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Life-Changing TheaterMJ gave SBHS’s recent production of

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EASE THE SQUEEZE, PLEASE!The never-ending spirited (and often pugnacious) debate about

widening Highway 101 is, mercifully, coming to a head with an upcoming January meeting; the Journal and half a dozen prominent Montecito residents

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5 Editorial Our plan for Highway 1016 Montecito Miscellany

Sheila Nairn travels from Australia to meet idol Piper Laurie; Oprah opens up; Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag fall from grace; Ashleigh Brilliant celebrates birthday; Santa Barbara Magazine impressive Christmas party; Dean Pitchford releases new book; Lobero honors Leni Fe Bland; Santa Barbara Choral Society’s “The Hallelujah! Project”; Theater League’s production of The Addams Family; Channel Cat wins first place in its category at Parade of Lights; Heiichiro Ohyama impresses at MAW; American String Quartet performance; Robb Report features $62 million tree house; sightings

8 Letters to the Editor President of Montecito Association weighs in on Bob Hazard’s editorial from last week; Montecito Association’s plan doesn’t work; Preston B. Hotchkis writes in about highway issues; thanks for Mr. Hazard’s Op/Ed; Bob Short’s take on 101; more on 101 reporting; a poem about a Montecito Christmas; a plea to turn back to the way it was; poverty and unemployment; an appeal to doctors and lawyers; an alert from MA; it’s cold in Starbucks; Dana’s tree story

10 This Week in Montecito Bonita hosts Men’s Shopping Night; MUS annual Winter Sing; star viewing at

Westmont’s Observatory; Granada Books’ Winter Solstice Celebration; Living Nativity at First United Methodist Church; A Mexican Christmas Drama plays at Presidio; Christmas tree lighting at Bacara; Christmas and Christmas Eve services; New Yorker discussion group; upcoming and ongoing events

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach12 Village Beat Chef Mollie Ahlstrand of Trattoria Mollie hosts three young chefs to serve a special

truffle menu14 Seen Around Town Alegria by Design throws tenth annual holiday party, “A Night At Studio 54”; Casa

del Herrera’s sold-out “Christmas at the Casa” event; Eat, Drink & Be Merry at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum

INSIDE THIS ISSUE24 On Theatre High school sophomore Tyler Greenwald reports on what members of the drama

program at SBHS take away from the experience26 Trail Talk Lynn Hearst treks to Hearst Castle to eat dinner in the opulent Refectory for Holiday

Feast28 Your Westmont Popular computer science teacher Kim Kihlstrom remembered; student business plan

hopes to use trees to grow Haiti out of poverty; star party with the college’s telescope nears29 Ernie’s World Ernie looks back to his childhood days to see what all has changed32 Sheriff’s Blotter Items stolen from car on Eucalyptus Hill Road; cars broken into on Channel Drive33 Coming & Going Santa Barbara Revels presents The Spirits of Haddon Hall on December 21 and 2234 On Entertainment State Street Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker stars Ryan Camou; Quire of Voyces

releases Christmas album; jazz night at SOhO40 Legal Advertising42 Calendar of Events Rubicon Theatre Company’s Little Miss Scrooge ends this week; Ensemble

Theatre kicks off season; Holiday Shop n’ Roll at Earl Warren Showgrounds; Brian Setzer’s holiday tour stops at Chumash; Erland returns to SOhO for annual Sweater Party; Holiday Shop n’ Roll hosts “Rock the Rink – an ‘80s Holiday Skate Party”; Summer Solstice Celebration benefit White Winter Ball; Tommy and the High Pilots visits SOhO; Rosemary Butler plays holiday show; Opera Santa Barbara presents Trolley of Lights tour; Bayou Seco play at Carrillo Recreation Center

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Editorial by Tim Buckley

Here’s Our Plan For 101

When Caltrans, with the support and encouragement of the then Santa Barbara City Mayor and others, signed off on removing the left-lane 101 southbound entrance on Cabrillo Boulevard, they and the engi-

neers assigned to the task failed to take into account the negative impact such a closure would have on surface streets nearby. It didn’t seem to matter to them that well over half a million cars a year would now be diverted to Coast Village Road as the chosen entrance to 101 at Olive Mill. We were advised that “proper signage” would direct southbound traffic over to Milpas. Only the “smooth” flow of traffic on the highway seemed to be of any concern.

Which is why many of us remain cautious and skeptical of Caltrans’ prom-ises as to time, expense, and/or traffic delays concerning its most recent plans. We believe construction time – regardless of any promises to the contrary – will be regularly compromised by weather, environmental, monetary, and other delays and what was proposed as a four-year project is likely to become a much longer multi-year project. Similar extended Caltrans 101 widening projects at La Cumbre and then at Milpas caused the demise or serious dete-rioration of many small businesses in those areas; we expect the same will happen to a good number of current Coast Village area merchants. A reduced construction schedule would go a long way towards saving at least some of those businesses.

Montecito Association is feverishly trying to convince Caltrans and others that the left-hand exits and entrances at Coast Village-Hot Springs and Sheffield are not dangerous and would be beneficial to the entire community if left as they are. And, that leaving them as they are would greatly reduce construction time in the area. They may be right; it is difficult to tell, but a continuing con-versation is a worthwhile pursuit.

101 Southbound At San Ysidro Needs To Be AddressedIn addition to concern over the length of time for reconstruction of the high-

way, we also worry that Caltrans has as yet failed to definitively address the continuing problem of the San Ysidro southbound entrance lane that is too short and way too dangerous for increased traffic, especially into traffic that may be moving even faster than it sometimes does now, once the three lanes are in position. We believe too that a new southbound right-hand entry lane at Cabrillo is an absolute must. Fortunately, Caltrans plans currently call for such a lane.

Both the Association and Caltrans have sketched out ideas and plans that, if melded together into one comprehensive arrangement, would probably be the best outcome Montecito could hope for.

Another thing worth noting is that those who live or work, say, closer to East Valley Road and north will experience far less inconvenience than those of us who live and/or work closer to Coast Village Road, where the disruption of an ongoing construction project of such magnitude will have more immediate and negative effects. This has got to be done right, because we’ll all have to live with the result for the next thirty to fifty years. If it takes a little more time to find a solution that works for all, then it will be time well spent. Most of those making these decisions will not even be around after it’s done, so all we ask of them is that they do due diligence with those future generations in mind.

Caltrans, SBCAG, And Board Of Supervisors Must AgreeWhatever the final vote and whatever the final resolution, we believe what

is needed is: three lanes, with no High Occupancy Vehicle designation (such a lane is simply not needed, and in fact would be counterproductive), along with a new southbound 101 entrance at Cabrillo, an extended San Ysidro entrance lane, a northbound exit lane at Cabrillo that does not impact, or at least mini-mally impacts surface streets, and a truncated construction period.

Bob Hazard’s op/ed piece in the last issue hit some vital nerves and stirred up a slew of responses. You can read them in the Letters to the Editor section, beginning on page 8. •MJ

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by Richard Mineards

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

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Australian Sheila Nairn has taken idol worship to its extreme!

Melbourne-based Sheila, 70, is an avid fan of veteran actress and Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, 81, who is currently starring in the Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1973 hit A Little Night Music at the New Vic.

“I first saw her in the 1979 film Tim with Mel Gibson, one of his very early roles, and I was mesmerized,” says Sheila, a property manager. “I also have a large collection of her movies.

“Three years ago I drummed up the courage to send a letter to her publish-er in New York and about eight weeks later I received a lovely handwritten letter thanking me.”

Since then the duo have kept up a pen pal relationship, exchanging let-ters every few months and arranged to meet for the first time when Piper, who is also a Golden Globe winner, sent an e-mail letting Sheila know about her acting role in Santa Barbara this month.

“It took me all of two seconds to make up my mind to fly over!” she explains, not only booking the 15,728 mile roundtrip for her first visit to the U.S., but also reserving a seat at the show, which also stars Patrick Cassidy and Stephanie Zimbalist, for every night of its run while she has been here staying at the Upham Hotel.

After the production’s official open-ing, Sheila, who flew back to Oz on Wednesday to rejoin her family for the holidays, attended the after party in the courtyard at the Arlington, just a tiara’s toss or two away.

“I actually met Piper for the first time and we gave each other a big hug. It’s a memory that will last the rest of my life!”

For the first week of her stay in our Eden by the Beach, Sheila was accom-panied by her daughter, Lindsey, but she had to return to the antipodes given work commitments.

“All I would say is if you’ve got a dream, do it. This visit was undoubt-edly a dream come true. I will con-tinue writing to her regularly. She is a beautiful and gracious lady. Just as I imagined.”

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“If I had kids, my kids would hate me,” she says. “They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would’ve probably been them.”

Oprah, who grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi, says her attitude about children is in stark contrast to her best friend, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, who is a mother of two.

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I think Bob Hazard accurately stat-ed Caltrans’ talking points and position in his personal opinion

piece (“My Take: To Widen or Not to Widen the 101,” MJ # 19/49). Since the deficiencies in their plan have been exposed by additional engineer-ing studies, they have taken to the old political “lie and deny” approach. What we know from further study is that the Caltrans widening plans were poorly thought out, posing a clear environmental and economic disaster to our community. They put together quite a snow job on the public that the City of Santa Barbara, which controls the approval process for the Cabrillo-Hot Springs section, and Common Sense 101, interested in the Sheffield section, found out about when they took the wraps off the Caltrans plans.

Caltrans must feel that the public is pretty stupid if it thinks they’ll buy the argument that both plans will cost the same. Let’s think about this for a minute. We already have three southbound lanes at Cabrillo-Hot Springs. There is no need to touch those. We can widen the northbound bridge to handle three lanes with minor disruption.

Caltrans says that you can blow up two bridges, one at a time, restrict north-south traffic to one bridge while you rebuild the first bridge, and then repeat the process for the second bridge, and that it will cost the same in time and money as leaving three lanes in place. That’s a beauty.

Here is the real issue. When Caltrans did the work on the Milpas inter-change, they studied the left-hand on- and off-ramps at Cabrillo-Hot Springs and determined that they were safe. Malcolm Dougherty is the new head of Caltrans in Sacramento and he does not like left-hand ramps. Malcolm has said he owns the highways and he will make the decision himself, period. I think the citizens of California own the highways, and as the Governor has said, Caltrans should be sensitive to local concerns.

Supervisor Carbajal recently advised us that two-thirds of the money is coming from Santa Barbara, one-third from Measure A funds, and one-third from the County’s portion of the state’s gas tax. The other third will hopefully be coming from the federal government. Nothing from Caltrans. State gas tax is usually used for maintaining County roads, so if we waste $50 million, it will come from

taxpayers in Santa Barbara County. It’s our money; we should have a say.

Can one man’s personal preference force a community to spend tens of million more of its own money on an inefficient and environmentally dev-astating project when there is a much better alternative? Let’s hope the members of the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments will join the City and County traffic engineers and demand a better design.

Richard NordlundMontecito (Editor’s note: Mr. Nordlund is

President of the Montecito Association – J.B.)

Landlocked & Gridlocked

This is a letter in support of the remarkable reporting of Bob Hazard. I am the principal owner of the Las Aves Office Complex on Los Patos Way at the corner of Cabrillo Boulevard.

I can attest to the tactics of the Montecito Association-supported 101 Coalition firsthand. They have spent untold thousands of dollars on a PR campaign that frankly misinforms Montecito residents, SBCAG mem-bers, our political leadership, and those in Sacramento. As Mr. Hazard said, “the best kept secret is that the MA plan doesn’t include a south-bound on-ramp.” Not to mention a carpool lane!

Their plan simply makes no sense and does not save money or time, but they’re determined to block or delay this vitally needed project.

I have been meeting with the may-ors and supervisors in the county and sadly anticipate a major fight at the January 16 SBCAG meeting. Frankly, if the city refuses to give Caltrans the necessary permits, I believe that Caltrans will walk, once again, tak-ing their money to other parts of the state that actually want their freeways fixed. Is that the ultimate goal?

And we will be left again – in per-manent landlocked gridlock – only worse, as the freeway congestion worsens by the day.

Shan O’Brien GoldmanMontecito

Preventing A Caltrans Rollover

By and large, I think Bob Hazard does a good job researching and get-

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ting the facts on important issues and matters those of us living in Montecito have to face. But his latest column is not one of his best efforts. He sounds like a Caltrans employee, accepts all of Caltrans assumptions without really checking them out, and ends up preaching to us about how awful Montecito traffic is going to be if we don’t go along with Caltrans’ 101 wid-ening plan as presented.

The issue isn’t “to widen or not to widen the 101” to three lanes each way. Almost everyone in Montecito favors that. The issue is whether, in order to get 101 widened to three lanes each way, we have to do it Caltrans’ way: tear down and rebuild existing bridg-es at great expense, eliminate all left-lane off-ramps (the most important one from the standpoint of 101 trav-elers provides access to Cabrillo and the beach area without going through Montecito’s main shopping area), and accept an un-beautified six-lane-wide strip of cement with high speed car-pool lanes running right through the coastal edge of our neighborhood and making it look like downtown Los Angeles (which we aren’t and hope-fully never will be).

Caltrans has a “one size fits all” atti-tude and refuses to take into account legitimate local concerns backed up by expert studies supporting suggest-ed design changes. It is true that the number of cars on the road today have increased to the point that car travel often becomes extremely difficult and slow (e.g., 405 between 101 and the Los Angeles Airport). Fortunately, the Santa Barbara area, although trafficky at times, has avoided the constant level of congestion that you find in the Los Angeles area. And the Montecito Association leadership should be commended for the volunteer time and work they’ve put in to try to pre-serve the character of their portion of the Santa Barbara area.

There are many other design issues and considerations that Mr. Hazard ignored – or accepted Caltrans’ deter-minations – without really doing his usual critical analysis. Do we need to make the third lane through Montecito and Santa Barbara a high-speed car-pool lane? Most of the leadership in the Santa Barbara area thinks “No.” The third lanes provided should be enough in the foreseeable future to handle the “pass through” traffic, and 101 doesn’t need to be designed so drivers are assured of being able to go 75 miles per hour through Santa Barbara.

The Caltrans design will surely require upwards of $50 million more than Montecito’s Common Sense plan and takes at least two years longer to implement, causing at least four years of chaos on Montecito’s sin-gle-lane residential streets as traffic struggles to get around the highway

construction. Caltrans says the two plans would cost the same, because they would have to bring the left-hand off-ramps (which they say they don’t allow any more) “up to today’s standards,” but have no backup for that statement. They also claim now that they can get their plan done in about the same amount of time, but Caltrans has a history of exceeding their budgets and not meeting their announced completion dates.

I agree that alleviating the “pass through” traffic on Coast Village Road (which was caused by Caltrans’ elimi-nation of the Cabrillo-Hot Springs southbound on-ramp) is a design problem that needs solving. The shops and restaurants located there will gradually fold if that problem isn’t solved. Also, some of the right-lane off-ramps and on-ramps (e.g., San Ysidro Road) need upgrading to meet “today’s highway standards.”

Mr. Hazard ends his column by tell-ing us we have to either do it Caltrans’ way or keep our two lanes and give up a third lane. He reminds us that 79 percent of those that voted approved the Measure A sales tax funding to help pay for the widening of 101. That is true and is still true, but most of us had a different idea on the details. Since a good chunk of that cost of widening 101 is coming from Santa Barbara County, shouldn’t we, in a democratic society, have a say in its design and have our concerns listened to and accommodated as much as possible?

Should Montecito residents be scold-ed and preached to by Mr. Hazard for working hard and responsibly to pro-tect the character of their community and told to let a large state bureau-cracy roll right over us with their “one size fits all” attitude?

Preston B. HotchkisMontecito

Traffic Lights Again?Thank you for Bob Hazard’s article

in last week’s issue of the Montecito Journal on the 101 widening challeng-es (“My Take: To Widen or Not to Widen the 101,” MJ # 19/49).

Once again, he has been fair and infor-mative. Since Montecito Association 101 Community Coalition’s own con-sultant, Tajana Hamilton, acknowl-edges that the reengineering and rebuilding of existing left-lane ramps would be necessary to meet today’s highway standards, and Caltrans states there would be no savings on a comparable basis to their plan, it seems clear that the opposition to the Caltrans plan needs a new mantra. I suggest something like “build for suc-cess,” instead of their theme “my way or no highway.”

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Tree Lighting CeremonyThe Bacara Resort & Spa will host a cere-mony for the lighting of the Christmas Tree.When: 4:30 to 5:30 pmWhere: 8301 Hollister AvenueInfo: 968-0100

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CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICESOur Lady of Mount Carmel, 1300 East Valley Road: 4:30 pm, Family Mass with Children’s Choir; 9 pm, Evening Mass with Adult Choir

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Men’s Shopping NightBonita in Summerland is hosting a Men’s Shopping Night; they gift-wrap while guys can sit back and enjoy beer and brats.When: 4 to 8 pmWhere: 2330 Lillie Avenue, SummerlandInfo: (805) 565-3848

FRIDAY DECEMBER 20

Winter SingStudents, teachers, and parents at Montecito Union School spread holiday cheer. When: 9 am to 2:30 pm, various timesWhere: MUS Auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road

Public Viewing of the StarsWestmont’s Observatory is open for public viewing the third Friday of every month. The Keck Telescope is available to see Jupiter and the moon’s craters. When: 7 pmWhere: Westmont College, 955 La Paz RoadInfo: Scott Craig, 565-6051

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Christmas Revels ConcertSanta Barbara Revels’ sixth annual pro-duction, The Spirits of Haddon Hall, is filled with glorious English and European choral and instrumental music from the 12th through 20th centuries, along with captivating country dances, engaging sto-ries, seasonal rituals, and beloved Revels traditions. Set in a historic medieval manor house, this imaginative holiday celebration will entertain, enlighten, and entice audi-ences of all ages. When: Saturday, December 21 at 2:30 and 7:30 pm; Saturday, December 22 at 2:30 pmWhere: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido StreetInfo: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

23rd Annual Living NativityFor 23 years, the congregation of the First United Methodist Church has staged a re-creation of the Holy Night for three nights just before Christmas. Under a redwood tree and adjacent to the church, a grassy area is transformed into a humble wooden

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La PastorelaA Mexican Christmas Drama, written by Pablo de la Guerra, will be performed. The script, written in Spanish in its original poetic form, is housed at the Archives at the Santa Barbara Mission. This dramatic play is filled with fun, culture, and live music and has been presented and directed for the past 30 years by Elvira

Gomez de Tafoya. Bring your friends and family.When: 7 pm tonight, 2 pm and 7 pm tomorrowWhere: Presidio Chapel, 123 East Canon Perdido StreetTickets: $10 for adults, $5 for kids Info: 886-7514


Granada Books’ Winter Solstice Celebration As winter makes its way to Santa Barbara, the community honors the many different holidays by lighting candles through the long, chilly nights. Granada Books is celebrat-ing the longest night of the year, and six months since their grand

opening, by hosting a Winter Solstice Celebration. The bookstore will stay open late, from 10 am ‘till midnight, and will offer all sorts of special promotions and discounts every hour, along with live music and refreshments.The community is invited to enjoy a day full of great deals on books, gifts, and more. With a purchase of $50 or more, customers will be entered into the Winter Solstice Raffle for a grand prize, featuring tickets to a show at the Granada Theatre and gift certificates to Spoon Gelateria and Brasil Arts Café.When: 10 am to midnight Where: 1224 State Street Info: 845-1818

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El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road: 4 pm, Family Worship Service; 9 pm, Candlelight ServiceAll Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane: 4 pm, Children’s Christmas Service; 6:40 pm and 9:40 pm, The Carols of Christmas; 7 pm Festival Eucharist; 10 pm Christmas Eve Service with IncenseMontecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road, 7 pm; Christmas Eve Service

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Christmas Services Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 1300 San Ysidro Road: 8 am mass with carols, 10 am, and 12 noon mass with Adult ChoirEl Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road: 10:30 am Worship ServiceAll Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane: 10 am, Christmas Day Service

THURSDAY DECEMBER 26

Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New YorkerWhen: 7:30 pm to 9 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

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Casa del Herrero Announces Docent Training Casa del Herrero, the 11-acre National Historic Landmark in Montecito designed by noted architect George Washington Smith in the mid-1920s, announces its 2014 Docent Training. Docents are trained to lead 90 minute walking tours of this community treasure.Docent Training begins on Thursday, January 16th with an orientation and over-view, then continues weekly through March 20th on Thursday mornings from 9:30 until 11:30 am. Classes will be conducted by local designers and historians as well as Casa volunteers.This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the work of the noted architect, Spanish history and design, antiques, land-scape design and the fascinating Steedman family who lived here for over 60 years.

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Art at Pierre LafondLongtime (approximately 40 years) local artist, author, ex-marine, architect, and builder Bill Dalziel is showing his paint-ings and prints of African Elephants with Attitude on the walls of Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro in the upper village. Ten per-cent of sales will be donated to the Save the Elephants charity.When: OngoingWhere: 516 San Ysidro RoadInfo: 969-7520

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS

Art ClassesBeginning and advanced, all ages and by appt, just callWhere: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village RoadInfo: 695-8850

TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS

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

WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS

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 Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory enhancement exercises in a friendly envi-ronmentWhen: 10 am to 2 pmWhere: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus LaneCost: $50, includes lunchInfo: Kai Hoye, 969-0859

TUESDAYS

Adventuresome Aging ProgramCommunity outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adultsWhen: 10 am to 2 pmWhere: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus LaneCost: $75, includes lunch, plus one time fee of $35Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859

WEDNESDAYS

Brain Fitness for Successful Aging SeriesLearn how to rewire your brain, combat stress and fatigue, and keep your brain strong and healthy.When: 12:30 pm to 1 pm (optional power walk), class is 1 pm to 4 pm, until September 25Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus LaneCost: donation, snacks provided Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859

THURSDAYS

Casual Italian Conversation at the Montecito LibraryPractice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all, and informative, too!When: 1 pm to 2 pmWhere: 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-5063

FRIDAYS

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

Local Artisans MarketWhen: 3 to 7 pmWhere: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope AvenueInfo: www.localartisansmarket.com

SATURDAYS

Meet Your MakersA place to meet independent makers (artists, artisans, designers, crafters, healthy food producers) and other small creative busi-nesses that engage in sustainable, socially and environmentally responsible practicesWhen: 10 am to 3 pmWhere: 130 East Cota Street, between Anacapa and Santa Barbara streetsInfo: www.meetyourmakers.org

Local Artisans MarketWhen: 2 to 6 pmWhere: “Food Walk” Market, 2330-2350 Lillie Avenue, SummerlandInfo: www.localartisansmarket.com

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 pos-sessions, 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] •MJ


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Trattoria Mollie owner and Chef Mollie Ahlstrand will welcome three talented Italian chefs for a

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You thought Studio 54 was in New York City during the ‘70s, but it actually reappeared on

State Street when Armando Martinez and his partner Shauna Timmons from Alegria by Design, an event plan-ning company, transformed the whole Granada Theatre into the famous, or infamous, nightclub. This was their 10th annual holiday party, this year called “A Night At Studio 54.” As Armando said, “After creating cel-ebrations for others all year long, we come together tonight to celebrate us: our Santa Barbara event family.”

All the razzle-dazzle of that decade was worn by the chic party people, including lots of hair (wigs and side-burns) and bell-bottoms. After valet parking in front of the Granada, Nick Andrews of Open Air Photobooth

was there to record you in your cos-tumes for posterity, or perhaps for any future grandkids. This was a young, fun party. I’m not so young, but we had fun. I borrowed a unique and stunning all feather coat from the ‘70s that belongs to my daughter-in-law.

DJ Scott Topper, in his sequin jack-et, was spinning disco favorites in the lobby. There were even scantily clad go-go girls dancing in cages à la disco days. Can you believe we did that? In the auditorium, lights were flash-ing and there was another bar and unusual hors d’oeuvres set in liquor.

This year’s event hosts were Trevor Zellet of Bella Vista Designs, Richard

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DJ Scott Topper surrounded by Hello Gorgeous models Shannon Loar-Coté, Rachel Hallett, Chase Kennedy, and Maya Louis at the Studio 54 bash

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Good and the classic Party Rental crew, Liane Duffy of Santa Barbara Wedding Style, Scott Topper of Scott Topper Productions, and Rey and Kristine Castillo of Village Modern Foods. There was also the Granada Theatre in addition to 14 sponsors.

Funds were raised solely by a raffle whose proceeds this year went to the Granada’s Jurkowitz Center for Community Engagement’s affordable access ticketing program. This pro-gram provides reasonably priced tick-ets to the arts for thousands of deserv-ing folks in town every year.

It’s been said, “On a good night Studio 54 was the best party of your life.” Merry Christmas one and all!

Christmas At The CasaFor the flavor of Christmas past,

the place to be was Casa del Herrera for its annual “Christmas at the Casa” party. This year seemed particularly energized. Instead of a large tent in the courtyard, the sold-out crowd was ensconced all over the 1925 George Washington Smith home.

As we entered the auto court, the mood was set with crystal chande-liers hanging from the trees, Palmer Jackson, Jr. strumming a guitar, and lights sparkling everywhere. It was even better inside the National Historic Landmark house (the

Courthouse and Mission are National Historic Landmarks as well) with cozy electric candles amidst all the greens and poinsettias. The only thing missing was stockings hanging from the mantel. But upstairs, the children’s bedroom was stocked with many old toys; one teddy bear was so beloved his fur was practically gone. The bears were having a tea party and my doll sat rocking in my mother’s child-size chair. That’s a century old (the chair not my doll!).

Rincon Catering was making piz-zas on the loggia while sliders with all the fixin’s were being served in

Christmas at the Casa del Herrero event co-chairs Susan Jackson and Gail Kay at the sold-out event

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the service courtyard. The workshop was open too. Carrie and George Steedman built the home and lived there after leaving St. Louis until they passed. Then, their daughter Medora and her husband moved in and when they died the family turned the prop-erty into a foundation with a CUP (conditional use permit) for the public to enjoy. The Steedmans’ grandson, Albert Hinckley, who serves on the board, was ecstatic with the party’s success and I’m sure his grandparents would have loved it, too.

This year was a first to have the auc-tion online instead of live. There was no auction at the event. Co-chairs of the Casa Christmas were board presi-dent Gail Kay and Susan Jackson with their committee: Laura Bridley, Alex Bongaerts, Meghan Stoll, Daryl Stegall, Elizabeth McGovern, Gay Browne, Laura Shelburne, Jacqueline Herman, Sharon Bradford, Jane Dailey, and Carolyn Williams. Docents shared the decorating as well. The staff involved were execu-tive director Molly Barker, develop-ment director Molly Wooden, behind the scenes event planner Lisa Carter, assistant Sara Chan, and visitor and volunteer coordinator Susannah Gordon.

I’ve been a docent there for thirteen years and we love taking the public on 90-minute tours of the 11-acre property, both house and gardens, located near the upper village in

Montecito. Come and enjoy by call-ing (805) 565-5653.

Be Merry at the Museum

Eat, Drink & Be Merry at the Museum, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM), that is. Four carol-ers greeted guests as they arrived into an elegant environment that had chandeliers hanging from the tent top, comfy sofas, and high and low cocktail tables. A miniature Dentzel Carousel was on display and avail-able for rides for any of the children. Nearby was the “candy counter” with dozens of sweets for the taking. A big kids delight too.

The invitation promised mingling under the mistletoe, but I didn’t see any. I did see Santa Claus, who was definitely a jolly old elf. Guests were swinging into the season to the sounds of Les Rose Ensemble, Chef Michael Hutchings had cooked up a table of hot treats, and there were plenty of libations.

Interim executive director Warren Miller and wife, Marlene, were on the sponsor list along with Sally and David Martin, Eleanor Van Cott, Susan and Hubert Vos, John Woodward and Ventura Party Rental. Other sponsors were Robin Schutte, “Andy” Weber III, Bella Vista

Casa del Herrero board members Charlie Knight and Henry Neirns with Kristi Marks

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The next SBHM event will be a lec-ture by excellent speaker Frank Goss on the artist Lockwood de Forest, on January 16. Call (805) 966-1601 for information. •MJ

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It’s time to move on and work with Caltrans on the best plan for all of Santa Barbara for many years to come. I guess there are some who still wish we had the stoplights on the highway. The experience is the proof of the problem. Time to give up on the left exits and get this job done.

Sybil RosenMontecito (Editor’s note: The highway will be

expanded, but we should try to get what is best for Montecito before plans are solidi-fied, regardless of whose ideas ultimately prevail. – J.B.)

Another 101 TakeIn last week’s issue of Montecito

Journal, Bob Hazard wrote exten-sively about the South Coast 101 project in his typical manner with his use of incomplete information, many misstatements, and dramatic descriptions of what he imagines might happen under his unsub-stantiated theories (“My Take: To Widen or Not to Widen the 101,” MJ # 19/49).

The Highway 101 will be widened! It is also important for the community to have the best solution.

Mr. Hazard focuses only on the Common Sense 101 position on the left-side orientation of the four ramps. He fails to mention the well-publi-

cized position of the City of Santa Barbara that the Caltrans design solu-tion for the Cabrillo Boulevard inter-change does not work and cannot be approved as is. He also ignores the long list of requirements of the City of Santa Barbara Planning Commission that must be incorporated to secure a permit – requirements Caltrans is not currently providing.

Mr. Hazard states that the alter-nate plan will cost about the same, take about the same time to construct, and create similar disruption as the Caltrans plan. This is absolutely false. The alternate plan will save about $50 to 60 million, save at least two years of construction, and avoid several years of massive traffic disruption to our community.

He naively quotes Mr. Dougherty as giving only two choices: take the Caltrans design as is or there will be no project. He mistakenly believes that Mr. Dougherty, in his sole judg-ment, will make the final decision. He should realize that Mr. Dougherty does not have that complete author-ity. He also fails to remember that Caltrans told Carpinteria that only their design for the Linden and Casitas Pass interchanges would be acceptable, but finally came around and built what the City thought was appropriate.

Mr. Hazard goes on at great length

regarding his opinion of the safety of the left-side ramps. An in-depth engineering analysis has been made of the safety of the left-side ramps in the alternative design, which shows the actual accident rate of these ramps is not only well below the statewide average, which Mr. Dougherty says is the proper basis for safety analysis, but also well below the majority of right-side ramps in the vicinity.

Mr. Hazard quotes information from the various standards, but fails to mention that the Federal Highway Administration Design Discipline Support Tool, the guide for high-way designers, notes that right-hand ramps are preferable, however, left-hand ramps may be more practical due to economic, environmental, and social impact reasons. Caltrans has in the past granted design excep-tions due to excessive cost, environ-mental or social economics, low-col-lision frequency, and local commu-nity opposition. In fact, in 2003, while designing the Milpas Improvement Project, Caltrans engineers made a very detailed safety analysis of the Cabrillo interchange and found no justification to replace the left-side ramps as they found no indication of any accidents caused by their left-side orientation. On the current proj-ect, Caltrans has made no accident or safety analysis to this date.

Mr. Hazard totally neglects to point out that before any highway can be constructed, it must be approved by the County, Carpinteria and Santa Barbara planning commissions, and the Coastal Commission. Based on the comments by these entities, Caltrans must make extensive modifications before the necessary licenses may be approved.

He fails to point out that one third of the necessary funds for the proj-ect will come from Measure A, and none of that money will be avail-able to this project until 2017, as several years ago the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) placed a higher priority time-wise on other projects. SBCAG staff projects the construction to take place over the following ten years.

The second third of funds will come from state gasoline taxes that are nor-mally allocated for local road repairs. The community is foregoing these funds in order to complete the high-way widening. Just think: savings on the construction cost will return much needed road repair money to the County and its various cities. The final third is projected to come from the Federal Government.

We should let the SBCAG direc-tors, after extensive analysis, advise Sacramento as to the proper require-ments for this project to best serve the community.

The widened highway will be built, and built on time.

Next time, Bob, get your facts straight, and curb your imagination.

Bob ShortMontecito

Unbiased and Restrained

I have never written a letter to an editor before, but there can be no doubt that Bob Hazard has done the most conscientious reporting on the necessary and crucial widening of the 101 Freeway. I cannot for the life of me understand why this 101 group is so determined to defeat this project – same as was done in 1992 – leaving us hopelessly landlocked with more than four hours of traffic grid-lock every day.

Hazard has consistently written the most carefully researched, unbiased, and restrained accounts of this sorry chapter – thanklessly serving as Santa Barbara’s Cassandra.

Will our political leadership listen?Robert LesserCarpinteria

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The patrons drank merrilyFlashing Dolce and PradaKnock-off or real?Their stylists say nada.

On Coast Village RoadThere arose such a clatterI sprang from the bar To see what was the matter

Away to Smith BarneyI flew in a flashTo stop my portfolioFrom bleeding more cash

My real estate’s goneThe market is flatI know now for certainI’m no Democrat.

But the moon on the towerOf the Coral Casino still glowsOff the hoods of FerrarisParked down below

I ease my new HondaOn to the last parking spotOf Santa Barbara historyThat Ty Warner bought

I live down the streetIf I could, I’d pay lessBut then, well, my kidCouldn’t attend MUS

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So I work to pay my nannyAnd the dog groomer too‘Cause I’m so damn busyThese things I can’t do

My dating life? Hmmm…It’s a roll of the diceThe men here are marriedMost of them twice…

I looked to the skyOn this clear Christmas nightTo see if St. NicholasHad started his flight

Those still at the barHad a similar plight“On Blond-er! On Blitz-ed!”What a holiday sight!

So be of good cheerWhen they blow .08We can just walk homeWe’re doing great!

Merry Christmas to allAnd Happy New Year tooJust one more thingBefore I am through…

We don’t have big housesWe don’t drive a BenzBut thank God, we’re still singleAnd we have funny friends!Sharon WilkinsonMontecito

‘Twas The Day Before Thanksgiving…

…And I was on my way along Coast Village Road, which is now the slow lane of the 101 Freeway. Bumper to bumper. One poor benighted man was going the wrong way attempt-ing to turn on Olive Mill. We all lent a hand in giving him room to turn around. That’s the way we are in Montecito, home of the world-famous Taj Mahal roundabout.

Why is the lower Coast Village Road an extension of the freeway? What did we ever do to deserve this? Couldn’t we go back to the way we were? (I feel a song coming on.) Bring back the ramp the way it was, please! This just isn’t working and it’s dan-gerous.

Let’s put our heads together and find an answer to this problem. Let’s get back to enjoying our community and its way of life with a flourishing Coast Village Road.

Christina AllisonMontecito (Editor’s note: I’m afraid you and we

are out of luck. When the likelihood of closing the southbound entrance to 101 off Cabrillo Blvd was being discussed among Caltrans, SBCAG, Montecito Association, the Coast Village Business Association, and the City of Santa

Barbara, Montecito Journal editorial-ized against such a move, predicting just what you describe. However, when it came time to speak up at a couple of those head-to-head meetings with Caltrans, we failed to voice our concerns strongly enough. It was, we could see, a fait accompli; they – Caltrans, the mayor, and others – had all previously agreed that the southbound entrance would be closed.

I did speak with First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal during those “negotiations” about the possibility of the closure causing increased traffic along Coast Village Road, but he gave assur-ances that if such a condition did in fact occur, he would see to it that “mitigation measures” would be enacted. As of yet, none are forthcoming. – J.B.)

Unemployment PayThis is from columnist John C.

Goodman: “We have spent $15 tril-lion ‘fighting’ poverty since 1965 and we are currently spending $1 trillion a year: an amount equal to about $22,000 per poor person or $88,000 for a family of four. Yet our poverty rate today (16 percent) is higher than when we started (14 percent)! If there has been a War on Poverty, poverty won. Is it not obvious that we are subsidizing and enabling a way of life? To put it bluntly, we are paying

young women to have children out of wedlock. We are paying them to be unemployed. And we are paying them to remain poor.”

Forwarded to us byJanice EvansSanta Barbara

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rating in Le Guide De L’Espresso, the Italian Michelin-style guide. Trattoria Mollie on Coast Village Road has garnered numerous awards and recognitions, including five stars from the Star Diamond Award. The Montecito gem has also been featured in National Geographic’s “The Ten Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide For Travelers” as one of the “Ten Best Destination and Special Restaurants in the World.”

On Friday, January 3, Saturday, January 4, and Sunday, January 5, Italian chefs Giuseppe Iannotti, Christian Milone, and Eugenio Boer will cook for Montecito, setting up a kitchen in the main dining room at Trattoria Mollie. “I want them to be in the middle of the room, so guests can see them cook, ask questions, and interact with them,” Chef Mollie said. The menu will be all about white truffles from Alba, hailed in the culi-nary world as the “diamond of the kitchen.” The distinct species of truffle is only harvested about two months out of the year, adding to its value and rarity. “These are real, authen-tic white truffles from Alba,” Chef Mollie explained. “They are distinct and unmistakable.”

For many years, Mollie has served truffle-infused pasta with white truf-

fles shaved on top, acquired from Tartuflanghe, one of Italy’s most prestigious truffle outlets. The fam-ily-owned business features truffle-infused pasta, polenta, oils, and more, as well as authentic white truffles. Paolo Montanaro, whose father start-ed Tartuflanghe, hosted Mollie on her trip, taking her hunting for truffles, and teaching her the ins and outs of the delicate fungus. “He is the truffle guru,” she said. The trip was docu-mented by an Italian film crew; the documentary will play in the back-ground during the special dinners. Montanaro will also join the three Italian chefs during their Montecito visit.

The special menu ($175 per per-son) will feature a four course meal, which will include Uove Tartufato, (white truffle eggs), Risotto al Tartufo Bianco (risotto with white truffles), or Fettuccine al Tartufo Bianco (fettuccine with white truffles), Pollo o Vitello al Tartufo Bianco (chicken or veal with white truffles), and for dessert: Gelato al Tartufo Bianco (gelato made with white truffles). Non-truffle eaters are welcome to attend, as all the dishes can be made sans truffle ($95 per person). Space is limited to 50 people

Chef Mollie with Giuseppe Iannotti, Christian Milone, and Eugenio Boer, the three young Italian chefs who will take over Trattoria Mollie on Coast Village Road


Every year, Santa Barbara High School’s drama program stag-es three “all-out” productions.

These productions consistently play to full houses and earn nothing but posi-tive media reviews making them a sig-nificant contribution to the enjoyment and pride of the entire Santa Barbara community.

The recent musical of Chicago was such a success, “phenomenal” was the word used most often by audiences and critics alike to describe this pro-duction.

Director Otto Layman, writing in the show’s program, expressed his pride that “the program here is seen as a core part of the school, and not as ancillary or ‘extra’ but a vital part of the Santa Barbara High School brand.”

Now that the curtains are closed, the lights are off, and the costumes are back in their boxes, however, these questions remain:

Does the program deliver more to

the students than just the applause? Do the actors, directors, stage managers, and stage crews gain something more enduring, something deeper, that they will take with them after their gradua-tion? Do they feel that all the effort and time that goes into these productions pays off?

Sophomore Sable Layman, Otto’s daughter, who played the part of Roxy in Chicago, describes the drama pro-gram as “a life-changing experience. I don’t know what I would do without it, what I would do with my time. It has helped my speaking skills and boosted my self-esteem. My future will be all about bonding with other people. Chicago was exactly that, a great bonding experience. We were a family, sharing our skills and strengths for objectives we had in common. This experience will be with me forever.”

Sable is not alone in appreciating the “take away” from performing on stage, or behind the stage. Many of Chicago’s

On Theatre by Tyler Greenwald

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participants talk about the vital skills they learn that they will lean on in the future.

For example, stage manager Beau Litierri, a sophomore says:

“I am learning how to work well with people in the real world, in a professional environment.” Beau views his role as “a communications bridge, bringing people together, gen-erating mutual respect among every-one. I expect that I will be doing that throughout my life, learning to work with people and getting the best out of them.

“As show time approaches, I get here at 8 am and often stay until 8:30 pm. I also have schoolwork to do, which has taught me a lot about prioritizing. That will go with me as well. Can I envision going to a high school without a drama program? Definitely not. That would be devastating. Without this program, truly, I doubt I would be motivated to go to school. I cannot imagine SBHS without its drama program.”

Camille Umoff, a freshman, was the other female lead in Chicago, play-ing Velma. “Theatre is my life,” she explains. “It is who I am and always will be, whether I’m in the theatre or not. Before I started acting and sing-ing, I had zero confidence. Now I’m comfortable on stage and the SBHS drama program has definitely contrib-uted to that comfort. It teaches you

great social skills, which translate into almost everything. There are so many people out there you don’t know, but can know.”

Camille wishes the students who don’t go to see the shows would try it, just once. “They just don’t realize how good our theatre is; it’s not just a kiddie show. They are truly missing something really great.”

Grant Bower, a sophomore, played Billy, the lawyer in Chicago. “Every second I’m on that stage,” he says, “I’m graced with one of the most amazing rewards an actor could ask for. I want to keep on pushing and pursuing my way of life in this element. Theatre is what I eat, sleep, and breathe.”

These young actors live for the the-atre, live for the respect they gain from it, and the opportunity to gain that respect. They also believe strongly that the skills they develop will be with them for a lifetime.

Otto Layman, with 18 years of SBHS shows behind him, agrees.

“Theatre teaches us all about the magic of imagination, shows us the truth and courage of actors and those who bring these shows to the stage. Theatre teaches us that there is some-thing greater than individual achieve-ment, that shared imagination makes us better as people, and elevates the spirit of those who share it with us – our audience.” •MJ

Some of the Chicago crew getting ready for rehearsal: director Otto Layman, actor Grant Bower, actress Camille Umoff, and Head Stage Manager Beau Litierri


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William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) inherited 40,000 acres in San Simeon and the surrounding area from his gold-prospecting father, later Senator, George Hearst (1820-1891) but used his own fortune made in newspaper publishing to increase the ranch to 250,000 acres. The main build-ing alone contains 115 rooms within its 68,500 square feet, all stuffed with art and antiques acquired by WRH, who was a voracious collector. Today the Castle is part of Hearst Castle State Park, the jewel in the crown of the California State Parks system.

After cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres were served in an adjoining drawing room enlarged with an ele-gant tent, the barriers to the Refectory were moved aside to reveal the glory of the banquet hall. Measuring sixty-seven feet in length and twenty-seven feet in width, the Refectory’s walls soar to a ceiling at twenty-seven feet. The shimmering silk of the Italian Ward banners that hang from the high walls year-round seemed even more festive in the candlelight. One end of the room is entirely comprised of a French Gothic fireplace, said to be the largest of the 38 fireplaces that warm the main building alone.

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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 trailsFor most visitors to Hearst Castle,

the room that always elicits oohs, aahs, and fantasies of imaginary

meals is the Refectory. Located in the main house known as La Casa Grande, the baronial dining room of William Randolph Hearst (WRH) is impressive any time of year, with its stone walls warmed by four huge sets of fifteenth century choir stalls from a Spanish church interspersed with woven tapes-tries. But to see the Refectory decorated

for Christmas is breathtaking, as twin-kling lights in several Christmas trees and candles burning in the antique sil-ver candelabra create a magical atmo-sphere. To dine amidst the splendor is, for all practicable purposes, only possible by attending the Hearst Castle Holiday Feast, a black-tie dinner spon-sored by the support group Friends of Hearst Castle.

Usually held the first Saturday in December, tickets for the Holiday

Feast are normally sold out shortly after Labor Day, as attendance is lim-ited to only 90 guests. This year, sev-eral Barbareños made the two-hour trek from Santa Barbara to San Simeon to take part, including former El Presidente of Old Spanish Days Herb Barthels and his wife Mareva, venture capitalist Frank Foster and his wife Tiffany (currently board president of Storyteller Children’s Center), real-tor Daniel Encell with his new bride Caroline, and yours truly with hus-band Lynn Matteson.

The evening started on a special note, with guests met at the Visitors Center by a parade of limousines and limo busses. A storm had passed through the night before, and although the sky was clear, temperatures were near freezing. Most of the ladies fend-ed off the wind chill by bundling up in fur coats, while the gentlemen looked dapper in their tuxedos. Flutes of champagne were passed around inside the limos during the five-mile drive up to La Cuesta Encantada, or “The Enchanted Hill,” making spir-its bright. Hearst Castle at night is

Attendees of the Hearst Castle Holiday Feast had the rare experience of dining in the Refectory while a string quartet played in the musi-cian’s gallery overlooking the room

Frank and Tiffany Foster of Montecito planned to take a daytime tour of Hearst Castle the morning after the Holiday Feast

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British actor and novelist David Niven (1910-1983) once said about din-ner at the Hearst ranch, “…wine would flow like glue during the meal…”

While WRH was noted for keeping his guests sober, there was no lack of wine to accompany the delicious five courses of the Holiday Feast. Afterwards, guests filed into the the-ater for a screening of Cain and Mabel, a 1936 comedy starring Clark Gable and Marion Davies.

The legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (1885-1966) once noted, “A visit to the Hearst ranch was a ticket to never-never land. Never has there been such a place, and never will we see its like again.”

Hopper’s observation was abso-lutely true, but attending the Hearst

Castle Holiday Feast is the closest way to experience the enchantment of La Cuesta Encantada. One can only hope that WRH is present in spirit, taking pleasure in his guests enjoying anoth-er magical night in La Casa Grande. •MJ

Herbert and Mareva Barthels pose in the Billiards Room at Hearst Castle. Herb, who was El Presidente of Old Spanish Days in 1991, seemed perfectly comfortable trading his charro suit for a tuxedo.

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following a long battle with cancer. She was 56. A memorial service was held at Montecito Covenant Church December 18.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where she met her husband, Ken, a physics professor at Westmont. They moved to Santa Barbara to join the Westmont fac-ulty in 1984. She taught part time until 1999, when she earned a doctorate in computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara. She served as professor of computer science at Westmont for the past 14 years, winning the Teacher of the Year award for the Natural and Behavioral Sciences as well as the Faculty Research Award. She and Ken led Westmont’s Europe Semester twice.

The Westmont community cele-brated Kim’s life and achievements at a retirement reception November 8. “It was a great blessing to have Kim there,” says President Gayle D. Beebe. “We were able to express our appreciation and respect for the con-tribution she has made to Westmont, where she has touched hundreds of lives through her professional work and personal care and ministry. Kim vibrantly expressed her deep and abiding faith. From the moment Pam and I arrived at Westmont, she was a source of encouragement, wisdom and joy. Kim was one of the kind-est and most considerate individu-als we have ever known. We will always remember her as a person of remarkable intellect with a warm and gracious spirit and a caring and hos-

pitable touch.”Kim is survived by Ken, their

three children, Kathy, Karen and Kevin, their son-in-law, Ryan Timpte, their daughter-in-law, Katie, as well as Kim’s mother, Virginia Potter, and her brother, Kris Potter, who both live in Medford, Oregon.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the endowment for the Kim Kihlstrom Scholarship for Women in the Sciences. The financial award will assist two incoming female stu-dents who have chosen to major in one of the natural and behavioral sciences. In addition, the Westmont Mathematics and Computer Science Department has named one of its top honors the Kim P. Kihlstrom Award. It will honor a graduating senior from the Computer Science program who has done outstanding course-work and research and contributed to the department’s community of learners.

Plan Uses Trees to Grow Out of Poverty

A plan to end malnourishment in Haiti took top honors at the 24th annual Westmont Business Plan Competition December 10. The busi-ness proposal, Watermark, focuses on using natural, locally grown resourc-es to provide vital nutrients to the people in underdeveloped and rural countries. The plan was created and presented by students Jake Allbaugh, Taylor Bartlett, Tommy Knapp, and Gregg Sanchez.

“This plan is a unique solution to malnourishment because of the sus-tainability it provides the local popu-lation,” the proposal states. “Instead of depending on foreign aid and handouts for consistent nutritional intake, Haitians can work for them-selves to cultivate their own resources to end malnourishment in their own country.”

Their presentation detailed the nutritional benefits of the Moringa tree along with a step-by-step plan for planting, growing, and harvesting the trees for their leaves. The leaves would be cleaned, pulverized, pack-aged and sold as a powder to supple-ment meals.

Other student proposals included Alpha Life Academy, which men-tors, employs and educates young teenagers in the Dominican Republic through their passion for baseball; Catalyst Business Ventures, teaching Kenyans about entrepreneurship and helping them develop their own new businesses; Brick by Brick, providing high-quality, low-cost, weather-resis-tant building material to developing communities; Nickel a Net, using sim-ple tools and plastic bags to produce mosquito nets in the battle against malaria; One Sip, One Saved, provid-ing a model for beverage produc-ers to combat vitamin A deficiency; and GiftSmart, a social platform that makes it easier to donate to credible charities.

The competition was part of the Entrepreneurship and New Venture Development course taught by Rick

Ifland, director of the Eaton Program for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Westmont. Ifland will teach a new class this spring, Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid, which will identify challenges and opportunities in serving the lowest-income mar-kets. As part of the course, Ifland and 16 students will travel to Port-de-Paix, Haiti, during spring break to create the infrastructure to develop a new entrepreneurial product. Using micro-finance, the students seek to help Port-de-Paix entrepreneurs earn an additional $5 per day in income for themselves and their family.

Ifland will speak about the challeng-es and efficacy of microfinance in a free public lecture Thursday, February 13, at 5:30 pm at University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street. No tickets are required; the limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please call (805) 565-6051. The talk, “The Future of Microfinance and the Role of Muhammad Yunus,” is part of Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter, which is sponsored by the Westmont Foundation.

Telescope Zooms in on December Skies

Westmont’s powerful Keck Telescope opens for a monthly view-ing of the stars, Friday, December 20. The free event is held every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit and begins after 6:30 pm and lasts several hours. The best viewing generally occurs later in the eve-ning. In case of inclement or overcast weather, please call the Telescope Viewing Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check the Westmont website to see if the viewing has been canceled.

Westmont students and faculty use the Keck Telescope, a 24-inch reflector, to conduct astronomical research. The observatory sits between Russell Carr Field and the track and field/soccer complex. Free parking is available near the baseball field. •MJ

Kim Potter Kihlstrom (April 26, 1957 – December 12, 2013)

Students Taylor Bartlett, Tommy Knapp, Gregg Sanchez, and Jake Allbaugh won the business plan compe-tition with Watermark

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Ernie’s World by Ernie Witham

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Christmas has changed. When I was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, BLACK

FRIDAY had nothing to do with shopping. It just meant that they were serving something in the school cafeteria that they started cooking too early and finished cook-ing too late.

“What is that?”“Ham, corn, and potatoes.”“Which one is the ham?”We did not have CYBER MONDAY

either. To us a WORLD WIDE WEB would have contained one mother of a spider. And even if we had known what the INTERNET was we would not have been able to order things from it, because we could not access it on our transistor radios that got just one static-filled station and only if you were standing near a large window with tinfoil on your head.

We didn’t have a lot of HUGE ELECTRONIC SALES either. The most technologically-advanced toy you could hope to find under the tree was one of those train sets that came with a six-foot oval track that never fit together right so the train wouldn’t start, wouldn’t start, wouldn’t start, then lunged forward and fell over.

“Yay... oh.”“Yay... oh.” Stomp, stomp, stomp.The other big WOW toy was the

NEW, HOURS OF FUN electric foot-ball game – the one where you stood all the players on a raised, painted magnetic metal field then turned on the buzzing vibrating field activator and cheered as all the players turned in circles uncontrol-lably, bumping into each other, until they fell over. Not that far from some actual football games, I guess.

Technology for girls included dolls that closed their eyes when you leaned them backwards and wet themselves when you gave them a bottle, which was fun for boys to watch if the girl happened to be too close to the electric foot-ball game when the doll lost plastic bladder control, as the girl would start vibrating uncontrollably until she closed her eyes and wet herself.

“Should we turn off the football game activator?”

“Not until smoke starts coming out of her ears.”

Pre-online shopping was called “hey get in line buddy” shopping. And we didn’t have malls. You went downtown to Main Street where

you ran into people holding fistfuls of cash because credit cards were still in the beta stage until someone could figure out what to call them.

“The Copper Card?”“The Nickel Card?”“The Brass Card?” And if you couldn’t find what

you wanted at FW Woolworth, JJ Newberry’s, or Western Auto, you could order things in person at the Montgomery Ward catalog store, where you stood at pedestals that held huge catalogs that were chained up to prevent people from taking them home to use in their outhouses. When you found some-thing you wanted to order, you filled out a form and gave it to the sales guy.

“What are the chances of getting this delivered by Christmas?”

“This Christmas? The one that’s just a few days away? Ha!”

“Can’t you fly it in overnight or something?”

“Flying gifts is Santa’s job. Next.”We did, of course, have tele-

phones that we could use to order stuff, but unlike today they did not reside in your pocket. They were either attached to the wall or sat on a telephone stand and you could only move about three feet because that’s how long the cord was. When you did make a call the most amaz-ing thing happened – a live person answered it.

“Sears and Roebuck. How may I direct your call?”

“Could I have the toy department, please?”

“Sure. HEY NED, tell someone from the toy department they have a phone call.”

Phones did not have Musak yet, so sometimes the operator would hum Christmas carols, or she would simply put the phone on her desk and you could hear her rummage through her purse for a nail clipper.

“Clip, clip, clip. File, file, file. HEY NED, did you tell the toy depart-ment they have a phone call?”

“Toy department.”“Hi, I was wondering if you

have...”“All we got left is one train set

with six-foot oval track, only one piece is missing. And we have one NEW, HOURS OF FUN elec-tric vibrating football game but the off switch is broken, and we have a couple sleepy, wetty dolls. One sleeps, the other wets.”

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“I never had a nervous breakdown,” she says, explaining how the original report took comments she made about her workload out of context.

“I thought that was such sensational exploitation.”

But fame and success does have its price, Oprah admits.

“When you’re the most successful person in your family, in your neigh-borhood and in your town, everybody thinks you’re the First National Bank. And you have to figure out for your-self where those boundaries are. I got to the point where nobody ever asked me for anything less than $5,000.

“I felt pressured for a long time to say yes, because I thought, ‘I can’t lie and say I don’t have it. My salary is printed in the paper.’ I’ve bought more houses and cars than I can even tell you.”

Brilliant Birthday BashSanta Barbara wit, Ashleigh

Brilliant, celebrated the 20th anniver-sary of his 60th with family, friends and fans at Franceschi Park, one of his favorite stomping grounds with its sweeping view of the Pacific.

Ashleigh, whose wife, Dorothy, celebrated her 82nd birthday just 24 hours earlier, is known for his long-running humor and wisdom filled 38-year-old “Pot-Shots” strip in the News-Press.

“I’ve done ten thousand Pot-Shots over the years,” says English-born Ashleigh. “Each have unique art and witty sayings. They were also made into a collection of nine books, each with three hundred examples in each, starting in 1979, published by the local Woodbridge Press.

“But that is no longer, so if there is anyone interested in continuing pub-lishing the collection, I’d love to hear from them.”

One longtime fan, David Nielsen, traveled from Omaha, Nebraska, to be at the bash.

In a 1992 profile the Wall Street

Journal described Ashleigh as “his-tory’s only full time, professional pub-lished epigrammatist.”

A most unique character indeed...

Speidi’s Sad SituationThey were once one of reality TV’s

richest couples, amassing a hefty $10 million fortune from playing villains on MTV’s The Hills.

But since the show ended in 2010, Santa Barbara-based Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have experienced a spectacular fall from grace.

While Heidi has admitted in the past to whittling away their fortune on her numerous plastic surgery pro-cedures, the blonde reality star and her husband have now revealed how they blew all their millions.

The twosome, who just celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, say they now severely regret spending ridiculous sums of money on nights out at expen-sive restaurants and shopping sprees, during which they would splash out thousands of dollars at a time.

Pratt admits the pair had delusions of grandeur, and at the height of their fame even compared themselves to music’s biggest power couple.

“We thought we were Jay Z and Beyonce,” he admits to InTouch. “In hindsight we should’ve been more low-key. We’d spend $10,000 a week at trendy L.A. eateries and $100,000 a month on Heidi’s hair and makeup regime.

“Every time we’d go out to eat, we’d order $4,000 bottles of wine. Heidi was going to the mall and dropping $20,000 to $30,000 a day.”

But it was the lion’s share of the $10 million that was sunk into Montag’s “side project,” her failed 2010 album, aptly titled Superficial, that would real-ly hurt the pair.

The blonde duo spent an extraor-dinary $2.5 million on studio time, photo shoots and producers to perfect the record, only for it to fail miserably in both album sales and on the charts.

Superficial sold slightly over 1,000

David Nielsen, John D. Smith, Bill Zeldis, Ashleigh and Dorothy Brilliant, and Julia Christy celebrate Ashleigh’s birthday at Franceschi Park (photo by Priscilla)

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These days, times have certainly changed for the fame-hungry pair, who claim they can only afford to eat from food trucks or cook at-home meals.

“It’s hard,” says Montag. “We have to be really diligent about what we spend. Now I can spend like $100 at Victoria’s Secret. I feel like a different person.”

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Centerpieces were composed of a 3,000-sq-ft geodesic dome and two 40-ft high bamboo cones resembling gigantic Chinese lanterns, made and erected by the Malibu-based company Gypset, owned by Christian Escario and Frank and Jorg Klapp.

The expansive lawn was carpeted with 4,500-sq-ft of 120 deep pile white wool rugs as the 340 guests quaffed

the free flowing champagne and snaf-fled the Mongolian goat meatballs.

“One guest described it as Burning Man meets Montecito,” Jennifer Smith Hale, the glossy’s owner, laughed.

Among the too-too tony types at the party, which went on into the wee

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Burglary on Eucalyptus Hill RoadFriday, 6 December, 6:32 am – Deputy Hampton spoke via phone to a man

reporting a burglary. The previous night, the man had parked his rental car vehicle in his driveway. When he returned the next day, he found the driver’s side door open, and his laptop, camera, watch, clothing and toiletries were missing from the vehicle. A report was taken.

Smash & Grabs on Channel Drive Saturday, 7 December, 3:36 pm – Deputy Brookshire was sent to Channel Drive

to investigate a burglary from a vehicle. The victim showed the deputy her car, which had been broken into through the driver’s door window. Shattered glass was inside and outside of the vehicle. A laptop computer had been stolen from the car, as well as a bluetooth car adaptor. Another report was filed earlier in the day, with a victim reporting her vehicle had been broken into in a similar fashion. Her purse, which was in plain sight on the front seat, was stolen. It con-tained a camera, an iPod, a diamond engagement ring, and a necklace. Reports were taken for both incidents. •MJ


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For more information or to make a reservation, call (805) 565-9381. Trattoria Mollie is located at 1250 Coast Village Road. Find the restau-rant online at www.tmollie.com.

Update on Ortega Ridge Project

In response to a letter to the editor from last week (Letters to the Editor, “What the Heck?,” MJ # 19/49), we followed up with County representa-tives to find out what is happening on Ortega Ridge Road, where there is a massive amount of grading happen-ing on a five-acre property, which is actually on the 2100 block of Ortega Ranch Road.

According to Tony Bohnett, Santa Barbara Building and Safety Manager, and Planner Petra Leyva, the work is an effort to stop a landslide that occurred in the area in 2005. The grad-

ing, which is part of what’s called a “geo grid system,” is intended to arrest movement of the ground, which could have dire consequences for the home on the property.

According to Leyva, the permitted work is about 60 percent complete, with completion expected in the next month or two, depending on weather.

“Once the work is done, it won’t look like massive grading, the way it looks now,” Bohnett said.

A massive amount of grading is taking place on Ortega Ridge Road, in an effort to stop a landslide

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Coming & Going by Jeremy HarbinRevelry at the Lobero

When Susan Keller saw Oakland’s California Revels perform in 2005, she knew

she wanted to bring her own chapter of the troupe down to Santa Barbara. “I was really impressed,” the actress-turned-attorney says of her first expo-sure to the group’s hybrid show of music, theater, and dance, “not only with how they had all different age ranges and ethnicities on stage, but also with the obvious loyalty and love that the audience had for Revels.”

As Susan sits in front of Pierre Lafond, taking a quick break from her busy schedule of preparation to tell us about this year’s show, she recalls the process to start a Revels company in town: “It entailed quite a bit of discussion with the original Revels in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They were very protective about their brand.” After “a lot of research” on the part of Revels HQ, they liked what they found out about Susan and about our city. “They were very inter-ested in the fact that we were in Santa Barbara, not in Los Angeles,” Susan explains, “because the more success-ful Revels companies are not in the big cities.” They also liked the abundance of helpful resources here like SBCC, UCSB, and our various theaters.

One of those resources, the Lobero Theatre, has been home to the Santa Barbara Revels’ Christmas production for the last four years. The new rede-sign should work well for the interac-tive pageantry that Revels is known for. “Before, it was very hard for peo-ple to get out of their seats to get up and dance with us,” Susan says. “Now, they’ve given more room for the seats, so we’re hoping we’ll have a lot more people dancing with us.” The theater’s new promenade – coupled with a temperate winter here that dif-ferentiates the local Revels from many of the nine other national groups – allows the Christmas production to move between the theater and the outdoors. “We’re the envy of all the other Revels companies, because they can’t dance outside,” Susan says.

And that’s just what they plan to do at the end of the show’s first act. In fact, it’s a Revels tradition that all companies build into each production. “Even if it’s completely anachronistic of what else has gone before,” Susan says, “we always have ‘The Lord of the Dance.’”

Other signature elements of a Revels production include a mummers play, “which harkens back to street theater when people of the community came forward and acted out parts in a play,” Susan explains; the “Sussex Mummers Carol,” “a benediction and a blessing

of everyone who’s there”; and Susan’s favorite part of the show, the “Abbots Bromley Horn Dance,” which she says is “very mystical and harkens back to a time from the way distant past.” Attendees can also expect a few other dances, a large cast that includes both an adult and a children’s choir, a six-person brass ensemble, and a seven-person string and wind ensemble. “We try to combine the familiar and the unusual,” Susan says.

“There’s a whole range of shows,” she tells us. This year’s production, The Spirits of Haddon Hall, originated, as all Revels scripts do, with the origi-nal group in Cambridge, but was per-formed last year by the Puget Sound Revels after being revised by another group. “[The Portland Revels] cre-ated this conceit that it took place in Haddon Hall, which is a real place,” says Susan. “It’s a medieval manor house built in the 12th century; it was dilapidated and abandoned for sev-eral centuries, when in 1920 the then owner decided to refurbish it.

“The show is about how he and his family go to Haddon Hall for one last visit before it’s sold and demolished,” Susan sums up. “They get stranded there overnight and end up witness-ing this annual winter solstice celebra-tion that the ghosts of all of his ances-tors put on every year.”

Santa Barbara Revels presents The Spirits of Haddon Hall at the Lobero Theatre (33 East Canon Perdido) on Saturday, December 21 at 2:30 and 7:30 pm and on Sunday, December 22 at 2:30 pm. Tickets start at $20 ($15 for stu-dents). Admission for children under 12 is $12, and children under four are free. Get tickets at lobero.com or by calling (805) 963-0761. •MJ

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On Entertainmentby Steven Libowitz

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

State Street Ballet’s The Nutcracker is probably the most classi-cal of the area’s various offer-

ings of Tchaikovsky’s holiday ballet. Featuring original choreography by State Street Ballet founder and artis-tic director Rodney Gustafson, the production just last year added live music, contracting with the Opera San Luis Obispo Orchestra to perform live in the pit at the Granada. New this year, too, are a chorus of singers from Morro Bay High School, some new costumes and sets, and a much larger, expanding Christmas tree, brought to the U.S. from Russia for the ballet’s fantasy sequence.

What’s not new is the dancer por-traying the Cavalier – SSB’s own Ryan Camou, who has quickly become the company’s star male dancer, usual-ly taking center stage for the big-gest roles. Camou talked about his experiences with the company and The Nutcracker between rehearsals for SSB’s performances in Denver late last week.

Q. What brought you to State Street Ballet?

A. I was at the San Francisco Ballet School and later Houston Ballet Company. I started off in Santa Barbara as a guest, doing Don Quixote for a gala, and I fell in love with the company and Rodney, who is such a great director. Then he offered me a job.

But aren’t those companies much bigger than State Street? Why come here?

Yes, they are. Houston was so huge that you can get lost. In a company like Houston, you could be there many years and just stand in the back and watch for all that time. [At State Street], every dancer gets to actually dance.

You were here for a bit then you left again for three years.

I was gone for three seasons to go back to San Francisco to dance with Michael Smuin, his own company. He was the artistic director of SF Ballet years before. They have more of a jazzy, Hollywood kind of dancing, which is very different. State Street is more classical to modern, which is more my style. I’ve been back for three years now.

You’ve had a number of choice roles over your tenure here. What’s been the most challenging for you? The biggest challenge for me is when I have to be on stage acting, without talking. But

working with Bill Soleau has really helped, because he’s good at bringing out a character. He points out a lot of things you’re doing that disrupt the movement or story that you might not be aware of. The slightest ges-ture can make a big difference. I can be worried about being too over the top on one side, or actually reaching the audience with the miming on the other. You can’t talk in a ballet, but you still have to tell a story.

And favorites?I’d have to say for sure the one

I’m doing now, the Cavalier with The Nutcracker. I really love doing it because it’s all about classical tech-nique. Dancers work on that all of our lives. I get to do my pirouettes, balancing, all that fun stuff. And I love the classical music. Don José in Carmen was another favorite. It was a bit depressing to learn the part, the character, and the story. But it’s very dramatic, and I love acting, so it’s great to do it all in one piece. Prince Ivan in The Firebird was also great.

You and the company take on very clas-sical things like Swan Lake, and more modern pieces with pop scores like the Paul Simon show and the Beatles’ tribute and Swing. Can you talk about how you

State Street Ballet’s Ryan Camou plays the Nutcracker Prince in this year’s production of The Nutcracker on December 21 and 22 at the Granada Theatre (photo by David Bazemore)

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approach the different styles? You have an on and off switch. You

turn on the ballet technique when you need it, or when it’s modern, just take off the shoes and roll around on the floor. It’s about placing your mind in a different role, because it’s what’s needed. You get into the mindset, and understand the character. It’s really about the focus. If you’re not feel-ing the style that’s appropriate to the piece, it shows on stage. You have to give it one hundred and twenty per-cent. Even in the studio and rehearsal. We all really go for it.

For me, I love to turn and jump and do more classical things. I truly love classical ballet. Contemporary is fun because it’s completely different and I get to surprise myself with having my body moving differently. But don’t ever put me in tap shoes. That hap-pened once, and it won’t ever again.

The Nutcracker has been around forever so I’m thinking you must have danced a lot of roles along the way.

I’ve probably done it almost one thousand times. I know when I gradu-ated school in Hawaii, we counted and it was at three hundred. Then of course, I’ve performed The Nutcracker with every company. In Houston, they did forty-eight shows a season. I’ve been everything from a mouse to the Cavalier.

So the question is, how do you keep it fresh?

The way to do that is to add more pirouettes, or an extra jump. It’s like running a marathon. The race is always the same, but you can push harder and beat your time from the year before. So it’s about striving to always do a better performance. Here, we try to improve the battle scene and the party scene every year. We use a lot of our students when we’re danc-ing here, so it’s not quite as profes-sional, but the parents love it, and it shows off the school. So it does change depending on where we are perform-ing. And because it’s live, anything can happen.

Okay, what’s happened to you? I’ve never really fallen onstage

during a performance, although I’ve stumbled out of a jump or two. But I did blank out and had no idea what I

was supposed to do next. That’s the scariest thing. If you don’t know your steps, you can get in the way of the other dancers, or get hurt or hurt your partner if you’re not there to catch her. I had a glitch about five years ago. I think I was just fatigued. But we won’t go into details. I’ll just say that’s why it’s important to take of yourself, not just your body, but also keep your mind sharp so you’re aware of spac-ing, the beats of music, and know where to be.

After dancing to recorded music for years, SSB brought in a symphony for Nutcracker last year. What kind of differ-ence does that make for the dancers?

Oh my God, it’s completely differ-ent. It’s beautiful to have live music, especially with that ballet. It’s just more natural. A CD is the same every time. But when it’s live, things can change. It’s fun to work with the maestro with adjusting the tempos. That makes the collaboration stronger. In Santa Barbara, we get to rehearse with the orchestra, and we’ll get to ask them to adjust the tempo as we go along. It’s fun and exciting to play with it. And because it’s live, if things change you get to adapt, which is challenging but also fun. I love it also because you see the musicians, and the conductor, and you realize it’s a big show.

Because we’re a small company, all of our dancers are in everything. They have to change on the side of the wings and run back on stage. It’s a constant go. But we love to do it. Or they do. Because mostly I get to wait around and stay warm and then go out and bust my moves there at the end.

State Street Ballet performs The Nutcracker at 2 and 7:30pm Saturday, December 21 and 2pm Sunday, December 22 at the Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street. Tickets cost $21-$51, with dis-counts for seniors, students, and children. Call 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org.

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 35)ing a new choral group when he moved to Santa Barbara a little more than 20 years ago. Having finished graduate school with a focus on cho-ral singing and directing, he came to town to accompany his then-wife as she completed her own advanced studies at UCSB, and thought he’d look into what opportunities were available.

“I’d had some great experiences singing and directing in college. But when I got to town, there wasn’t much in the way of what I was interested in – small group a capella singing,” Kreitzer recalled recent-ly. “There was something at the high school, but nothing for adults besides the big choruses singing with orchestras.”

So Kreitzer created Quire of Voyces back in 1993, starting with just 16 singers and focusing on the music from the Renaissance with a healthy dollop of modern compositions. Just a couple of years later, he brought the ensemble under the auspices of SBCC, after the school asked him to move it on campus as a class to help stabilize the then-shaky choral music department. Soon, the city college hired Kreitzer to run the department.

“Quire was the best possible job interview I could have,” he said. “I was able to show what I could do

before they hired me.”Now, Quire has released a new

Christmas CD, its sixth overall album, just in time for this week-end’s annual Mysteries of Christmas concert to launch its 20th anniver-sary season. Christmas with the Quire of Voyces boasts 16 tracks, all record-ed live at previous Christmas con-cert at St. Anthony’s Chapel, fully one third of which are written by Michael Eglin, Quire’s composer-in-residence. Kreitzer talked about the CD, the concert, and the Quire.

Q. The new CD focuses entirely on modern music. Why no pieces from the Renaissance?

A. That’s all been done – and real-ly, really well – by Tallis Scholars, or Cambridge Chorale. So it’s easier to focus on the modern stuff, especially the piece by Mike Eglin. No one has ever heard them before, so it feels like it’s my job to get them out there.

You have a really productive work-ing relationship. How did you two get together? And why does it work so well?

He moved out here from New York to go to grad school at UCSB. I had a section leader position open at First United Methodist (where Kreitzer is the music director). He came and sang for me. And I said, wow, you got the job for sure, but you should also come and sing in Quire. This was back in 2002. We started that at church, but we became friends very quickly. Later on, we planned a tour to England and he’d mentioned that he composed and asked if I look at one of his pieces. It was great, so we added it to the tour. That got things started. Back then he’d write a piece and we’d sing through it and I’d make suggestions and we’d go back and forth until we struck a bal-ance between what he wanted and what I needed for Quire. Now we both know exactly what works and what we’re aiming for, so it’s a very smooth process.

What can we look forward to for these concerts? Do you do the material from the CD, or a retrospective of previous years?

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No, it’s almost all new stuff. I hate to repeat myself, not only because I get bored easily, but also for the singers. They put in all this time and energy and they don’t want to recycle material. So there are only two pieces we recorded before – “Sweet Baby Wrapt in Twilight Shade” – one of Michael’s, so when people want to buy a CD with something from the concert it’s on there. We’re also doing “The Rose” by John Paynter, a wild piece that’s really difficult but great. It’s my nod to the anniversary. There’s also a new piece by him, too, a setting of a Christmas text. There’s a short piece by Stephen Paulus, who recently fell into a coma after a stroke in July. John Tavener just passed away in November, so we’re doing one of his pieces. We like a lot of vari-ety. We almost never do normal Christmas music on our concerts. I’ve done enough of those that I just don’t want to go there anymore. It’s much more fun to do esoteric and beautiful music that no one’s ever heard before. So our concerts are Christmas music, sort of.

Speaking of the anniversary, what do you see as you look back at this mile-stone? What are you most proud of?

First of all, I’m amazed we’ve been doing it for this long. As it’s been said, starting a choir is easy, maintaining one is where it gets difficult. The level of commitment of the singers, who are all volun-teers, and of the guild members who staff the concerts and help out, it’s wonderful. I feel grateful that I’m able to have had this job for twenty years. I went into it with no expectations. I didn’t even have a job at the time, but I paid for it all myself. I just wanted to do it and hoped for the best. I used the rent

money to pay for the first concert. But it has certainly worked out. By the second concert we were already in the black.

Quire of Voyces performs Mysteries of Christmas Saturday, December 21 at 7pm and Sunday, December 22 at 3pm at St. Anthony’s Sanctuary, Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden St. Tickets cost $20 general, $15 students and seniors. Call 965-5935 or visit www.sbcc.edu/music/website/choir/qv.main.htm.

Christmas JazzDespite all the concern about

declining opportunities for music in the schools, jazz in our local high schools has been thriving for a while, particularly over at SBHS, which cur-rently has something like seven dif-ferent alumni currently studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, one of the prestigious institutes of its ilk. Last year over the holiday break, many of those students joined up with their colleagues at other East Coast colleges and brethren here in California to create an afternoon and evening of jazz over at the Montecito Country Club.

There’s nothing quite as formal this year, but lots of the same folks will be playing at SOhO on Monday night, December 23 on a twin bill co-headlined by keyboardist Mehae and guitarist-singer Christina Apostolopoulos.

The Hawaii-born Mahea already finished up Berklee and now plies her trade in New York, while Apostolopoulos has just one semes-ter left. They’ll be joined by Matt Raphaelian (drummer), Jared Yee (sax), and Carter Lee (bass), all of whom played at the MCC show.

The music starts at 7:30pm, and tickets cost $15. Call 962-7776 or visit www.sohosb.com. •MJ


tradition, I got to work.So many details needed to be cov-

ered: where, when, money, who, how, friends, park service, Caltrans, Carbajal, Montecito Association, Montecito Community Foundation, and the Hathaways.

We received generous donations from several friends, including Ernie Bryant, who told me, “If you are short, let me know and I will cover the shortfall.” He did.

Due to the urgency of the order, every step needed surgical accuracy and expediency to find a replace-ment, locate an appropriate site, get approvals, take delivery, and plant prior to December. (It was October of 2011.)

With the help of many friends, this wonderful Aptos Blue Redwood was placed in the ground by Doug Coale two weeks prior to our first dedica-tion of the Community Hathaway Memorial Tree, located on the lawn just east of the tennis court across from Montecito Union School. Its pre-vious location at North Jameson and San Ysidro was just too dangerous a place to invite the community’s par-ticipation.

This year is our third celebration of the decorating of the tree. The celebration has grown to include the citizens, Montecito Fire Protection District, Montecito Association Beautification Committee, Montecito Foundation, Montecito Historical Archive, Montecito Union School with the choir, and the Hathaway Family.

Dana Newquist Montecito •MJ

to differ. This ObamaCare could be (and probably is) just the begin-ning. Here we have a segment of our society, the doctors and medical professionals, being told what they can charge for their services. These people sacrificed by going to years of school and paid a small fortune in most cases for that education. They are always there for us, night and day. They take care of us and they are the ones we turn to when we are sick.

This is the thanks we give them. If I were a young person, why in the world would I go into a profession that is regulated by the govern-ment? Is this going to encourage America’s finest into becoming doc-tors? Don’t you think competition and the market place should deter-mine rates?

I am asking you doctors for one more sacrifice. Do not accept this. Do not agree to ObamaCare rates. I am asking you to stand up and fight for the rest of us to save our freedom. I am truly sorry that this task falls on you, but it does.

Now, to attorneys. You also went to years of school, and I am sure you went to considerable expense and sacrifice to become attorneys. How would you feel if the government came in and set compensation rates for you? If you work on a pro bono basis, what if the rules were that your compensation rate could only be 15 percent?

Are you going to work as hard on that case? Are you going to risk as much of your own money on your client’s behalf? Are you going to mount as good a case for your cli-ent? If you charge by the hour, how do you feel about a set fee of $100 per hour?

The reason I am addressing attor-neys is because you too are profes-sionals with a similar commitment to your client’s welfare.

I think the American people had better do some soul searching. It is not a matter of Republican or Democrat. It is a matter of being a free American.

This government is out of con-trol, and I just cannot understand how anyone can support it. It is a mystery to me and really makes me feel like the American people are a lost cause. I hope I am wrong. I think it is time for you parents and grandparents to start educating your children as to what America is all about and do not leave it to oth-ers, because something is definitely wrong here.

Alex TaronMontecito(Editor’s note: We’re with you on

this, Mr. Taron. We were snookered big time in the 2012 election. But, hey, the 18th Amendment that prohibited the

production and sale of most alcohol was repealed after a tumultuous decade. Perhaps we can reverse this in way less time. – J.B.)

Montecito Resident Alert

Crown Castle is proposing to install 28 new telecommunication facilities on existing utility poles and one facili-ty on a new pole in the Montecito area. Additional information regarding the proposed facilities is available on our website: http://montecitoassociation.org/community/community-inter ests/crown-castle-submits-new-appli cations. For even more details, call us at (805) 969-2026 or visit us in the office.

The Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) is currently considering design issues related to the proposed facilities. On Monday, December 16, the MBAR considered the coastal zone locations and on Monday, January 6, 2014, they will consider the inland area loca-tions.

If you have concerns regarding any of the proposed facilities, we encourage you to attend the MBAR meeting or submit written concerns to the MBAR secretary at [email protected]. You will find the MBAR agenda here: http://www.sbcountyplanning.org/boards/rbar/mbar.cfm

The Montecito Planning Commission will consider a request for project approval at a future date.

Victoria GreeneExecutive DirectorMontecito Association

Frozen LatteMaybe I’ve become soft living in

California. But is it just me that can’t believe that Starbucks on Coast Village Road blasts their air condi-tioning when the outside tempera-ture is in the 30s? I can’t be the only one to ask them to turn it off. Over the years, I’ve begged them to turn the AC off, and the reply is always that “it’s broken.” Has it really been broken for 10 years? As a sales and marketing guy, I try to understand why sellers do things, but the great freeze-out baffles me. After this last visit, I’m done going to that Starbucks unless it’s 70 degrees or over.

Jeff WirtanenSanta Barbara(Editor’s note: We went to Starbucks

to check out the freezer-like conditions, but really didn’t experience any evidence of such a situation. However, what with so many people simply hanging out with their laptops, we couldn’t blame Starbucks if they were trying to freeze at least some of those people out. – J.B.)

Tale Of The TreeAbout 12 years ago, I received a

call from Don Hathaway stating that he was “too old” to continue to deco-rate the tree at San Ysidro and the freeway, and he asked if I would continue the tradition. I immediately said “sure.” From there, I was intro-duced to Doug Coale, owner of Mesa Tree, and to Helen, Ronda, and Dean Hathaway. A few boxes of ornaments and garland were given to me at the Hathaway house with well wishes.

My first year of decorating the tree had me in the spirit of the secrecy of the practice. I solicited a few mem-bers, mostly from the Beautification Committee, to help with the exercise. Without Doug Coale and his snorkel (cherry picker), nothing would have been completed.

Gaining experience after a couple years of elfhood, I realized that the size of the tree made it necessary for the decorating to be done during daylight hours for safety issues. With that in mind, I decided to open the adornment of the tree to the com-munity.

Now, the secrecy was finished, and the press got the Hathaway story.

Three years ago, Doug Coale warned me of the progressive dete-rioration of the tree. Oddly, he called me on the same day of the death of Don Hathaway and said that the tree had died!

To add to this aberration, Ronda Hathaway reported that on the day of Don Hathaway’s memorial barbeque, the tree was cut down by Caltrans.

Not having a tree to carry on the

LETTERS (Continued from page 21)

Begun decades ago by Montecito Fire Chief Don Hathaway as a quiet and surreptitious bedecking of a small tree near highway 101 and San Ysidro Road, decoration of the new Don & Helen Hathaway Memorial Community Tree across from MUS has become a village-wide celebration; seen here at the event held on Wednesday, December 11 is Don’s daughter Ronda Hathaway and her mini-Doberman Pinscher Roxy

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Montecito Board of Architectural Review

The Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) met on Monday, December 16, where they heard over a dozen Montecito building projects that are in the works. The Board, chaired by Sam Maphis, heard from Brian Cearnal, the architect work-ing on the Casa Dorinda Master Plan Update. The project, still in the pre-liminary phase, will add 53,800 square feet of new development on the prop-erty in the form of new residential units, memory and personal care facil-ities, a new bridge, new maintenance buildings, a new dining venue, and upgraded landscaping.

Cearnal said the project would likely take place in two phases and not require a modification to Casa’s Conditional Use Permit. The campus currently serves 321 residents (77 peo-ple are on the wait list); the proposed project would accommodate 357 resi-dents.

Casa’s president Ron Schaefer told the Montecito Association Board last week that more housing is necessary to expand the intermediate level of care and to stabilize the retirement community’s financial future.

Several neighbors and Casa resi-dents spoke at MBAR, voicing con-cern over the increase in traffic, park-ing issues, construction disruption, and the increase in the campus’ foot-print. Others spoke in favor of the expansion, calling the Casa “fully entrenched in the Montecito commu-nity,” in need of updating, and in need of an increased number of residential units.

Casa continues to reach out to neighbors to gain feedback on the plan. According to project rep Kirsten Ayars, no formal plans have yet to be submitted to the County.

In the last item of the evening, MBAR looked extensively at eleven telecom-munications facilities to be placed on existing utility poles in Montecito. The applicant, Crown Castle, is a company that lays the infrastructure for vari-ous cellular companies and has been through the County planning process on multiple occasions, for various car-riers.

This time around, the carrier, Verizon, needs 29 sites in order to increase cellular coverage in the area. Crown Castle is proposing a Distributed Antenna System, which requires two-foot long antennas to be placed on the poles, as well as a small utility box, which on most sites will be located underground.

MBAR looked at the eleven coastal pole sites, located on Jameson Lane, Ortega Hill Road, Sheffield Drive, and San Leandro Lane. They went through each one individually, giving Crown Castle agent Sharon James

and Santa Barbara County Planner Megan Lowery suggestions on how to lessen the aesthetic impact to the sur-rounding neighborhoods. The anten-nas will be painted grey to blend in with the sky line, while any associated equipment will be brown, to blend in with the pole and the ground. MBAR suggested moving at least three of the poles to different sites, citing proximi-ty to driveways, lack of screening, and proximity to schools. James agreed to study alternate sites, and said she would report back to the Board.

Only one member of the public spoke, thanking MBAR for their dili-gence and voicing concern over the number of antennas likely to be added to the poles over the next few years.

The remaining 18 sites will be heard by MBAR on either January 6 and 27, or during a special meeting, to be determined. •MJ


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BID NO. 5291

DUE DATE & TIME: JANUARY 14, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

RESERVOIR #1 JOINT SEAL REPAIR PROJECT A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on January 7, 2014 at 1:00 p.m., located at Reservoir #1, 144 Cedar Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bid Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid meeting. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General A Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned license and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashierʼs certified check, payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: December 18, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID NO. 5292


SHEFFIELD PUMP STATION SLOPE STABILIZATION A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on January 7, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., at the Sheffield Pumping Station, 2375 Foothill Rd, Santa Barbara, CA to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bid Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid meeting. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General A Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned license and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashierʼs certified check, payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: December 18, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal



BID NO. 5293


Golf Cart Path Repair at Santa Barbara Golf Club A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on January 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., at the Santa Barbara Municipal Golf Course, located at 3500 McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A, C8 or C12 Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Dec. 18, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sam’s To Go, 6831 Hollister Avenue, Suite AA, Goleta, CA 93117. Anita Sotoodeh Griswold, 1914 Elise Way #D, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 10, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the

Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2013-0003669. Published December 18, 25, January 8, 15, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alvarez

Automotive Repair & Smog, 335 North Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Gaspar Alvarez, 79 La Venta Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct

copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. Original FBN No. 2013-0003545. Published December 18, 25, January 8, 15, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ilvento’s Proprio Italiano, 1711 East Valley Road,

Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Joseph P Ilvento, MD and Judy C Dean, MD, INC, 1711 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 3, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2013-0003603. Published December 18, 25, January 8, 15, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PR E S I D E NTIALON E.COM, 1072 Casitas Pass Road #223, Carpinteria, CA 93013. James Leeds Ashmore, 1072 Casitas Pass Road #223, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 10,

2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. Original FBN No. 2013-0003674. Published December 18, 25, January 8, 15, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COLLE G E CON S U LT.OR G, 5446 Eighth Street #6, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Letitia Burns O’Connor, 5446 Eighth Street #6, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 22, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by

19 – 26 December 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41A good conscience is a continual Christmas – Benjamin Franklin5885 Carpinteria Ave.Carpinteria, CA566-99485885 Carpinteria Ave.

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5885 Carpinteria Ave.Carpinteria, CA566-9948

PUBLIC NOTICESCITY OF SANTA BARBARA

NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID NO. 5268A


Utility Locating & Marking Services Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. Contractor shall furnish and maintain any and all State, county and municipal licenses or permits that may be required to perform these services, and shall comply with the locating procedures as adopted and approved by the National Utility Locating Contractorsʼ Association (NULCA). Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: December 18, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal



BID NO. 5294


Santa Barbara Golf Club Roof Repair and Replacement A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on January 8, 2014 at 9:00 a.m., at the Santa Barbara Municipal Golf Course, located at 3500 McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-39 Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Dec. 18, 2013 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 2013-0003226. Published December 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Immaginare Events by Giseli Spera, PO Box 5043, Santa Barbara, CA 93150. Giseli Spera, 452 Scenic Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 2, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2013-0003589. Published December 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rose Golden

Holdings, 89 Humphrey Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Rose Keppler Moradian, 89 Humphrey Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. Original FBN No. 2013-0003556. Published December 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rabbia Cycling; Rage Cycling, 2664 Montrose Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Santa Barbara Doves, LLC, 2664 Montrose Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 26, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. Original FBN No. 2013-0003557. Published December 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Scenic Tours & Taxi Service, PO Box 1954, Santa Barbara, CA 93116. Gloria Jane Grigg, 5085 Oleander Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 21, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2013-0003530. Published December 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Bourbon Room, 4444 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Alvaro Rojas, 207 Romaine Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Anna Louise Sacks, 3245 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 6, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2013-

0003381. Published November 27, December 4, 11, 18, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ling Star Technology, 6735 Abrego Road, #44, Goleta, CA 93117. Cuichao Li, 6735 Abrego Road, #44, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 21, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2013-0003517. Published November 27, December 4, 11, 18, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dani Boy, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Danielle M. Leholm, 2166 E. Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Peter Mackins, 4400 Shadow Hills Apt. M, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2013-0003514. Published November 27, December 4, 11, 18, 2013.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1458246. To all interested parties: Petitioner Jasper Wayne Morse filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Jasper Wayne Burke. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed,

the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed November 22, 2013, by B. Delabra, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: January 16, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 1/8

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1438719. To all interested parties: Petitioner Steven Louis Faoro Reyes filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Brewtus Louis Faoro. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed November 22, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: January 15, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1438491. To all interested parties: Petitioner Shawn Hard filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Shawny Donahue. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed November 13, 2013, by R. Alvarez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: January 8, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18


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A Little Night Music – The clever musical from Stephen Sondheim not only kicks off Ensemble Theatre’s 2013-14 season, it also represents the debut show ever for the company at its brand new home at the New Vic following a $20 million retrofitting. Patrick Cassidy, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Broadway veteran (and three-time Oscar nominee) Piper Laurie star in Sondheim’s adaptation of Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, 40 years after A Little Night Music premiered on Broadway. Featuring the popular song “Send in the Clowns,” Music carries a complex score and somewhat complicated relationships among members of an upper middle class family trying to sort things out, romantically and otherwise. WHEN: Closes Sunday WHERE: 33 West Victoria Street COST: $40-$65 general, $20 students and others under 30. Discounted season subscriptions are available. INFO: 965-5400 or www.etcsb.org

Holiday Shop n’ Roll – Roll away your holiday blues as Cultivate Events

teams up with Meet Your Makers to create a new holiday experience designed to support and promote local food producers and craft people while also providing the opportunity to roller skate (or blade) in the 22,000-square-foot Exhibition Hall at the Earl Warren Showgrounds. Enjoy shopping local at the Holiday Mart, connecting with local artisans and other sustainable businesses, and savoring prepared foods from popular area chefs. Special themes take place each day. WHEN: 11am-9pm Thursday, 11am-10pm Friday-Sunday, through December 22 WHERE: 3400 Calle Real COST: free Thursday & Friday, $5 Saturday & Sunday for ages 16+ (waived with skate rental) INFO: 687-0766 or www.cultivateevents.com

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19

Big Band Rockabilly Christmas – Brian Setzer really found his niche when he dropped the power trio format in favor of the big band of his parents’ heyday, and then he made it his own personal Jesus via recording five full Christmas albums over the years and almost always

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

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Little Miss Scrooge – We still can’t call it an official world premiere – that’s not until next winter – but the new Christmas show from the Rubicon Theatre Company is at least ready for its close-ups. Little Miss Scrooge, from composer-lyricist-author Paul Gordon and writer-directors John Caird (and his son, Sam) – the creative team behind both Jane Eyre (which earned Gordon a Tony nomination for his score) and Daddy Long Legs, the latter also developed at RTC – gets its first public performances with a true production. If last

year’s sing-through stage reading is any indication, we’re not only in for a treat but are also getting in on the ground floor of what could be the next great holiday musical. The show is a mash-up of Charles Dickens stories, mainly the ghost story elements of A Christmas Carol and the romance of Great Expectations, but with touches of other Dickens classic tales, and touches on similar themes of social responsibility and personal redemption. The plot follows Estella Scrooge, a direct descendent of Ebenezer who, naturally, is a bottom-line-driven Wall Street employee working for a firm. She heads to a small Ohio town on Christmas Eve to shut down the company-owned Harthouse Hotel, a money-losing haven run by downtrodden folks but gets trapped by a snowstorm. This leads to her reconnecting with an old flame, Philip Nickelby (played by Broadway star and Ventura native Andrew Samonsky) as well as visits by the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future who not only offer distinct personalities but also a clear musical genre. The heartwarming tale is told through the gorgeous songs and now it’s being staged with costumes and sets, albeit scaled back a bit for the space and budget. WHEN: ends Sunday WHERE: 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura COST: $35-$59, discounted to $20 for students and active military INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21

Tommy’s High Season – It’s been a decent year for another Santa Barbara-brewed and based band. Tommy and the High Pilots – the pop-rock group fronted by Tommy Cantillon – have toured almost incessantly in 2013, most recently on a bill with Plain White T’s and Parachute, representing the South Coast more than respectfully.

Then at the beginning of this month, the High Pilots released a digital EP, Live at Studio Delux, which grew out of a video project produced by Matt Wallace (Maroon 5, Train, The Replacements) at the famous Sound City complex. But the response to earlier releases of the videos proved so strong that they decided to put out all six songs as a digital EP, including a cover of Rihanna’s “Stay” and Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody),” which THP performed every night of the recent Plain White T’s tour. Then they played Hotel Café in Los Angeles and headlining shows in San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland on the way back to Santa Barbara for tonight’s annual holiday show. Expect lots of good old-fashioned rock and roll... and lots of guests as the band reconnects to its old friends in town. WHEN: 9pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 in advance, $13 at the door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

putting together a holiday tour for the ages. This year’s edition stops at the Chumash Casino tonight, where Setzer and his 17-piece orchestra will play everything from Setzer’s original “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus” to a wide array of cover tunes stretching form “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” and “Sleigh Bells” to a swinging big band take on “The Nutcracker Suite.” Plus the boys always lend the big band treatment to Stray Cats classics “Stray Cat Strut,” “Sexy + 17,” and “Rock this Town” – a little present for all the good (or naughty) girls and boys. The Samala Showroom should rock till you pop, drop, and are turned inside out. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy 246, Santa Ynez COST: $35-$75 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

Sweater Benefit – Erland released its debut CD, a crowd-funded effort called On Our Side, back in February, and it’s a been a pretty darn good year since. Named after singer-songwriter-guitarist Erland Wanberg – who used to work at Jensen Guitar & Music Co. and has played with numerous Santa Barbara bands including The Kinds and The Family – Erland the band went on the road opening for Andrew McMahon, ex-member of the bands Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, who also happens to be Wanberg’s

brother-in-law and co-producer of the album. In October, Erland got a primetime slot at New Noise’s Block Party, sharing the stage with Haim and Cayucas. Now, the pop-flecked Americana band is heading back to SOhO (where bassist Mike Mooneyham works when he’s not on the road) for tonight’s annual Sweater Party, a fundraiser for Unity Shoppe, that also features opening sets by One Two Three, a Santa Barbara-based band that blends old school reggae with Hawaiian music (yes, there’s a ukulele), and The Kinds (chances of a Wanberg cameo are high). WHEN: 8pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

Roll (and Rock) the 1980s – It’s a special adults-oriented night at Shop n’ Roll (see above for description of the main event) dubbed “Rock the Rink – an ‘80s Holiday Skate Party.” Lace up your skates (you can rent them on site if yours gathered too many mothballs) and roll away the holiday blues to hits of the decade provided by DJ David Miles, Jr., including plenty from pop king Michael Jackson and lots of big hair rock. Re-live the glory days of roller disco via the awesome music, disco lights, and emcee Miles, otherwise known as The Godfather of Skating, the Pied Piper of Skating, and the Mayor of Golden Gate Park. Wear anything in neon, tight pants or

19 – 26 December 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 43I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying “toys not included” – Bernard Manning

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22 Butler Did It – And she’s doing it again. Rosemary Butler, the veteran backup singer to an absurdly huge array of singer-songwriter and rock ‘n’ roll stars, has been putting most of her energy recently into her solo career, including putting out her first album under her own name in 30-something years just last month. The CD boasts contributions from associates Jackson Browne (offering his voice for harmony singing in a role reversal), singer Arnold McCuller, guitarist David Lindley, Hammond organist Mike Finnegan, and rhythm section Leland Sklar (bass) and Russ Kunkel (drums), with whom Butler shared a zillion recording sessions and tours. Three weeks ago, Butler tore up the stage at SOhO with a full band of terrific mostly local musicians – including two backup singers of her own – for a run-through of most of the songs on the aptly-titled You Just Watch Me. Now she’s back again for a holiday show, this time with extra assistance from Santa Barbara’s own rock legend Kenny Loggins, who will sit in on guitar and vocals for his track from the album That’s When I Find You, and hopefully lots more. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get even more Christmas presents in the form of other special guests. WHEN: 9pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25

Born on the Bayou – It wouldn’t be Christmas without Bayou Seco. What’s that, you say? Well, the band name may not mean much to most folks, but for contra dancers, Christmas brings the annual visit from the Southwestern duo of Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, whose home base is in New Mexico, but whose

hearts span all the way to Louisiana’s back country and beyond. The married couple has collected music from older traditional American musicians – with a special focus on Cajun and Hispanic, Cowboy, and Tohono O’Odham music in the Southwest – for most of their lives, and perform and record them to keep the music alive. Santa Barbara wizard David West produced their most recent album two years ago at his home studio (with a few tracks recorded live at the Songtree Concert in Goleta). Their annual Christmas show for contra dancers at the Carrillo Recreation Center not only usually features a crock pot full of guest musicians (often including West, multi-instrumentalist Bill Flores, and the great violinist/fiddler Gilles Apap) – it’s also free! WHEN: 6:30-9:30pm WHERE: 100 East Carrillo Street COST: free INFO: 699-5101 or www.sbcds.org

short shorts with tall socks. Don’t forget to tease up the hair and get ready to funk it up. The collision of sustainable artisanship and blazing wheels is co-sponsored by LoaTree. WHEN: 6-9pm WHERE: 3400 Calle Real COST: $10 ($2 extra for skate rental) INFO: 687-0766 or www.shopnrollsb.com

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20

White Winter Ball – The annual benefit for the Summer Solstice Celebration takes place just day before Winter Solstice – the perfect off-season fundraiser featuring nonstop dancing to live music from Area 51 and tunes spun by DJ Dave MacIntyre. Spin the wheel, tarot & astrology readings and a silent auction, plus hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and a drink ticket from the no-host bar are all included in the admission price. And, of course, remember to wear white in direct contrast to the typical clothing of the season, a nod to Santa Barbara Solstice’s pagan party approach. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Butler Event

Center, 3744 State Street COST: $35, or $60 per couple INFO: 965-3396 or www.solsticeparade.com

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22

Lights, Trolley, Opera! – Santa Barbara Trolley Company’s annual Trolley of Lights tours take local residents and visitors alike past what are ostensibly the most colorfully decorated homes and businesses in town. Tonight, Opera Santa Barbara has reserved an entire car for its fans and supporters, upping the stakes with narration from Tom Stanley, the local visual artist and bon vivant who will entertain travelers with his own brand of humor and random trivia. Enjoy Christmas carols (not opera arias, but who knows what people might conjure), mulled wine, spiced cider, and OSB executive director Steven Sharpe’s decadent holiday cookies and appetizers as the trolley rolls past the light shows. WHEN: 6:30-8pm WHERE: COST: $75 INFO: 898-3890 or www.operasb.com •MJ


MISCELLANY (Continued from page 31)

hours, were Gina Tolleson, Bilo Zarif, Gretchen Lieff, Corinna Gordon, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Kevin and Katy Frank, Justin Klentner and Amanda Masters, Anne Towbes, Matthew DeVorzon, Arlene Montesano, Shaun Tomson and Beverley Jackson...

Nickel Bay Nick

Songwriter, director, actor and nov-elist Dean Pitchford, who has lived in our rarefied enclave for 21 years, just launched his latest book.

Dean, 62, a recipient of an Oscar and a Golden Globe, as well as nomina-tions for three additional Academy Awards, two more Golden Globes and two Tony Awards, has dubbed his third novel Nickel Bay Nick.

This follows his first, The Big One-Oh, in 2007 and, two years later, Captain Nobody, both of which won Grammy nominations for best audio book.

“Sadly, they no longer do that cat-egory because they essentially have too many these days, more than a hundred,” Dean told me at a book bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the Upper Village.

“This took me a year to write and tells the story of an eleven-year-old juvenile delinquent in training who defaces a Victorian mansion and what ensues from there that turns

his life around.”Dean, a graduate of Yale, is now

working on a fourth novel.“I’m juggling several ideas. I’d like

to do a series, or a stand alone trilogy.”Busy man...

Leni Lauded at LoberoPhilanthropist Leni Fe Bland

received a most spirited reception at the newly renovated Lobero when the theater ’s Ghostlight Society honored the Montecito cultural maven.

The bubbly bounteous baroness was inducted as a luminary by last year’s recipient, lawyer David Anderson, while famed violinist Gilles Apap – former concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Symphony – and the Transylvania Mountain Boys enter-tained the 100 guests on stage.

David Asbell, the Lobero’s director, lauded Leni for her generosity to the 140-year-old theater, as well as many other local organizations.

Former luminaries have included Mike and Anne Towbes, and Jon and Lillian Lovelace.

Among the guests eager to see Leni’s award – an engraved wine decanter coaster –were Sara Miller McCune, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Bob Klein, Lynne Cantlay, Tim and Louise Casey, Jeff and Josie DeVine, and Herb and Elaine Kendall...

Fannie Flagg in Flannel

Santa Barbara Choral Society’s “The Hallelujah! Project” was a Christmas cracker, positively oozing all that’s good about the festive season.

Under veteran conductor JoAnne Wasserman, the sold-out show at the Lobero featuring famed local tenor Eduardo Villa and bass DeAndre Simmons, abounded in Yuletide cheer with many favorites, including Handel’s masterpiece from Messiah, kicking off the performance, which also featured the SB Children’s Chorus, one of their last outings as funding for the youngsters has sadly run out.

One particularly poignant moment came when Villa sang “Nacio en Belena el Nino de Amor,” written by his late grandfather, Felix Gomez, which he explained he had sung to his

mother before she died recently.Actress, comedienne, and Fried

Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café best-selling author Fannie Flagg, look-ing most fetching in a lime green pair of flannelette pajamas, helped close the thoroughly entertaining concert narrating The Night Before Christmas, with an appearance by Santa Claus to wish us all a goodnight, before a lively musical selection of traditional carols.

One of the 66-year-old choir’s best shows yet!...

They Really are a ScreamSome 75 years after being created by

Charles Addams, The Addams Family musical theater version of the popular ‘60s TV show still strikes a distinct chord, particularly with former Santa Barbara City College student Jesse Sharp playing the family patriarch, Gomez.

The Theater League show at the Granada had the whole “wacky and kooky” cast dealing with daughter Wednesday bringing her new boy-friend to dinner, which, needless to say, becomes a catastrophe with antics of the likes of Pugsley, Uncle Fester and Lurch.

But the Jerry Zaks directed show, which was also made into a film in 1991, also boasts a diverse musical score by Andrew Lippa.

Addams, who died in 1988, would’ve loved it...

Channel Cat Conquers

If you’re going to watch the Parade of Lights, Charlie Munger’s giant yacht, the Channel Cat, is the perfect venue.

This year, the SB Maritime Museum hosted a bash on the impressive ves-sel, raising around $10,000 for the harbor-side property, with the catama-ran winning first in its category with a giant guitar as the centerpiece of its impressive light show.

“It’s a great tradition and this year we had more than one hundred pas-sengers on board,” says Greg Gorga, executive director.

Among the guests were George

Mark and Sheela Hunt with Corinna Gordon and Gretchen Lieff stay warm at the impressive Christmas soirée at Villa Sevillano (photo by Priscilla)

Dean Pitchford adds yet another book to his impressive list of achievements

Fannie Flagg entertains in her PJs

Willard Thompson, Greg Gorga, Skip Abed, Jo Thompson, and Judy and George Writer in front of the prizewinning Channel Cat (photo by Priscilla)

Jim Dougherty and Anne and Michael Towbes toast at the Lobero (photo by Priscilla)

David Asbell, Lillian Lovelace, Leni Fe Bland, Sara Miller McCune and Jim Dougherty at the event honor-ing Leni (photo by Priscilla)

19 – 26 December 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people only once a year – Victor Borge

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and Judy Writer, Willard and Jo Thompson, Steve Epstein, Henry and Wendy Atterbury, Harold and Bettye Fue, Virginia Sloan, Silvio Di Loreto, and Bob and Claudia Kirby...

Heiichiro’s a HitStrings came to the fore when the

Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, under veteran conductor Heiichiro Ohyama, played at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.

Opening with Mozart’s Divertimento No. 3 in B Major and Rutter’s Suite for Strings, the concert wrapped with Schubert’s String Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden,” with an arrangement by Gustav Mahler.

An evening to savor with Ohyama, a formidable violist himself, at the top of his game after 30 years at the helm...

American String Quartet Concert Over at the Santa Barbara Museum

of Art, the American String Quartet performed at the Mary Craig Auditorium, the perfect intimate venue for chamber music.

Considered one of the world’s fin-est quartets, the musicians – Peter Winograd, Laurie Carney, Daniel Avshalomov and Wolfram Koessel – celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary next year.

After kicking off the show with works by Cowell and Ives, the concert concluded with Ravel’s Quartet in F Major, reflecting the influences of his friend Debussy and Mozart...

Swanky Tree House For that friend who has everything,

why not gift him with a $62 million tree house this Christmas?

The 20,000-sq-ft tree house, with zip lines, a pool, a lazy river, a heli-pad and a water-operated elevator, is featured in Robb Report’s 2013 gift guide; an index which also includes a 100-seat “backyard stadium” for $30 million and a $50 million Trump SoHo

New York penthouse.The luxury lifestyle glossy also rec-

ommends a $83 million Sky Yacht private jet; a $1 million 14-night photo safari at Wilderness Collection prop-erties in Botswana, and a collection of Herve Van der Straeten furniture, which is a comparative bargain for $460,000.

But the backyard tree house upstag-es even those overly lavish ideas in the holiday gift guide.

The proposed design from Master Wishmakers entails five separate pods connected to a central trunk crafted from load-bearing steel and covered in sustainable hardwood planks, which will be lightly air-brushed to ensure they blend into the surroundings.

Enclosed walkways will connect each of the pods, which could house a gym, spa, napping quarters with ham-mocks and tree-themed bunk beds, a vivarium, a greenhouse, and an interactive library with sliding book-shelves that can be ridden around the room like a carousel.

If $62 million isn’t in the budget, a

Conductor Heiichiro Ohyama excels (photo credit: Y Tsuru)

American String Quartet serves up an eclectic program

$2.5 million “safe room” might be.Designed by Brown Safe

Manufacturing, the safe room offers the latest in high tech-security – stor-age for cash, watches and rare wines; the room incorporates the vault door from the final bank robbed by the infa-mous Dalton Gang...

Sightings: Barbra Streisand and husband, James Brolin, noshing at Lucky’s... New Orleans Saints quar-terback Drew Brees checking out the

wares at K. Frank, the trendy State Street haberdashery... Saving Mr. Banks director John Lee Hancock at the Cinema Society at the Riviera

Pip! Pip!

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

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CEMETERY PLOTS

CEMETERY PLOTS FOR SALE (up to 5)Santa Barbara Cemetery, Vista de la Cumbre24K ea. (market price 27K) disc. if more than 1(310) 472-6091

DOUBLE VERTICAL CEMETERY PLOT for sale. Catholic cemetery in Culver City considered most beautiful in California. $10,000. 805 636-9069 Richard.

PIANO FOR SALE6’4” KNABE Grand Piano. $4520. David 455-7577.

CAREGIVING SERVICES

In-Home Senior Services: Ask Patti Teel to meet with you or your loved ones to discuss dependable and affordable in-home care. Individualized service is tailored to meet each client’s needs. Our caregivers can provide transportation, housekeeping, personal assistance and much more.

Senior Helpers: 966-7100

HOME CARE SERVICESServing Santa Barbara families for 25 years.We provide experienced, compassionate,Reliable caregivers. Our caregiverscan help with errands transportation, cooking, light housekeeping

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HEALTH SERVICES

Stressed? Anxious? Feel relaxed & calmBiofeedback training is fast & effective Tina Lerner, MA Licensed HeartMath & Biofeedback Therapist The Biofeedback Institute of Santa Barbara (805) 450-1115

Personalized In-Home Physical TherapyImprove the quality of your life. Learn to move beyond yourlimitations. Josette Fast, PT Over 33 years experience. UCLA trained. 722-8035 [email protected]

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Sophisticated, tidy, mature couple from Rome, Italy seeking guesthouse or studio, with kitchen, in Montecito/SB area for Feb, March, April 2014. Prefer walking distance to CVR, or SB downtown, if possible. Excellent local references. Pls call/text Cliff, 729-2974 .

I am an actor who would like to find a small cottage (3 rooms) or guest house behind a main

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SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL

CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714

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Estate British Gardener Horticulturist Comprehensive knowledge of Californian, Mediterranean, & traditional English plants. All gardening duties personally undertaken including water gardens & koi keeping.Nicholas 805-963-7896

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