater at
UCSB starting Thursday, March 1 (Photo by David
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style, but Bob Wills called it Western
jazz. We also do straight ahead jazz
stuff, things like All of Me or How
High the Moon. But were doing it on
the Western swing instruments. Thats
what a lot of those musicians did back
then. Theyd listen to Benny Goodman
records, or blues or mariachi and play
it with the fiddles. Its the triple fiddle
and twin guitars that gives it the
sound.
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 its a traditional song, were
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. Were 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, its how its always been: we
were home schooled together, are in
a band together and live our lives on
the road together. But we think were
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: Its really fun. Weve got to
hear lots of music thats new to us,
like Native American powwow music.
The audiences will get a really good
mix. Its a very balanced view of the
music There arent 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.
Dont Fence Me In plays at UCSBs
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concert designed to raise funds for a
very worthy philanthropic cause, the
other a free event that just wants to
work up a little fun with a trip down
memory lane.
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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
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hours of wine tasting at the Auberge du
Soleil on a Monday morning.
This was one of those statements
that I wanted back the moment I
heard it come off of my lips. It sound-
ed cheap and crude and childish all
at once, and I recognized my naivet
right away.
I was quite a long way from home
in a certain sense, and Id 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. Id 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 Id lost some of
what I once had gained. Id long ago
shuttered my Santa Barbara-based law
practice and, somewhat irresponsibly,
spent the previous and very best
seven months of my life traveling the
world with my wife and daughters.
What can I say? I slipped up. I was
conversationally rusty. And I simply
couldnt stop savoring the delicate
handcrafted wine in my glass.
Bad combination.
Id been standing in my new back
yard in the small rural-chic town of
St. Helena, near the geographic center
of the Napa Valley, with a Riedel-full
of hearty Rutherford Cab in hand,
excitedly talking business with my old
friend and new partner, Mark Young.
There were relatively sophisticated
Super Bowl snacks cooking in the
kitchen free range chicken wings
brined and then fried with Thai spices
(not your average plate of Buffalo
Wings) and a whimsical version of
Pigs in the Blanket done completely
from scratch (pigs and blankets both)
with local ingredients, just to name a
couple and far more glasses of fan-
tastic wine in the hands of our guests
than bottles of beer. Distractingly
Notes
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Notes From a Napa Valley Neophyte
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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.
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that had been specially crafted by local
winemakers as auction lots for Premier
Napa Valley, one of the Valleys 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 towheadtravel@gmail.com. And if
you are interested in his time traveling the
world with his wife and kids, check out
their website and photos and Matts blog
at www.towheadtravel.com. MJ
mouth-watering aromas wafted out
over the yard. Wed 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 wasnt moving or look-
ing away. He stared at me, silent and
wide-eyed. Incredulous.
Wed both recently gone out on a
limb of sorts. From his perspective,
hed 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, Id 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 Id 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. Lets 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 didnt mention
that I had no idea how I might inter-
view an experienced chef for a key
position in the restaurant group. Lets
just say that they dont teach you that
skill in law school.
Anecdotally, the wings were delight-
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a true wonder for any wine and food
lover. (I count myself a member of that
group, one with lots to learn.) It was a
preview of eight one-of-a-kind wines
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by Leslie A. Westbrook
I
t really feels like a change is a
coming on in Summerland. There
seems to be a shift of energy in the
air. Maybe its that we are creeping
up on Daylight Savings Time soon.
Or perhaps its 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 theres 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, Ive had
no problem popping into Caf Luna
for dinner. With a desire to expand its
ever-popular morning coffee, muffin,
breakfast and lunch business, own-
ers and married couple Dan (hes
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, Caf 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. Theres
also lasagna on the menu and I heard
lamb roasted in the outdoor oven was
served on Valentines 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 Caf 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
Caf Luna will become quite the pop-
ular evening spot now that the word
is out. Dont 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 patios
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 Caf 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.
Caf 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 caf in March.
Details to follow in this column, or
check the Caf 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 Scoop
New sidewalks are going to be
installed along Lillie Avenue
Businesses that will be affected are
hoping the improvements dont 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 LeslieAWestbrook@gmail.com but my
email box overfloweth.) MJ
Dan and Janette Van Hirtum have expanded their breakfast and lunch business at Caf Luna and are
now serving dinner five nights a week
Caf 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 Caf
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 Caf
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: Chucks
Waterfront Grills Death By
Chocolate, Christine Dahls slight-
ly sweet but oh-so-mouth-meltingly
good dessert squares, Spoon's straw-
berry chocolate-chip gelato and
Richard and Thekla Branders 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.
Its a perfect fit. Theyre doing a ser-
vice for them and a service for us.
And, she added proudly, theres no
money exchanged.
The $70,000 netted from this eve-
nings celebration will go toward
supporting the museums education-
al and curatorial programs.
A Howard School
Centennial
A 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, Im
just glad to be a part of a school that
doesnt teach what to know, but how
to learn, Zahm said. The schools
philosophy is based on the principle
that who you are is just as important
as what you know. Its 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 thats 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 schools
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 years 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 Erins 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 Schools Headmaster Joel Reed
Howard teachers included Angie Miller, Jennifer
Gonzalez and Megan Gildred
T
he Westmont womens basketball
team captured its frst-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.
Shes not just a scorer, shes also
an incredible rebounder and passer,
says Moore, who is due to have her
first child in July. She makes everyone
around her better. Shes a good defend-
er and she has a high basketball IQ and
understanding of whats 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 Canitezs
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
Canitezs 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 hadnt 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 Canitezs
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 Westmonts
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. Ill 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 cant reduce it to a moralistic
axiom.
Robins, a native of France, has taught
at Westmont since 1996. She earned a
masters 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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Triumphant Tooch
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1 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 35 Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in Andrew Jackson
I love shooting. I still do. Its 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 its liberating to share
what people didnt 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
anybodys 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.
My first love was drawing cartoons
because I grew up in a fundamentalist
household. Art was my way of con-
necting with the world. From there it
just grew into filmmaking. In order to
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The Filmmaker and Painter
B
ill Jerseys newest flm, 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 UCSBs Pollock
Theater. The flm took seven years
to make, which Bill admits is sadly
the usual pace for documentaries to
accrue funding. The flm 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 wouldnt 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
cinma vrit 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 dont 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.
OUR TOWN Page 374
Filmmaker Bill Jerseys 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
Hollisters 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, Pierreponts 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 House
After that first year, according to
Edward Selden Spauldings 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 Clubs
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
mans 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 ones for J.J. Hollister who asked
the question. MJ
The circles on the 1898 Birds 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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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 Visits
Sponsored 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 Childrens 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 Kens visit, the
Foundation selected the SB Middle
Schools Teen Press kids to make a
video about these two programs and
one more about the Middle Schools
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 Weinmans hosting and
interviewing of Sir Ken at her Lynda.
com Caf on Tuesday, February 21.
At the Caf, the program began
with Lyndas 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 dont know what their
talents are. The current educational
system isnt 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 Foundations educational
outdoor and art programs, saying,
Its 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 Caf interview, only thinned
out with anecdotal humor filling
more than half the presentation.
He did offer some how tos 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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OUR TOWN (Continued from page 35)
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 UCSBs 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 youre backing the wrong
fella. Unless youre suggesting black
folks stay out of boardrooms and the-
atre halls (Ouch, but I just couldnt
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
Courts 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 Americas Riviera) who has
overcome his lifes 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.
Youre 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 arent 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
hadnt 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 doesnt
work. Please allow me to suggest for your
consideration a not so famous quote: It
aint so much the things you dont know
that get you in trouble. Its the things
you know that just aint so. [Artimus
Ward, 1834-1867]. Is it possible that what
you learned about U.S. history just aint
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-
viduals control over their own lives by
severely limiting governments power
over them more in accord with mans
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. Governments
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 werent 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 dont
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 its
worth, would be to question your liberal
professors rhetoric, study for yourself
the Declaration, Constitution, Federalist
papers, learn to love Americas 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 Horowitz
Heart of a Horse Foundation
(Editors 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)
Isnt 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.
The Iron(ic) Lady
Montecito
Avoid Foreign
Entanglements
Before he left office, George
Washington cautioned Congress to
avoid foreign entanglements.
Did Congress ever follow that
advice? Lets 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. Bradley
Santa Barbara MJ
Lazarus, as he looked when first rescued by April
Horowitzs Heart of a Horse Foundation
Lazarus today
LETTERS (Continued from page 9)
1 8 March 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 39 If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics Will Rogers
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thursday, MarCh 1
1st Thursday Globetrotting is a very
loose theme for the fnal 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 Journals own Trent
Watanabes 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
Werfels large abstractions of landscapes
in California, Italy and France. Brooks
Institutes Gallery 27 exhibits photographer
Nick Brandts On This Earth, A Shadow
Falls, the latest work from the founder
of the Big Life Foundation, a non-proft
organization dedicated to the conservation
of East Africas 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 flm/video
instructors Michele Simonsen and Tim
Webb, who explore the beauty of light
fowing 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 CASAs
gallery features Kate Yarbroughs oil-
on-canvas works that capture the color
and light of the Central Coast. Its 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 Marshalls 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-flm piece was inspired by her
fve years of living in LA without a car.
Finally, El Presidio de Santa Barbara State
Historic Park presents Presidio Pastimes
by Candelight, its frst-ever evening
event, which offers candlelight tours of
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Note 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
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by Steven Libowitz

saturday, MarCh 3
Masterworks at
San Roque The
second installment in
the Santa Barbara
Chorale Societys
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 Durufs ethereal Requiem before presenting the local debut of American
composer Rollo Dilworths 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 frst line of a poem entitled Hymn by Paul Laurence
Dunbar with the famous hymn Amazing Grace serving as a motivic thread; and
Didnt It Rain, based on the traditional African American spiritual depicting the
story of Noah and the food. The audience gets the rare opportunity to participate
in the movements 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 fgured 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 Hohns accidental odyssey jumped off from the
1992 spill of a Taiwanese cargo ship containing thousands of foating bath toys to
touch on issues from plastics pollution and global manufacturing to oceanography
and literary history in a narrative flled with humor and inquisitive drive. Moby-
Duck is this years book for UCSB-Santa Barbara Reads, which brings together the
campus and community over a single book and a theme this year its Making an
Impact. Whats Yours? The program culminates with Hohns public talk on Monday.
WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSBs Campbell Hall COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.
ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
the facility and demonstrations of soldiers
cleaning their muskets, the comandante
addressing offcials, 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
Confguration reconfgures 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 fve events
over two weekends for its 14th show.
Confguration 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
years 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-Sans Carnival of
the Animals is an obvious choice for the
frst-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 Schifrins 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 Symphonys Music Van. And you
can check out the sounds and all the other
habits of the zoos 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 41 Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock Will Rogers

tuEsday, MarCh 6
Ultimate thinking machine Thats what
Forbes magazine dubbed Raymond Kurzweil,
the inveterate inventor whose creations include the
Kurzweil music synthesizer and the fat-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 nations 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: UCSBs 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 dont you have to have
any experience, you dont 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 Companys
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 audiences 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 frst 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 frst 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 Its a good bet
that the folks who put together Englands
National Theatre Live events had no idea
that The Artist and Hugo two current
flms that look back on the early days
of flm would enchant the world not to
mention sweep up nine Academy Awards
between them last weekend. More likely
its 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 NTLs Hi-Def
transmissions of new theatrical works.
Nicholas Wrights play tells the story
of the fctional Motl Mendl, now a famous
American flm director, recounting how
he was entranced by the fickering silent
images on his fathers cinematograph 40
years earlier and set about to create his
own moving picture dreams. Directed by
NTLs 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 Hollywoods 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 Montecitos own Kenny
Loggins before McDonald left for a
solo career, where such songs as I
Keep Forgettin (Every Time Youre
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
Milgrims 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, banj oist
Jayme Stone, who plays
an early show at SOhO on
Thursday, isnt a house-
hold name in the U.S., but
hes won two Juno Awards
(Canadas 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- songwr i t er- gui t ar i st
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 Hes My Brother Shes 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 Societys 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 todays 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
ministers daughter and Mississippi
preachers son found a deep chemis-
try while collaborating on Peacocks
2009 solo album, Love Remains. MJ
ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 29)
Hes My Brother Shes My Sister returns to SOhO on Friday,
March 2 before its sophomore album release as part of its
Road to SXSW Tour
Bella Vista $$$
1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)
Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella Vis-
tas ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor
Mediterranean courtyard. Executive Chef
Alessandro Cartumini has created an inno-
vative menu, featuring farm fresh, Italian-
inspired California cuisine. Open daily for
breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7 am
to 9 pm.
Cafe Del Sol $$
30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)
CAVA $$
1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500)
Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking
combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas
and margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella
and sangria to lobster tamales, Churrasco
ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunfower-
colored interior is accented by live Span-
ish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive
freplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor
people-wat ching front patio. Open Monday-
Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday
10 am to 10 pm.
China Palace $$
Montecitos only Chinese restaurant, here youll
fnd large portions and modern dcor. 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.
Giovannis $
Los Arroyos $
Little Alexs $
1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)
Luckys (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$
Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak-
house in the heart of Americas 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 Caf $$
Montecito Coffee Shop $
1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)
Montecito Wine Bistro $$$
516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520
Head to Montecitos upper village to indulge
in some California bistro cuisine. Chef
Nathan Heil creates seasonal menus that
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include fsh and vegetarian dishes, and fresh
fatbreads straight out of the wood-burning
oven. The Bistro offers local wines, classic
and specialty cocktails, single malt scotches
and aged cognacs.
Pane Vino $$$
Peabodys $
Plow & Angel $$$
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 freplace. 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 $$
Stella Mares $$/$$$
50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)
Stonehouse $$$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Located in what is a 19th-century citrus pack-
inghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a
lounge with full bar service and separate dining
room with crackling freplace and creekside
views. Chef Jamie Wests regional cuisine is
prepared with a palate of herbs and vegetables
harvested from the on-site chefs garden.
Recently voted 1 of the best 50 restaurants in
America by OpenTable Diners Choice. 2010
Diners Choice Awards: 1 of 50 Most Romantic
Restaurants in America, 1 of 50 Restaurants
With Best Service in America. Open for dinner
from 6 to 10 pm daily. Sunday Brunch 10 am
to 2 pm.
Trattoria Mollie $$$
Tre Lune $$/$$$
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 $$
Delis, bakeries, juice bars
Blenders in the Grass
Heres The Scoop
1187 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 waffe cones are made on site
everyday.
Jeannines
Montecito Deli
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 Peets
coffee & tea.
Panino
1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137)
Pierre Lafond
516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502)
This market and deli is a center of activity
in Montecitos 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

In Summerland / Carpinteria
The Barbecue Company $$
3807 Santa Claus Lane (684-2209)
Cantwells Summerland Market $
2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5894)
Corktree Cellars $$
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 $
Jacks Bistro $
5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558)
Serving light California Cuisine, Jacks 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 $$
Padaro Beach Grill $
A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery
its charm and makes it a perfect place to
bring the whole family. Its new owners added
a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with
freplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill op-
tions, along with salads and seafood plates.
The Grill is open Monday through Sunday
11 am to 9 pm
Slys $$$
686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)
Slys features fresh fsh, farmers market veg-
gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate
Specials and vintage desserts. Youll fnd 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.
Stackys Seaside $
Summerland Beach Caf $
Tinkers $
2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)
Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row
Andersens Danish Bakery &
Gourmet Restaurant $
1106 State State Street (962-5085)
Established in 1976, Andersens 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 $$
1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)
Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the
bistro serves breakfast and lunch featur-
ing all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix
of traditional favorites and coastal cuisine.
The lounge advancement to the restaurant
features a big screen TV for daily sporting
events and happy hour. Open Monday-
Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday
6:30 am to 10 pm.
Chucks Waterfront Grill $$
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 $$
813 Anacapa Street (962-6050)
Located in the heart of downtown Santa Bar-
bara in a Mexican plaza setting, El Paseo is the
place for authentic Mexican specialties, home-
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made chips and salsa, and a cold margarita
while mariachis stroll through the historic
restaurant. The dcor refects its rich Spanish
heritage, with bougainvillea-draped balconies,
fountain courtyard dining and a festive bar.
Dinner specials are offered during the week,
with a brunch on Sundays. Open Tuesday
through Thursday 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday and
Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, and Sunday
10:30 am to 9 pm.
Enterprise Fish Co. $$
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 $$
210 Stearns Wharf (963-3311)
Enjoy ocean views at the historic Harbor
Restaurant on Stearns Wharf. Featuring prime
steaks and seafood, a wine list that has earned
Wine Spectator Magazines Award of Excel-
lence for the past six years and a full cocktail
bar. Lunch is served 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Monday-Friday, 11 am to 3 pm Saturday and
Sunday. Dinner is served 5:30 pm to 10 pm,
early dinner available Saturday and Sunday
starting at 3 pm.
Los Agaves $
600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)
Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, us-
ing only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and
friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner,
with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-
tures traditional dishes from central and south-
ern Mexico such as shrimp & fsh enchiladas,
shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade
mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to
9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.
Mir $$$$
8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa
(968-0100)
Mir is a refned refuge with stunning views,
featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-
rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that
accents fresh, organic, and native-grown in-
gredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open
Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm
to 10 pm.
Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$
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 souff, pappardelle
with quail, sausage and mushroom rag, 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 truffes, 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
Renauds $
3315 State Street (569-2400)
Located in Loreto Plaza, Renauds 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 Renauds personal
favorites. Brewed coffees and teas are organic.
Open Monday-Saturday 7 am to 5 pm, Sunday
7 am to 3 pm.
Rodneys Steakhouse $$$
633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554)
Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of
Fess Parkers Doubletree Inn on East Beach
in Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells
and serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal,
halibut, salmon, lobster and other high-end
victuals. Full bar, plenty of California wines,
elegant surroundings, across from the ocean.
Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at
5:30 pm. Reservations suggested on weekends.
Ojai
Maravilla $$$
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 Inns 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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Real Estate View
by Michael Phillips
Michael is the owner-
broker of Phillips Real
Estate, and is a Montecito
Planning Commissioner.
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969-4569 and info@
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T
he 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, todays 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 werent 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 years 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 years
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
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ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
189 East Mountain Drive By Appt $4,950,000 3bd/4.5ba Frank Abatemarco 450-7477 Sothebys International Realty
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ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
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670 Hodges Lane 1-4pm $5,875,000 3bd/3.5ba Emilie McMinn 689-2726 Village Properties
189 East Mountain Drive By Appt $4,950,000 3bd/4.5ba Frank Abatemarco 450-7477 Sothebys International Realty
660 El Bosque Road 2-4pm $3,995,000 3bd/7ba Maureen McDermut 570-5545 Sothebys International Realty
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1183 Mesa Road 12-3pm $1,850,000 4bd/3ba Marsha Kotlyar 698-7941 Prudential California Realty
655 Coyote Road 2-4pm $1,495,000 3bd/2.5ba Tomi Spaw 698-7007 Prudential California Realty
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Telephone (805) 969-2701
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In-Home Senior
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PERSONAL/SPECIAL SERVICES
Experienced caregiver to provide your
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We are looking for a new loving home
for Lucee and Nawton, our mid-size,
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Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden
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$110/night. 831-624-6714
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Matorral Way #A, Santa
Barbara, CA 93111.
Kristen Ann Mackins,
5136 Matorral Way #A,
FBN No. 2012-0000535.
March 7, 14, 21, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The
doing business as: AKVA
Organics, 1641 Posilipo
Lane, Santa Barbara,
CA 93108. Christina
Ragsdale, 1641 Posilipo
Lane, Santa Barbara, CA
93108. This statement was
fled with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County
on February 17, 2012. This
FBN No. 2012-0000507.
March 7, 14, 21, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The
are doing business as: In-
Power Productions, 58
Mendocino Dr., Goleta, CA
93117. OBandi Damu
Dehavaland Rasheed
Newton, 58 Mendocino
Dr., Goleta, CA 93117.
Janet Hansen. Original
FBN No. 2012-0000370.
29, March 7, 14, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The
doing business as: Bissell
Chiropractic Sports
Medicine, 1470 East
Valley Road, Suite M, Santa
Barbara, CA 93108. Bissell
Chiropractic Clinic, Inc.,
1470 East Valley Road,
Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA
93108. This statement was
fled with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County
on February 8, 2012. This
Janet Hansen. Original
FBN No. 2012-0000402.
29, March 7, 14, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The
Womens Festivals,
2353 East Valley Road,
Patty De Dominic, 2353
East Valley Road, Santa
Barbara, CA 93108. This
statement was fled with
the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on February
2, 2012. This statement
expires fve years from the
date it was fled in the Offce
of the County Clerk. I hereby
certify that this is a correct
copy of the original statement
on fle in my offce. Joseph E.
Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)
by Kathy Miller. Original
FBN No. 2012-0000353.
15, 22, 29, 2012.
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