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Real Estate ViewSales strong in the $1-million to

$3-million range, but big estates fail to find buyers, p. 45

On EntertainmentMontecito’s Ann Dusenberry to star in “Morning’s at Seven” at Center Stage

Theatre, p. 41

Village BeatCrane School inaugurates new 2,551 sq ft kindergarten classroom featuring “Hobbit”

door, p. 11

Cover photo: David Myrick with Montecito Association Beautifi cation Committee Chair Mindy Denson

COMMUNITY CALENDAR, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 40 • GUIDE TO MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 42

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY P.45

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A MONTECITO GIANT PASSES ONAuthor and Historian David Myrick passes away at Casa Dorinda, leaving long and distinguished legacy, page 5

Montecito chockablock with billionaires in Forbes’ latest

“400 Richest” list; Jarryd Commerford and Simon Linsley Tuk-Tuk across

India, p. 6

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5 Editorial David Myrick was a Montecito giant; now he’s gone and we can’t even begin to assess how

much his absence will mean

6 Montecito Miscellany Local billionaires make Forbes list; Racing rickshaws across India for Dream Foundation;

Larry Feinberg on da Vinci’s early life; Rob Lowe keeps cool during turbulence; Sand Snakes

win inaugural volleyball tournament; Th ink Pink benefi t at Montecito estate; Karen Lee

Stevens promotes animal welfare; Montecito Trails Foundation’s 26th annual barbeque; Kate

Middleton takes royalty lessons

8 Letters to the Editor John Blankenship sees one good thing after another for Vietnam Vets; Jay Fender calls for

ending Montecito Christmas tree tradition; Ralph Iannelli asks President to start governing;

John Burk warns of down side of marine life protection areas; Eric Carr relates Dr. Serban’s

situation to High Noon; Five-point economic plan, written by Larry Larsson; Frank McGinity’s

New York fi x; Randolph Siple educates on pacemakers

10 Community Calendar Parenting class at El Montecito; MUS Jog-a-Th on; dads cook pancakes at MUS; treasure sale; book

signing at Tecolote; Nona Pyron performs; kids walk to school; Ojai Peddler’s Fair; Carol Burnett

honored; High School Reunion later this month; Our Lady Mount Carmel holds annual auction

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

11 Village Beat Crane Country Day School opens doors to new kindergarten; Save the Date for Ghost Village

Road; residents invited to get involved with local issues; Summer For Kids partners with

Soles4Souls

14 Seen Around Town Girls Inc. One Hundred Committee luncheon; Coral Casino hosts 69th annual Man &

Woman of the Year awards; Judy and Brian Robertson celebrate four milestones

24 Sheriff’s Blotter Hit and run at roundabout on Coast Village Road; Summerland Antique Collective robbed

26 Montecito Sportsman Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute becomes reality

29 Book Talk From the author of Winter’s Bone comes Th e Outlaw Album, a book of 12 short stories in a

mere 167 pages

31 Coming & Going You can now become an online MJ subscriber; semi-rural Safe Route to School looking

suspiciously like city sidewalk; Waterfront Grill patio wins award; Bruce Giffi n underwrites

Day of Play at Elings Park; Mike Stoker tries, tries, and triathlons; Make It Work at Costco;

Santi Visalli honored in Italy; John and Dorothy Gardner awarded by AISC

34 Cars & Coffee Coast Village Road Sunday Car Show excites Carol Lieff ’s interest

35 Your Westmont Westmont bucks national trend as student loan defaults fall; Susan Jackson joins Board of

Directors; Robert Hunt to speak on Multiple Modernities

36 State Street Spin DAWG luncheon a success; Feed My Sheep celebrates ten years; Victoria Frost summits

Mount Kilimanjaro; Erin speaks on prohibition in Santa Barbara; Jill’s Place popular among

meat-eating denizens

37 Ernie’s World European adventures take Witham to France, where roundabouts and horns dominate traffi c fl ow

38 Trail Talk Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum hosts lecture on Uruguayan-born-turned-Californian

“Renaissance Man” Jo Mora

40 Calendar of Events Moving Wall comes to Chase Palm Park; Yes Tiger Collective performs at UCSB; SOL Food

Fest returns; Chumash Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow in Santa Ynez; new exhibits at SBMA; Lobero

hosts Comedy Pet Th eater; Borealis Quartet to shine at SBMA

41 On Entertainment UCSB’s Arts & Lectures season kicks off ; “Morning’s at Seven” opens at Center Stage; fi rst

annual Ojai World Music Festival

42 Guide to Montecito Eateries Th e most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito

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43 Movie Showtimes Latest fi lms, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week

45 Real Estate View Price your home under $3 million and it’s likely to sell, suggests Michael Phillips

93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito

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A Talented and Extraordinary Man Passes On

Over the past weekend, Montecito lost a writer of renown, a native-born historian of unparalleled accomplishment, and most of all, a friend, supporter, and defender of all that is valuable in Montecito. David

Myrick, whose two books on our area – Montecito and Santa Barbara: From Farms to Estates, and The Days of the Great Estates – stand as the defi nitive tomes on the establishment, expansion, and development of Santa Barbara and, especially and distinctly, Montecito.

Dana Newquist, with whom I had planned to visit David at Casa Dorinda on Sunday morning, September 25, called with the sad news the day before we were planning to stop by. Dana had been visiting David almost daily for the past six months and had noted that over the previous three days 93-year-old David Myrick had “dramatically declined.” He passed away at 10 am, Saturday morning, September 24.

David’s nephew, Scott Allen, prepared the following obituary:

David F. Myrick

(June 17, 1918 – September 24, 2011)

David F. Myrick was born in Santa Barbara’s Cottage

Hospital on June 17, 1918. His parents were Donald and Charlotte Porter Myrick. He was educated in local schools, the last being Crane Country Day School, until he transferred to Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He then attended Santa Barbara State College for two years before going to Boston to attend Babson College where he earned his degree in business adminis-tration.

In 1940, he worked for Convair in San Diego in various clerical positions. Then in August of 1944 he began his long career working in the president’s office of Southern Pacific Company at their headquarters in San Francisco. He put his business acumen to work composing letters to stockholders; representing the company in financial matters before various commissions; and researching potential mergers and acquisitions.

During his life he also found time to pen 17 books and approximately 140 published articles and book reviews. His special focus was writing about dif-ferent locales, including Telegraph Hill (where he lived for 29 years during his career with Southern Pacific) and Montecito (where he purchased his retirement home before moving there in 1981).

He also wrote extensively on the history of American railroads and mining camps in Eastern California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, including the most populated mining camp in the Western hemisphere located in Potosi, Bolivia.

Mr. Myrick was also on the board of directors for many associations; a few of them were the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, the Nevada Historical Society, Telegraph Hill Dwellers (two times) and the Montecito Association.

He eventually moved into Casa Dorinda Retirement Community in November of 2003 while retaining ownership of his Montecito home.

He was a member of the Bohemian Club and Birnam Wood Country Club.

Mr. Myrick is survived by his brother Richard Myrick; his sister Julia Allen; and her three sons Peter, Scott, and Edward Allen.

•••It should also be noted that David Myrick was a longstanding trustee of the

Montecito Community Foundation, a recipient of the George Washington Smith Award in 2006, and was honored as Montecito’s Citizen of the Year in 2008. There are many that will never fully know what he meant to Montecito and how very much his irreplaceable wisdom and advice will be missed. But, we’ll all feel the loss.

May he rest in peace. •MJ

Montecito Association named David Myrick (seen here with Beautification Chair Mindy Denson) its Citizen of the Year in 2008


When it comes to wealth, our area positively glows.

Forbes, the bi-weekly New York-based financial magazine, has just published its eagerly awaited annual list of the 400 richest people in America, and 11 live in or around our Eden by the Beach.

But one particularly outstanding resident is peripatetic Texan Harold Simmons, 80, who flies between his 27-acre acre Montecito estate, former-ly the home of actor Gene Hackman, and his Dallas mansion, who has seen his net worth almost double to $9.3 billion from $5 billion last year. On the world listing he is ranked at 179.

Harold, whose position on the list has jumped from 55 to 33, has seen the value of his publicly traded buyout vehicle, Valhi, which deals with waste management and chemicals, climb a staggering 250 percent in the last year.

Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, 55, heads the list for the 18th consecutive year with $59 billion, and Berkshire Hathaway tycoon Warren Buffett, 81, with $39 billion, $6 billion less than 2010, comes in at number two.

But Larry Ellison, 67, founder of Oracle, the computer software com-pany, who has a number of homes in Santa Barbara, has gained $6 billion, bringing his worth to $33 billion, plac-ing him third on the U.S list and fifth

in the world rankings.Google honcho Eric Schmidt,

56, who bought comedienne Ellen DeGeneres’ four-acre estate for $20 million four years ago, is valued at $6.2 billion, ranking him at 50, a drop of two places from last year.

Star Wars director George Lucas, 67, who acquired a 1.7-acre oceanfront home in Carpinteria in December, is 107 with $3.2 billion, while probably our most famous resident, TV talk show titan, Oprah Winfrey, is at 139 with $2.7 billion, putting her at 420 in the world ranking, on par with New York mega-developer Donald Trump.

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Regarding the “dear old, but very dead, Christmas tree at the corner of 101 and San

Ysidro” referred to in the letter to the editor by Jo Thompson (MJ # 17/38): is this tree situated on private property or public land? I suspect the latter, as another letter about this tree states that the site may end up as part of the revised freeway. How about letting the tradition of applying Christmas decorations to a tree at our village entrance die as well? This would show some respect for the non-Christian residents of Montecito. Our neighbors might want to realize that such a symbol does not represent all of us. If the Christians among us have private property they wish to decorate, their right to do so should be defended. But they should leave the public spaces free of religious symbols, and a Christmas tree is exactly that. If there is joy in Christmas, let it be celebrated in homes and churches. Replace the tree certainly, but leave it green for all of us to enjoy year-round.

Jay FenderMontecito

Time to Start Governing

In the conversation about how to get the economy of this country back on track, there are areas where rea-sonable people can have an honest dialogue. Some on one side of the aisle will tell us that the way to put us on the path towards recovery is a plan to provide another stimulus for the economy and some will say that we must drastically cut spending. As mentioned we can have a rational discussion about which path to take.

There is one point, however, that we can all agree upon: government at all levels is just plain inefficient. Whether it is on the local, county, state or Federal level, government does not dispense the services we are entitled to as citizens in a cost-efficient manner. Why then is the efficiency of govern-ment never mentioned by the current administration and the Democrats in Congress, and why has the President and his party not embraced those pri-vate market methods to make govern-ment more productive?

The answer is quite simple: votes. A recent study showed that less than one half of one percent of Federal government employees were dis-missed for cause in 2009; I suspect the number will not change in 2010.

Compare that to the number in the rest of the public sector, which was approximately 3.5%. As most of the states and counties have embraced a strategy to lessen the delivery cost of social services, our President is doing everything in his power to protect the jobs of those Federal government employees who have long been part of the problem and not part of the solution.

There are many paths toward suc-cess but rewarding people for bad or inefficient behavior is not one of them. Our President needs to put the needs of the people over his own need to get reelected. Mr. President: stop cam-paigning and start governing. If you truly love this country as you say you do, do the right thing for all the people not just a few.

Ralph T. IannelliMontecito

MLPAs On Their WayA state commission is making good

progress in closing state ocean fish-eries to the public through a device called MLPAs, an innocuous term meaning “marine life protection areas.” Remember, as a kid, the hap-piness of fishing from a boat in the ocean? Well, get ready to kiss that good-bye, as the first steps are now being laid to stop that kind of fool-ishness. It seems this special com-mission knows what is best for us Californians and they don’t want you messing with their agenda to regulate and keep you away from massive regions of our ocean from Mexico to Oregon.

Once the MLPAs are instituted, vast areas will be off limits to all who want to fish, and many fear it is only the beginning. Currently, there is a reprieve in that the state’s Office of Administrative Law has intervened finding the MLPA decree not in com-pliance with proper procedures. But, the commission has six months to straighten this out and you have that same amount of time to let them know how you feel about this usurpation of power.

Contact the Department of Fish and Game website, email Governor Brown and the commission direct-ly via [email protected] or contact Stephen P. Wertz at [email protected]; he is Supervisor to the MLPA project.

John BurkMontecito

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Tradition Should Die

29 September – 6 October 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 9If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die – Maya Angelou

High Noon at SBCCThe interview article of Dr. Serban

(“Conversations” MJ # 17/37) made me think of the movie High Noon. She was out there all by herself trying to clean up SBCC and put its financial house in order, but the gang of four, led by Marty Blum, took matters into its own hands and did the dirty deed of getting rid of Dr. Serban. This time it wasn’t a Hollywood ending. The thieves, bloodsuckers and crooks had won the day to continue to violate State regulations and sap taxpayer money for their personal benefit. It might be best to separate SBCC entirely from managing and financing continuing education. Real education and the stu-dents of SBCC have lost out when Doc Serban was driven out of town.

Eric CarrMontecito(Editor’s note: We will run many

more letters to the editor concerning Dr. Serban’s departure from SBCC in next week’s edition – TLB)

Fixing Economy Simple I am not running for president, but

I do have an “Economic Plan” that I believe will revitalize the economy in a short period of time for relatively little or no government money. By the way, government money means our money. Getting the United States economy back to strong prosperity really is fairly easy, and almost a no-brainer. We have over a hundred years of modern economic history involv-ing recoveries and non-recoveries to analyze so we really do know what really works and what does not work economically for economic recovery.

I have listed below a five point eco-nomic plan that I believe will bring us out of our economic morass in a very short period of time.

1) Elected government representa-tives accepting that capitalism and private entrepreneurship is the engine of growth. We must have federal and state governments that are business friendly and believe that business in aggregate over the long-term makes sound economic decisions, as govern-ment does not.

2) Drastically reduce the amount of government regulation on the busi-ness community. These regulations are destroying the small-business per-son as it has done in Europe. Small business in this country is the engine of economic growth and produces the majority of new employment. Reduction of government regulations will also decrease the amount of jobs shipped overseas, which does not need to happen with the right busi-ness environment.

3) Reduce the corporate income tax to 20% or hopefully even lower, which will make our corporations competi-tive with the rest of the world. This

will drastically reduce our sending our jobs overseas or to South America. At the same time, eliminate corporate welfare, which is not needed.

4) Drastically simplify the tax code in this country. It is outdated and unwieldy and stifles the economy. A three-tiered progressive flat tax is one possible solution, which would really be a big boost to the economy.

5) Become energy independent within 10 years. We are the Saudi Arabia of the world with our proven reserves in oil, natural gas and coal. When wind, solar and other renew-able energy resources are ready to take over they will; in the meantime let’s not destroy our economy with the purchase of foreign energy.

The above takes into consideration only what economically works for economic recovery. What oftentimes complicates the implementation of these policies is social engineering becoming the dominant goal of the society, rather than economic pros-perity. The question in our country is which will dominate: social engi-neering or economic prosperity. We must decide whether we are going to socially engineer our country to move toward socialism, a hybrid socialism-capitalism, communism, a centrally planned economy similar to the USSR, or return to capitalistic economics, the course, incidentally, though which we became the most successful country ever in history.

I believe if we follow the above five-step plan we will have economic recovery in a very short period of time. With the capitalistic system there will always be periods of ups and downs, but long-term the highs will prevail, and deliver a higher standard of living for the general population.

Respectfully submitted,Larry LarssonMontecito

A New York FixYou hear about it from time to time.

Friends who go to New York for shows, concerts, fine dining and shop-ping. They call it a “New York fix.” We had opportunity for a “fix” when we bid on a two-night hotel stay, two tickets to the award-winning musical, “Memphis,” and dinner at the Tribeca Grill. This live auction item was arranged by CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) at its annual fund-raiser at the Granada Theatre.

It all worked well. The hotel we stayed in is called The French Quarters, and is located on 46th Street in the theatre district. We were also able to add a show called “War Horse” (one of the big winners at this years Tony Awards) to our itinerary. Dinner at the Lincoln Center on the

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

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

MONDAYS

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

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

TUESDAYS

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

THURSDAYS

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

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Farmers’ MarketWhen: 8 am to 11:15 amWhere: South side of Coast Village Road

414 E. Ojai AvenueInfo: Pat, 964-8915

UPCOMING EVENTS

An Evening of Laughter & LoveTeddy Bear Cancer Foundation helps honor Carol Burnett with a benefi t auction at the Lobero Theater. Emmy host Jane Lynch is a special presenter; radio talk show host Dennis Miller, Emmy Award-winning comedian and television personality, will serve as Master of Ceremonies, while actor, writer and Montecito resident Billy Baldwin will serve as the event’s offi cial celebrity auctioneer. Auction items include Platinum Passes to SBIFF 2012, tickets to the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “Dancing with the Stars” and other entertainment arenas, and a trip for ten at Casa Quixote on the Mexican Riviera.When: Friday, October 14, 8 pm to 10 pmWhere: Lobero Theater, 33 East Canon Perdido StreetCost: from $150Info: www.lobero.com or www.teddybearcancerfoundation.org

High School Reunion Santa Barbara High School Class of 1976 will celebrate its 35-year reunion with various eventsWhen: Saturday, October 15 and Sunday, October 16Info: www.SBHSclassof1976.com

SAVE THE DATEAll are invited and welcome to attend Our Lady of Mount Carmel School’s 28th Annual Auction Fundraiser, Venetian Masquerade, at the Coral Casino. Beginning at 4 pm, a wonderful evening of festive gathering, silent and live auctions, sunset views, and delicious food. John Palminteri serves as the master of ceremonies, and Bill Mandarino will provide the music for the evening. All proceeds directly benefi t Our Lady of Mount Carmel School.When: Sunday, October 23, 4 pmWhere: 1260 Channel Drive

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29

Positive Parenting PanelEl Montecito Early School presents an opportunity to hear from a wide range of professionals and parents on signifi cant topics for all ages in a question and answer session. Childcare available.When: 6:30 pmWhere: El Montecito Early School, 1455 East Valley Road Info: 969-3566 for additional information

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30

Montecito Union School Jog-a-Thon Beginning after lunch, the students will participate in the jog-a-thon at various times throughout the afternoonWhere: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

SATURDAY OCTOBER 1

Treasure SaleVisiting Nurse & Hospice Care hosts a sale with estate items, furniture, clothing, books, jewelry, housewares and more. The sale benefi ts health care and orphan support in Kenya. When: 9 am to 3 pmWhere: 222 East Canon Perdido StreetInfo: 690-6279

Book Signing at TecoloteAli Javanbakht, M.D., will host a book signing of For the Health of It!When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop,

1470 E. Valley RoadInfo: 969-4977

SUNDAY OCTOBER 2

Historical Perspective in Musical PerformanceJoin Westmont musicinstructor Nona Pyron, who earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from USC, in a discussion of why historical perspective in musical performance matters. The seminar will include a lecture and student performance demonstration about “Preludium: On the Improvisatory Nature of Preludes.”When: 2 pm to 4 pmWhere: Westmont’s Deane Chapel, 955 La Paz RoadInfo: 565-6040

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5

International Walk to School DayLocal school children will get out of cars and get on their feet to walk to school; morning motorists should be extra careful

SATURDAY OCTOBER 8

Ojai Peddler’s FairThe Ojai Peddler’s Fair is held rain or shine, and is chockfull of quality antiques, collectibles, handcrafts and international crafts. This is a benefi t for the Mira Monte PTO. Vendors are sought.When: 9 am to 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday, October 8 & 9Where: Chaparral Auditorium at

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Community Calendarby Kelly Mahan

SUNDAYS

Vintage & Exotic Car DayMotorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles and as close as East Valley Road park in front of Richie’s Barber Shop at the bottom of Middle Road on Coast Village Road going west to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty other autos to admire.

When: 8 am to 10 am (or so)Where: 1187 Coast Village RoadInfo: [email protected]

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MUS Dads Annual Pancake BreakfastThe entire family is invited to enjoy pancakes, eggs and juice made by dads at Montecito Union School; Superhero attire is requested! When: 7:30 am to 10:30 amWhere: 385 San Ysidro RoadCost: $5 per person


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Incident at Roundabout on Coast Village Road

Sunday, 18 September, 2:55 pm – Santa Barbara Police Department was dispatched to the roundabout on Coast Village Road on reports of a two-vehicle collision. Upon arriving at the scene, officers learned that a driver of a scooter was entering the roundabout from Coast Village Road; just as the scooter was going to exit onto Hot Springs Road, an SUV cut off the scooter driver. To avoid a collision, the driver swerved and knocked the scooter on its side. The driver of the SUV drove off and was last seen heading north on Hot Springs Road. Medics reported that the scooter driver had abrasions on his left arm and shoulder, as well as an injury to the hip. The scooter also has damage to the left side. Officers are investigating the incident further. A report was taken.

Robbery at Business on Ortega Hill Road

Tuesday, 27 September, 10:49 am – Deputies were dispatched to Summerland Antique Collective on reports of a robbery. Two female employees reported that around 10:30 am a man entered the store and committed the theft. First he bound the two employees with duct tape and then stole an unreported amount of cash and merchandise from the store. The two employees were left bound for up to twenty minutes before a customer came in and discovered them lying on the floor. Neither of the victims reported any serious physical injuries. The suspect is described as a black male, 6’2-6’4 in height in his late 20s or early 30s. A report was taken.

New Crane Kindergarten Opens

Village Beat by Kelly Mahan

On Monday, September 26, the doors of the newly constructed kindergarten at Crane Country

Day School were opened for the fi rst time. Parents, students, teachers and administrators gathered to mark the occasion with a short ceremony.

Head of School Joel Weiss addressed the school community during an early morning assembly. “I wanted to mark

the opening of the kindergarten; these things don’t happen that often here!” he said. He personally thanked those involved with the new classroom, including architect Ken Radtkey from Blackbird Architects, Crane Board Trustee Rolly Lokre, Giffin & Crane project manager Mike Staniforth,

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The new kindergarten at Crane Country Day School; its doors were open on Monday, September 26


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and Crane Business Manager Dale Dunlap, who oversaw “thousands of aesthetic decisions,” Weiss said. Weiss also thanked general contractor Geoff Crane of Giffin & Crane, whose grandfather founded the school exact-ly 84 years ago.

The new classroom, constructed in fourteen weeks, is more than double the size of the previous cottage. The 2,551-sq-ft classroom, which includes 1,000 square feet of covered, multi-functional outdoor space, was built “round the clock” over the summer, with 35-40 people working on the project at a given time. “We are happy it’s built, but it’s bitter sweet,” Weiss said, “The people working on this project have become members of the Crane family, and now we won’t see them every day anymore.”

The classroom design was a col-laborative effort between building experts, teachers and parents. The new classroom features an enlarged learning space with separate, desig-nated areas that support the co-teach-ing model as well as small-group and individual instruction, Weiss explained. Additional highlights of the classroom include a SMART board, two bathrooms, kid-friendly cubbies, cathedral ceilings and large windows. Another feature, sure to be used by the classroom’s 20 kinder-gartners, is a hobbit-sized door.

The new kindergarten marks the first in a series of upgrades to the school as part of the Master Plan, which was approved by the Montecito Planning Commission in March. The new Conditional Use Permit is intended as a long-range plan to build on the 12-acre site over the next 40 years. The plan includes new classrooms, a multipurpose building, a kitchen, administrative and storage spaces and an enhanced parking lot.

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Kindergarten teachers Andrea Soto and Megan MacMurray, a former Crane kindergartner herself, showing off the interior of their newly con-structed classroom (photo credit: Teresa Pietsch Photography)

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Giffin & Crane project manager and contractor Mike Staniforth and Geoff Crane, Crane Business Manager Dale Dunlap, Crane Board Trustee Rolly Lokre and architect Ken Radtkey from Blackbird Architects in front of the new kindergarten classroom (photo credit: Teresa Pietsch Photography)

Crane kindergartners and teachers Andrea Soto and Megan MacMurray help officially open the new classroom (photo credit: Teresa Pietsch Photography)


In 1986, a few friends got together with an idea to ask one hundred women to donate $100 dollars to

form the One Hundred Committee. In turn they would raise funds for scholarships for Girls Inc. by giving a luncheon and having an inspirational female speaker to go along with the Girls Inc. theme of “Strong, Smart and Bold.”

Among those founders were Carol Scott Wathen and Perri Harcourt. The first luncheon chairs were Joanne Holderman and Jeris Rovsek and it was held at Harcourt’s home. Speakers have come from all walks of life and included luminaries such as Barbara Bush, Arianna Stassinopoulos, Dionne Warwick, Judith Krantz, Betty White, Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver, Florence Henderson and Mariel Hemingway.

This year’s event was hosted by the ever-generous Leslie Ridley-Tree, who also co-chaired it with Sandy Stahl. There never has been a more beautiful luncheon, served with food from the Biltmore and a speaker – celebrity esthetician Kate Somerville

– who brought a few tears to our eyes as we listened to her life struggle for success.

Lunch was served outside in a pavilion draped with sheer fabric sur-rounding a fountain, pond and rose garden. Above that, hanging from the ceiling, were five gigantic moss bas-kets filled with hydrangeas, begonias and ivy. The tables were covered with bejeweled lavender cloths and cen-tered with lavender and soft green flo-ral arrangements done by Jerry from Scott Hogue, Inc.

Leslie spoke to the group of 200 saying, “Welcome to my home.” Her thanks went to co-chair Sandy, Committee president Melody Taft, Girls Inc. Executive Director Monica

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Spear, Lisa Aviani and more. Leslie remarked on how organized these working moms were to get all the jobs done. She introduced Kate who has written a book with the clever title, Complexion Perfection! She is regarded as a leader in her field with a well-to-do client list flocking through the doors of her clinic on Melrose Place in West Hollywood. She also is a QVC star because of her skin care product line.

“My mom was born and raised in Carpinteria. I spent many summers and Christmases here,” Kate told the audience. She also told of hard times after her parents divorced and her mom moved back here when Kate was nine. On State Street she would wait outside bars for her mother to finish drinking and then drive her

home (at age nine!). Her dad remar-ried but the stepmom didn’t work out for Kate. After leaving home at age 15, she attended college in Fresno, but partied too much. Along the way, vari-ous women (like the Girls Inc. women) mentored Kate. In short, because of them she went to esthetician school, worked for a doctor, developed her own line of skin care products, mar-ried, became a mom and opened her clinic.

Kate told us that this morning she had been at the beach with her speech notes and some flowers to sprinkle in the ocean to honor her mother. A rogue wave came in and ruined the notes so “now I’ll throw them away and just speak from the heart.” And

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drawing including Pearls for Girls – Carole Ridding from Silverhorn donated black South Sea Tahitian pearls. Another was an escape to Antigua for seven nights or Recline, Wine and Dine at Hotel Cheval in Paso Robles. Tom Mielko offered to paint a personal portrait in his American-romantic style. All to help with more scholarships for Girls Inc.

Man and Woman of the Year

It’s always exciting to attend the annual Man & Woman of the Year awards presented by the Santa Barbara Foundation (SBF) and KEYT. This was the 69th year and hundreds gathered at the Coral Casino to applaud the winners.

When the press checked in, they gave us a folder with PR information including the names of the winners, which is a highly guarded secret. We had to keep the secret until it was time to take their photos. I was literally sit-ting on the names during dinner with no one at the table knowing but me.

Masters of Ceremonies were PaulaLopez from KEYT and President & CEO of the SBF Ron Gallo. Ron told the crowd, “Volunteerism is crucial

to keeping people, communities and businesses healthy and productive. We should all be proud to have people like our recipients in our midst.”

The first winner to be announced by executive director of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara ColetteHadley was Clifford W. Sponsel. As she said, “Nonprofits seek out people who give at least one of the following – time, talent and trea-sure. Every now and then, they find someone who is willing to give all three and that is Cliff Sponsel.” This classic man who is 101 years young has been a philanthropist for over 50 years. Cliff was raised on a fruit farm without running water or electric-ity in Cambria, New York. He could drive by age five and soon learned to work on machinery. He put him-

self through school selling the fam-ily fruit. A truly self-made man who didn’t always have treasure.

Former President of SBCC Dr. Peter MacDougall announced that Gerd Jordano was the Woman of the Year. She came from Sweden with her mother when she was only eight, speaking no English. For more than 25 years she’s been working for our community with volunteer efforts and service to causes. As president and CEO of Cottage Health System Ron Werft said, “Gerd worked as a nursing professional for over ten years. There is a well-known saying within the profession that ‘nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backward.’ Gerd has never stood still.”

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Man and Woman of the Year Cliff Sponsel and Gerd Jordano

Advisor to the Santa Barbara Foundation Peter Karoff, past recipient of Man of the Year award Palmer Jackson, with president and CEO of the SBF Ron Gallo

Last year’s Woman of the Year Jane Habermann with her husband, Norm

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High Tea by the SeaJudy and Brian Robertson, the cou-

ple who played cupid for Don and me eleven years ago, are celebrating a milestone year with their 24th wed-ding anniversary, Brian’s 70th birthday, 50 years in the travel industry, plus the

completion of their renovated home, aptly named “Puerto de Suenos” or “Harbor of Dreams.”

The celebration invitation stated the port of call was Faria Beach and there would be valet docking ser-vice for the over one-hundred invit-ed friends. At the entrance of their home is this charming welcome: “A harbor is the home of dreams with adventures coming in and going out, making life in the harbor stronger by taking something from the world and giving something in return.” Judy and Brian should know. They have sailed around the world four times.

And they are always giving to those they know. •MJ

Judy and Brian Robertson at the entry to their home at the mile-stones celebration for their friends


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Ty Warner, 67, owner of the San Ysidro Ranch and the Biltmore, is valued at $2.4 billion, making him 166 on the U.S. list, while cell phone innovator Craig McCaw, 62, ranks at 273 jointly with another Montecito resident, real estate magnate Herb Simon, 76, with $1.6 billion.

Closing off the list of “locals” is Peter Sperling, 51, whose father, John, founded the University of Phoenix, America’s largest private university, at 372 with $1.15 billion, while polo playing founder of Colony Capital Tom Barrack, 64, and Warren Buffett’s partner Charles Munger, 87, are both valued at $1 billion.

The biggest gainer of wealth overall is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 27, whose net worth increased a staggering $10.6 billion to a current $17.5 billion, landing him in the top 20 at number 14 for the first time.

Quite a crowd!..

It Tuks Two

After 12 days and 2,000 miles, which saw Montecito’s Jarryd Commerford, 24, and his former classmate, Simon Linsley, 23, drive a three-wheeled seven-horsepower motorized rick-shaw across some of India’s roughest terrain, the dynamic duo completed the challenging task last Thursday, raising more than $15,000 for the Dream Foundation.

The tuk-tuk race, from Shillong, Meghalaya, to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, was not without incident, with Jarryd, whose grandfather, Stan Fishman, is one of the founding members of the popular Santa Barbara charity, being sidelined by a nasty case of “Delhi Belly.”

Near the end of the race, which saw the intrepid twosome, who dubbed themselves “The Mighty Tuks,” com-ing in 16th out of 60 international teams, they tried to squeeze their vehicle into a sewer drain to avoid a huge detour, but without any luck.

They even drove at night en-route from Allahabad to Agra, site of the Taj Mahal.

“Driving at night is a terrifying,

if exhilarating, experience, which we were happy to have over quite quickly,” says Jarryd, a former George Washington University student. “Most cars drive without headlights, but we had a headlamp, LEDs and a Maglite. We were swerving through traffic like we were driving an American diplo-matic convoy through Baghdad!”

As to completing the daunting tour, which even went into Nepal at the base of the Himalayas, Jarryd says on the race blog: “We are very dirty, very smelly and very beardy. Despite chil-dren throwing fist-size rocks at us on the outskirts of the city, we made it! It was the trip of a lifetime. As for now, I think we have earned ourselves a nice warm Indian beer.”

I’ll drink to that...

Leonardo: The Early YearsSanta Barbara Museum of Art

director, Larry Feinberg, took many years of thought, but just months to write his first major tome The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-

Century Florence.The impressive 203-page, lavishly

illustrated book attempts to unveil the reality behind the Renaissance artist, best known as the creator of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.

“He is one of the great painters,” says Larry, who moved here from Chicago in December 2007, after working at the Frick, the National Gallery and the Chicago Arts Institute.

“But there has been this whole mythology about him and I wanted to correct that. This is about the first twenty years of his life, because not much has been written about that period.

“People saw his early works as not being completely formed and he has generally been painted as a transcen-dent genius.”

But Larry, who attained four degrees from Harvard and Northwestern uni-versities, feels otherwise.

“Leonardo had a terrible time fin-ishing anything. He was a perfection-ist. Nothing pleased him. Even the

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The Mighty Tuks – Jarryd Commerford and former class-mate Simon Linsley – show their mettle


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LETTERS LETTERS (Continued from page 9)patio facing one of Henry Moore’s sculptures was an added plus. We missed “Spider-Man,” which was finally just opening.

During the days on this four-day venture, we visited three museums – Guggenheim, Modern Museum of Art (MOMA) and the Metropolitan Museum. The restaurant at MOMA, called the Modern, is difficult to get in but well worth the wait.

So we had it all on our short trip. The excitement and hustle of New York with all its unique entertainment and dining kept us on the run.

But, as the following poem that I wrote, which was perhaps inspired by Robert J. Emmons’ contribution (“Keeping the Magic Alive,” Letters to the Editor MJ # 17/31), suggests, when traveling to New York, don’t get caught in the middle…

New YorkNew YorkFine as a fiddle,A cityIn the middle.

EuropeansCome here in droves.AsiansAs the wind blows.

TaxisRun you over and make you deaf.Bellmen

They take what’s left.

MenAll wearing ties.WomenMeeting on the sly.

RestaurantsChic and dark.With times like theseWe’ll never part.

New YorkFine as a fiddle,A nice place to visitBut don’t get caught in the middle.Frank McGinityMontecito(Frank McGinity is a partner in

McGinity, Nodar and Daley, CPAs. McGinity graduated from Holy Cross College and Columbia Business School. He was a Commander in the Naval Reserves. He is President of the California branch of the American Irish Historical Society and a founder-director of the Bank of Santa Barbara.)

Me And My PacemakerIn my 20s, 30s, and 40s, when stress

and fatigue reached a certain level, my heart would skip a beat and I would pass out. Early on I learned a valuable lesson: if you feel faint, get your head lower than your heart,

immediately. The odds are the heart is not stopping, but is suddenly doing a bad job of pumping. Even a bad job of pumping, with gravity’s help, will push blood to the head and you recover.

Recently, I was trying to put a light switch on a tractor. It was made in China, (I could not find one made in America) and I was really stressed try-ing to get it to work. Very poor work-manship. I was imbedded in the trac-tor. Suddenly I realized I was going out, and I leapt clear and rushed my head below my heart. I passed out before I hit the concrete, but was mov-ing correctly because I got a bump and scrape on the top of the head. Clearly the Siple Maneuver (SM) was work-ing.

Like so many times before, I consid-ered it a stress deal and rested.

The next day, I am feeling okay, but not great. I do the normal things, like my exercises, practice instruments, pat the wife, feed the cat and otherwise prepare for the day. After a stint at the desk working on my radio show, I drive the pick-up down to the lower ranch to do some work. As I entered the driveway to the old house, I real-ized I was going out. Once again, the SM (Siple Maneuver) was executed. As I bailed out of the truck I slammed it into park. My head must have hit the road ditch before the rest of me,

because again I got a bump and scrape on the head. Coming out of these things is kind of like coming out of anesthesia, except you do not know where you are and shock sets in. My mental visions are more like coming back from hell than heaven. Guess that is my lot. Alright, I call my sons on the cell phone. Shaun and Edward come at once, and I am taken home to rest.

Going To The ERThe following morning I awoke at

about 1:30, coming out of one of these nightmares. I get up and go to a recliner where I go to sleep, only to have another episode at about 4 am. The first time, my head was already down. The second time, I once again executed the SM and recovered.

I got up and called the doctor and set up an appointment for 2:30 pm. I experience two more episodes at home and now have a rug burn on my head to join the other two scrapes. Susan and I head for Ventura early. I sit in the single seat in the middle of the van, so that if I have another I can execute the SM. I do and I do. I am lying on the floor of the van and Susan is driving with great deter-mination to the Emergency room at Ventura Community Memorial. We arrive.

Immediately, a young man comes to the van with a wheelchair and I am taken directly to an ER. Nothing to fill out, not one minute of delay. They take the story from Susan and myself, and they begin hooking me up. You know the drill. Needles in the hand, arms and pressure gauges et al. They check my eyes, ears and throat and just about when the monitors are working well, I have the final episode of the day. Number six. This time I cannot execute the SM because of the hookups and side rails. I go into cardiac arrest and Susan says the bells and whistles went off. The room immediately filled with staff, faster than I could say “Jack in the Bean Stalk.” Well of course I could not say “Jack in the

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Bean Stalk,” because technically I was dead. A nurse began the old hit-the-chest-over-the-heart routine, and the heart started again. Susan says my very white body began to turn red. Very red. She says she could actually see the blood sweep-ing over my nude body. I came back to be with all of you. Wasn’t that considerate of me?

Alive and WellWithin minutes a cardiologist, Dr.

Andrew Lee, came to my bedside and said, “We are going to surgery and I am going to give you the best pace-maker money can buy.” I never heard of the guy, but he looked good and graduated from Stanford. Mind you only minutes are going by and no one, except Susan, knows who I am. Hell, by this time I do not even know who I am. I am just a human being with Medicare and supplemental insurance who needs help. I am whisked into surgery and it goes down without a hitch. Well, there was a stitch or two to sew up. General Lee inserted two wires into the heart, hooked them up, and lo, I have no problems with the heart. The pacemaker is sewed to the muscle near the incision and that is it, for five to seven years. Battery change you know.

Having battled back eight times, and having been declared tech-

nically dead, I took a couple of days off. I did my radio show on Tuesday, worked for OC, and other-wise enjoyed each and every minute. The hospital then ran all manner of tests on the heart and the great news is that the arteries and veins are in great shape. No damage, and no reason to limit activity once my strength comes back. I saw General Lee again and he says all is well on the Western Front.

Now the lessons:Follow the SM if you ever feel faint;Do not wait as long as I did – dumb

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Know where that ER is, no matter where you are;

Do not fear a pacemaker; I do not even know it is there;

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Mona Lisa took him decades to do and he never gave it to his patron.”

As to the centuries-old rumor that the Mona Lisa’s face is really a reflection of da Vinci’s, Larry says: “Absolutely not. It’s a real woman and we even know who she was!”

And as to writing his letters in a secret code, Larry says Leonardo was left-handed and simply did not want to smear the ink.

“Leonardo was not the great sci-entist everyone thought. He only got a couple of years of formal educa-tion and didn’t know Latin or Greek, which was important at the time.”

Larry, who will be discussing his book at the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium on October 27, says he would like to write two more tomes on da Vinci, making a trilogy.

“But, given all the research needed, that will probably have to wait until my retirement,” he adds...

Lowe’s Cool ComposureRob Lowe kept his cool during

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Montecito-based Rob, 47, star of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” was traveling with his 18-year-old son, Matthew, in first class on Virgin Airways.

In the middle of helping his son, who has been interning in House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office during the summer, the trip turned decidedly rocky, but the actor, a veter-an air traveler, remained unperturbed.

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Sand Snakes for the Win

Cafe Del Sol’s first official volley-ball tournament, between the Sand Commandos, coached by Gary Cummins, and the Sand Snakes, under the athletic tutelage of Jim Clive, at East Beach, was a closely contested affair.

But Jim’s team, with Bill Davis, Steve Crawford, Joannie Wagner, Clyde Bennett and Dakota McIntyre, just had the edge, winning the Sears Perpetual Volleyball Championship Trophy, which was presented by the popular nosheteria’s owner, Jack Sears.

“Each game was incredibly close,” says Trish Davis, the organizer. “Some of us spent more time in the sand than on it!”

The brass trophy, complete with the ball, signed by all the players, will reside above the bustling bar until the next contest...

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ed a positively perky pink fascinator, even had pink soles on his black pat-ent Velcro-fastened sneakers!

The event, co-chaired by Dinah Calderon and Rachael Stein, was creatively decorated by local party guru Merryl Brown, with pink and white balloons floating in the pool, while a decidedly androgynous per-sonality, decked out in a gigantic pink wig – a mix of Madame de Pompadour and Zandra Rhodes – with a large ruffle-trimmed round table circling her waist, circulated around the guests, including Mike and Anne Towbes, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Brian King, Hiroko Benko, Corinna Gordon, Justin Klentner and Amanda Masters, Paige Beard, Thomas Rollerson, Maryanne Contreras, Susan McCaw and Ricardo Calderon.

Nearly $90,000 was raised before the party even began, with another $35,000 expected to come in from the silent and live auctions, which includ-ed stays at the Biltmore, a Padaro Lane beach house and a condo in Vail, Colorado.

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Furry Friends

Santa Barbara author Karen Lee Stevens has launched her first chil-dren’s book, Animals Have Feelings, Too!

Filled with humor and whimsical illustrations by San Diego-based Teri Rider, this enchanting and educa-tional 32-page A to Z guide takes younger readers on a journey through the alphabet with the help of lovable Labrador, Sandy.

“By the time a child reaches the age of 3, they begin to learn that their behavior and actions, both positive and negative, can greatly impact on an animal’s health and well-being,” says Karen. “This understanding allows them to develop a responsible stew-ardship for animals.”

Published through the charity, All for Animals, the book was made pos-sible through a generous grant by the

Wendy P. McCaw Foundation, started by the publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Karen, who also wrote All For Animals: Tips and Inspiration for Living a More Compassionate Life ten years ago, will be reading from her new book at the Montecito Library on October 24.

She has also held several “Compassion for Critters” workshops at Montecito Union School.

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Horsin’ Around

Horses and riders were out in force for the Montecito Trails Foundation’s 26th annual barbe-cue at the Montecito Valley Ranch home of Hal and Mary Coffin after enjoying the pleasures of the 300 miles of trails in the area, which the popular organization tends and keeps open.

A record 170 guests helped raise around $40,000 for the cause despite the overcast skies, with Gail Young, Gail Persoon and Bobbi King co-chairing the bash.

Kevin Snow, the foundation’s president, says it was the first time two trail races had been sponsored, with short and long courses of six and ten miles.

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The one-to-ones are taking place at St. James’s Palace in London through-out the fall.

William’s mother, the late Princess Diana, complained bitterly at being thrown into official duties without training or coaching.

Kate has carried out just one official engagement since marrying the future King William V in April.

But her duties are set to increase when Buckingham Palace reveals the charities she will be supporting in her role as a royal patron in the New Year.

“Kate is being briefed on how the state works, getting to know the national institutions better and learn-ing more about organizations such as the arts, the media and the govern-ment,” says my palace mole. “It is a

process that will carry on for several months.”

Her official engagements will be kept to around one a month until then, to give her time to become accus-tomed to her new life in the global spotlight...

Sightings: Josh Brolin and wife, Diane Lane, noshing at Olio e Limone... Oscar nominee Edward James Olmos spotted strolling near Stearns Wharf... Drew Barrymore checking out the new vegetarian eat-ery, Adama

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

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An anonymous donor contrib-uted all costs associated with the kindergarten classroom construction. Despite its increased size, the kin-dergarten class retains its smallness; there are 20 students and two full-time teachers, Megan MacMurray and Andrea Soto. The five-year-olds began instruction in the new build-ing following the assembly; a grand opening ribbon was cut to mark the occasion as fellow students and par-ents applauded.

The kindergarten classroom will be open for tours during Crane’s annual Country Fair on October 30. To schedule an appointment to tour

the facility, call Julia Davis, 695-0536 ext. 127. Crane Country Day School, an independent school, is located at 1795 San Leandro Lane in Montecito.

Save the Date At its monthly board meeting,

Coast Village Business Association announced Monday, October 31, will be the date of Ghost Village Road, the annual trick-or-treat fest on Coast Village Road. Last year, the event was not held on Halloween, as it fell on a Sunday.

The goal of the event is to provide a safe trick-or-treating environment

for local kids, and there will be Halloween-themed festivities along the road. Montecito Inn will be the site of a haunted house, themed Pirates of the “Scare-ibbean,” while Here’s the Scoop owners Bob and Ellie Patterson will again feature a photo opportunity and costume contest, with the winners’ pictures displayed here in the Journal. The Pattersons will pass out their famous “Worms ‘n’ Dirt” gelato.

Most shop owners will participate in passing out candy and mingling with Montecito and Santa Barbara residents who will make their way down the traffic-controlled street.

Members of the Coast Village Road Business Association will don bright orange vests to help costumed kids and their parents cross the street.

Last year, over 1,000 visitors made their way along Ghost Village Road. Motorists are reminded to use extra caution along Coast Village Road during the event, and to avoid driv-ing in the area if possible.

The festivities begin after school at 3:30 pm and will continue to 6:30 pm or thereabouts.

Getting InvolvedMontecito residents Carole Lieff,

Marc Beauparlant and others tra-versed Coast Village Road last week, hoping to get merchant involvement on several issues facing Montecito. “We are trying to inform people and telling them to speak up!” Lieff tells us.

“Coast Village Road is about to become a parking lot,” Lieff says. She says the South Coast High Occupancy Vehicle project, which will bring a third lane to Montecito and cause reconfiguration of local interchanges, will bring unintend-ed traffic to Coast Village Road. Caltrans is discussing several dif-ferent options for the $425 million project, which spans 10.3 miles from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara. All of the options being discussed, per Caltrans regulations, will close the Hot Springs Road northbound exit, possibly creating more traffic along Coast Village Road.

Also on Lieff’s radar is the pro-posed YMCA remodel and expan-sion on Santa Rosa Lane. “Traffic is already a nightmare on San Ysidro Road,” she says. The proposed YMCA project, which will expand the square footage of the facility from 11,540 square feet to 32,471, includes a second-story addition to the main building, remodeled locker rooms, a larger outdoor pool, a new natatorium building with indoor pool, a covered gymnasium and a new preschool facility.

“The Montecito Association is not representing what the commu-nity wants,” Lieff says. She says it’s important that Montecito resi-dents attend MA meetings, Board of Supervisor meetings, Montecito Planning Commission hearings and Santa Barbara County Association of Governments meetings.

In response, Montecito Association president Dick Nordlund tells us: “We are an open and public group, and we welcome the participation.” He pointed out that the Montecito Association has sponsored numer-ous town hall forums and commu-nity meetings to tackle issues fac-ing Montecito. “Our door is always open,” he said.

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In other MA news, Nordlund tells us plans are in progress to hold two more forums in November. One will gather the dozens of community housing associations with represen-tatives from the Montecito Board of Architectural Review, Montecito Planning Commission and First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal’s office. “We want to let residents know how they can be assisted in the county with various concerns,” Nordlund says.

Another November forum is planned for non-profits in Montecito, including schools, Westmont, Lotusland, Casa del Herrero and oth-ers. If you are interested in attend-ing either forum, call the Montecito Association office at 805-969-2026.

The next Montecito Association board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11 at 4 pm at 1469 East Valley Road.

Summer for Kids To celebrate its third anniversary,

Summer For Kids on Coast Village Road is collaborating with Soles4Souls to collect gently-worn shoes to donate to people who need them. Throughout the entire month of October, beginning this Saturday, you can donate new or gently-worn footwear to the store.

Since 2005, Soles4Souls has distrib-uted more than 15 million pairs of shoes worldwide. Visit www.give-shoes.org for more information.

Also in celebration of their anni-versary, Summer for Kids introduces Manicure & Pedicure day on Saturday, October 1. The plan is to host the day on the first Saturday of every month. The store, which carries organic and eco-friendly baby and children’s prod-ucts, uses only nontoxic and water-based polish for little fingers and toes. The event runs from 10 am to 12 noon; cost is $10 per manicure or pedicure.

Summer For Kids donates 100% of profits to local charities; the store is located at 1235 Coast Village Road Suite C. Visit www.summerforkids.com for more information. •MJ


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After the champagne toast ceremo-ny, I asked Ruth, now director of business operations, how this concept began and was surprised to learn that dreams, love and an epiphany were all at work in its formation.

She explained, “I was not really a marine mammal person at first since I worked in the hospitality and consult-ing business in Chicago. I met Sam, a veterinary specialist in dolphins and marine mammals, and I visited him in Santa Barbara. We drove up the coast to Gaviota and happened upon this abandoned school property. We both gazed upon it and suddenly, Sam was struck and had this ‘vision’ of starting a marine center there and shared it with me. I fell in love with the idea too, moved to Santa Barbara, and we have been pursuing the vision ever since. Captain Fred Benko, owner of the Condor Express, put us in touch with J.J. Hollister, whose family owned the coastal property, and he was very receptive to the idea and after seven years of work, here we are,” she said.

“By the way,” she smiled, “Sam and I were married on Fred’s boat in November 2003 and we started our non-profit January 2004.” I can see why J.J. – and Sam for that matter –

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would be charmed by Ruth; she has an infectious warmth and uplifting manner that puts one immediately at ease.

Million-Dollar DolphinsSam, president of CIMWI, was easy

to talk with as well when he discussed the project further. “I worked first at Marine World in San Diego and then at the one in Orlando for a total of ten years. I fell in love with Santa Barbara and moved here where I became a consultant at the Santa Barbara Zoo and continued to travel quite a bit in doing my other dolphin veterinarian consulting. Working on the Institute has taken all my spare time,” he said.

I learned from one of the volunteers that a dolphin in captivity is worth over one million dollars so flying Sam to Dubai or Florida or other distant locations is a small price to pay for his advice and treatment on such prized mammals.

Some may remember the Vista Del Mar School, which closed in 1996. “The property was dedicated by our family for educational, non-commer-cial use and was used by the Santa Barbara County school system for years. But in 1996, it was decided that the nearby Chevron facility had pro-duced some toxins that were deemed unfit for the children there,” J.J. Hollister explained. He goes on, “The kids were moved to a new school at Las Cruces which is a ‘wide spot in

the road’ north on the 101, past the Hwy 1 turn-off to Lompoc and just past the Nojoqui grade. The beautiful new school is the only building in the place that was once a flourishing town in the twenties and thirties. Chevron did a good job of cleaning up things, but for years the property just sat there and fell into disrepair. Then, in 2003, Sam and Ruth approached me with their idea of a marine mammal and wildlife facility and it seemed a perfect fit. We have been most pleased with the outcome and dedicating this property to them.”

The non-profit marine institute is run entirely by volunteers number-ing close to 50 and it has only been a year since they received a $100,000 John H. Prescott Grant that allowed them to do major renovation of the facility and building. They are dedi-cated to working on all marine mam-mals like dolphins and whales, but lately have mainly focused on sea lions. Their goal is to create a world-class marine mammal institute at this historic Gaviota school site with its Spanish-colonial style. They will be hiring their first official employee and hope to receive more community sup-port and funding soon.

Judging from the positive energy emanating from the many friends of Sam and Ruth that gathered that sunny day, many more “sunny days” lie ahead. For more information or to offer support for this institute, visit their website at www.cimwi.org. •MJ

Sam and Ruth Dover are now in charge of CIMWI, the marine mam-mal institute, located on the Gaviota coast at the old Vista Del Mar school site


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Veterans Chapter 218 has been work-ing on bringing the Vietnam Moving Wall to Santa Barbara, I have had a lot of time to reflect about its meaning and its impact 40 years after the end of that tragic war. I feel like I, and most of the men and women who wore the uniform in the 1960s and ‘70s are start-ing to finally discover one good thing that came out of more than ten years of torturous conflict and the loss of 58,000 of our brothers and sisters.

I believe that one good thing is that the American public has finally learned to separate the war from the warrior.

Today, most Americans strongly support our troops and our veterans of Grenada, Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These soldiers and sail-ors, men and women are showered with mail and care packages. They are welcomed home with parades and long weekends of celebration to acknowledge their return and pay tribute to their bravery and sacrifice.

I personally experienced a sign of the one good thing that has happened to change the way that Americans feel about their military last December, on a sky trip to Colorado. I was wear-ing a battered baseball cap (those of you who have ever met me know I don’t have any other kind) with the Navy Wings above the bill. A 30-something attendant on the plane walked up to me and said: “Welcome home sir; thank you for your service. Everything on this aircraft is at your beck and call.”

That was the first and only time that had happened to me since I finished my service in 1970, took off my uni-form and never looked back… until now... with The Wall coming here to Santa Barbara to honor us all.

It’s been a very long time since most of us were brought back from our tours in Vietnam in the middle of the night so that we would have

the least amount of exposure to the hostile public at airports, train and bus stations. We Vietnam Vets were denied a day honoring the end of the war or even an acknowledgement of victory of any kind. As a ten year old I will never forget the ticker tape parade broadcast from New York I saw that welcomed the men home from the end of the Korean War. As a young man of 28, I cannot forget those images on television of our boys being shipped home in body bags and the flag-draped caskets lined up, row upon row on the tarmacs of so many airports.

Finally, in 1983, a monument to those who made the ultimate sacri-fice was designed and constructed and now we do have The Wall – both in a powerful permanent monument and its traveling partner that makes it accessible to many of the people of the United States every five years or so. Its meaning and impact will forever be our Normandy, our D Day, our Iwo Jima, and our Choson. And everyone who wore the uniform then has earned this recognition. It is ours alone and it is our only real lasting legacy.

I now hear over and over again from today’s soldiers, sailors, Marines that they are so grateful for the support and the gratitude they receive from the public. And they all believe it’s because of how we Vietnam Vets were treated.

I hope it’s true. It makes what we did back then feel

honorable and worthwhile. We did what we were told to do and tried to do the best job possible under the circumstances. The guiding principle was our faith in each other above all else and our willingness to serve our country even if we questioned the cause.

“Welcome home and thank you for your service.”

And for the rest of the commu-nity, please join the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 218, the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans’ Museum and Library and other sponsors at the Vietnam Moving Wall here in Santa Barbara. The Opening Ceremony will be held at noon on Saturday, October 1 at Chase Palm Park. Major General Joseph Franklin, former Commandant of West Point, will be the Keynote Speaker and there will be a flyover of aircraft from that era at the end of the ceremony. The Moving Wall will be available for visitation from Thursday, September 29 until the afternoon of Monday, October 3. Veterans of Vietnam will be available to provide information and share the stories of their experiences. Everyone is welcome.

John W. BlankenshipLt., USNR, 1965 - 1970Montecito •MJ

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BOOK TALK by Shelly Lowenkopf

A View from the Fringe

The haunting twang of narrative voice has long been a staple of fi rst-rate American fi ction,

capturing regional idioms and notions like a strand of fl ypaper on a summer day. Our literature is so fi lled with this distinctive voice – Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, to name a mere few – that we tend to take it for granted, noticing only when it is not there, then wondering what went wrong.

Taking this rich heritage for granted becomes one possible explanation for the questioning lift of eyebrows when the name Daniel Woodrell is men-tioned in connection with the fiction of the past quarter century. To date, Woodrell has published eight novels of high and often mischievous originality, trumped only by their dramatic inten-sity. Woodrell exudes the same kind of association with narrative a chiroprac-tor has with a spine. His most recent publication, The Outlaw Album, from Little Brown, is a collection of twelve short stories.

As he did with his best-known novel, Winter’s Bone, also a successful motion picture released in 2010, Woodrell has captured the lightning in a bottle of his Missouri Ozark vernacular in The Outlaw Album. He has also captured – as few other writers before him have – the arresting, beguiling patina of noir, the particular ambience of litera-ture that is the equivalent of blues in music. Noir is reality, seen through the prism of cynicism and made-in-China counterfeits of love, hope and justice. Like the blues, noir is not complaint; it is the operatic coping with the grit of fact, the gap between aspiration and attainment.

Daniel Woodrell, who was born in 1953, owns noir the way Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain owned it in their time. His people speak and think Ozark noir. Like a well-trained retriever, it comes to him when he calls it. With the exception of a brief fling in the Louisiana bayou country (see The Bayou Trilogy for his ventures into the crime novel) and a post-Civil War historical set in Kansas (also made into a film), Woodrell has stayed close to his Ozark roots in his choice of set-tings, imparting a near mystical evo-cation of the landscape and its deni-zens. As Anton Chekhov, one of the acknowledged saints of contemporary fiction, advised writers, Woodrell does not judge, he observes. Through his observations, we can see his devoted

understanding of the persons and their places.

At a key point in the short story “Returning the River,” Woodrell’s nar-rator observes: “The sheriff’s car had stopped on the road and the deputy stood in the opened door talking into the radio, calling for help. He was studying the woods, looking for paths he might follow to give chase, but we remembered them all from before we were born and walked on laughing, down the spiraled path to low ground and away through a rough patch of scrub, into a small stand of pine trees and the knowing shadow they laid over us, our history, our trespassing boots.”

The title and text of the story, “The Echo of Neighborly Bones,” is as lay-ered with irony as Roquefort cheese is with mold. The narrator, known only as Boshell, has just returned home to dinner with his wife, Evelyn, after having killed their neighbor, Jepperson, “an opinionated foreigner from Minnesota.” When Evelyn wants to know, “Wherever’d you get off to?” Boshell confesses killing the neighbor wasn’t enough, that he “just can’t get to feeling done” with Jepperson.

“In all this rain?”If we lift a brow at this country

noir, we do so at the peril of ignoring strategies of revenge set in motion, or considering tribal rituals in Iraq and Afghanistan quaint. Jepperson, you see, has made good on his threat to shoot Evelyn’s dog if Bitsy eats one more of his guinea hens.

“That,” Boshell tells Jepperson, “ain’t

the neighborly way, mister. If’n Bitsy was to rip a guinea or two, just tell us.”

Jepperson is quick to reply that he is not eager to be neighborly with “you people. Have you not noticed that?”

After doing Jepperson in (with a squirrel gun), Boshell nudges the corpse. “They go for about a dollar fifty a bird, neighbor – still seem worth it?”

Each of the twelve stories is wrapped in a tight coil about the armature of some tangible, primal emotion, among them emotions of acute tenderness, near paranoid suspicion (resulting in the burning down of an outsider’s house), and examples of the Social Contract as though taken from a bib-lical text. They all have irresistible, poetical openings.

“Morrow wondered if he might soon die because of a beautiful girl from his teens he’d never had the nerve to approach.”

“Florianne” begins, “If they ever catch who took my daughter, I’ll prob-ably know him. Maybe I’ve known

him all my life; maybe he’s only a familiar face and name. I might have given him credit at the store, let his tab ride till next Friday or the one after, carried groceries to the car for his wife, cut two pounds from a chub of bolo-gna and shaved it paper thin the way he likes.”

Every bit as deft with his delinea-tions of characters as he is with his

landscape, Woodrell’s exquisite Ozark specificity transforms the cold tang of his winters, the running-up-the-arm shock of axe blade hitting fire wood, the earthy surprise of homegrown tomatoes splashing into the mouth, from southeast Missouri to wherever it is we have lived in a place that enters our deep-sleep dreams, where we are most vulnerable to transmitted memory.

Amazingly, these twelve stories tran-spire in a mere 167 pages, leaving you to wonder how he got so many com-plex characters to step forth and reveal so much about themselves of in such a cramped venue. •MJ

Montecito resident Shelly Lowenkopf blogs @ www.lowenkopf.com. He has reviewed for metropolitan daily and weekly papers since 1973. His latest

book is The Fiction Lover’s Companion, in trade paper and e-book format.

Daniel Woodrell’s The Outlaw Album is com-prised of 12 short stories with complex charac-ters that speak and think Ozark noir

Daniel Woodrell, who was born in 1953, owns noir the way Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain owned it in their time.

His people speak and think Ozark noir. Like a well-trained retriever, it comes to him when he calls it.


Just a short note to inform Montecito Journal readers that by going to our website – montecitojournal.net –

and entering your email address then clicking “subscribe,” you will have signed up to receive our digital edition of the Journal electronically. More on this next week…

We Told You So

“This sure looks semi-rural!” Craig Boehr opined as he sent us this photo of the ongoing federally financed “Safe Route To School” under construction on the west side of San Ysidro Road. “I’m sure it’ll turn out to be just a lovely ‘meandering pathway’ that fits so well into our community,” he adds, somewhat cynically. We’ll have a more comprehensive update in next week’s edition, but one look at this federally mandated ADA-compliant concrete ramp is all one needs to realize that “meandering” isn’t exact-ly the look likely to be achieved by the finished product. We’ll withhold final judgment until the entire thing is finished, but we did editorialize our opposition to this project, sug-gesting instead a community effort rather than a $300,000-plus federal

project. But, well, you gets what you pays for…

Along the WaterfrontIf you haven’t been to the harbor

lately (and, if you haven’t been invit-ed to sail with Ted Tedesco on the classic Hinckley Pilot 35 sailboat he purchased in Maine and had shipped here about a month ago, neither have I; “many consider this model to be the most perfect 35-footer ever made,” says Ted), then you may not have experienced the new outdoor patio at Chuck’s Waterfront Grill. If you haven’t, you should. It’s always com-fortably cozy, regardless of the outside temperature. Maybe it’s the radiant heat under the floor, or perhaps the clear glass wrap-around windscreen, or even the flaming fire pits near every table, but the Waterfront Grill’s patio is always warm and friendly. Did I mention it has the very best view in Santa Barbara of the harbor, the ocean, the wharf, and the nearby mountains?

Well, it does. And, coincidentally, Chuck’s Waterfront Grill has just been awarded a Santa Barbara Beautiful 2011 award for the aforementioned deck, which, in addition to every-thing already mentioned, features an unusual sail-and-mast motif overhead that makes it easy to spot from virtu-ally anywhere at the harbor. The sails help keep any hot sun off cool heads. We usually stop in the Grill for a boat-load of popcorn shrimp and a glass of wine, but a fine fish dinner is always just a waiter away.

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Day of Play at Elings Park

Elings Park, reputedly the coun-try’s largest privately funded public park, will soon be the recipient of Santa Barbara Beautiful’s 2011 award for Open Space. In celebration of the honor, the park is hosting its first annual Day of Play Festival. The free event takes place Sunday October 2 from 12 noon to 4 pm.

The event will feature a rock climb-ing wall, three bounce houses, carni-val booths, face painters, henna tattoo artists, seven food trucks (O Street Truck, Lickety Splits, The Burger Bus, Road Dogs, Green & Tasty, Thai On A Truck, and Woodfire Pizza), a beer garden, demonstrations and music provided by five local bands (Conor Patrick, Courtney O’Donnell, The Balladiers, False Puppet and Haddon Cord).

All net proceeds will be split between the Park’s activity groups (AYSO, SB Lacrosse, SB Soccer Club, BMX, Paragliders, Rugby, Softball and SB Flyers) and the non-profit Park. Sponsors of the event include Giffin & Crane General Contractors;

Atherton Lane; Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf; Bryant & Sons; Buynak-Fauver, Flowers & Associates and Jordano’s.

Among those who helped create this public space thirteen years ago were Montecito residents Marcia Constance, Carolyn Amory, Bowen Farrell, Joanie Zacher, Sharon Bradford, Jim Petrovich, Gen. Mike Rogers, Mike Noling, Tom Fly, as well as many others. Without their help, “the park would be a much different place,” says Bruce Giffin of Giffin & Crane, who is underwrit-ing the Day of Play. Bruce (whose firm has built two homes for Elings Park benefactors Marcia and Jamie Constance) has been involved in the park since its founding the day Virgil Elings sailed in, landing on the park’s entrance via paraglider. “You know, that park has one of the best hills in the world for paragliders,” Bruce notes, laughing.

So, how does the park, which receives no public money, survive? I asked.

“Sixty percent of the park’s annu-al operating revenues come from activity fees that people pay,” Bruce explains, “whether it’s the paraglid-ers or the soccer clubs or… One of the biggest sources of revenue for the park,” he continues, “is Godric Grove; that’s the place where peo-ple get married, have celebrations, and it’s an incredible setting with great views. Godric Grove probably generates almost twelve to fifteen percent of the park’s operating rev-enue.”

About 30% of the park’s operating budget comes in from contributions and the last 10% comes from endow-ment support.

Anyone interested in adding to that endowment, or supporting the park in other ways, or simply wishing to enquire about the use of Godric Grove should call Steve Katz, presi-dent of the park, at 805-966-4181 or Steve Hudson, executive director, at 805-569-5611. “They are booking events for next year; it’s a popular place for weddings,” says Bruce, but

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The cozy, radiantly heated, glassed in, sail-festooned patio at Waterfront Grill

Bruce Giffin (left) of Giffin & Crane is underwrit-ing the Elings Park Day of Play scheduled for Sunday, October 2; he is seen here on a construction site with his business part-ner Geoff Crane

Chuck’s Waterfront Grill co-owner Steve Hyslop says it took six long years between getting permission to build and final con-struction of the hand-some new patio


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He’s in the Running

Last Sunday in Carpinteria, former Supervisor Mike Stoker competed in his first triathlon. “This was a per-sonal goal I’ve always had,” Mike said before the race. His goal was not only to finish the race, but to do it in under an hour and a half, and to garner donations for four institu-tions: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute, Court Appointed Special Advocates, and Santa Barbara/Montecito YMCA.

Making It Work at Costco

Make It Work, Inc. announced it will offer its onsite tech services at 20 Southern California Costco Warehouses in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties Costco locations. Make It Work found-er and CEO Eric Greenspan is a long-time Montecito resident.

Make It Work will begin selling its services at Costco beginning in the fourth quarter of this year, so look for their logo next time you visit. For more, visit www.makeitwork.com.

A Great IDEAMontecito homeowners John

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“This home showcases the greatest advantage of steel design: openness and floor plan flexibility,” commented Duff Zimmerman, operations man-ager, Cooper Steel (AISC Member), Shelbyville, Tenn., and a judge in the competition.

Structural steel is apparently manu-factured primarily from scrap metal, making it inherently a “green” materi-al. “After being fabricated offsite,” we are told, “the steel frame can be rap-idly erected and does not generate the typical amount of construction waste caused by wood frame construction.” Unlike most steel-framed buildings – where the steel is concealed from view

– this building was designed so that all of its steel connections are exposed and visible.

Another important factor in choos-ing materials for this residence, locat-ed in a fire-prone area, is steel’s inher-ent non-combustible nature.

Santi’s HonorsOver the years, Santa Barbara-

based photographer Santi Visalli has received a number of honors and awards, having taken photos of virtu-ally every latter-day 20th century nota-

ble in crisp black & white and color. In May of this year, Mr. Visalli traveled to Italy for the umpteenth time and while in Messina, Sicily, received even more recognition, including a medal for Life Achievement, given to him personally by Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic. Professor Claudio Stazzone, Principal of the Jaci Institute in Messina, was also on hand to bestow even more honors upon Santi’s head. The Jaci Institute, was named after the great Italian scientist Antonio Maria Jaci, who died in 1815. •MJ

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Mark and I, continuing our Sunday stroll along Coast Village Road, passed Gaspar’s Jewelry, Richie the Barber, and Giovanni’s, approaching

the Fabulous Fabian Salon. Arriving at UPS in its new, improved loca-tion, we stopped, incredulous. Up ahead was an eye-popping scene. In the parking area outside 1187 Coast Village Road was a sampling of the world’s most gorgeous cars. Mark was blown away. And he knows rare cars.

Most car shows have strict require-ments. In “Wheels and Waves,” Andy Granatelli’s annual show, car entries must be American and built prior to 1976. On Sunday mornings on Coast Village Road, anything and everything goes, from antique cars and motorcycles, to the very new-est automobiles from around the world. Recent cars seen include a ’55 Mercedes gull-wing in silver, lov-ingly restored by the original owner. Hope Ranch’s Angel Martinezshowed up in a 1965 Buick Riviera in midnight pearl with a pale blue interior. Angel did the car’s mechan-ical restoration; Goleta’s Rene Ascaruntz, a fine job on the exterior. The Riviera was known as “the doc-tor car” because, at the time, only doctors could afford it. It cost $8,000 in 1965 when a deluxe Cadillac sold for $6,500.

Since it’s a show for connois-seurs, the people are fun. A sam-pling of those one may meet at eight on a Sunday morning include the world’s youngest member of the Porsche cognoscenti who, at 14, currently matriculates at Laguna Blanca School; the original owner of

a ‘63 Corvette; New Zealander, Tom, proud driver of a red ‘51 Crosley, with 260 rare motorcycles in his garage. A special treat was getting close up to the new performance vehicle from Lexus. The car sounds like an F1 with a price tag to match at $400,000.

In the European Speed Department, the show has them all: a 1963 red Ferrari 275GT ($900,000); a copper Berlinetta, circa 1962; a 1961 Alfa Romeo ($100,000); and the fastest production car ever built by Porsche: the 2011 GT2 RS. For us, the most fun was getting acquainted with the refined owner of a yellow open-wheel Jaguar Kougar (only 32 were factory-built in 1964), whose claim that his car was demonically fast was verified when he handed us the keys. It was fast and it was a blast! What differentiates this show and makes it unique in the car collecting universe, is the hands-on restoration experience of the car owners coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of rare cars in general.

On Sunday mornings, California car buffs from all over the land come to Coast Village Road to show and see cars. It’s a real car gathering with real car people who like noth-ing more than talking about cars. It’s a unique “Cars & Coffee” get-together with lots of good places for breakfast nearby. There’s never enough time to talk with them all. And, the best reason for coming back? It’s free! •MJ

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The Coast Village Car ShowCarole Lieff admires a little red Fiat during a Sunday morning Coast Village Road Car Show

Vintage Jaguar parked outside 1187 Coast Village Road on a typical Sunday morning

A rare 1955 Mercedes Gull Wing makes a pit stop during Coast Village Road’s Sunday morning car show

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While the number of borrowers defaulting on federal student loans has

jumped sharply, Westmont is bucking the trend. The national two-year cohort default rate rose to 8.8% last year, from 7% in fi scal 2008, according to the Department of Education, which released the fi gures September 12. During the same period, Westmont’s default rate decreased from 1.3% to 0.9% in 2009.

“While the national default rate is increasing, Westmont students are stepping up to repay their loans – even in a difficult economy,” says Sean Smith, Westmont Director of Financial Aid.

The DOE reports the cohort default rates increased for all sectors – from 6% to 7.2% for public institutions and from 4 to 4.6 percent for private insti-tutions.

“Obviously, a good deal of credit goes to our students,” Smith says. “We also have wonderful folks in the financial aid department who coun-sel students about the responsibilities of taking out education loans. Their work ensures that future students will continue to benefit from these student aid programs.”

Of the 304 Westmont students who graduated in 2009, 210 (69%) began making loan payments in 2009. Students who go straight to graduate school don’t begin repaying loans until after they complete their advanced degrees.

Students at institutions in the California State system are being hit from two sides, watching tuition increase up to 32% at a time when the economy has stalled, making it more difficult for graduates to find jobs.

“State budget cuts have forced many public colleges and universities to limit enrollment and to signifi-cantly reduce course availability, mak-ing it difficult for students to enroll in the classes they want and need,” says Silvio Vazquez, Westmont Dean of Admissions. “Westmont will not make any such cuts.”

This semester, Westmont raised tuition, fees, and room and board rates by a total of 3.5%. Two years ago, the college froze tuition and all salaries.

According to the DOE, almost one of every 12 recent California college graduates with student loans default-ed within two years of starting repay-ment – if they ever started making

payments at all. About 21,500 former California students scheduled to start loan repayment between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009 default-ed by September 30, 2010.

Jackson Joins Foundation

Susan Jackson, a long-time volun-teer in the Santa Barbara community, has joined the Westmont Foundation Board of Directors, which cultivates ties between the college and the com-munity. Jackson is married to Palmer Jackson Jr., chief operating officer for Cogi, a technology start-up he co-founded in 2007.

The foundation sponsors the Westmont President’s Breakfast, which features prominent speakers such as Condoleezza Rice (2011) and President Vicente Fox (2010), and the lecture series “Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter.”

“Westmont is a special place because it attracts young adults who exem-plify Christian principles and who are good role models in our community,” Jackson says. “As a board member, I’ll have an inside view of what’s going on at Westmont, and it enables me to serve as an ambassador.”

Jackson graduated from UC Berkeley and earned a Master’s degree from Lancaster University, U.K. She is an active volunteer with Crane School, Cate School, Casa Del Herrero and the Garden Club.

Jackson, who moved to Santa Barbara 16 years ago, has hired sev-eral Westmont students, and her three sons have taken part in summer sports camp.

“I look forward to helping spread the word about how great Westmont is and improving community relations through the Westmont Downtown lecture series and the President’s Breakfast,” she says. •MJ

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played guitar, and on keyboards was eight-year old brother Vinny Capello. They quite competently pulled off “Africa” by Toto.

I saw Kate Packer, Noelle Burkey, Margie Schneider and Rick Feldman, who brought his puppy. Sally Jordan hosted a table where I found Judy Ishkanian, Daniel Bifano, Betty Meyer and Marcia Constance.

Tab Hunter reminded us about Doris Day’s legendary care, concern and compassion for all animals and particularly rescuing dogs. He told us when she moved from her home in Beverly Hills, the new residents finally had to put up a sign saying, “Doris Day no longer lives here, please do not leave your dog.”

Feed My Sheep... for Ten Years

Last weekend, a little local book-store, Feed My Sheep, celebrated its tenth anniversary. I rather thought this was an auspicious occasion.

Since mega-giant Borders was oblit-erat ed into bankruptcy and national chain Barnes & Noble shuttered its doors here, we can recognize that it is not easy to keep a bookstore going. Santa Barbara is unusual and fortu-nate to have two good independent bookstores, Chaucer’s and Tecolote, still flying.

But Feed My Sheep Bookstore spe-cializes in Christian publishing, car-rying Bibles, inspirational books and Catholic tradition items (missals, cat-echisms and first communion books). Since it is in a very specialized and narrow market, it makes this achieve-ment by the store exceptionally note-worthy. Moreover, Feed My Sheep Bookstore is not in a high-traffic area, but tucked away in El Mercado Plaza (out where 154 meets State Street as it turns into Hollister). So congratula-tions to founder-owner Cindy Hagan– and here’s to ten more.

Frost on Mt. Kilimanjaro

So it seems turning 50 is the new turning 30, and local gal Victoria Frostepitomizes it all. Tallying up a half-century or so – and looking years younger – Victoria went through some life changes and challenges in recent years. So when she thought about her

upcoming birthday last month, she decided to get high and take a hike... literally. A few days after her birth-day, she summited Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. As a trainer, she certainly knew how to prepare well for her own adventure (she ultimately made her climb with Alpine Ascents).

Prohibition in Santa Barbara

Speaking of getting high... I will be speaking about Prohibition at the Historical Museum on October 13 for its “Speakeasy & Stills: Prohibition in Santa Barbara” (lecture, whiskey and wine-tasting). There are so many secrets to be revealed! The center of rum running – believe it or not – was not on the East Coast, but right here in Southern California, especially around our Channel Islands. And the bad guys were easily out-running the feds, who did not even have their own boats to chase them.

I would love to add some local family stories. So if any of you old-timers have stories handed down in the family (that can now be safely told) about homemade hooch, your parents’ favorite speakeasies, or any family lore about Prohibition in Santa Barbara, do write me at [email protected] (or call 805-687-6733 and leave your contact info).

Santa Barbara is Buzzing About

Jill’s Place. As in, of course, Jill Shalhoob. Her restaurant. A sense of Santa Barbara history pervades the place. Her father Jerry – formerly with Jordano’s Wholesale Meat – opened Shalhoob’s Meat Company, one of the city’s top butcher shops and delis dur-ing the 1970s and 1980s. Her grand-mother ran Arnoldi’s Italian Restaurant just four blocks away. Grandfather Skip Shalhoob was the legendary Indian of the Fiesta parade for years (his portrait hangs on the wall).

After her father retired, Jill launched her deli and catering company from his location on Santa Barbara Street. Then, almost ten years ago, she real-ized there was such a following for her grilled meats and comfort food that her business could and should be expanded into a restaurant... Jill’s Place.

Not surprisingly, it has become local-ly renowned for its meat, especially the Santa Barbara Steak (top sirloin). It is out of the way for tourists, so just local residents know to nab a table here. The dinner crowd on Friday night lines up literally out the door. Although the place is tiny, Jill has a full bar. And to top it off, Jill’s Place has live music. Livemusic! The incomparable Al Reese – yes that Al Reese – plays Fridays and Saturdays. •MJ

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Jack Rabbit poses with Ms. Glover from Puppy Play Day Care, enjoying the dog days of summer at the Marilyn Gevirtz estate to ben-efit DAWGs

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Canine Capers

State Street Spin by Erin Graffy de Garcia

Things were doggone good over at Marilyn Gevirtz’s place. She opened up part of her estate for

a dog party luncheon for supporters of DAWG – Dog Adoption and Welfare Group. DAWG is the county’s only no-kill shelter for canines, and is located next to the County Shelter on Overpass Road.

DAWG was founded by Shirley Jansen 20 years ago – another rea-son to celebrate. And in conjunction with that, she is now working on a Founders Fund to kick off the privati-zation of animal shelters.

A whippersnapper of energy and activity, Jansen no doubt worked like a dog getting everything organized and in place: tables, doggie treats, decora-tions and lunch. (Perhaps there should have been hotdogs on the menu?)

Some hundred people showed up, with their dogs of course. Large dogs, little dogs, therapy dogs, rescued dogs, mixed dogs, purebred and small exot-ic dogs like those little… um... shih tzus. The canines were primarily on leashes except for when they escaped, but there were only two quick bellig-

erent dog face-off incidents (and they were on leashes at the time).

Many dogs came in costume, some to match their owners, some to high-light their personality or size, or even that they were available for adoption. The dogs seemed delighted to be at the party and to visit with other dogs, sniffing out their costumes or their unmentionables, as dogs are wont to do. They were extraordinarily well behaved, and it was a marvel to see them so calm amid a crowd of canines.

Speaking of little rascals, the event featured a rock band called The Walking Statues comprised of grade-school guys from Laguna Blanca. Drums were handled by ten-year-old Jordan Bollag; Dominic Capello

29 September – 6 October 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else – Martin Luther

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“Forward one inch. Stop! Good. Now turn the wheel to the right... your other right. Back

two inches. Stop! Turn the wheel right. No, like the right you used before. Forward one inch. Stop! Whoops the automatic garage light just went out, don’t move.”

We were in Marseille, France – well, actually, in the parking garage that went with the apartment where we were staying in Marseille. It had ten spaces in a lot that would have four spaces in the U.S., under a ten-story building held up by huge cement pillars that you have to maneuver around.

“Forward an inch. Turn the wheel two degrees. Left stop. Right stop. Forward stop. Backward stop. Whoops wait the light just went out again.”

Today we were venturing off on our own for the first time in our rental Peugeot, a car the size of the back seat in a Hummer. We were so nervous about making a wrong turn on the narrow one-way streets that are lined with cars parked bumper-to-bumper on both sides, that I went out and

walked the route that would get us from our Rue to A7. My wife would be driving and I would be navigating. They wanted an extra thirty-five Euros for a second driver. I think my wife would have paid them twice that much to keep me out of the driver’s seat. I make her nervous driving when we are one of three cars on a six-lane freeway.

“Do I take the tunnel?”I looked at the Google instructions

we had printed out. They were in French. “Prendre à droite!” I yelled out, which meant either take a right or pass me the wine list and make it fast.

Somehow we made it to A7 and pulled into the middle lane. The guy behind us honked. I’m convinced you couldn’t sell a used car in Marseille if the horn didn’t work. Air condition-ing’s out, okay. Lights out, fine. Bald tires, no problem, but no horn, forget it. The instant you make a mistake they honk and look at you like you should be shot at dawn. Then they pass you going 130 kilometers per hour in a car that looks like it should be full of circus clowns.

We had Google instructions to get

us all the way to centre ville (cen-tray vee) in Aix (X)-en-Provence. The French use a ton of letters that they never pronounce. In the Musées (museums) there will be a three para-graph description in French describ-ing a piece of art and below it in English it will say: “Very old painting, artist now dead.”

Aix was full of tiny streets, round-abouts, tons of people walking in front of you, people behind you honking

and me reading the directions.“Prendre à droite! I mean prendre à

gauche. I mean Rejoindre! Rejoindre!” I may have alluded to this before,

but to find a parking space in a town in France is like finding a needle in a Monet haystack. We finally found a lot that was just a stone’s throw from cen-tre ville, that is, if you fired the stone from a cannon. So we walked.

Traffic lights are interesting. Drivers stop beside the light instead of behind it, so that they are always looking to their right when it turns green and

they run you over.Then they honk. We had lunch at a café on the side-

walk (there are no other kinds). Ours was a table for two, but the railing didn’t quite go all the way around so, like parking, they squeezed a third chair in, which we had to maneuver around.

“Forward an inch. Turn your butt two degrees. Stop. Left. Right. Forward. Backward. Sit.”

Lunch includes three courses and a bottle of wine and takes two hours. It ends at 2 pm. That’s when everyone heads back to their cars, honks sev-eral times to make sure the horns are working, and race round and round the roundabouts to get back to one of the highways.

“Droite! Droite! No, your other droite.”

Stay tuned. Tomorrow we head off to see some Roman ruins, which will probably be really old by the time we find them. •MJ

French-capades

Attractive American woman (Witham’s wife) watches a roundabout in Aix-en-Provence

I looked at the Google instructions we had printed out. They were in French. “Prendre à droite!” I yelled out, which meant

either take a right or pass me the wine list and make it fast.


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The Many Talents of Jo Mora

story by Lynn P. Kirst(all images courtesy of the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum)

TRAIL TALK

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

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

While scores of people are familiar with the name Jo Mora (1876-1947), the wide

variety of his many talents (architect, cartographer, cartoonist, cowboy, illustrator, painter, photographer and writer) and the far-fl ung locales of his sculptures can cause even those who are familiar with his work to marvel, “Oh, he did that?” when they realize something familiar to them was his creation.

My first encounter with Jo Mora was at age nine, when my parents took me to visit the Carmel Mission, ostensibly to bolster my fourth-grade curriculum. (Only later did I figure out that it was a great excuse for a trip to Carmel.) Walking into the dim Mora Chapel (who knew?) adjacent to the main church, the spooky bronze

The American West fascinated Mora, especially after he saw Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show during his boy-hood in New York. Mora later rode “the mission trail,” visiting the then-crumbling chain of California church-es on horseback.

A small but tasty exhibition enti-tled “From Painted Caves to Mission Arches: The Artistic Accomplishments of Jo Mora” is on view at the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum through Sunday, November 6. It’s an opportunity for Mora fans to see a variety of his work in digestible doses, with a few well-chosen examples from each area of his artistic output.

Exhibition visitors who may think they are unfamiliar with this Uruguayan-born “Renaissance Man” (who was thoroughly Californian by the end of his life), may well find themselves saying, “Oh, he did that?”

Mark Your CalendarFriday, October 7“Life of Jo Mora – The Californio Artist”Reception and LectureSanta Ynez Valley Historical Museum3596 Sagunto StreetSanta Ynez, CA 93460

Peter Hiller, Curator of the Jo Mora Trust Collection, will speak on the life and artistic accomplishments of Joseph Jacinto “Jo” Mora. Reception with appe-tizers and local wines at 6:30 pm, fol-lowed by the talk at 7 pm. Price is $10 per person for museum members, $15 each for non-members. Tickets may be obtained in advance through the Museum’s website, www.santaynezmu-seum.org, or by calling 688-7889. Tickets may also be purchased at the door. •MJ

body of Father Junipero Serra became visible, stretched out on an elevated marble slab, as my eyes adjusted from the bright sunlight outside. Only later did I learn this type of sculpture is called a cenotaph, and later still that Jo Mora had both designed the chapel and sculpted this memorial to the founder of California’s missions.

“Oh, he did that?” was my all-too-common response.

Jo Mora astride his horse, with large tapade-ros on his stirrups. Mora’s book, Californios: The Saga of the Hard-Riding Vaqueros, America’s First Cowboys, is out of print, and has become a collector’s item since it was writ-ten from his first-hand experience and personal acquaintance with many early horsemen

Although Jo Mora was prolific in many media, he spoke of becoming a sculp-tor as a “spiritual inheritance” from

his late “wonderful father” only when

he came back to the studio and picked up

“the sculptor’s tools – where dad had

dropped them”

Jo Mora’s painting of an early vaquero with all the classic trappings of the Californio style

A watercolor painted by Jo Mora on June 15, 1903. He kept meticu-lous records and diaries, noting this picture as “a bit of the Santa Ynez Mountains and foothills – from Donahue Ranch.” Mora spent most of 1903 living at that ranch, located near present-day Solvang

Jo Mora’s “Straight Up and Scratching” depicts a bronco buster, although the colt very clearly wears a Californio-style hackamore rather than a bit in its mouth

29 September – 6 October 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 39Self-pity, in its early stages, is as snug as a feather mattress; only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable – Maya Angelou


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

‘Yes,’ you can – The UC Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance takes a bit of a left turn to kick off the 2011-12 season. The opening production, “Yes is a Long Time,” not only combines the two genres instead of focusing on one or the other, it’s also being performed by Yes Tiger Collective, a Los Angeles-based professional company that works collaboratively. The show is choreographed and directed by faculty member Mira Kingsley, who will perform alongside fellow Tigers Antonio Anargaran, Jr., and Jacqueline Kim. The piece, written by Sibyl O’Malley, was inspired by the rare but true story of a “normal” family in Freehold, New Jersey, forced to confront the forces of nature and beyond when a small but unusually heavy metal rock crashed into their guest bathroom in early 2007.After much debate and media attention, scientists determined that the object was a meteorite. Only once before in history has a meteorite been recorded as landing in a home and strangely enough that also occurred in the same county of New Jersey. Months later after further testing, the scientifi c community dismissed “the object” as common space junk. This “extraterrestrial event” drastically shifted the family’s relationship to the universe and to each other. The three performers examine the family’s journey via what’s described as a rich, bizarrely humorous and transcendent emotional and physical

terrain. The evening-length work is playfully formal, highly stylized, uniquely symbolic and unabashedly theatrical. WHEN: 8pm Friday, 2 & 8pm Saturday, 2pm Sunday WHERE: Hatlen Theatre, UCSB Campus COST: $17 general, $13 students-seniors-UCSB faculty & staff ($2 discount for tickets purchased online for Friday, when there will be a talkback with the artists following the performance) INFO: 893-3022 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1

SOL Food Fest II – The day-long community-created festival that focuses on Sustainable, Organic and Local food systems is back for another year and a whole lot bigger. The festival celebrates food in all its different and tasty forms, from its beginnings in the ground or on trees right through to harvesting, production and reaching your dining table. The concept is that supporting a local and regional food system is important for the health of our bodies, our environment and our economy. Activities include music, fi lms, demos, talks and workshops spanning a wide-range of food-related topics, from seeds to beekeeping, worm composting, aquaponics, backyard poultry and many more, plus a cooking stage where you can sample the results.There are lots of special attractions for the kids, including the “Very Hungry Caterpillar Crawl.” Of course, there will also be lots and lots of food vendors on site, all of whom have committed to

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

by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

The Moving Wall – The original replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed to honor the 58,000 men and women who died in the war, is returning to Santa Barbara for the fi rst time in six years. The public will be able to visit the Moving Wall round-the-clock during its fi ve-day stay as it will be illuminated 24 hours a day for the duration and UCSB ROTC members will stand guard at the exhibit – which is a replica of the most visited U.S. monument of all time for its entire stay. Docents will also be on hand to provide information and backgrounds, and visitors are encouraged to bring notes, wreaths, photos or artifacts to honor loved ones. A special dedication ceremony will be held at 12 noon on Saturday, October 1, featuring a fl yover of Vietnam-era aircraft (both helicopters and fi xed-wing planes) at 1pm, and a candlelight vigil is slated for 6:30pm on Sunday. WHEN: Thursday through Monday, October 3 WHERE: Chase Palm Park, 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd. (Ocean side of park, East of Stearns Wharf) COST: free INFO: 284-6372 or www.vvachapter218.org

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1

New exhibits at SBMA – Three exhibits that continue until the end of the year open today at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, spanning a wide variety of genres and subjects. “Echoes of Japan: The Prints of Henri Rivière (1864-1951)” takes a look at how admiration for Japanese art served as a defi ning characteristic of the Parisian artistic avant-garde in the late 19th century through the work of Rivière, who taught himself the labor-intensive woodblock technique. “Al Weber: Lofty Vistas” shows the work of the Monterey Bay area aerial photographer, who also frequently conducted workshops in Yosemite with his close friend, Ansel Adams. Finally, “View from Here: Santa Barbara Artists in the Permanent Collection” offers just

what it says: works acquired from the 1970s through the present created by local artists including Hilary Brace, Irma Cavat, Ann Diener, Michael Dvortcsak, Dane Goodman, Mary Heebner, Hank Pitcher, Keith Puccinelli, Harry Reese, William Rohrbach, Marie Schoeff, Ilene Segalove, Joan Tanner and more. WHEN: Saturday through January 1, 2012 WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: $9 general, $8 seniors, $6 students & ages 6-17, free under 6 (free on Sundays) INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbmuseart.org

using organic, local and/or sustainable ingredients in their concoctions wherever possible. The food court will also have a unique aspect called “The Garden of Eatin’: A Taste of What’s Possible,” where each food vendor will be paired with a local farm, allowing you to observe and taste the connections from fi eld to fork. Artisan beers and local wines will also be available. WHEN: 10am-6pm WHERE: Plaza de Vera Cruz (across the street from the Saturday Farmers Market) and on the 100 block of Cota Street in downtown Santa Barbara COST: free INFO: www.solfoodfestival.com

Bang the drums slowly – What with its huge gambling casino-hotel sporting a showroom that regularly books big name touring acts and boxing matches as its main public face, it’s easy to forget that the Chumash tribe itself is much more than the Chumash Casino Resort. But it’s easy to go back to the roots at this weekend’s 16th annual Chumash Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow, which features Native American music, dance contests, drum competitions and more in the beautiful, tree-lined setting of the Live Oak Campground. The Santa Ynez Chumash tribe’s fi rst pow-wow took place in the early 1970s on the reservation in Santa Ynez; the early ones were fundraisers for a new water system to provide running water for the tribal members living on the reservation. The revenues from the casino have obviously taken care of those needs. But the pow-wow has evolved into a large event that showcases many different tribes in their traditional, brightly colored regalia, with more than 150 dancers in all in recent years. There will also be vendors selling

food (Native American and otherwise), arts and crafts, jewelry, pottery, baskets and more. Bring your own blanket and/or lawn chairs to join the circle and watch the fun. Admission and even overnight camping is free, although parking costs $5. WHEN: 10am-10pm Saturday, 10am-6pm Sunday WHERE: Hwy. 154 (San Marcos Pass), 1.8 miles north of Paradise Road INFO: 688-7997 or www.santaynezchumash.org

Shakespeare in the Park – This relatively new program (2008) takes its name from the much older and famous summer series in New York’s Central Park, but comes together on a much smaller scale. The collaboration with IV Arts and UCSB Theater and Dance Department brings classical drama to the heart of Isla Vista with a free, family-friendly production in the just-off-campus setting of Anisq’Oyo’ Park amphitheater. The charming venue is a perfect place for a performance of “The Scary Wives of Windsor,” a Commedia dell’Arte adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” The story follows the shady Sir John Falstaff in his quest to woo two ladies from the rural town out of their husbands... and money. The women outwit the greasy Falstaff at every turn, continually amusing themselves in their revenge against his seedy advances. Intertwined within Falstaff’s scheme is the irrational plotting of a jealous husband, and three disparate suitors all vying for the hand of the same young woman. UCSB lecturer Gerry Hansen created the work, which will be performed by a cast drawn largely from students in the UCSB Theater Arts Department WHEN: 7pm Saturday & Sunday COST: free INFO: email [email protected]


By any objective standard, UCSB’s Arts & Lectures is simply the largest arts-

presenting organization in town, far outstripping any other in terms of sheer breadth, size, scope and reach. The program – now in its 52nd year – encompasses more than 50 events in all, plus additional lectures and fi lms added as the year progresses.

This year brings an array of impor-tant entertainers and personalities – the West Coast premiere of “The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer” starring John Malkovich(October 3), the West Coast debut of New York City Ballet MOVES company (October 18-19), violinist Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performing an all-Beethoven program (April 27), the for-mer Irish president Mary Robinson(October 21), “Whose Live Anyway,” featuring the cast of the improv TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway” (November 15), the Chieftains’ 50th

anniversary tour (February 17), dance company La La La Human Steps (January 28), and the Kronos Quartet performing the music of Steve Reich(April 12), to name a few – and several Santa Barbara premieres: up-and-com-ing New Orleans musician Trombone Shorty (October 7), hip funky quartet So Percussion (November 1), Creole Choir of Cuba (November 2), Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance (February 15), and cellist Joshua Roman (March 15), among others.

We caught up with executive direc-tor Celeste Billeci, who has run UCSB Arts & Lectures for 11 years now, for a behind-the-scenes look at this shining gem of our local arts scene.

Q. You’ve had a lot of success in your first decade. Do you try to top the past year with each new season?

A. There’s always tremendous pressure, but it’s in a positive way. I always approach it from the per-spective of what can I bring to Santa Barbara that’s compelling, interest-ing, challenging, educating, inspir-ing, etc. And I hope that every year it’s the best, but the next year has to be even better. We always start with quality: it doesn’t have to be the biggest name, but if it’s interesting, we’re interested. For example, you don’t know who Blake Mycoskieis, but the concept of creating Toms Shoes and what he’s done as a “social entrepreneur” is exciting. He’s a com-pelling person who’s done something

the world hasn’t seen before.We try to bring people who are

phenomenal artists and getting really big really fast. We did that with Lang Lang when he was nobody, now he’s a superstar. We hope the commu-nity trusts our ability to curate and to come, even if they don’t know who the performers are.

Who might be some of the real unsung gems this year, acts whose description in the catalogue doesn’t do them justice?

I’d start with Julia Fisher – she’s one of the premier violinists in the world today; she’s been at Carnegie and Disney. We tried for three years to get her and we finally have a recital in February. She will be a superstar. You know me, so I’m also excited about dance series. There’s a range of things like straight ballet (NYC Ballet Company), to avant-garde (Random Dance, a fabulous company from the UK), then the Swiss company (Ballet du Grand Theatre de Genève, which makes its Santa Barbara debut on April 17; featuring two works by NYC Ballet dancer-choreographer Benjamin Millepied, who choreo-graphed the film Black Swan). Also, Patti Smith talking about her life and the book that won a big award. That’s much different than having her band perform.

I’m also super excited about the new Family Series. I have a small child myself and I’ve been looking for things to take him to that’s high qual-ity, and I can’t find things that aren’t classical-music based. We’ve got chil-dren’s international film, puppets, and Ozomatli, doing a kids show. All the shows are one hour long and have face painting and craft tables before-hand. I know it’s going to be good because I’m bringing my own son.

Which brings up the question: how do you balance obligations to the academic departments, the student body, what the greater community wants and your own tastes?

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage – Martin Luther

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1

Mental Health Arts Festival – The 18th annual festival is a community event that showcases artists with mental health disabilities, supporting their talents by appreciating their artwork. Guests can view beautiful paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry and crafts, and enjoy music and poetry readings from this important segment of society. WHEN: 11am-4pm WHERE: De La Guerra Plaza COST: free INFO: 884-8440 or www.mhainsb.org

Fun for foodies – “epicure.sb: a Month to Savor Santa Barbara” is back for another October of indulgence, one that celebrates cuisine, focuses on food (and drink), gorges on gourmet and otherwise celebrates the community’s culinary calendar. Created by a collaboration of the Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau and Film Commission with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization, Epicure is more of an umbrella than an individual event. Epicure gathers already existing food-related festivals, specially-created eating events, special seasonal menus at area restaurants, cooking classes, winemakers’ dinners, food-inspired art exhibits and much more, all in an effort to coordinate a variety of ways to taste the very best of the American Riviera.California Avocado Festival, Harbor & Seafood Festival, Vintner’s Association’s Celebration of Harvest, Beer Festival, Lemon Festival and Chowder Fest now fall under its auspices, as do a whole host of hotel hostings, including ones at Inn of the Spanish Garden, Old Yacht Club Inn, Santa Barbara Hotel Group and Simpson House Inn, all of which have created wine-dine-and-stay packages. Then there’s the “Eat Local Challenge” presented by Edible Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Certifi ed Farmers’ Market, cooking demos presented by Whole Foods, and gardening classes at Fairview Gardens’ Center for Urban Agriculture. Also on tap: special tasting and pairing events including Oreana Winery’s Rocktoberfest, Carr Winery’s Italian Sunday, Whole Foods’ DIY Beer Making

Class, Margerum Wine Company’s “Wine & Chocolate Pairing Classes,” and Wildcat Lounge’s Mai Tai Tasting. Get your artistic juices fl owing at Pies & Paint, a pie-tasting and painting session, or you can go out of your gourd at the Contemporary Arts Forum’s Pumpkin Carving Contest. Get all the details online at www.epicuresb.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5

Aural Borealis – The Vancouver-based Borealis String Quartet kicks off the new season of chamber music concerts at the intimate Mary Craig Auditorium in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in a program featuring a selection of Taiwanese folk songs arranged by Zhe-I Lee to celebrate the opening of SBMA’s Asian galleries after an extensive renovation. The quartet – which was formed in 2000 and has received international critical acclaim as an ensemble praised for its fi ery performances, passionate style and refi ned musical interpretation – has established close ties with Asia, touring extensively in Taiwan where innovative programs combining Eastern and Western music has led to repeat invitations. The Borealis will also perform Imant Raminsh’s Quartet No. 1, “A Falcon, a Storm, or a Great Song,” and Beethoven: Quartet in B-fl at Major, Op. 130, with the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: $19 ($4 discount for museum members) INFO: 963-4364 ext. 400 or www.sbmuseart.org •MJ

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2

From strays to stars – Fifth-generation circus performer Gregory Popovich uses a cast of cats, dogs, parrots, geese and mice in his Comedy Pet Theater touring act that combines comedy, circus arts and pet-pourri. Featured on both “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night with David Letterman,” Popovich has also written a book called You CAN Train Your Cat that serves as a follow-up to the stage show that never ceases to amaze with the feats these felines perform for Popovich. But the most amazing thing about Popovich Comedy Pet Theater – which has been voted “Best Family Show in Las Vegas” – is that virtually all the animals in the show have been rescued from shelters all over the country. WHEN: 4pm Sunday, 4 & 7pm Monday WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 W.

Canon Perdido Street COST: $33-$38 general, $18 children 12 & under INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

A Season of Bold Moves and Big Ideas

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 nearly ten years.

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Bella Vista $$$1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella Vista’s ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor Medi-terranean courtyard. Executive Chef Alessan-dro Cartumini has created an innovative 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. Sunfl ower-colored interior is accented by live Span-ish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive fi replace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor people-wat ching front patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm.

China Palace $$1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)Montecito’s only Chinese restaurant, here you’ll fi nd large portions and modern décor. Take out available. (Montecito Journal staff is especially fond of the Cashew Chicken!) China Palace also has an outdoor patio. Open seven days 11:30 am to 9:30 pm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Piatti Ristorante $$$516 San Ysidro Road (969-7520)

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M O N T E C I T O E AT E R I E S . . . A G u i d e 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 fi replace. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extend-ing until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$1046 Coast Village Road (565-2014)

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

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

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

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

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

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

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

Here’s The Scoop1187 Coast Village Road (lower level) (969-7020)Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises. Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm, 12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays. Scoopie also offers a full coffee menu featuring Santa Barbara Roasting Company coffee. Offerings are made from fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farm-ers’ Market, and waffl e cones are made on site everyday.

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

Montecito Deli1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717)

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

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

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

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

Whodidily Cupcakes1150 Coast Village Rd (969-9808)

In Summerland / Carpinteria

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

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

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

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

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

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

Sly’s $$$686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)Sly’s features fresh fi sh, farmers’ market veg-gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. You’ll fi nd a full bar, serving special martinis and an extensive wine list featuring California and French wines. Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to

9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm.

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

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

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

Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row

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

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

Ca’ Dario37 East Victoria Street (884-9419) $$A bustling trattoria located one block off State Street, owner Dario Furlati’s namesake eatery is known for its fresh pasta, savory meat and fi sh entrées, and daily and seasonal specials. Black and white photos of famous Italians line the walls; Dario, who hails from Lake Como, recently added a full bar menu in addition to a wine list featuring Californian and Italian wines. You have to try the the brown butter and sage ravioli, Ca’ Dario’s signature dish. Open every-day at 11:30 am until 10 pm (Sunday: 5 pm until 10 pm). Reservations strongly suggested.

Café Luck $$$18 East Cota Street (962-5393)One of just a handful of restaurants in Santa Barbara featuring mostly French cuisine, Café Luck afi cionados report that the eatery’s Short Ribs (when available) are the standout item worth waiting in line for. Other favorites include Duck Confi t with frisee, mushroom and potato chips, Bouillabaisse, and even the Café Luck Burger with Gruyere & Bacon. Open Sunday through Thursday from 4 pm until 11 pm; Friday and Saturday until midnight.

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-made chips and salsa, and a cold margarita while mariachis stroll through the historic restaurant. The décor refl ects its rich Spanish heritage, with bougainvillea-draped balconies, fountain courtyard dining and a festive bar. Dinner specials are offered during the week,

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. . . E AT E R I E Swith a brunch on Sundays. Open Tuesday through Thursday 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, and Sunday 10:30 am to 9 pm.

Enterprise Fish Co. $$225 State Street (962-3313)Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lob-sters served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm.

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

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

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

Moby Dick Restaurant $$220 Stearns Wharf (965-0549)Sitting right on Stearns Wharf, Moby Dick of-fers fi sh, lobster, clam chowder, fi sh and chips and a plenty more. A great place to watch the sun set over the ocean. Open 7 days a week from 7 am to 9 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 featur-ing Italian food of the highest order. Offerings include eggplant souffl é, pappardelle with quail, sausage and mushroom ragù, and fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also available.Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Here the focus is on artisanal pizzas and antipasti, with classic toppings like fresh moz-zarella, seafood, black truffl es, and sausage. Salads, innovative appetizers and an assort-ment of salumi and formaggi round out the

menu at this casual, fast-paced eatery. Private dining for up to 32 guests. Both the ristorante and the pizzeria are open for lunch Monday thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a week (from 5 pm).

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

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

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

Ojai

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

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My own personal tastes come last, usually (laughs). The rest aren’t mutu-ally exclusive. The best audience is when students are sitting next to com-munity members and have different experiences but they’re all there at the same time. I love that about our audiences and it’s a very good thing. I look for projects that can do the whole scope. NYC Ballet Moves is teaching in the classroom for three days, plus a community class with Dance Alliance. [Political operative] David Gergen [Nov. 30] will meet with students, attend a private dinner in Montecito, then do the public lecture. I’m really cautious to say yes to anybody who refuses to do anything with students – either a meet and greet or a class. That’s such a core part of who we are. It’s not just a public event. The artists like having those extra dimensions; they get that it’s part of our mission as a university arts program.

How closely do you work or coordinate with the other arts organizations in town to be complete and avoid repeats?

I’m very careful. If another group has a long-term relationship with an artist we want to respect that. We are in touch all the time so not to have two events in the same genre on the same day. We’re still a small community and there’s no reason to force someone to make a choice. But we do try to fill in gaps, like the Family Series. We have a large dance series because nobody else brings major touring companies. We offer touring theater again that no one else will do. And the lectures are all our own. We do fill in niches. Santa Barbara is lucky and blessed to have all that we have – it’s a lot for such a small town.

And you do have your favorites: Ira Glass, Pink Martini and David Sedaris seem to come ever year.

We just love them. The community does too. We sell them out every time. If a year goes by where we don’t bring them, I get more comments about that than anything else (for more informa-tion and tickets, call 893-3535 or visit www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu).

Happy Destiny Ann Dusenberry says her respon-

sibilities as both producer and lead actress in Happy Destiny’s new pro-duction of “Morning’s at Seven” is the hardest thing she’s ever done. That’s saying something, considering the actress began working at age six and her IMDb résumé contains more than 40 entries, including stints on such TV series as “Murder She Wrote,” “Matlock,” “Designing Women,” and “Remington Steele,” not to mention Lucille Ball’s last foray “Life With Lucy,” plus a bunch of films including co-starring in Cutters Way with Jeff

Bridges right here in Santa Barbara.“Watching from a producer’s eye

and then diving into the character is like rubbing my tummy and patting my head at the same time,” she says.

But then again, Dusenberry has worked on a much smaller scale since leaving Hollywood for Montecito back in 1996, appearing in just three pro-ductions at SBCC and directing a few plays at the Waldorf School, where her kids attended, and Happy Destiny’s 2009 debut, “Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” the story of Alcoholics Anonymous’ founders. Now, she’s deeply involved in “Morning’s at Seven,” which earned acclaim for its original pro-duction back in 1939 and for two Broadway revivals in 1980 and 2003. Fellow Montecito resident Maggie Mixsell, of Speaking of Stories fame, is directing.

Q. What drew you to this show? A. I’m old school theater. I love the

classics. This is one I’d read back in the 1970s and when I went looking for something to do it fell into my hands off the bookshelf where I keep books of plays. Literally. I reached up to grab one and it just fell out. So I read it, and it really just answered the call. The ages of the women are close to my age. I thought about the women in this town; really good actresses who work rarely. It just inspired me. It’s a great vehicle for older folks. It’s such a sweet 1930’s piece that we’ve gone to retirement homes in town to ask them to come to the show – some of them lived through that era.

What about the story and the message appealed to you?

I think it’s a story about what’s important. That relationships matter, families are important, as are place and connection. The play takes place at the tail end of the Depression, pre our involvement in World War Two. This is a Midwest family that hasn’t gotten much consciousness about that while the world around them is all about it. They’re very close – enmeshed by today’s psychological standards. The relationship between them is more important than any-thing else. That’s where they find their peace and happiness. In a time right now where everything is about stuff – how big and how much – this felt like a balm for my soul. It’s so generous in spirit.

Let’s talk about before: what stands out from your Hollywood days?

I loved Lucy. Everybody does. It’s hard not to. I got to work with her every day. I also loved being under contract to Universal. I worked a lot. They put me with a lot of good people to cut my teeth. I met directors and actors that were great to work with. I did a movie with Nick Nolte, worked

with Jeff Bridges and John Heard... But how do I decide? I guess my favorite was a sleeper called Heart Beat. It gave me a bit of a name. That still pays residuals... and I like those checks. And those are the things peo-ple remember me for. That’s exciting. Once in a while people see me and think they know me: “Did I go to high school with you?” It’s kind of sweet.

So why’d you leave?What really got my attention was

when The Lucy Show was canceled. The reviews were so heinous. They hated the shows. To be fair, it wasn’t very good. The same writers and one of the directors from “I Love Lucy” were back, but they were afraid she wasn’t capable of being “Golden Girls” or the “Cosby” show, which were what was hot in 1986. So the story lines were... not interesting or edgy at all. But the reviews were so cutting that I got discouraged by how she was treated on her last foray into the business. She was Lucy, she owned a studio, she started it all – the beginning of sitcoms, and reviewers were telling her to go home and play backgammon. It was so cruel and unnecessary. And I thought if she went down like that, what was my future going to look like? I felt the pain. And I knew my age, 33, and I wasn’t going to work as much as I had in my ingénue days. I wasn’t getting shows I really loved, or getting inter-views for the new edgy stuff. I was put into a box. So I went back to school to get my masters in psychology and then met my husband [film composer Brad Fiedel, who did the score for the Terminator movies and True Lies] and got pregnant while I was completing my hours toward licensing. I ended up here in Montecito [where my step-daughter was being raised], which is quite the dream come true. We live in paradise. We really do.

What brought you back, then? Simply the love of the theater... It’s

my outlet to be creative. It’s a call to my roots. I couldn’t stay away. It’s where I love to be... [And] the theater is often shortchanged as extraneous

but it’s a tremendous medium. We all live for a little while together in a room experiencing a story together, and everybody has a connection to what the story says to them. It’s unbe-lievably powerful and important on the planet. People need to share those kinds of experiences.

(“Morning’s at Seven” opens Thursday at Center Stage Theatre and runs through October 9. Call 963-0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org.)

POP TARTS The first annual Ojai World Music

Festival is an ambitious new under-taking that aims to bring the sounds, instruments and musical culture from far corners of the earth to the bucolic valley in the hills just 15 minutes inland from Ventura (and 35 minutes from Montecito). The festival will be held at the newly refurbished Libbey Bowl (home to the world-renowned Ojai Festival for classical music) and the Ojai Art Center downtown over three days this weekend and boasts workshops as well as a full slate of concerts including flutist Samite of Uganda, Ancient Grooves (composer-musi-cian John Zeretzke is the festival’s co-founder along with Ojai Storytelling Festival-Performances to Grow On head Brian Bemel), taiko group On Ensemble and Ojai’s own eclectic percussionist Judy Piazza. You’ll hear such rarely-performed instru-ments as the Yaqui water drum, giant bamboo stomp tubes, the litun-gu, and floating musical gourds. Get full details online at www.ojaiworldmusic.org or call 646-8907.

Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan last appeared in town as the vocal partner of countryman Damien Rice, but she’s been a solo act for the last four years, releas-ing a critically-acclaimed debut, “Sea Sew,” that went double platinum in Ireland. The follow-up, “Passengers,” a road-composed opus that came out last week, just in time for her Club Mercy show at SOhO on Saturday, on an early (6:30 pm) bill with John Smith. •MJ

ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 41)Montecito resident Ann Dusenberry, producer and lead actress in “Morning's at Seven,” which opens Thursday at Center Stage Theatre

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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. He can be reached at 969-4569 and [email protected]

Real estate reporting most often measures the number of homes sold; an important statistic

perhaps, but refl ective of market conditions often many months past. Determining present market activity, however, requires a measurement using “leading” rather than “trailing” data.

The Montecito Heat Index deter-mines today’s demand for single-family homes using data that identi-fies the ratio of active listings (those presently available for purchase) to pending listings (those under con-tract yet have not closed escrow). And since demand varies seasonally, if not monthly, today’s Heat scores are compared to those a year ago. The precise formula is pending list-ings divided by active listings x 100.

All data is derived from the Santa Barbara Multiple Listing Service and although not guaranteed, is uniform-ly deemed reliable.

So where is the Montecito mar-ket today and what price sectors are in most demand? The Heat Index answers this question by determining today’s demand in five price sectors: $1-2m and going forward by $1m increments to the high-end $5m and above group.

$1-2m Sector With rare exception, this group

has been in most demand since the residential market imploded over four years ago. Today with a score of 24 it outperforms last year’s score by 300% and again leads all other groups. Twenty five percent are so called Short Sales, a term indicat-ing that the seller and lender may accept an offer less than the mort-gage amount.

$2-3m This group easily outperformed

last year by 39%. With a majority of activity in the high-end of this sec-tor, today’s score of 18 comes in just behind the now ever-popular $1-2m group. None of these homes are bank owned or short sales and include a five-bedroom on Hidden Valley Lane and a sophisticated, 1920’s multi-lev-el, three-bedroom cottage with a two- bedroom guest house on Butterfly Lane, a short walk to Coast Village Road.

$3-4mWith a score of three, this sector

missed reaching last year’s score of eight. Demand in this price group has been uneven over the last four years, and getting on the scoreboard is to be noted. A grand Cape Cod is in play here with an original listing price over 600 days ago of $5.5m.

$4-5m and $5 and above

There are over 75 notable estate properties in these combined sec-tors and not one buyer is currently making a play. Both sectors scored zeroes. These properties have always demanded big numbers but today these numbers seem to feel bigger each month. Europe certainly isn’t helping. Take a look at what you can buy in Greece, Portugal, Spain and even Italy for $4mUSD. There are issues indeed in each of these locales, yet remarkable properties nonethe-less, and as our world gets flatter, available relative bargains elsewhere present an additional concern for our high-end sellers.

OverallOur sales are stronger than last year

by a solid 15% and our demand score today of 45 is ahead of last year’s score of 31. Of course you are experiencing this most should you be a seller in the below $3m category, and more and more sellers are finding that they are. Unfortunately forecasts are uniformly bleak for any major demand rotation towards our high-end homes anytime soon. Fortunately for this community, very few banks have come knocking. By contrast, in California one in every 226 homes had a foreclosure filing in the month of August, more than twice the national average. •MJ

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93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY2957 East Valley Road 2-4pm $3,475,000 4bd/4ba Katinka Goertz 708-9616 Sotheby's60 Butterfl y Lane 1-4pm $2,995,000 4bd/4ba Peggy Olcese 895-6757 Sothebys2516 Sycamore Canyon 2-4pm $2,149,000 4bd Ingrid A. Smith 689-2396 Coldwell232 Hot Springs Road 1-4pm $1,499,000 3bd/3ba Doug Van Pelt 637-3684 Prudential California Realty2150 E Valley Road By Appt. $1,495,000 4bd/3ba Jason Streatfeild 280-9798 Prudential California Realty83 Seaview Drive By Appt. $1,395,000 2bd/2ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Prudential California Realty1128 Oriole Road 1-4pm $1,095,000 3bd/5ba Ewy Axelsson 689-4124 Prudential California Realty1944 N Jameson Lane C By Appt. $565,000 3bd/2ba John Sween 448-9171 Prudential California Realty

SUNDAY OCTOBER 2ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY1041 Mission Ridge 1:30-4pm $6,750,000 6bd Victor Plana 895-0591 Coldwell770 San Ysidro Lane By Appt. $5,750,000 5bd/7ba Kerry Mormann 689-3242 Kerry Mormann & Associates700 Lilac Drive 1-4pm $4,300,000 3bd/3.5ba Joe Stubbins 729-0778 Prudential California Realty700 Lilac Drive 1-4pm $4,300,000 3bd/3ba Joe Stubbins 729-0778 Prudential California Realty722 Via Manana 1-4pm $3,250,000 4bd/3.5ba Jo Ann Mermis 895-5650 Prudential California Realty1344 School House Road 2-4pm $3,150,000 4bd/3.5ba Sandy Stahl 689-1602 Sotheby's455 Nicholas Lane 2-4pm $1,995,000 4bd/2.5ba Angela Moloney Braverman 451-1553 Prudential California Realty90-92 Humphrey Road By Appt. $1,795,000 4bd/3ba Stu Morse 705-0161 Goodwin & Thyne232 Hot Springs Road 1-4pm $1,499,000 3bd/3ba Doug Van Pelt 637-3684 Prudential California Realty2150 E Valley Road 2-5pm $1,495,000 4bd/3ba Jason Streatfeild 280-9798 Prudential California Realty790 Ladera Lane 1-4pm $1,495,000 3bd/3ba Andrew Templeton 895-6029 Sotheby's727 Alston Road 2-4pm $1,475,000 3bd/3ba Robert Johnson 705-1606 Prudential California Realty83 Seaview Drive By Appt. $1,395,000 2bd/2ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Prudential California Realty677 Orchard Ave 1-4pm $1,295,000 3bd/2.5ba Marsha Kotlyar 565-4014 Prudential California Realty801 Chelham Way 1-4pm $1,278,000 4bd Dudley Kirkpatrick 403-7201 Coldwell1511B E Valley Road 1-4pm $1,249,000 2bd/2ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Prudential California Realty277 Middle Road 1-3pm $1,195,000 2bd Dana Zertuche 403-5520 Coldwell85 Depot Road 1-4pm $1,100,000 3bd S.Clyne/L.Clyne 450-0852 Coldwell1128 Oriole Road 1-4pm $1,095,000 3bd/5ba Randy Freed 895-1799 Prudential California Realty1925 Barker Pass Road 1-4pm $1,085,000 3bd/2ba SiBelle Israel 896-4218 Prudential California Realty1944 N Jameson Lane C By Appt. $565,000 3bd/2ba John Sween 448-9171 Prudential California Realty


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