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Coup de GraceMs Rachow recalls recently departed friend,

Sam Alfano, as a man who inspired so many to do so much more, page 27

The Way it WasThe wooden and roller coaster-like Rincon Causeway and Alexander’s Ragtime Band

among big highlights of 1911, p. 28

Montecito SportsmanJohn and Sue Burk pack fly rods and bear spray to explore Alaska the old-fashioned way: by plane, boat, car, and foot, p. 34

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5 Editorial Bob Hazard discuses why present road construction will lead to future congestion6 Montecito Miscellany Ronnie Mellen not happy with Judge Judy; Katy Perry’s parents want to set her up;

Maritime Museum speed dating event; Kardashians losing fans; Downton Abbey’s worldwide influence; Michelle Ebbin’s new book; Bob Colacello’s Vanity Fair article; restored carousel horse for sale; Roger Durling makes predictions; Hairspray at the Lobero; Camerata Pacifica performance; sightings

8 Letters to the Editor Ed Wimberly comes clean; Robert D. Funk relates to Ray Winn; Steve Schechter follows his

nose; David S. McCalmont wants no new Lieff10 Community Calendar Science event and screenplay workshop at Montecito Library; Maritime Museum lecture;

star viewing at Westmont; Montecito Planning Commission meets; Montecito Trails Foundation annual meeting; “Obamacare” discussed; workshop on communication; MBAR meets; Sally Bedell Smith speaks; Save the Date for Festival of Hearts; ongoing events

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach12 Village Beat Update on Pharmacy Project; Coast Village Physical Therapy relocates; Festival of Hearts;

Job Fair at the Zoo; MERRAG training canceled; correction 14 Seen Around Town Cottage Hospital unveils donor wall; Arts & Lectures reception; Beverley Jackson hosts book

signing 18 Our Town Contemporary Arts Forum celebrates executive director Miki Garcia 19 Leaving It All Behind The Mazzas spend a leisurely day in Padang Padang, Bali20 Book Talk Mr. Lowenkopf looks at Catch-22, the classic novel set during WWII22 Life•Style Meet Allesandro Cartumini, executive chef at the Biltmore, and learn Chef Hall’s cheese

lavash recipe23 Sheriff’s Blotter Unlawful party in Summerland; son vandalizes mother’s home 27 Coup de Grace Ms Rachow remembers Sam Alfano, founder of Mission Chapter Toastmasters29 The Way It Was Ragtime, theft, murder… Remarkable headlines of 191130 Seniority Patti Teel speaks to Dallas Atkins, a local elder law attorney33 On Entertainment Comedian Kevin Nealon performs at Lobero; Aurora Florence in My Fair Lady at Granada;

Turtle Island Quartet play the Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Symphony program; Yellow House Concert; Song Tree series; pop act roundup

34 Montecito Sportsman Part one of a four-part story on Alaskan exploration39 Your Westmont C.S. Lewis’ wardrobe is welcomed back; upcoming lecture focuses on MLK; poetry reading40 Calendar of Events Kim Phuc presentation at Lobero; SB Strings events; NIGHTS celebrates Chinese New

Year; Ted Neeley at Rubicon; Met: Live in HD; Kids Flix Mix; Ira Glass at UCSB; Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout

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

restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; some in Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too

43 Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week45 Real Estate View Twelve new properties have just been listed in Montecito 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer

rentals to estate sales47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they

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Is it just my imagination or has traffic flow on the 101 gone from bad to horrible? Do you avoid the 101 during rush hours? Has gridlock enticed you to use the frontage roads to bypass backups? Residents have struggled for

decades to maintain Montecito’s unhurried pace and serene surroundings, but have been regularly stymied by the overcrowded, noisy, trash-strewn 101 that bifurcates our village.

Estimates are that workers commuting to Montecito on the 101 from Ventura, Oxnard, Buellton and Lompoc spend an estimated 70 hours – nearly two full work weeks – per year stuck in traffic on the 101 at an annual cost of some $1,700 per commuter.

The “101 in Motion” OxymoronIt is foolish to talk about the future quality of life in Montecito without focusing

on Highway 101. Much as we try to avoid it, the 101 is our “Main Street,” connect-ing Montecito with Santa Barbara. Over 125,000 cars and trucks per day rumble through Montecito on a highway designed to carry 50,000 vehicles at most. The predictable result of even more traffic will be greater gridlock, more smog, greater traffic noise, increased commute times and more frustration.

The current condition of the 101 has jarred us into a realization that this com-munity’s decision to oppose the widening of the 101 twenty years ago could have been at the least a shortsighted one. Caltrans predicts some relief when the widening of the 101 from Milpas to Hot Springs-Cabrillo Boulevard is com-pleted in April. Others contend that the chokepoint at Milpas will simply move further south to the Hot Springs-Cabrillo exit. Montecito residents can expect even more drivers careening through Montecito, using Coast Village Road, North Jameson, Hot Springs Road, 192, East Valley Road, and Olive Mill as bypasses to future congestion.

Those that attended one or more of the Caltrans community presentations, conducted by Gregg Hart, public information coordinator for Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG), and Scott Eades, Caltrans Project Manager for the 101, learned that design parameters have been set for adding a third lane in both directions on the 16-mile stretch of the 101 from Mussel Shoals-Ventura County Line to Santa Barbara’s Milpas Street.

The decision-making power on 101 funding and priorities lies with SBCAG, which includes the Mayors of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, Santa Maria, Guadalupe, Buellton and Solvang, plus all five County Supervisors. Montecito has no seat at the table to trade or divide increasingly scarce financial resourc-es and set timing priorities, but we are represented by 1st District County Supervisor Salud Carbajal.

Four Phases of FrustrationWidening of the 101 has been broken down into four phases and construction

won’t end until at least 2025.Phase 1, the widening of the 101 from Milpas to Hot Springs-Cabrillo, is sched-

uled for completion by the end of April at a construction cost of $53 million. Phase 2, the addition of a third lane from the Ventura County line to the

Bailard Avenue exit in Carpinteria is fully funded and ready to go. The good news is that the estimated cost of $151 million is being underbid by some $50 million due to a continued poor economy.

Phase 3, the bridge widening and interchange improvements at the Casitas Pass and Linden interchanges in Carpinteria is 75% funded ($20 million short of the estimated $65 million construction cost). This phase is now in the per-mitting process. Construction is scheduled to end in 2018.

Phase 4, the final phase, is the 10-mile Montecito addition of a new third lane in each direction from Carpinteria to the Hot Springs-Cabrillo interchange. The widening is expected to cost $425 million. Funding has not yet been secured, but is expected to come from Measure A local sales tax funds as well as state and federal funds. A Draft Environmental Document (DED) will be released in February 2012 for public comment. The construction time frame for Phase 4 is 2017-2025. Still undecided is whether to begin construction at the Carpinteria end or the Montecito end.

Included in this 10-mile Montecito stretch are 11 creek crossings, 7 overpasses and 4 underpasses. Solutions have to accommodate coastal views, mountain views, minimizing spillover traffic to local streets, wetlands, rail right-of-ways, floodplains, air quality, landscaping, median barriers, noise reduction and sound-wall esthetics.

Describing the problem is the easy part; next week we will suggest solu-tions. •MJ

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

It’s a safe bet that Judge Judy Sheindlin won’t be invited to Montecito film executive Ronnie

Mellen’s home for tea any time soon.Ronnie, who runs the 29-year-old

company, Santa Barbara Location Services, and her husband, Chase, a former program executive with ABC-TV, were front and center on America’s biggest syndicated court show, Judge Judy, in front of 10 million viewers earlier this month as plaintiffs in a case alleging fraud over a Chinese-deco rug supposedly manufactured by famed weaver Walter Nichols in Tientsin in the 1920s and 30s that they bought from a Los Angeles carpet dealer.

“We were assured it was a Nichols rug, but experts we spoke to after the purchase said it clearly wasn’t, so we went to court to get our money back,”

explains Ronnie. “I told my husband not to buy it. It was clearly a piece of *%#&!

“The producers of the show called us a lot after we decided to file suit and said we were in a no-lose situa-tion.

“I had never seen the show, but eventually we were persuaded have the matter decided in the TV court-room.”

The 16-year-old show, which is taped at the Sunset Bronson Studios – where I used to toil as a com-mentator on the KTLA-TV morning news – has been nominated 13 times for Daytime Emmy Awards and pro-pelled Sheindlin, a former New York family court judge, to a hefty $45 mil-lion a year annual salary, making the outspoken jurist one of the best paid celebrities in the U.S.

“The segment we were on was actu-ally taped last summer, but it was re-run the other day, and everybody seems to have seen it,” says Ronnie. “The rug cost seventy-five hundred dollars and the producers said there was no doubt we’d get most of our money back.

“The seller even admitted it was a fake in a pre-interview. But, for whatever reason, Judge Judy threw the case out. We were absolutely furi-ous and I wouldn’t advise anybody to settle their cases in this manner. It was pretty humiliating for both of us being blasted on national television, despite the fact we had brought a one thousand dollars-a-day expert on to

the set to back our contention that the rug was clearly a fake.

“It is not normally our style to do this sort of thing, but the producers were very persuasive.

“You could say we had the rug pulled out right from under us!”

The Judge Judy show tapes three days a week twice a month, with 650 claims adjudicated each season, with no-nonsense Sheindlin, 69, flying out in her private jet from New York. Her contract was recently renewed through 2015.

Ronnie will not be tuning in, I confi-dently predict.

“It’s like Nero watching the Christians being fed to the lions!” she huffed...

Matchmaker, MatchmakerThe ink is barely dry on the divorce

papers, but apparently Santa Barbara songstress Katy Perry’s parents want to set their daughter up with NFL hunk Tim Tebow following her split from British comedian Russell Brand.

Ministers Keith and Mary Hudson – Perry’s deeply religious parents – are said to be fans of the Denver Broncos star because of his strong Christian faith.

According to OK! magazine, they want to set up a meeting between their 27-year-old daughter and Tebow, 24, at their church in Huntington Beach.

Judge Judy Sheindlin did not see eye to eye with Montecito film executive Ronnie Mellen on her televised court show


“Katy has mentioned on more than one occasion how much she likes Tim,” says one source. “Katy’s mom firmly believes the best cure for heart-ache is to quickly fall in love again... In her mind, Tebow is the perfect guy for her daughter. He’s handsome, charm-ing, intelligent, and, above all, a good Christian.”

The Hudsons are now reportedly trying to arrange for Katy, a former Dos Pueblos High School student, to perform at their church around the same time they book Tebow to speak from the pulpit.

It was only the other day the Hudsons spoke to a packed congrega-tion in Ohio – apparently implying

Katy’s divorce was a gift from God to help them fill churches –, prompting a harsh rebuke from Katy on Twitter that no one speaks for her but herself.

In the meantime, the world famous warbler has been spending some time back in our Eden by Beach as my photograph shows, while Brand, 36, has moved out of their $6.5 million Hollywood Hills manse into a $1.6 million bachelor pad a tiara’s toss or two away.

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Too Many Fish in the SeaSanta Barbara Maritime Museum’s

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Guilty As Charged

Caught! Guilty as charged! I confess to being the owner of one of two rogue cars caught

taking up two parking spaces, and busted by an anonymous parking sleuth photographer (“Little Space Hogs,” Letters to the Editor MJ # 18/2). My car is the one pictured parked in the lot behind 1187 Coast Village Road. I can empathize with the frustration vented in the anonymous letter to the editor in last week’s Journal. In fact, I suspect that just about every licensed driver has had the frustrating experience of searching a crowded parking lot for an open space, only to find some “auto bully” taking up two spaces.

In this case, however, a picture sim-ply is not worth a thousand words, and I’d like to clarify: my office has been in the 1187 building for the past 35 years or so. If my math is correct, this trans-lates to roughly 8,400 trips into the lot and parking my car. In all that time, I can honestly say that I have never seen two cars parked in the space in question.

The reason is simple; in spite of the painted white line present in the anonymous shutterbug’s picture, the two spaces presumably being hoarded by me are each only 6 ft 4 inches wide. This is because of planting areas that don’t really serve any good purpose but take up room that could otherwise accommodate two cars. This is in con-trast to just under 9 feet wide parking spaces provided for all the other desig-nated parking places in the lot. Simply stated, there is not enough room to park two cars in this particular space, and still have enough room to enter and exit one’s car – at least not very easily. If the anonymous writer doubts this, I would suggest she measure the width of her car. The line should never have been painted since it is not large enough to accommodate two cars.

Often when I pull into the lot, there is another car parked in the same man-ner that mine was parked. This is because everyone who frequents 1187 knows that while this space looks like two spaces, it is only wide enough to accommodate one car. So rather than squeezing into a 6 foot space, others – as did I on my day of reckoning – just park somewhere around the middle of the spot. And since I often drive my gas guzzling SUV to work (and park in this spot when available) it hardly seems plausible that my motive in parking in this manner (which I would never do in a normal space) might be

due to an attitude of entitlement for trying to save the planet. And I doubt that anyone else who parks there does so because they feel entitled, because they are discourteous, or because they are degenerates, as your contributor suggested.

Without shame, but with a name,Ed WimberlyMontecito(Editor’s note: Thank you very much for

coming forward, Mr. Wimberly. We sent our team of journalists out to measure and you are quite correct, the allocated 6’4” parking spaces really are just too tight for two normal-sized vehicles. And, just for being a stand-up guy, we’re offering you a free ¼-page ad in this paper at a time of your choosing! – J.B.)

Abysmally IgnorantRay Winn’s article, “Nuclear

Coyotes” (Ray’s Ramblings MJ # 17/51) was one of the most moving articles on the terrible power of nuclear weapons I’ve ever read. Mr. Winn told of having seen a horribly injured coy-ote and her dead cub while he was an Army officer on the Nevada nuclear test range 60 years ago, and having killed it to put it out of its misery. The memory of the coyote’s suffering, and of his action to end it, has haunted him ever since.

I was thus dumbfounded to read Mrs. Carol M. Kommerstad-Reiche’s lengthy letter condemning him for his participation in nuclear testing, for America’s use of the bomb against Japan (President Truman’s decision that saved the lives of an estimated two million American soldiers), and you for publishing his article. Among several outrageous, untrue (and action-ably libelous) statements was her accu-sation that Ray “has been directly responsible for suffering and death of countless living creatures through his participation in nuclear testing,” and in the nation’s “abominable nuclear testing program…”

I was a crewman on the command ship USS Mt. McKinley in 1946 when the Navy conducted two atomic weap-ons tests at Bikini Lagoon on dozens of obsolete World War II warships anchored through the lagoon. The principal purpose was to determine the effect of atomic explosions on steel ships, but hundreds of goats were teth-ered on decks of some of the ships to help medical science learn how near living creatures could be to an atomic explosion and still survive.

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But, I’m proud of my Navy service, including my time at Bikini, especially if – from Mrs. Kommerstad-Reiche’s perspective – it puts me in the same company as Mr. Winn. That’s pretty good company. He’s had a far more notable career in the service of his coun-try and mankind than most Americans.

Mrs. Kommerstad-Reiche’s problem is that she shows an abysmal ignorance of the history of the 20th century. She should read The Second World War by Gordon Corrigan, who served in the British Army in that war.

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Railroad BluesReader Jeremy Norris brought the

railroad ties to the attention of the Montecito Journal, and in the most recent issue discussing “Train Track Maintenance” (Village Beat MJ # 18/2) there appears to be some question as to whether the lingering piles of railroad ties contain creosote. Neither Union Pacific’s Director of Corporate Relations, Aaron Hunt, nor its Director of Public Affairs, Lupe

Valdez, seemed to be able to confirm that these ties contain creosote.

I’m sorry, folks, but the response from these representatives of the rail-road is either highly uninformed or disingenuous. I offer this from the Railroad Tie Association on creosote and ties:

“99.9% of all wood crossties pro-duced in the U.S. and Canada are treated with creosote or creosote and oil blends. In addition to creo-sote, Pentachlorophenol and Copper Naphthenate are approved preserva-tives for hardwood ties by the American Wood Preservative Association (AWPA). ACZA is now also approved for Douglas fir ties only. CCA (copper chrome arsenate) is not recommended for hardwoods but may be sometimes used for certain Southern Yellow Pine timbers and ties.”

As you can see, it is nearly 100% certain that the ties in question contain creosote (as if our own noses couldn’t confirm that). In addition, even if by the slimmest chance they happened to contain the other chemicals mentioned, these would be a nasty contribution to our groundwater, ocean, etc., too.

These ties do more than just offer up an overwhelming, sickening smell to the countless people who live near or walk by the tracks on their way to

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

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Friendship Center’s 13th Annual Festival of HeartsIt’s Fiesta in February! Don your Fiesta best and enjoy Heart-Art, wine, luncheon, live and silent auctions and live entertainment. All proceeds from the event support Friendship Center’s H.E.A.R.T. (Help Elders At Risk Today) Program, subsidizing the cost of adult day services for low-income aging and dependent adults and their families.When: Saturday, February 11, 11:30 am to 2:30 pmWhere: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, Reagan Room, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Tickets: $100 per person, available online: www.friendshipcentersb.org

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

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

MONDAYS

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

FRIDAY JANUARY 27

Lecture & Luncheon “Obamacare and the End of Limited Government” is the topic of a talk by Dr. John Eastman at the monthly meeting of the Montecito Hope Ranch Republican Women’s Club at the Montecito Country Club. Dr. Eastman, a professor at Chapman University School of Law, will discuss ramifications of the law on the American health care system. When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pmWhere: 920 Summit RoadCost: $30 prepaid by January 26or $35 at the doorReservations: 805-500-6856 or by e-mail at [email protected]

SATURDAY JANUARY 28

SBCC Adult Education Communication WorkshopHow to communicate simply, lovingly and effectively. Based on the principles of Attitude Reconstruction, Jude Bijou, local MFT and award winning author, will teach you how to communicate constructively about any topic in any situation. When: 9:30 am to 4:30 pmWhere: Schott Center, 310 W. Padre Street, Room 28Cost: $23, register online at: http://sbcc.augusoft.net

MONDAY JANUARY 30

MBAR MeetingMontecito Board of Architectural Review

THURSDAY JANUARY 19

Silly Science at Montecito LibraryEngage in scientific discovery! Professor Wisenheimer and his Silly Science Show bring laughter to the learning of basic science principles. Be captivated by the principles of motion or gravity as they are explained in an interactive, entertaining way. Young scientists ages three and up will delight in this look at science. When: 4 pm to 4:45 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: www.wonderworldproductions.com

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Screenplay WorkshopWrite a compelling script that’s impossible to stop reading, vividly cinematic, properly formatted, and realistically produce-able. This beginning screenwriting course will help guide you in creating characters, building plots, shaping scenes, sharpening dialogue, and, give you assistance with writing a winning treatment. Whether you seek to write big Hollywood movies or low-budget Indies, this course will show you what it takes to get in the screenplay game.

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THURSDAY JANUARY 19

Maritime Museum LectureDiver, author, and Ventura County native Richard Slater visits the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum to give a talk titled, “Views from the Conning Tower.” Slater is the Guinness Book of World Records champion for free diving, and will share stories, speak about the dangers of free diving, and hold a question and answer session.When: 7 pm to 9 pmWhere: 113 Harbor Way, Suite 190Cost: Free for members, $5 for non-membersInfo: www.sbmm.org or 962-8404, x115

FRIDAY JANUARY 20

Public Viewing of the StarsWestmont opens the doors to its observatory, home of the powerful Keck Telescope, for a free, public viewing. Weather permitting, the telescope will aim toward Jupiter and Mars, which have been prominent in the night sky this month. The viewing is held

every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes to Westmont for the public to gaze through. The viewing lasts for several hours.Where: Westmont’s Observatory, 955 La Paz Rd.When: 7:30 pmInfo: 565-6272

When: 1 pm to 3 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-5063

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25

Montecito Planning Commission MeetingMPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and polices and that issues raised by interested parties are addressedWhen: 9 amWhere: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

Montecito Trails Foundation Annual MeetingMembers and others interested in local trails and trail issues are invited to the annual meeting, which includes hearty appetizers and refreshments. The foundation will elect 2012 officers and update the public on Franklin Trail and Cold Spring Trail. When: 5 pm to 7 pmWhere: Hill/Carrillo Adobe, 15 East Carrillo StreetReservations: 568-0833

19 – 26 January 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 11A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow; there’s nothing tangible of yesterday – Edward R. Murrow

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Channel City Club LuncheonAmerican historian and New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith will speak at the Channel City Club’s luncheon held at the Montecito Country Club. Smith specializes in the history of broadcasting and political figures, and her most recent novel, Elizabeth the Queen: Life of a Modern Monarch, is a close-up view of a woman only known from a distance, illuminating the lively personality, sense of humor, and canny intelligence with which she meets the most demanding work and family obligations. Advance reservations are required no later than Thursday, January 26. When: 12 pmWhere: 920 Summit RoadCost: $32 for members,

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

TUESDAYS

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

THURSDAYS

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

Where: Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa LaneInfo: 969-3288

FRIDAYS

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

SUNDAYS

Vintage & Exotic Car DayMotorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles and as close as East Valley Road park in front of Richie’s Barber Shop at the bottom of Middle Road on Coast Village Road going west to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty other autos to admire.When: 8 am to 10 am (or so)Where: 1187 Coast Village RoadInfo: [email protected] •MJ

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Work continues on the “cottages” of the Pharmacy Project


Gunner said no specific types of ten-ants have been excluded, the prop-erty owners are required to work within their Conditional Use Permit, which states tenants will not be per-mitted to be “water intensive.” The permits call for no restaurants, cafés, spas, beauty shops, pet grooming shops, dry cleaners, or studios with bathing facilities. “We want to focus on complementing what is already in place,” he explained.

The shells of the buildings will be finished in February, with tenants making specific improvements or additions per lease terms. These can include cabinetry, counters, lighting

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Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree and Dr. Peter MacDougall at the Cottage Hospital donor wall unveiling

Marshall Milligan and wife Gretchen, Cottage Hospital board chair, with President and CEO of Cottage Health System Ron Werft and his wife Mary at the hospital event

Many local movers and shakers gathered at Cottage Hospital’s new main

entrance and lobby for an evening of recognition, wine, hors d’oeuvres and tours. Board chair Gretchen Milligan welcomed everyone and reminded us of the collective philanthropy during five years of fundraising efforts. She mentioned in particular former board chairs there during the planning process: Bob Knight, Marshall Rose and Bob Andrews, along with the co-chairs of the Campaign for Cottage Health System Palmer Jackson, Michael Towbes and Leslie Ridley-Tree. The chair of the Campaign Cabinet was Dr. Peter MacDougall. I was at Jelinda (co-chair of one of four task forces) and Barry DeVorzon’s when they had the campaign kickoff party way back in 2004.

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The lights went on for the unveiling of the donor walls. Then it was time for a tour and wow! First we saw the new cafeteria with its beautiful patio for outdoor dining and the River of Life running through all the gardens and courtyards. Twelve hundred piec-es of artwork by 123 local artists who competed to have their work accepted

is hanging in the hospital. It is the largest collection of Central Coast liv-ing artists anywhere. Every room has one piece and the halls, waiting rooms and lobby are decorated in art, all with a theme and using many mediums. Some of these works will go to Goleta and Santa Ynez facilities and will pro-vide a healing environment for the patients and their families too.

Ninety percent of the rooms are single, and each have a flat-screen TV where you can check Facebook or tend to your bank account. No more nurses with back injuries. There are ceiling lifts in each room so the

Past hospital Chief of Staff and current board member Dr. Jeffrey Kupperman, Chief of Staff Dr. Babji Mesipam, former board member Dr. Nick Vincent, past Chief of Staff and past board member Dr. Karl Kassity and former Chief of Staff Dr. Robert Wright enjoying the new addition to Cottage Hospital

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There is even a helipad, which is expected to accommodate two or three emergencies per week. The neighbors have agreed the helicopters are less bothersome than the ambulances.

The completed facility will take up two full blocks. They are going green as everything being torn down is also being recycled. If you get a chance to have a tour, you won’t be sorry.

UCSB Arts & LecturesUCSB Arts & Lectures presents an

annual series of events with some-times as many as 18 in one month. They include music, dance, comedy, lectures and more and the venues are all over town, including Campbell Hall at UCSB. Miller McCune Executive Director Celesta Belleci and her staff

are somehow able to juggle all of this.Julie and Jamie Kellner invited

the Arts & Lectures Producers Circle members to their stunning estate for a pre-reception in honor of the evening’s featured speaker, David Gergen. Gergen has been an advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton and is a senior political analyst for CNN. In 1985, he joined the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. He is also a professor on the Harvard facul-ty. His bestselling book, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton was published in 2000.

Among those eating their fill of the mouthwatering hors d’oeuvres were Orfalea board member Ken Saxon, President Lois Mitchell and chairper-son Natalie Orfalea. Celesta thanked the Orfalea Family Foundation, which underwrote the Gergen event. She introduced David, saying, “I watch him every night. I just didn’t know how tall he was.” Gergen was ready for a Q and A before going to Campbell Hall and giving his lecture.

He reminded us that though Reagan and Tip O’Neill used to argue all day, at 5 o’clock they could sit down with a drink and be friends. That atmosphere no longer exists in the Congress and

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Joe Smith with featured speaker and former presidential advisor David Gergen, accompanied by hosts Jamie and Julie Kellner prior to the UCSB Arts & Lectures event

Ken Saxon with Orfalea chair Natalie Orfalea, David Gergen and Orfalea board president Lois Mitchell at the reception for members of the Arts & Lectures Producers Circle

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Senate. He feels that Obama is better at campaigning than at governing.

When asked who would make the better candidate, Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, Gergen hesitated. Knowing both, he’s aware of their strengths and weaknesses. Mitt has strong faith and family values, which Gergen believes are important in being president and making decisions, but he isn’t charismatic. “Gingrich has six ideas a day and only two are good, but he doesn’t know which two.”

According to some polls, the young-er generation will not have as high a standard of living as we do and will not live as long as this generation. In spite of those dire predictions, Gergen is optimistic about the younger gen-eration citing a program called “Teach for America,” which asks new college grads to go into the tough schools and teach for a couple of years. The number of volunteers is increasing by leaps and bounds. As Gergen said, “If we can get to the future, we’ll be fine.”

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Champagne TeaInstead of the usual book signing

at Tecolote Book Shop in the upper village, there was one in Montecito Shores given by Beverley Jackson for her long time friend, Hutton Wilkinson. The book is an elegant

coffee table tome about the Tony Duquette/Hutton Wilkinson Jewelry line, which is marketed by Saks.

Hutton explained to me, “Tony Duquette died in 1999. We were busi-ness partners for thirty years doing interior design.” In 1994, they began the jewelry line and Hutton contin-ued designing by himself after Tony’s death.

Those ladies who were familiar with the work were gushing over the jew-elry and Kendall Conrad, a designer of handbags, walked out with four signed books to give as Christmas presents.

Montecito’s favorite bartender Fernando Velez was mixing drinks dressed in an oriental robe and wife Vicki was passing out tasty Chinese treats. This was because Beverley’s condo is a veritable Chinese museum with her collection of tiny slippers, as portrayed in her book, Splendid Slippers, and all things Chinese on the walls. She is known for the giant red Chinese bed in her living room.

Some of those many friends enjoy-ing the splendor were Kelly and Ted Simmons, Adrienne and Leon Carrere and daughter Haley, Rev. Michelle Woodhouse, Jane Zonka, Patsy Tisch, Trish Reynales, Jennifer Smith Hale, Tommie Pitts, Robbie Woodward with Maltese Willie, Kendall Conrad with daughter Fannie and dachshund Georgie who came to play with Beverley’s Rennie. •MJ

Hostess Beverley Jackson with Hutton Wilkinson at her book signing soirée

Victoria Hines and Kendall Conrad enjoying the party on the Chinese bed in Beverley Jackson’s liv-ing room

New York International Children’s Film Festival Kid Flix MixSAT, JAN 21 / 11 AM / ucSb cAMPbELL HALL

A kaleidoscopic showcase of the best short films and animations from around the world. The entertaining mix of a dozen musical and narrative shorts offers a delightful experience for all ages.

Kathryn SchulzBeing Wrong - Adventures

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Little Walter Tribute with Charlie Musselwhite and Billy Boy Arnold

TuE, JAN 24 / 8 PM / ucSb cAMPbELL HALL

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The Contemporary Arts Forum’s board of directors and staff members recently celebrated

Miki Garcia, their executive director, with a soirée on January 2. Miki was appointed seven years ago and will continue in her position, with much appreciation and support from her board and staff. The intimate celebration included CAF’s first vice president Jacquelyn Klein-Brown, board member and artist Nancy Gifford, artists Kimberly Hahn, James Van Arsdale, Penelope Gottlieb and Rafael Perea de la Cabada, past selection committee members Michael Patrick Porter and Barry Kitnick, who were instrumental to Miki’s appointment, and guests Michael Gifford and Mike Kemp of KTMS 990AM Radio.

The staff of CAF presented Miki with a gift to honor her seven years, the MEX/LA: Mexican Modernisms in Los Angeles 1930 - 1985 catalog, which focuses on the construction of differ-ent notions of “Mexicanidad” within modernist and contemporary art cre-

ated in Los Angeles. “We felt is was a good gift for Miki as her academic focus was in Latin American art, she has a great interest in both Chicano and Latino artists and movements, and she knows Rubén Ortiz-Torres

and keeps tabs on his curatorial work,” Kimberly stated.

Everyone present was happy she decided to continue in the position, including Miki, as she stated that last year she was considering a move from Santa Barbara. Barry mentioned that when he interviewed Miki seven years ago, “I saw the diamond in the rough, and had no idea she would surpass all my hopes and expectations.” Nancy concurred, adding, “Miki, what you have done and continue to do for CAF is beyond what we thought anyone could do. You took on every chal-lenge, you surpassed and won.” Miki graciously replied that “the CAF tribe is comprised of amazing, enthusias-tic people. Thank you for seeing my potential and I am grateful to be here; CAF is my home!”

Following the celebrations, I inter-viewed Miki on her background and new directions for CAF.

Q: What was your mission and goal as executive director when you started at CAF seven years ago, and do you feel it has been accomplished?

A: My goals were more general seven years ago versus the more focused future goals I have for CAF today. However, they are fundamen-tally the same in terms of CAF’s identity and role in the community. I strongly believe that CAF exists to support and champion the artists of our time and to educate the pub-lic about the fascinating, compelling, and relevant nature of contemporary art in our lives. It has been my goal to expand CAF’s visibility and to create a rigorous program of exhibi-tions and educational initiatives that allow us to expand our offerings to a larger portion of the community. Our goals are also to produce resonant experiences with art and to create a lifelong love of the arts and artists in our midst.

CAF PR manager Kimberly Hahn presents CAF executive director Miki Garcia with MEX/LA catalog

Miki with her “godparents” Michael Patrick Porter and Barry Kitnick, who found her in New York for the CAF position seven years ago

Do you have a five-year plan for CAF?With a major grant from the James

Irvine Foundation this last year, we are taking the important opportunity this year to undergo a major strate-gic plan that will look at financial sustainability, visibility and identity, and diversity and education. We are thrilled with the Irvine’s support of our endeavors and are looking for-ward to the positive changes that will occur within CAF in the next few years. Expect some major improve-ments!

Tell us about yourself...I am from Brownsville, Texas, the

daughter of an art teacher and elemen-tary school principal, both artists. I received by B.A. in art history from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and an M.A. in contemporary Latin American art from the University of Texas at Austin. I’ve worked at the Blanton Museum of Art at UT Austin, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Public Art Fund, New York before taking this position.

What inspires you in contemporary art? Is there a genre and artist that speaks to you?

My job is not really an occupation so much as it is a calling or a vocation. Contemporary art and artists allow me to look at the world around me anew – they challenge me to consider issues that I may take for granted, they fascinate me with their ability to pro-duce awesome objects, and they pro-vide me with a community of fellow people who share my curiosity, desire for knowledge, and sense of humor about the world we inhabit. I do have a nice art collection at my home. I buy lots of it at our annual Valentine’s Day benefit, taking place February 11, as well as purchasing work from the artist’s studio. I own works by local

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“No fry egg, mate?”The pretty and young

but somewhat weathered Indonesian woman looked impatient as she stood over a portable stove under a scorching equatorial sun on the sand at Padang Padang in Bali. She was making two assumptions in her question to me. And she was wrong about both.

First, she guessed that I wouldn’t want an egg on top of the fried rice plate she was making for me from scratch with beautiful crisp greens and bright veggies. But if there is anything that I’ve learned in all these months on the road, it’s that eggs are delicious on just about everything. From poached eggs on a Salade Lyonnaise in France to quail eggs and chili sauce on anything in Thailand to, I was willing to bet, fried eggs and soya on Indonesian rice or noodle dishes. The huevo is univer-sal.

Second, she assumed I was an Aussie… a dreaded mate. (If I had an Aussie Dollar for every time I’ve been called a mate on this trip, I’d be a very rich man.) It’s not that I don’t like those who hail from the Great Southern Land. Quite to the contrary, actually, I feel a deep-seated love for all Australians. (I realize full well that this is a blatant generaliza-tion about an entire population of individuals spread over a large and geographically diverse area and, thus, could arguably indicate a propensity for a certain indefensible bigotry, and yet I nevertheless stand by my state-ment, proudly.) But love for Aussie my brethren aside, I’m no mate, my friends. Make no mistake about it.

“Sunny-side-up,” I countered with a smile, “and I’m not a mate. I’m a dude.”

She laughed and tossed an egg in the pan. “California?”

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The impatience disappeared in favor of a friendly grin. “Hey duuuuuude,” she corrected her (unspeakable) error in exaggerated prose, “I’m Made. No surf today. Want a Bintang?”

She was right. Impossibles had an occasional small wave but nothing worth paddling for. And the world-


he dramatized. He wrote from imagi-nation and, of course, talent. Many critical appraisals of The Red Badge give high regard to the realistic pres-ence Crane created of the so-called War between the States.

Joseph Heller served in World War II as a bombardier. His field of deployment was the Mediterranean. In “his” war, Heller witnessed and experienced an element Crane was aware of and, to a degree exploited, in The Red Badge. This element over-shadows the horror, stupidity, and waste of war; it has long been one of the elephants grazing in comfort in the living room of literature. The ele-ment is irony.

Although Catch-22 has a semblance of a plot through line, its relentless tug of reader engagement is a series of events, quick scenes, and skit-like payoffs that obliterate the sense of passing time in the literal sense, projecting instead the atmosphere of the moment during times of disaster, emergency, hysteria, and certainly of paranoia. The slipstream, or perhaps I should say heartbeat, of Catch-22, which first appeared in 1955, brought along another novel basted in the gra-vies of metaphor, anti-war feelings, and irony, Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel, M.A.S.H., which dealt with an army mobile hospital in operation during the Korean War. The inces-sant theme of M.A.S.H. was repairing service personnel to the point where they could be returned to combat without being sent home to recuper-ate before returning to combat.

Add to this calculus the manic pac-ing, often paranoid or ironic in origin, of the TV series Laugh-In, (1968-73) and you’ll have an image of the effect Catch-22 had on the landscape of literature and entertainment: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) passing the baton to Joseph Heller (1913-1999).

Origin of the Term“There was only one catch,” we

are informed at the outset, before we meet Yossarian, who is in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of jaundice. “And that catch was catch-22.” The term has made its way from the novel into daily conversation and unabridged dictionaries, referring to any situa-tion where a desired outcome – no matter what the outcome – is impos-sible to achieve because of contra-dictory conditions which cannot be excluded because – and here’s the catch – to do so would mean it was no longer catch-22.

The other early information betrays the fictional nature of the Island of Pianosa, “eight miles south of Elba.” Reality is gone before the first page of text, the governing rule of catch-22 in form place. Although we are pre-sented a semblance of reality, there is already a catch.

Yossarian, by the way, is in the hospital with a liver in indeterminate status as a gambit to get out of fly-ing more combat missions than he already has, which, lest you think of him as a coward, represents an extraordinary amount of service. Clues of his sanity and bravery are everywhere, waiting to be taken into consideration. His neither/nor liver condition is only one representation of how language is often used to portray goals, ideals, even behavior modes that do not, on closer exami-nation, suggest sanity.

At various times, he will appear paranoid. (“’They’re trying to kill me,’ Yossarian told him calmly.’ ’No one’s trying to kill you,’ Clevinger cried. ‘Then why are they shooting at me?’ Yossarian asked. ‘They’re shoot-ing at everyone,’ Clevinger answered. ‘They’re trying to kill everyone.’ ‘And what difference does that make?’”)

Yossarian’s seeming paranoia is twisted through the lens of irony to the image of sanity, dramatizing how irony is a perception of reality from opposing points of view. Thus the themes of power, tradition, and a complete disregard for the status of the individual become tsunami waves inundating the notion that Catch-22 is merely an indictment of war. Catch-22 invites us to make another com-parison about an earlier tale of war. Go ahead, I dare you; investigate the build-up circumstances that caused the war in The Iliad, then, having read Catch-22, reread those same wonder-ful folks who gave us Hector and Paris and Helen.

It is, of course, inappropriate to speak of Catch-22’s kinship with the great moments of literature without a straightforward, non-ironic relation-ship to another epic display of how the language of irony works: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. •MJ

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What’s the Catch?

As with so many things appearing to have one outstanding identity, Joseph

Heller’s novel Catch-22 seems to resonate as an icon among anti-war novels.

Indeed, Catch-22 is set on an island in the Mediterranean, where a squad-ron of B-25 medium bombers departs with some regularity to make strate-gic raids on Italy and Germany dur-ing the final stages of World War II.

The immediate goal of Colonel Cathcart, the commanding officer of this bomber squadron, is to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In pursuit of this result, he schedules increasing numbers of combat missions, well over the number the Air Corps considers pru-dent for crewmembers to fly. We see any number of characters populat-ing Catch-22 killed on such missions, thus the preoccupation of Yossarian, the protagonist of this relentless nar-rative, that each subsequent bombing raid enhances his prospects for being killed in action.

Yossarian believes it is an act of

insanity to fly additional combat mis-sions, a fact the Squadron Medical Officer, Doc Daneeka, endorses with gusto. Yet when Yossarian requests a medical release from additional mis-sions on the grounds of their insanity, Doc Daneeka reminds him that his request is proof of Yossarian’s sanity. Request denied.

That event is the eponymous catch-22, making an early dramatic appear-ance along with the prevailing wind of irony that links this novel to what is arguably the first great American apparent anti-war novel, Stephen Crane’s still resonant The Red Badge of Courage.

Writers are supposed to create from their own experiences, but Crane was born after the completion of the war

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In these trying economic times, it may seem that support for the arts is less important than other more basic needs such as food and shelter. At CAF, our museum’s mission is to advocate for widespread support of the arts, particularly the arts being produced in our time. I truly believe that contemporary art is a vital tool for us as a human race by allowing us to express ourselves in times of need, helping us evaluate the world around us and think critically about our envi-ronment, and edifies and nourishes our souls. Without supporting the art-ists in our midst with free access to art, which is what we do at CAF, I

cannot imagine what our commu-nity would look like. Santa Barbara is one of the most culturally vibrant, creative cities in which I’ve lived and I am proud to make this my home. The visionary citizens who support contemporary art and the dynamic artistic community are incomparable and I hope that under my direction, CAF will do ever more to sustain and impact the community by providing world-class exhibitions, innovative educational programming, and awe-inspiring events. We look forward to seeing you in the galleries this coming year!

411: CAF is a non-profit, non-collect-ing institution dedicated to exhibiting the highest quality of contemporary art while recognizing “the artists of tomorrow,” and was founded in 1976 by artists and art supporters seeking a venue dedicated solely to contem-porary art. Find more information at www.sbcaf.org. •MJ

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Chef Cartumini grew up in a fam-ily of chefs. His grandfather was a chef and his father is a pastry chef. Logically, he decided culinary school in Italy was the natural thing to do. Shortly after, he began his tenure with the Four Seasons as a young sous chef in Milan; from there he moved to the states and added the Four Seasons of Palo Alto, Scottsdale, San Diego and Miami before taking over at the Biltmore in Montecito, where he resides with his wife, Abby, and their dog, a Great Pyrenees.

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Chef Cartumini was fully engaged in the production and presentation of holiday fare at the Biltmore during the busy holiday period, but his wife and mother-in-law were still able to enjoy his cooking as guests, partaking of the Biltmore’s popular brunch, which was “turned up a notch for the holidays.”

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One of my most favorite items in the breadbasket is Chef Hall’s cheese lavash. It’s especially tasty with the

At only age 38, Chef Alessandro Cartumini has been with the Four Seasons for 17 years, and has been the executive chef of Bella Vista at the Biltmore for the last year and a half

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a call reporting that unknown subjects entered a home on Lillie Avenue and threw a party. The deputies contacted the victim who told them that the home in Summerland was his and his wife’s secondary home. The victim’s wife went to the home on Lillie Avenue at 7 pm on January 10; she said the house was in “disarray” and that someone had unlawfully entered the home. When the victim investigated the home, he found a black backpack, which he suspects belongs to whoever came into his home. The victim also observed damage to the inside of the house; there were several scuff marks on walls, floors, chairs, a dresser, and outside deck, as well as a dent on a bedroom wall. The victim valued the damages at $20,000.

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San Ysidro Road based on a vandalism report. Once at the residence, McKarrell contacted the reporting individual. She told the deputy that at 5:30 pm she and her son got into a verbal argument at her home. During the argument, her son walked into the kitchen and broke several items; he knocked several dishes off shelves and counter tops, broke a light fixture, and kicked holes in a closet door. The victim estimated the cost of damage at $1,180. She also told McKarrell that her son did not have any history of mental illness or abusive behavior, but she did suspect him to be on drugs. McKarrell called the victim’s son, but when the son knew it was a Sheriff ‘s Deputy calling, he hung up the phone. A report was taken. •MJ


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ricotta cheese as a dressing. My hus-band and I have walked from our house to Bella Vista many times push-ing our baby in her stroller with our dog not too far behind (or sometimes also riding in the stroller), just to get the lavash. Currently, it is only served in the dinner breadbasket. For all the other times, Chef Hall kindly shares his recipe for cheese lavash below. He adds, “We make it by the buckets here and the key is for it to be runny and to let the yeast rise and collapse. Also, spread it thinly on silpat (a sili-cone baking mat) which works bet-ter than parchment paper. Then you can get creative with your toppings like Parmesan cheese, sesame seeds, paprika, etc.”

Chef Hall’s Cheese LavashIngredients:Instant yeast – 20 gramsWater (at 110 degrees F) – 750 gramsSugar – 14 gramsAll-purpose flour – 34 grams for first

part of recipe

All-purpose flour – 375 grams for sec-ond partSalt – 14 gramsVegetable oil – 14 grams

Method:– Whisk together the first four ingredients in a 30-qt mixing bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise 3-4 times in volume at room temperature (about 15-20 minutes).– Using the mixer, whisk in the rest of the flour and salt, and then slowly add the oil. Continue to whisk scrap-ing down the bowl until the batter is smooth.– Pour the batter into a 20-qt contain-er and refrigerate. – Spread one 8oz ladle of batter onto flat sheet pans lined with silpats. Spread evenly, sprinkle with desired toppings, and bake at 300 degrees F until evenly browned (about 18-20 minutes). •MJ

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Dozens of 20th century novels about the British aristocracy are being pro-moted by New York publishers to capitalize on the series which cen-ters around 60-bedroom Highclere Castle, the magnificent Hampshire home of the earls of Carnarvon on 1,000 Capability Brown landscaped

acres, whose ancestor sponsored the Howard Carter expedition that dis-covered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

The house, which is featured in the February issue of Town & Country, was completely re-designed in the 1830s by Sir Charles Barry, better known for the building of the Houses of Parliament featuring the world famous bell, Big Ben.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine has been flying off the shelves, as has Love in a Cold Climate, a 1949 novel about the English upper class by Nancy Mitford, whose sister, Debo, is the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, for-mer chatelaine of Chatsworth, the 126-room Derbyshire stately pile used in the 2005 film of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. So acute is the interest that bookstore owners say they’ve seen nothing like it since the 1970s – when the Downton precursor Upstairs Downstairs was released.

The premiere of the new sea-son drew an astounding 4.2 mil-lion viewers and many bookstores have held their own screenings of the latest episodes, starring the redoubtable Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Bonneville.

Such is the success of the costume drama – which was nominated for four Golden Globes and won for Best TV miniseries – that British screen-writer Julian Fellowes, who won an Oscar for Robert Altman’s 2001 film Gosford Park, is now at work on a third series, which will probably air in the U.S. in the fall...

How to Please Your Sole MateIt was an interesting trajectory for

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“It was in my mind for about three years and took a year to write,” explains massage therapy expert Michelle. “You could say it went from head to foot!”

This is her fourth book, including her bestselling Hands on Feet, and teaches how to use reflexology to stimulate the body’s erogenous zones.

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talk show host, Regis Philbin.Sole searching, without a doubt...

Ladies Who LunchedMany in our tony town will no

doubt enjoy Bob Colacello’s enter-taining article on “The Ladies Who Lunched” in the February issue of Vanity Fair.

The Conde Nast glossy chronicles many of the oh-so chic Manhattan eateries, La Grenouille, Le Cirque, La Caravelle and Mortimers – of which I was an habitué along with top social-ites Pat Buckley and Nan Kempner, and peripatetic Greek scribe Taki Theodoracopulos when I moved from London to New York in the late 70s – that rose to the top as the must-go-to watering holes of the rich and famous.

Among them the Duchess of Windsor, Jackie Onassis, Diana Vreeland, Marella Agnelli, Bill Blass, and two local personalities, Montecito designer Luis Estevez and model-turned-socialite Betsy Kaiser, for-mer muse of Nancy Reagan’s favor-ite designer, Jimmy Galanos, who resides in Hope Ranch.

But, as top society publicist Paul Wilmot observes, it was work that killed the concept of “the ladies who lunch.”

“Society women today will become decorators, go into real estate, paint, design jewelry, do anything not to be considered dilettantes. They’ll even market a candle!”

Waxing and waning, indeed...

Souvenir for SaleRestored carousel horse, Willow, is

looking for a new home.The almost 100-year-old wooden

equine, which used to grace a large carousel at the Willow Grove Park in Philadelphia, decorated the Virginia home of new Montecito residents, Eric and Nina Phillips, for many years, but has now become surplus to require-ments, given the new California decor.

“Sadly, Willow doesn’t fit into the new interior design, so we’ve decided to part ways,” says Nina, a real estate

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Emcee John Palminteri and curator, Emily Falke, at the SB Maritime Museum speed dating party

What’s afoot with Michelle Ebbin’s new book?


and supporting the people in his life. It wasn’t until Sam’s funeral mass that I realized just how many people he had inspired. There were at least 500 people there to give a proper send-off to a life extraordinarily well lived.

Father Bruce began his eulogy with, “Two priests walk into a bar,” and we all laughed, and you could just hear Sam saying, “Always good to begin with humor.”

And it was a good way to end.A few days later, my husband and I

took a walk in the spectacular light of late afternoon. At a nearby construc-tion site, three adolescent boys were dumpster diving. One of them was especially handsome.

We were on our way back from the walk when we passed that same site. Two of the boys were gone, but the handsome lad skateboarded toward us. His right hand clamped a cell phone to his ear, and in his left, held aloft, there dangled a brass chandelier. He skated, talked, and brandished his trophy like an Olympian.

We nodded hello. The boy smiled and waved his chandelier back.

“The kid’s a good communicator,” my husband said. “Reminds me of Sam.”

Yes, our friend has died, and the world catapults its relentless way toward eternal darkness, but on this day, the light still flickers. •MJ

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Grace and her husband, Ron Guilbault, with their friend and mentor, Sam Alfano, may he rest in peace

Coup De Grace by Grace Rachow

Ms Rachow says you never know when you are going to see great balls of fire in the sky.

no Magumba!Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas

My husband pointed skyward. “What’s that?”

I saw two balls of fire in the night sky. The burning objects, whatever they were, seemed to fall toward us, and my instinct was to take cover. Somehow I held my ground and gawked. Then, one by one, the fireballs turned to specks of light, still falling.

“What was that?” we said to each other. We didn’t know. Alien space-craft? Meteors? An omen from the heavens?

Just a week before we’d lost a dear friend, Sam Alfano, and I wanted to think that he’d sent two falling stars as a sign he’d made it safely to the other side and was busy making things hap-pen there.

In life Sam worked behind the scenes, lighting fires under the rear ends of all kinds of people, motivating them to do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. After retiring from his career in the Forest Service, he founded Goleta Beautiful, perhaps thinking that there was no reason Goleta could not be as lovely as Montecito. He founded Mission Chapter Toastmasters, a club dedicated to helping people build bet-ter communication skills.

That was where I first met Sam in 1998. He was the official club greeter, and his face lit up when I walked in, as if I were a long lost friend. “Come in. Have a seat. So glad to see you.”

That evening he told what I soon learned was his signature joke. It goes something like this:

A politician wants the support of the people in a remote village. This group is supposedly not savvy as to the ways of the world, so he attends a gather-

ing and makes a speech, promising schools, new roads, and a chicken in every pot. Every time the politician pauses for breath, the crowd shouts, “Magumba.” They seem very enthusi-astic. The politician’s encouraged he’ll have the vote of every person there. After the speech, one of the village elders escorts the politician out, and they pass by the corral where they keep the village bull. The elder points to the ground and says, “Be careful. Don’t step in the magumba.”

I returned to the club the next week, and there was Sam, greeting me again as if I were royalty, and I figured any place where I was treated like a queen

was the spot for me. I joined that night, and over a decade later, I am still a member.

Sam convinced me to do a lot of things I never thought I’d do. He let me have the illusion it was my idea to show up at high schools to help students with communication skills. Or to help organize annual PowerTalk public speaking seminars via the SBCC adult education department.

In 2004 I helped found Presentation Pros Toastmasters. At the time I really thought it was my idea to start a new Toastmasters club. But it was always Sam’s plan with his sneaky ways of getting me to do things out of my comfort zone. And mine was not the only arm Sam gently twisted.

He was busy till the end, mentoring

Father Bruce began his eulogy with, “Two priests walk into a bar,” and we all laughed, and you could just hear Sam

saying, “Always good to begin with humor”


On January 1, 1912 Santa Barbarans were saying, “Oh my honey, it’s been quite a

year!” Santa Barbara had joined the rest of the nation when Irving Berlin invited them to “Come on and hear, Come on and hear, Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” Ragtime, which had been around since the 1890s when Scott Joplin tickled the ivories to create ragged rhythms, now became a national craze. Berlin’s sheet music sold over one million copies in a few months.

Santa Barbara’s outlook was also upbeat. The Los Angeles Times’ glow-ing report stated, “Long known for its ideal climate and picturesqueness, it has now developed a good roads system as well.”

Thanks to the promotional efforts of Milo M. Potter of the Potter Hotel, Montecito millionaire Samuel P. Calef, and Harold (Harry) Josiah Doulton of the Miramar Hotel, the Rincon Causeway was officially opened. According to the Morning Press, the sea level highway was the most notable achievement of the year and allowed auto traffic to avoid Casitas Pass, “a most dangerous, though panorami-cally beautiful, route.”

While strains of the “best band in the land” emanated from pia-nos in Santa Barbara’s homes, other improvements were in the works as well. Progress had been made on the tunnel in Mission Canyon that would bring water from the Santa Ynez River to a thirsty Santa Barbara. Upwards of $500,000 in real estate, a huge amount for the times, had changed hands in Montecito alone, and work had begun on the Riviera site for a new normal school.

Also, the federal government had approved a new post office in the Spanish Renaissance style (an excep-

tion to standard post office archi-tecture) for the corner of State and Anapamu streets. Today, this building is the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. In addition, the County approved the construction of a foothill road through Carpinteria as a short cut to Casitas Pass.

Agriculturally, farmers had increased their acreage devoted to walnuts, beans, and lemons. Santa Barbara produced 10% of the world’s walnut crops and grapes were grown extensively. Locals were looking for-ward to the annual poultry show that promised an unusual number of ban-tams.

Taking a stab at some early efforts at

The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

Reflecting on the Ragged Year of 1911

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

reform, Mayor Boeske banned smok-ing in city council chambers. Also, a grass roots effort arose that demanded protection of wild pigeons in the Santa Barbara Mountains. Reckless and greedy hunters had decimated the population. In fact, two Santa Barbara men had recently returned with 240 dead birds, and concerned citizens wanted to impose a limit.

International Headlines in 1911

Two stories captured the world’s attention in 1911. On August 21, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. Security was so lax at the museum that it wasn’t until the next day that the painting was missed. The astonished muse-um directors finally realized it had been stolen when the painting’s frame was discovered in a stairwell. Sixty investigators descended upon the Louvre, and speculation ran rampant as to motive and perpetrator. The French police went so far as to accuse American banker J.P. Morgan, an avid art collector, for commissioning the crime. Pablo Picasso was also ques-tioned, and Alphonse Bertillon, the famous fingerprint expert, was called in, but to no avail.

The trail ran cold and La Giaconda was believed lost. Then, two years later, a Florentine antique dealer was contacted by the thief who called himself Leonard Vincenzo. For half a million lira he was willing to sell the painting, which, he claimed, Napoleon had stolen. He stipulated, however, that it never be returned to France. The antique dealer contacted the authorities who set up a sting, and Vincenzo Perugia (his real name) was arrested when he withdrew the paint-ing from the false bottom of a trunk in his room.

January saw the nation’s Chinese population celebrating the October 31

establishment of a republic in China with Dr. Sun Yat-Sen as president. A New York paper reported that the end of the Manchu Dynasty saw the celestial citizens rushing to the barber-shops to have their queues cut off, the last symbol of loyalty to Manchu rule. Many Chinese announced they would now return to China.

On January 8, Santa Barbara’s Chinese population exploded more than one million firecrackers on Canon Perdido Street to welcome the new Republic. The Morning Press reported that from 8 until 8:25 pm, there was a continuous din, “there being not so much as a second interval when the

Thriving by 1911, William P. Gould’s lemon grove and stone packinghouse at his Montecito estate were founded circa 1890 at the southwest corner of Hot Springs Road and what would become Olive Mill Road (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Goleta’s English Walnut groves were among Santa Barbara County’s top three crops for 1911 (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Mona Lisa’s smile was hidden in a trunk for two years after she was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress)

Slated to be replaced, Santa Barbara’s Post Office stood at 609 State Street for many years including 1911. Postmaster Frank Maguire (far left) was in charge of the crew lined up in front for some sort of floral festivity. (Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Harry J. Doulton on the new Rincon Causeway in 1911/12 that connected Santa Barbara with Ventura (Photo courtesy of Doulton Family)

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festive fire cracker was not sputtering and jumping about in the hilarious stage, preliminary to bursting into noise.”

The honorary mayor of Chinatown, Tom Wong, called it a “Bully Good Show!” He said that China was going to be a good country now and pointed with pride to his poster of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.

“Some of us go back,” said Wong, “but not me!”

1911 Front PagesNationally, the country was scan-

dalized by the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. When the top three floors caught fire, the fleeing workers found only one of two elevators in working order, no exterior fire escapes, and locked doors. As flames engulfed the build-

ing, many of the workers chose to leap from the windows rather than be con-sumed by the flames. Ladders on fire trucks did not reach the upper floors and nets were worthless.

The New York Times reported, “One girl, who waved a handkerchief at the crowd, leaped from a window. Her dress caught on a wire, and the crowd watched her hang there until her dress burned free and she came toppling down.” She joined the 146 people who died in the fire, the vast majority mere girls, ages 16-23.

The tragedy gave a boost to the Lady’s Garment Worker’s Union which succeeded in improving work-ing conditions and safety when public outcry shamed the owners into acqui-escing to their demands.

Locally, Santa Barbarans were both repulsed and fascinated by the Rech murder trial. Giovanni Rech and his

wife lived on an estate in Montecito where he was a gardener. In 1911, Mrs. Rech became pregnant. Rech was known to drink to excess, and the local saloonkeeper reported that he delivered one-half barrel of wine, six cases of beer, and three gallons of whiskey each month to the Rech household.

Rech had worked as a stonemason but lost his job due to his fits of vio-lence during which he threw tools and called upon Jesus to strike him dead. Fellow workers saw him as unstable and dangerous.

When Mrs. Rech went into labor, her neighbor from the Show Ranch called Dr. Julius H. Hurst of Montecito to attend the birth. When he arrived, however, Rech told him it was a mis-take; he wasn’t needed as there was no pregnancy. Hurst was suspicious so he called Sheriff Nat Stewart who gathered his deputies and found the dead and mutilated body of a new born baby buried in the barn.

Hurst said Rech had asked him to abort the baby months ago. Rech wanted to continue to send money to family in the old country, so he didn’t want an extra mouth to feed.

The defense claimed that Rech was insane but the jury, appalled by the nature of the crime, didn’t buy it. Rech was sentenced to life in prison. His wife was to be tried for her role in the

murder in February, but subsequent news reports didn’t mention the case and the headlines moved on to less sensational matters.

Syncopated StrainsOn a positive note, 1911 had seen

the Senate finally pass a bill for direct election of Senators. The year also saw Joseph Pulitzer’s will establish Pulitzer prizes, Marie Curie win the Nobel prize for the discovery of radi-um and polonium, and a new elec-tric self-starter replace the crank on automobiles. Rivaling the others in significance was the invention of air conditioning, which would change the face of the Southwest’s tiny desert communities.

Unfortunately, the sabers had start-ed to rattle in Europe as the tan-gle of alliances grew ever tighter. A verse from Alexander’s Ragtime Band seems almost prophetic when it sings, “They can play a bugle like you never heard before; so natural that you want to go to war … oh my honey, come on and hear, come on and …” Only two short years later the world would hear the consequences of the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

Sources not mentioned in text: con-temporary news articles, www.npr.org, Timetables of American History. •MJ

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wait until you’re seventy, eighty, or ninety that you won’t be able to benefit. I even have one client who was one hundred years old when he first came.

Dallas went on to say that there is one legal document that you should have in place much earlier.

Starting at age eighteen, I think it’s critical to have an advanced health care directive because once you’re over the age of eighteen, nobody really has the legal right to sign for you. If you were in a car accident or had a stroke and couldn’t communi-cate you might need to have someone make health decisions for you for a period of time. Without an advanced health care directive, somebody in your family might have to go to court to get that authority.

Can you specify what your wishes are should you become seriously incapaci-tated?

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Elder Care Questionnaire

SENIORITYby Patti Teel

Patti Teel is the com-munity representative for Senior Helpers, providers of care and comfort at a moment’s notice. She is also host of the Senior Helpers online video show. www.santabar baraseniors.com. E-mail: [email protected].

I recently interviewed Dallas Atkins, a local elder law attorney, about the importance of getting

our legal and financial house in order. An elder care attorney can assist in maximizing benefits and preserving our estate. They can also help to look at how we are going to manage financially should we need elder care.

Q: When should someone come to see you?

A: Although I can help at any stage in the lifespan, it’s ideal if someone can start when they’re younger. Starting when you’re in your fifties or sixties is really great but it doesn’t mean that if you

body to be your health care agent who will make health care decisions for you if you’re not able to make them yourself. The second thing you can do is specify what kind of care you might want if you’re in a situ-ation where you had to be hooked up to a lot of machines in order to survive. That being said, you don’t have to make those choices at all, you can appoint the agent and not specify the care. Or you could make it clear that you do or do not want life prolonging measures to be used for a long period of time. Or you could do both.

What about a will?A will is very important if you have

some property, and I don’t mean real estate. If you have real estate, you really should have a living trust.

Do you feel that once people have their legal documents in place that it brings them peace of mind?

Absolutely. I have a long-term cli-ent who was an adult child when he came to me about both of his parents when they needed nursing home care. This was about ten years ago. I helped him out on that and he kept calling me every few years after that. He’s now seventy and saying, “I know I should get my own trust done and take care of my will and durable power of attorney.” But he kept putting it off and putting it off. He just got a diagnosis of cancer and he was on the phone saying, “We’re coming down.” I didn’t even get a chance to confirm whether or not I was available and he rushed right down all the way from North County and said, “We’re ready to do it now.” I put him on the front burner and got his documents done. He and his wife were so relieved when it was done. They both felt that all the i’s were dotted and the t’s were crossed and they could stop worrying about that and focus on his cancer treatment.

Is it important to have a durable power of attorney?

A durable power of attorney is critical whether or not you have a living trust because it will govern what happens with your property and legal and financial affairs when

you’re alive. It also might be used hand in hand with a trust document in some transactions. So it’s not suf-ficient just to have a trust or just to have a will. Durable just means that it is effective even if you lose your capacity from a car accident or some other cause. You could assign a spouse or a sibling to be your agent under a durable power of attorney. It doesn’t mean you’ve given away that authority. It just means that you’ve given that agent authority to deal with third parties. You can stipu-late that it won’t be effective unless you’re incapacitated or it can be in effect immediately. There is a lot of choice involved.

People might think it’s expensive to see an elder law attorney but when I started reading about some of the benefits that people may not know they’re eligible for under federally funded programs, I real-ized that you can really save people a lot of money.

That is exactly what ends up hap-pening. I work a lot with people who have a spouse in a nursing home and if they get to me it’s almost a miracle because they really don’t believe that there is going to be any assistance for them. They’ve heard that Medi-Cal is a poverty program when in fact when you have a spouse in a nurs-ing home – that is, one spouse in a nursing home and the other spouse not in a nursing home – there are some special rules. There are federal rules and laws, as well as state laws and regulations, that are designed to protect the spouse who is at home (or in assisted living as opposed to in a nursing home) from becoming impoverished. And in that respect, Medi-Cal becomes a solidly middle class program. So the clients that I can help the most are the clients that are middle class clients who think that they could never possibly qualify for a benefit that they’ve associated only with poverty and aid to families with dependent children. The assets that they might be able to own and not cause a problem for Medi-Cal could be hundreds of thou-sands of dollars more than they ever could have imagined and the home can be protected.

Is there any last message that you’d like to share?

The most important thing that I want people to know is that the rules and laws governing elder care are very complex, almost nonsensical or illogical and that there are some peo-ple that do specialize in this area and there would be some help available to them. They might even qualify for a veteran’s pension.

To see Patti’s video interview with Dallas Atkins, visit youtube.com/san tabarbarasenior •MJ

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season, Santa Barbara International Film Festival director, Roger Durling, is the man to go to.

When our Eden by the Beach’s Conference & Visitors Bureau coupled with the Downtown Organization to roll out the red carpet at the Wine Cask for another edition of Film Feast, a special tasting menu program coin-ciding with the 27th annual movie fest, Roger was quick to offer his star picks.

“I think The Artist will do particularly well,” he predicted, a few days before the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, which adjudged the film’s 39-year-old French star, Jean Dujardin, best actor in a comedy, as well as best motion picture and best original score.

“There are so many good films out there and, of course, Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Brad Pitt are all jockeying for position.”

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The camp classic, directed by Laezer Schlomkowitz, was well staged, using

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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 26)projected backdrops and small mobile raised platforms, while the enthusi-astic young cast acted and sang their hearts out.

The star of the cast, playing Tracy Turnblad, was Maddie Sokolove, while Austin Escamilla was perfect as her mother, Edna, originally played by the late Divine in John Waters’ 1988 film, which also starred Ricki Lake, Sonny Bono and Debbie Harry.

The show certainly lived up to its billing of “Big Hair, Big Heart, Big Fun!”

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Camerata’s Standing OCamerata Pacifica came up trumps

yet again when the tony triumvirate of violinist Catherine Leonard, cellist Ani Aznavoorian and violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill performed at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.

Kicking off the sold out show with an hour-long work of Bach’s

“Goldberg Variations,” arranged by Dmitry Sitkovetsky, it brought a standing ovation from the apprecia-tive audience, given the piece is more frequently done as a solo piano work.

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

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“Yep,” I sighed, “and another for my wife. Small ones. Terima kasih.”

We spent the next six hours on the beach, during which time I consumed six delightful beers. (In an effort to keep this less incriminating, I must emphasize that these were not the big ones that are so common here but the small ones that look like longneck Budweisers, only green.) They kept me cool in the hot sand and unrelent-ing heat and humidity, and they kept me cool and fully enjoying the time

with my wife and kids. Here’s how they went down, in a sort of time lapse recreation of a terrific day in south Bali spent doing nothing, or

everything, depending on how you look at it.

Bintang No. 1: Wow, this is delicious. Did Indonesian brewers actually craft this particular grog to go along with perfect bluebird beach days like this? Love you, Wendi! Love you, Lily! You too, Kate! What a wonderful world.

Bintang No. 2: This is a seriously beautiful place. Emerald jungle on a rocky cliff overlooking what is clearly a perfect left barrel? I mean, we walked through a Hindu temple and natural stone tunnel to get down here. You’re kidding me, right? And just look at the local fisherman haul-ing in today’s catch. This is awe-some!

Bintang No. 3: I wish there was surf. Oh well, guess I’ll take the girls for another swim.

Bintang No. 4: Hey honey, want another Bintang? No? Oh, well… um, I’m going to have one more, okay? I mean, hey, we’re on the beach in Bali, babe. Kids, let’s spend a couple hours frolicking in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.

Bintang No. 5: Wow, man, that hour-long conversation with Made about the rigors of life on Bali was heavy. And her fifteen years on the sand at Padang

Padang has been pretty… interesting. Let’s just say that there have been a few surf contests here, and a few parties too, and we’ll leave it at that. Honey, want another Bintang? Oh, sorry… forgot. Kids, find the popsicle guy and let’s spend some Indonesian Rupiah.

Bintang No. 6: Is Kate playing in the sand with a tiny dead fish? Where’s Lily? My face and back are feeling pretty warm and looking a deep shade of redish purple… hey hon, where’s that new hat I just bought from that guy down the beach? What? Time to go? Sure, let’s go see the temple on the cliffs at Uluwatu.

Oh shoot, I almost forgot, Made, thanks so much for the great food and conversation and ice cold Bintangs. Fantastic day, really. You know, come to think of it, maybe I’ll write some-thing about you and your place for the column next week…

If you are interested in talking to Matt or, perhaps more likely, anybody else in the Mazza family, feel free to email any of them at [email protected]. And if you are interested in a more detailed account of their journey to date, check out their website and Matt’s blog at www.towheadtravel.com. •MJ

Wendi also had to try the fried rice plate at Made’s Warung Kate and Lily contemplating a jump in the ocean

The dead fish Kate found to play with at Padang Padang

LEAVInG (Continued from page 19)

But love for Aussie my brethren aside, I’m no

mate, my friends. Make no mistake about it.


Kevin Nealon spent nine years on the cast of Saturday Night Live, where he created

such memorable characters as “Mr. Subliminal Man” and Franz (of “Hans and Franz”) and anchored on “Weekend Update.” For the past seven years, he’s played Doug on Showtime’s Weeds, the me-first accountant and pot-lover who provides a big portion of the show’s laughs.

Nealon has also appeared on innu-merable movies, most frequently with Adam Sandler, but next Wednesday, he’ll be on stage live at the Lobero, working on stand-up material for a planned hour-long Showtime special to be recorded next month. “I only need about fifty-five more minutes,” he joked over the telephone from his Los Angeles home earlier this week. But unlike most of his fellow com-ics, testing the new stuff isn’t a chore because Nealon never stopped work-ing the clubs – he’s been averaging two weekend gigs a month for years. “It’s my passion and my forte,” he explained.

Q. Your bio says you’re the longest cast member ever at SNL. What took you so long to graduate?

A. Well, I was for a while and then other people realized what a great job it was and stayed too. But I loved the job and never saw it as a stepping-stone. I got to live in New York City, and work with amaz-ing people every week between the hosts and the casts. I got to write topical material and perform. What could be better than that? [It was only time to leave] when I realized I was getting kind of complacent: I’d go out and do sketches while still picking food out of my teeth from the craft services table.

What stands out the most for you from those days? Is there one moment, one show?

Oh, boy. Probably the day the fire alarm went off at 30 Rock and the studio was filling up with smoke on a Saturday afternoon. I was following behind Sting and Steve Martin out of the building and we just hung out at a restaurant and waited. We didn’t have any time to rehearse before the live show... I also remember when they were making a plaster mask for me to play Jay Leno in a skit. I got claustrophobic and passed out in the make-up chair, and they had to give me the smelling salts. I saw the mask later and it looked like Edward Munch’s “The Scream.”

After your years on “Weekend Update,” do you have any advice for real TV news anchors?

Don’t talk or do anything stupid before you’re on the air. The mic or camera might be on and you can get blackmailed. It never happened to me though.

How has Doug, your character on Weeds, evolved through the years?

He might evolve, but he never moves forward. He’s still hedonistic and self-centered. But there’s something that’s likeable about him and that’s why the character works. A lot of people live vicariously through him.

That’s what people say about you, too. You’re not over the top like Robin Williams or Eddie Murphy, but more of an everyday guy who happens to be funny.

I feel that way too. I don’t feel like a stand-up comedian but more like I’m part of the audience, and I’m just explaining my thoughts to them.

So what can we expect in the show here?

Well I shoehorned out the old stuff

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Since you only live ninety miles away, is Santa Barbara a special place for you?

I love it up there. We spent New Year's with some friends there; we go up four or five times a year. But I wear a disguise, that’s why you don’t hear about people recognizing me. I call it the Montecito disguise. It’s an Oprah mask. It takes two of us to play her.

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All’s ‘Fair’ in Love and Theater

Taking on a role as iconic as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady can be daunting even for a grizzled stage

veteran. But newcomer Aurora Florence, who won the part in the national touring company just before finals during her final semester at BYU, said she wasn’t particularly intimated by taking on the ingénue who gets molded by and in turn re-shapes her benefactor, the irascible Henry Higgins, in the much beloved musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

Maybe it’s because she’s already used to some stress: the 22-year-old actress also got married last sum-mer just after graduation and just prior to rehearsals for the show that arrives at the Granada on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 24-25. She talked about portraying Eliza over the telephone earlier this week.

Q. Are you channeling Audrey Hepburn as Eliza? How do you keep from being intimated by the thought of the comparison?

A. I haven’t tried to imitate her or Julie Andrews (who starred on Broadway). I know I’d fall short any-

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I learned that this highway splits the state in half, east-west, and if you were to somehow travel to the west from this highway, the next paved road you would come to would be in Russia. We were entering the country.

From the sky, Talkeetna looks like an isolated settlement on a river and

as you approach by car, the birch trees lining the road give way to small gravel drives that branch off from the highway and curve to be lost behind more trees. We passed a turnoff to the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge (which we later returned to for a dinner) and con-tinued until we found our way onto a well-packed gravel road that led us, through the rain, to the Meandering Moose, our home for the next four days. The owners, a couple, also man-aged the two-acre property and were most gracious and helpful during our stay. The next morning we found our way to the local fly shop, the friendly proprietor gave us directions in his German accent to the nearest fishing spot then issued a warning, “Do you have bear spray?” At first we thought he was kidding, but he made it clear he was not, so off we went to the gen-eral store to purchase their last canis-ter. Fully armed with rods, flies and B-spray, we found the river, parked in the bushes and trudged the winding

path through heavy growth making extra noise, the canister clutched in my fist. Sue and I were after trout, as evidenced by our light tackle and after several casts, my rod bent over with a huge fish that broke my line and released itself, swimming away. I caught another and lost it in a similar manner but could not tell what kind of fish it was until Sue solved the mystery. Over in a side pocket, away from the main channel of the river, she spotted about a dozen huge salmon, cruising slowly and spawning in the still water. And so my “huge trout” turned out to be salmon, which were fatigued having traveled so far to lay their eggs to be fertilized, and die,

completing their life cycle. It was a grand sight viewing the huge ruddy salmon circling and dancing in the gravel and we smiled and agreed we had enough excitement for the day.

Over the next few days we became acquainted with the town, took a jet boat up the Susitna River and visited the Talkeetna Mountaineering Center, which is where one would begin his ascent of Mount McKinley. We also visited the international cemetery, which told stories of the tragedies that occurred in attempting the climb. But, the highlight of our stay in Talkeetna was the eight-seater plane that took off flying beneath the overcast, approach-ing the glaciers to the north. There is nothing like the vantage point of a low-flying plane to lift you out of yourself and present the vastness of Alaska. We gazed upon huge ice fields and glaciers that grind acres of rock, forming moraines of gravel the

You may have heard that the world is shrinking, but in Alaska, it is expanding. With

the ice caps and glaciers melting more quickly, the raw earth of Alaska is literally growing, allowing new frontiers of exploration. The first leg of our journey did not take us as far north as the Arctic Circle – it only took us as far north as Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, as you will read – but we got a taste of the frontier nonetheless. We flew into Anchorage via Seattle late at night, picked up a car and checked into a motel central to downtown. In the morning we stepped out to a typically overcast, rainy day and set our eyes upon the rough gray-water harbor of commerce and the snowed-capped peaks to the distant north. We roamed a few of the wet streets and ate breakfast

at a small café, strangely feeling almost like foreigners in a country that spoke English. Once oriented at the visitor center, I handed my maps and scribbled notes to my navigator, Sue, and off we drove down the main drag and out of town. The Anchorage area was not our destination; it was Talkeetna, about a three-hour drive to the Northeast. There is only one main road and we took in the scenery, stopping at a few suggested vistas and parks along the way. We passed the picturesque town of Wasilla, which sits in a huge open meadow surrounded by mountains. We visited the Iditarod headquarters, bought some “Sarah embarrass mints,” and took the fork over the Susitna River toward Talkeetna. Traveling by car on a well-paved and wide-shouldered road with little traffic was effortless.

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Sunlight shining on gray glacier milk streaming in braids downward to coalesce into rivers below

Part One: The Expanding Frontier

MONTECITO SPORTSMAN by Dr. John Burk

Dr. John Burk is a retired Santa Barbara dentist and a longtime Montecito resi-dent

Can one skim across the surface of the ocean and know all about the sea? Has someone ever told you that they have “seen Alaska” then proceeded to describe their cruise stops along the Inland Passage? We wanted to see Alaska in a non-cruise fashion without it being too rustic and we had fifteen days in August to do it. Our trip was by land, sea and air and I will share with you what my wife and I encountered over a four-part series.

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There is nothing like the vantage point of a low-flying plane to lift you out of yourself and present the vastness of Alaska

19 – 26 January 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 35Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar – Edward R. Murrow

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into what Mr. Norris suggested: the alternatives to creosote being used in other countries? Because once laid, what will keep the creosote in place and prevent it from leaching from these ties, anyway? The issue is not just removing the current piles, but finding safe alternatives, especially when our tracks run astonishingly close to homes and to the ocean.

Thanks, Mr. Norris, and the Montecito Journal for bringing the issue to public awareness.

Steve SchechterMontecito

Halting Wealth Creation

The Left continues to push the prem-ise that a legitimate function of gov-ernment is to “ensure the equitable sharing of wealth among citizenry,” but that has never been among our government’s Constitutional objec-tives. And it should be transparent that this premise is self-serving for power-seeking politicians.

If we accept the premise that gov-ernment should be in the business of redistributing wealth, we ultimately sanction the power of politicians and bureaucrats to take by force what-ever anyone produces and distribute it to whomever they want in order to achieve their particular definition of “social justice.”

Even if politicians had angeli-cally objective intentions, they could not hope to be effective. And politicians rarely demonstrate objec-tive, let alone angelic, intentions. Rather, under the guise of redistribut-ing wealth for social justice, our politi-cians are destroying wealth by vilify-ing wealth creators – encouraging cur-rent producers to stop producing and welfare recipients to never start. Politicians usurp power from citizens by breeding dependence. The concept of “entitlement,” that one person has a right to another’s efforts, undermines independence, self-reliance, individual initiative, and compassion – the very virtues that make America prosperous and exceptional. History demonstrates no better way of creating or distribut-ing wealth than through rational self-interest, which is manifest in the logic of the market and the compassion of our communities and private citizens. No coercion necessary.

John McIntyreMontecito

Path To SomewhereIn light of the recent San Ysidro path

dedication, I got digging in my old “clip-file” and found a story I did for the Montecito Journal, dated December 1998.

The story tells about the genesis of a San Ysidro footpath, first envisioned, I reported, by the Montecito Association back in 1972, and partially built in front of Montecito Union School in the 1980s. In 1998, I wrote that for-mer MA president Dan Eidelson, his wife, Anita Eidelson, Santa Rosa neighbor Wendy Drewry and I joined up to find a community project to enhance Montecito and we stumbled (literally) on the idea to reinvigorate the concept of a San Ysidro path. The story relates how, on a site visit down San Ysidro, we ploughed through and over gopher holes, weeds and scrapping brush. Reignited by com-munity need and full of enthusiasm and Band-Aids from our tour, we took our idea to MA’s 1998 Beautification Committee and they embraced it.

But Rome was not built in a day and neither are dreams – and, now, 14 years later, after much “thought and consideration,” tiny feet are actually treading on reality. I can’t wait to stroll on this terra-firma path myself, and I’ve invited Dan to stroll with me on – what is to us – a very special “Memory Lane.”

Thanks Supervisor Carbajal for actually bringing a 40-year-old Montecito vision to fruition. Dreaming up ideas is easy, but making those visions become reality requires hard, persistent, and yes, sometimes har-rowing work!

This visit to my in my clip-file also reminded me this story marked one of my first hundreds of stories for I would subsequently write for the Journal, another of Montecito’s (and my) longtime partners in finding “paths” to build one fine community!

Cheers,J’Amy BrownMontecito

no new Lieff HereCarole Lieff is anything but a new

Leaf. If that sign she’s standing behind (in that picture you offered the reader on your editorial page) means any-thing. The sign was a 2004 “John Kerry For President” sign, so she’s an unrepentant Democrat. How and why would a Democrat want to undo the damage inflicted on the Santa Barbara County taxpayer by the likes of Salud Carbajal?

Democrats suffer from the same addictive impulses as alcoholics. The latter are wired to consume beverages with alcohol, whether they actually do so or not. Democrats are addicted to power, and the coinage of that realm is money earned by the taxpayer. The alcoholic craves more booze; the unre-constructed Democrat pursues more and greater power, which of course, translates into more and more taxpay-er money channeled through coffers controlled by Democrats.

I’ve become immune to Democrats who, during the campaign season, talk like Republicans: Ms Lieff com-plaining about County finances run amuck sounds suspiciously like an A.A. member singing the praises of the sober life, until she’s elected and comes under the pressure of her fel-low “alcoholics” who offer her a bro-mide contained in a bottle labeled “Southern Comfort.” An A.A. enthu-siast has to change his group of (alco-holic) friends in order to truly break free from the temptation of his addic-tion. But he doesn’t and sooner rather than later falls off the wagon.

I learned my lesson with so-called “less-than-Democrat” Democrats back in Pennsylvania during the 1970s. A guy by the name of Peter Flaherty graduated from law school and settled down in Mount Lebanon, a Republican suburb of Pittsburgh (and home to billionaires Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks and Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon). He began his political career as a Republican on the Mount Lebanon School Board. But Mr. Flaherty was meant for bigger pastures. He moved

into the City of Pittsburgh in order to run for mayor. Being that the City was 4 to 1 Democrat, our man of great principle decided to register as a Democrat. His political career took off. It didn’t take long for Mr. Flaherty to become like his fellow Democrats, who dominated Pittsburgh political offices.

But Mr. Flaherty’s aspirations began aiming higher. He saw himself as a senator or governor of Pennsylvania, a commonwealth where Republican and Democrat party registrations were about even. He ran for senator in 1976 against incumbent Republican Richard Schweiker (the guy Ronald Reagan teamed-up with in his attempt to wrest the GOP presidential nomina-tion away from unelected Republican President Gerald Ford).

This time around, Mr. Flaherty suc-ceeded in staking out political posi-tions to the Right of Mr. Schweiker, and touted his Republican creden-tials from his youth. He says he only became a Democrat to get elected in Pittsburgh. I fell for this revisionist bit of personal history and voted for Peter Flaherty for PA senator. He lost the election but he went on to become a Democrat PA governor, and he drank from the same alcoholic bever-ages as all the other Democrats around him. He traded the sober life of his Republican youth for the “lush” life of his Democrat friends.

I am proud to say I haven’t voted for any Democrat since Peter Flaherty in 1976. And, incidentally, I haven’t touched Jack Daniel’s since November 28, 1984 (not that I’m counting)!

David S. McCalmontSanta BarbaraP.S. For what it’s worth, my voting

address has been maintained on Santa Barbara’s Upper East Side. It’s in the First District!

(Editor’s note: Ms Lieff may be a Democrat – we don’t really know – but having a challenger in the race is always a good thing. We expect Mr. Carbajal to win handily, but it would be refreshing to hear some good discussions of the issues – J.B.) •MJ

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size of towns. They are then divided by ribbons of milky silt-laden water that form braids, cascading down-ward and joining to form huge rivers that twist and fan out, then constrict as the water continues its descent over the wild land to the sea. Rivers that freeze solid in winter become actual highways of access to the interior – for those bold enough to try – then break up in spring, forming gigantic ice floes that scour and level the banks with their tremendous weight, felling trees and cutting new river channels as they course ever downward. As we turned from the ice, a patchwork landscape of greens reminiscent of farmland came into view, but all untouched by man,

no plowed fields or crops. Nature is wild, harsh and free here and it con-trols everything. Suddenly, breaking through the clouds as we ascended to 12,000 feet, there it was! Poking its head out of the clouds like a great pyramid rising from the desert, “the high one,” Denali, Mount McKinley, sunlight glistening off its white slopes which peak at 20,250 feet.

The next day we traveled roundtrip from Talkeetna to Denali National Park, fourteen hours by car and tour bus, and ended up seeing something so rare that our bus driver admitted he had never seen anything like it in his thirty years there. To be continued in part two… •MJ

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In Business: Coast Village Physical Therapy

Montecito physical therapist Eric Smith, M.P.T., has relocated his thriv-ing pilates and physical therapy prac-tice to the former office of Montecito Journal. Coast Village Physical Therapy (CVPT) opened at 1122 Coast Village Circle in December, and Smith says he and his patients are very happy in the new, revamped space.

Smith says he wanted to remain in Montecito, where he began his prac-tice eight years ago. For five years prior to the move, CVPT was located at 1187 Coast Village Road, near Here’s the Scoop gelato shop; before that the practice was located near Jeannine’s Bakery. “We just needed more space,” he said about relocating.

Smith has invested in the new space, building a front counter, adding wood flooring and new carpeting, widen-ing doorways for wheelchair access, and remodeling some of the rooms of the MJ’s former office. “I had a vision when I walked in here, and I knew I could make it work for me,” he said.

CVPT specializes in post-surgical rehabilitation, including knee and hip replacements, spine and neck surger-ies, and various athletic injuries. Smith also works with patients with chronic physical problems, and says he works with several golfers from Birnam Wood and the Valley Club who come to him with golf-related shoulder and back issues.

Smith, who completed his under-graduate work at UCSB and earned his master’s degree at Fresno State, says he designs specialized programs for each patient, tailored to their indi-vidual diagnosis. Patients typically perform physical therapy 2-3 times a week, for 4-6 weeks depending on the surgery, Smith said. In addition to therapeutic exercises to increase

mobility and strength, Smith often uses pain management therapies including electrical stimulation, ultra-sound, heat, paraffin wax, and soft tissue and scar mobilization. Smith specializes in orthopedic injuries, and finished his clinical work in Tahoe City and Vail, Colorado, working with Olympic hopefuls and X-Game snow-boarders. “I was able to work with a high volume of high level athletes, and saw countless summer and winter sports injuries,” he said.

The main room in the office houses strength training machines as well as pilates’ equipment. Pilates instructor and personal trainer Michele Morrow oversees the pilates program at CVPT, and often helps Smith’s patients tran-sition from physical therapy to pilates. Smith also employs Emily Maine, his physical therapy assistant, while

Catherin Moore rounds out the team by managing billing and overseeing scheduling.

CVPT accepts all major insurance carriers. For more information call 565-5670 or stop by 1122 Coast Village Circle.

VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)

The buildings are expected to be finished in February

Eric Smith, owner of Coast Village Physical Therapy on Coast Village Circle

Revamped: Coast Village Physical Therapy is located in the former offices of Montecito Journal

In addition to two private treatment rooms, the main room at CVPT houses pilates and strength train-ing equipment

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Save the Date for Hearts Festival

On Saturday, February 11, Friendship Center will hold its 13th annual Festival of Hearts event to benefit the H.E.A.R.T. (Help Elders At Risk Today) program. Dubbed “Fiesta in February,” the event, to be held at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, will fea-ture Latin music by the Fiesta Five (aka Montecito Jazz Project), Mexican food, Latin dancing, Valentine’s themed shopping, and both live and silent auctions. The Valentine-themed event features a sit-down lunch accompanied with local wines.

Local merchants have donated goods and services for the event, others have donated gift cer-tificates for the auctions. The live auction features weekend stays at

InterContinental hotels, a five-day desert getaway to Palm Springs, a themed dinner at a Mission Canyon home, wine tasting tours, and lunch-es with local elected officials, among other items. At the center of the Hearts event are whimsical papier-mâché hearts donated by local art-ists and students from area high schools. Guests receive a hand-dec-orated heart as a party favor. There will also be more “heart-art” for sale by local artists and celebrities, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Friendship Center, located on the grounds of All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, has been providing adult day care and respite for caregiv-ers since 1976. Last year the center also opened a new Goleta facility, located at 820 North Fairview Avenue. The goal of the non-profit organiza-

tion is to defer nursing home care for as long as possible. Friendship Center members typically live with their caregivers, usually a spouse or child. Programming at the center allows the caregiver to work or complete chores during the day, while their loved one is being cared for in a safe environ-ment.

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

This year tickets cost $100. The event is from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. For more information call 969-0859.

To learn more about the Friendship Center visit www.friendshipcen tersb.org.

Job Fair at Santa Barbara Zoo

Save the date for Santa Barbara Zoo’s annual Job Fair, taking place this year on Sunday, February 5, from 3 pm to 5 pm. Summer employment for adults and teens is available at the Zoo, including the award-win-ning Guest Experience Specialist along with positions including Special Events Hosts, Zoo Camp Counselors, Education Program Instructors, Train Conductors, and as performers for the Zoo’s summer shows. Volunteer opportunities for adults and teens will also be described.

The Zoo’s Guest Experience Specialist program won the first ever Youth Serving Organization Award from the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce’s Business Star Awards in 2011. Participants as young as age 14 rotate between jobs in three areas: guest services, the restaurants and retail stores. “This program is intended to be a ‘first job’ for youth and a fun job for others,” says the Zoo’s Director of Human Resources Corinne Santini. “Participants are also introduced to work ethics and basic skills, such as how to provide excellent customer ser-vice, write a resumé or be in a job inter-view, needed when embarking into the business world.”

The Job Fair is free to participants; no appointments of reservations are necessary. The Santa Barbara Zoo is located at 500 Niños Drive. For more information, visit www.sbzoo.org or contact Santini at 962-5339, ext. 108.

MERRAG Training Canceled

This Saturday, January 19, a spe-cial training for MERRAG (Montecito Emergency Response and Recovery Action Group) members has been canceled, according to Montecito Fire’s Geri Ventura. The training, to be focused on pet emergency pre-paredness, will be rescheduled at a later date.

For more information about MERRAG, visit www.merrag.com.

Omissions & Corrections

In this column last week, we mis-takenly referred to Jodi Fishman as the PTA president at Montecito Union School. While Fishman sits on the Safety Committee at the school and acted as the liaison between Santa Barbara County and MUS during the building of the new pathway, Pamela Dillman Haskell is the current PTA president. •MJ

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Ochieng says King was embedded in two vibrant and potent African-American intellectual traditions: wis-dom and prophecy. “King drew on these in crafting representations of himself and of African-Americans in the struggle for freedom,” he says. “The portrait that emerges is that King is a far more complex figure than the one that’s now celebrated by American officialdom.

“I hope my lecture will offer a sense of King the person, a moral exemplar with flaws, and of his extraordinary radicalism in the cause of social jus-tice.”

Ochieng joined Westmont’s com-munication studies faculty in 2005 after earning a master’s degree and a doctorate at Bowling Green State University. A native of Kenya, he graduated from Daystar University in Nairobi.

His research focuses on African rhetoric and understanding African moral and political philosophies. He also pursues interests in criti-cal rhetoric, history of rhetoric and communication theory and philoso-phy. He has published “A Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Frederick Douglass and the Architectonic of African American Radicalism” in Western Journal of Communication and “The Ideology of African Philosophy: The Silences and Possibilities of African Rhetorical Knowledge” in Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts.

Poet Cairns Featured at Reading

Scott Cairns, director of the University of Missouri’s Creative Writing Program and Center for the Literary Arts, will read his poetry Wednesday, January 25, at 7 pm in Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge at Kerrwood Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Cairns, who earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, has written many published books, including Compass of Affection: New and Selected Poems, The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain, Compass of Affection, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven – A Pilgrimage and Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life.

“The ponderous and powerful manner in which he reads his poems aloud has influenced me greatly,” says Paul Willis, Santa Barbara poet laureate and Westmont English pro-fessor. “He has a way of holding up each word in turn for the listener’s pleasure and inspection.”

Cairns’ poems and essays have been selected for Best Spiritual Writing and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Spirituality and Health, The Christian Century and Western Humanities Review.

Willis says that Cairns is probably the pre-eminent Christian poet in the U.S. “He is both a Christian who is an accomplished poet and a poet who often writes about matters of Christian faith,” Willis says. “He manages to be whimsical and very deeply serious at the same time. He is well read in the early church fathers and references them in inter-esting and provocative ways. At the same time, he is very attentive to the daily challenges of living out a life of faith here, now.”

Cairns is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he was mentored by Annie Dillard. He then earned a master’s degree at Hollins College and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Bowling Green State University before earning a doctorate at the University of Utah. He has also taught at Kansas State University, Westminster College, University of North Texas and Old Dominion University. •MJ

Westmont’s famed C.S. Lewis wardrobe has returned to Montecito following a four-

year international tour as part of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition.” The wardrobe, which was purchased in 1974 from the Kilns, C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home, will be the center of attention at a welcome-back reception Friday, January 20, from 3:30 until 5 pm in Reynolds Hall. The event, sponsored by Westmont’s English Department, Provost’s Office and Literary Society, is free and open to the public and includes readings from Lewis’ work and refreshments.

The wardrobe was prominently fea-tured at the beginning of the traveling exhibition, which included other items that Lewis used when he penned the seven-book series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The wardrobe made about a dozen stops, including the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the Louisville Science Center in Kentucky, the Telus World of Science in Edmonton, Alberta, and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

In the exhibit, the wardrobe includ-ed a plaque that read: “Wardrobes were common in England when C.S. Lewis was writing The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis himself owned several, including this one. Although Lucy calls it “a magic wardrobe,” what the other children see is just a “perfectly ordinary” wardrobe. Like this one, it’s “big” and has a mirror (a “looking-glass”) in its door. Can you imagine why Lewis would choose such an ordinary entrance to the extraordinary world of Narnia? On special loan from Westmont College.”

Examining MLK’s Complexity

Omedi Ochieng, Westmont asso-ciate professor of communication studies, discusses “The Articulation of Prophetic Wisdom: Martin Luther King Jr. in the African-American Intellectual Tradition” as part of Westmont’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Thursday, January 19, at 7 pm in Westmont’s Darling Foundation Lecture Hall, room 210 in Winter Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Don’t confuse fame with success; Madonna is one, Helen Keller is the other – Erma Bombeck

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Your Westmont

Wardrobe Returns After International Tour

by Scott Craig (photos by Brad Elliott)

Westmont’s C.S. Lewis’-owned wardrobe is wel-comed back after an international tour

Accomplished poet Scott Cairns will read his work in Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge on January 25

The wardrobe was featured in “Narnia: The Exhibition” that kicked off in Phoenix in 2008

Dr. Omedi Ochieng offers his unique perspective of MLK on January 19


THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

The Girl in the Picture – Kim Phuc was nine years old when an AP photographer took a photo of her running naked on a South Vietnam road after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack against the fleeing villagers. The famous 1972 photo won a Pulitzer Prize for Nick Ut – who took Kim to the hospital after snapping the picture – and public outrage spurred by the haunting image helped bring about the end of the Vietnam War. Kim Phuc wasn’t expected to survive, but after a 14-month hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, she was able to return home. Kim later studied medicine and eventually received political asylum in Canada, where she became a citizen in the mid-1990s. In her presentation tonight, she’ll share historical footage and personal testimony of the accidental bombing, the photograph, and her journey to forgiveness in a benefit for The Kim Foundation and the Friendship Fund, non-profit organizations providing life-changing opportunities for children to recover and learn from the tragedy of war. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido Street COST: $29 general, $12.50 students/teachers (VIP $79, includes reception) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

Stringing along – Colorado Symphony principal violist Basil Vendryes and cellist Andrew Smith lead a free public masterclass featuring accomplished local students including a harp trio, a string quartet, and a soloist. Co-presented by the Music Academy of the West and Santa Barbara Strings, the event also presages a concert tomorrow night featuring Vendryes and Smith along with local violinist Beth Woodruff and pianist Cynthia Darby also on the Miraflores campus. Dubbed “The Artistry of Strings,” the program of chamber music by Brahms, Schubert and Piazzolla in Lehmann Hall will be at the Music Academy of the West on Friday, January 20th at 7pm. The quartet will play a chamber music program featuring works by Brahms, Piazzolla and others. Linda Shaver-Gleason, a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCSB, offers a pre-concert lecture from 6:15-6:45pm. The performance is a fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Strings, the nonprofit music program that provides music education and string orchestra training for young musicians age 4-18. WHEN: Masterclass 6:30pm tonight; concert 7pm tomorrow WHERE: Masterclass in Weinman Hall in the new Luria Education Center; concert in Lehmann Hall, 1070 Fairway Road COST: Masterclass free, call for ticket information for the concert INFO: 688-7423 or www.santabarbarastrings.org

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

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

Cultural cocktail – Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s NIGHTS events have evolved over the years including changes in size, scope and season, with tonight’s entry serving as the first to be held over the winter months. Celebrating the Chinese New Year is the theme for tonight’s collage of art, music, specialty martinis and activities best described only as “interactive happenings,” all inspired by the newly-reinstalled Asian Art permanent collection and recent Asian Gallery renovation. The McCormick Gallery hosts zodiac animal mask-making, where you can celebrate both the

yin and the yang of your personality, and compete for prizes by squaring off with both compatible and incompatible zodiac animals. A Dragon Dance and Chinese acrobatic performances punctuate the animal revelry in-between sets of popular songs inspired by the zodiac signs. In the Davidson Gallery, a black and white Chinese landscape comes to life as guests use traditional brushes to paint side by side with Museum Teaching Artists, who have created the initial scene in pencil. Or you can practice Chinese calligraphy adding symbols to create poems inspired by oversized quotes from the Tao te Ching. Exiting the gallery, you can literally “become one with nature” by stepping into a projected landscape and walking away with a personal photograph. Meanwhile, the museum’s back plaza does its usual dichotomous thing, with participatory art for the first two hours (featuring regrets or portraits from 2011 delivered to a painter and DJ who will create dance music and art installations from the suggestions, plus choreography by NIGHTS regular Robin Bisio), followed by dance music and percussion sets from DJ Mr. Hurley Live and Brian Szymanski til closing as you welcome the Year of the Dragon. WHEN: 5:30-9:30pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: $35 general ($10 discount for museum members), $50 Luxe tickets (members only) INFO: 884-6414 or www.sbma.net/nights

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21

Crossing the Rubicon – Actor/musician Ted Neeley and Rubicon Theatre co-founder/director James O’Neil go back some 35 years. They met in 1976 at a production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Santa Barbara Bowl, just two years after Neeley first played the role of Jesus at Universal Amphitheatre, having been promoted from the ensemble on Broadway. Neeley, who had been a rock drummer and singer since the ‘60s, of course went on to star in the movie version and re-create the role in countless stage revivals, including a tour that lasted some 1,700 performances during most of which O’Neil played Pontius Pilate. Neeley also starred in a revival of the Superstar as a benefit to launch Rubicon back in 1998, designed sound for the company’s first musical in its current home in a converted church, and even played a

dramatic role in the world premiere stage adaptation of Murder in the First, starring opposite Larry Hagman, and later appeared as Lucky in Waiting for Godot. So it’s no surprise that Neeley is returning to the intimate, 190-seat venue to debut his new concert, “Ted Neeley and The Little Big Band,” billed as an up-close-and-personal musical event. He’ll share anecdotes from his career and sing a variety of styles and genres representing his own eclectic musical passions including highlights from Tommy, Hair and Sgt. Pepper’s and Superstar plus excerpts from his film scores for Robert Altman and others as well as premiering new compositions. WHEN: Opens 7pm Saturday, plays 2pm Sunday, 2 & 7pm Wednesday, 7pm next Thursday & Friday, 2 & 8pm Saturday, Jan. 28, plus 2pm Sunday, Jan. 9 WHERE: 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura COST: call INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org


Kid Flix Mix – SBIFF 2012 doesn’t open until next Thursday, but for younger children the real film festival in town takes place this morning, when UCSB A&L presents Kid Flix Mix from the New York International Children’s Film Festival. The hour-long screening comprises a dozen musical and narrative shorts that offers an exciting experience for all ages including both animation and live action from the U.K., Hungary, Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Canada and the U.S. The films feature the antics of hip-hop cats (in All That Cats), a young girl and her balloon (in The Yellow Balloon), a group of friends living together on a beautiful tropical island (in Saari), a bird struggling to find his voice (in Whistleless) and eight more. The show is part of A&L’s new Family Fun Series, which features high-spirited entertainment to tickle, awe and excite kids from ages 4 to 94. There’s still time to subscribe to the remaining events and take part in the extra benefits including Saturday’s Breakfast Pajama Party at 10am boasting a free breakfast. WHEN: 11am WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $15 adults, $10 children INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24

Hummel’s harmonious harmonica harem – The latest edition of Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout was already an enticing bill even before the 2012 Blues Music Awards nominations were announced, bestowing nods from the genre’s highest honors on three of the harmonica icons appearing at the show. Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Boy Arnold and Sugar Ray Norcia garnered eight nominations in total for their recent projects, but tonight along with Curtis Salgado and Hummel they’ll all be channeling Little Walter, perhaps the greatest of the blowers. Hummel & his band The Blues Survivors’ latest album, Unplugged: Back Porch Music, is an acoustic blues tribute to the legendary harp master Little Walter Jacobs, the fiery Chicago blower who changed the way the harmonica played the blues and remains the only harmonica player inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Hummel himself is no slouch, having crafted his own sound combining tone, phrasing and attack with a strong sense of swing that a critic once called “a slice of heaven.” But it’s with the annual Blowout, now in its 20th year, that Hummel makes his biggest mark,



Mash-up a smash – The Met has earned absolute raves for The Enchanted Island, its world premiere opera that juxtaposes Baroque music with an new English-language story combining two of Shakespeare’s best-known plays. The four young lovers from A Midsummer Night’s Dream find themselves shipwrecked on Prospero’s island from The Tempest, leading to a tortuous web of comic and dramatic romantic entanglements told via musical selections from more than 30 operas, cantatas and oratorios by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau

and other masters of the Baroque period. Conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax), Plácido Domingo (Neptune), Danielle de Niese (Ariel) and Luca Pisaroni (Caliban) singing the words of the new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Critics have hailed The Enchanted Island as glorious and a whole that far exceeds its parts. Now you can see the brand new work that just opened this month without having to travel to New York via the Met’s popular “Live in HD” simulcast, right here in Montecito at the intimate Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West. WHEN: 9:55am (live), encore screenings at 6pm and 2pm Sunday WHERE: 1070 Fairway Road COST: $25 (includes complimentary wine tasting at 5pm and during intermission of the evening screening) INFO: 969-8787 or www.musicacademy.org


Reinventing radio – Ira Glass, the charismatic host of Public Radio International’s long-running This American Life, is back in town and this time he’s taking us on an unusual ride behind the scenes of his popular radio program that’s heard weekly on more than 500 stations across the country. Glass will talk about his program and how it’s put together, the elements of a compelling story, how the amazing stories are found, and how he and his staff are trying to push broadcast journalism to do things it doesn’t usually do. As part of the appearance, the man Time magazine called “The Best Radio Host in America” will mix audio clips of select stories from the show, live on stage, combining his narration with pre-taped quotes and music, recreating the funny and memorable sound of the show as the audience watches. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $50 & $35 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

drawing the best blowers of the day – John Mayall, John Paul Hammond, James Cotton and Huey Lewis have all appeared – to join together for a tour that raises the roof everywhere it goes. The concert also kicks off UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Roots series, an homage to America’s vibrant musical heritage, which also includes Soul Salvation featuring

Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn on February 10; Don’t Fence Me In: Songs, Music and Poetry of the American West on March 2 and R&B icon Bettye LaVette on April 22. Discounted series tickets are available. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $35 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu •MJ

way. I’m my own person. So I try to be true to the character. Obviously they both did wonderful things with the role, so I did take the principals and themes they applied. And of course I had to have been influenced seeing it so many times.

So you were a fan of the musical? Oh, yeah. I grew up watching the

movie... But I never really under-stood the ending when I was little. I just thought it was weird. Do they love each other or not? I have more understanding right now. But I’ve always loved it.

What’s your favorite song or moment in the show?

There’re so many wonderful ones. I love “I Could Have Danced All Night” because I get to talk right to the audience.

What is the most important character-istic of Eliza?

Her fight and determination. She’s determined to be true to whatever she thinks is right. She’s trying to fig-ure out who she really is and who she wants to be and how she wants to be treated. Even though her perspective changes, her desire stays the same. That’s something we all should do.

How are you like Eliza? [Laughs] I love that she speaks her

mind. Whatever she thinks, she says – and I think that’s great. She learns how to be more effective as the show goes on, but she never holds back and I admire that. I guess I relate to her in that I have always tried to be true to who I believe I am, even though that’s always changing as I learn things, and get humbled.

Have you been influenced by her tastes?

I don’t know, really. Maybe it would be better to ask my husband that. I haven’t started wearing dirtier clothes, if that’s what you mean.

Speaking of that, how is your chem-istry with Chris Carsten, the actor portraying Henry Higgens? And how is your husband with seeing that every night from his vantage point in the ensemble?

Getting to work with Chris is a delight. He’s a charming person; I think he’s charming even as Higgins. He’s so polite and we banter and have such a good time. He’s also a wonderful actor and I feel very safe in his hands doing the scenes. The emotional work is very taxing, and there are vulnerable moments for both of us...

My husband’s fine with it. He’s been very supportive all along. He even gave up the master’s program he got into so he could come on the road with me and play in the chorus, which is amazing. I’m very grateful, although if I were playing a man’s part he’d probably be more jealous. I don’t think he was hankering to play Eliza... And we have pretty good chemistry off stage, which matters more.

My Fair Lady is a classic and timeless tale, but do you think the actual musical still speaks to us?

In the length of the musical, no; it’s too long. Even though I love it, audi-ences aren’t used to sitting through shows that long. But it’s important: Even though class-ism and equal-ity for women aren’t as big issues as they were back when Shaw was writ-ing, anytime you think you’re better than somebody because of how you dress or speak or look, that’s the root

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Newcomer Aurora Florence takes on the role of Eliza Doolittle in the Theater League’s presentation of My Fair Lady at the Granada on January 24 and 25


Bella Vista $$$1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella Vis-ta’s ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor Mediterranean courtyard. Executive Chef Alessandro Cartumini has created an inno-vative menu, featuring farm fresh, Italian-inspired California cuisine. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7 am to 9 pm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Montecito Wine Bistro $$$516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520Head to Montecito’s upper village to indulge in some California bistro cuisine. Chef Nathan Heil creates seasonal menus that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

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

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

pm to 9 pm on Sundays. Scoopie also offers a full coffee menu featuring Santa Barbara Roast-ing Company coffee. Offerings are made from fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farmers’ Market, and waffle cones are made on site everyday.

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

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

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

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

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

In Summerland / Carpinteria

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

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

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

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

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

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

Padaro Beach Grill $3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800)A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the whole family. Its new owners added a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with fireplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill op-tions, along with salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm

Sly’s $$$686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)Sly’s features fresh fish, farmers’ market veg-gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. You’ll find a full bar, serving special martinis and an extensive wine list featuring California and French wines. Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to 9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm.

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

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

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

Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row

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

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

Chuck’s Waterfront Grill $$113 Harbor Way (564-1200)Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy some of the best views of both the mountains and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoy-ing fresh seafood straight off the boat. Dinner is served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is offered on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations are recommended.

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


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

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

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

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

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

Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$ Olio Pizzeria $ 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699) Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery featuring Italian food of the highest order. Of-ferings include eggplant soufflé, pappardelle with quail, sausage and mushroom ragù, and fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also available.Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Here the focus is on artisanal pizzas and antipasti, with classic toppings like fresh moz-zarella, seafood, black truffles, and sausage. Salads, innovative appetizers and an assort-ment of salumi and formaggi round out the menu at this casual, fast-paced eatery. Private

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

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

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

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

Ojai

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

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of a problem. Discrimination is still prevalent and relevant. Everybody deserves respect as an individual and as a person. And the show is so much fun and is so funny, so I don’t think it will ever go out of style. Shaw is hilarious. It’s well worth coming if you just want to laugh.

You made me laugh when I read your favorites on Facebook: the Beatles, Nickel Creek, the kid’s book Everyone Poops, the movie The Last Unicorn, and the TV shows Spongebob Squarepants and The Office. What could possibly be the thread tying all those together?

[Laughs] Well, I don’t know. My dad is just an enthusiast. There’s only a few things he doesn’t care for. So I grew up exposed to lots of stuff, from music to theater. That bled into the rest of it. But I’m also the oldest, so I watched a lot of cartoons with my siblings. I guess I have an eclectic style. I’m told I’m that way in fash-ion too. I’m not really one girl or the other.

That’s probably good for an actress. So what’s next?

We’re moving to New York once the tour is done and we’ll be audi-tioning. My husband is also a screen-writer and is passionate about film, so we’re hoping to get involved in that scene too.

Tickets for Theater League’s presenta-tion of My Fair Lady are $28 and are available online at www.theaterleague.com, at the Granada Theater box office, or by calling 899-2222. Also check the website for the announcement of the 2012-13 season, which will be released Sunday.

Classical CornerIn its 25 years of existence, the

Turtle Island Quartet has garnered plenty of attention, especially back in the early days when co-founder Darol Anger was one of the vio-linists. But it’s the Bay Area four-some’s most recent releases, respec-tive tributes to John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix, that have brought the quartet its greatest acclaim.

If ‘Trane seemed like a stretch for an ostensibly classical outfit – they are appearing at the Museum of Art’s series on Sunday evening after all – it’s the nod to the innovative guitarist who died in the early 1970s that has really caught some ears off guard. But to TIQ co-founder David Balakrishnan, they’re two peas in a pod, albeit a remarkable one.

“They had the same kind of genius, that American ingenuity that blows everything out of the water,” Balakrishnan explained over the telephone. “Jimi revolutionized guitar the same way Coltrane did with the saxophone and spawned a

whole style by himself.” The same has been said about

the TIQ, in fact. While string quar-tets like the Kronos have played non-classical music for years, Turtle Island is in a class by themselves in its approach and ability to go beyond the written notes.

“That’s what the music is all about,” Balakrishnan explained. “We’re in the model of a classical string quartet, but our repertoire is American roots and jazz, with string players who can improvise.”

Hence the appeal of Hendrix, whose music will form a large portion of Sunday’s concert. “He really was a string composer,” Balakrishnan theorized. “He over-dubbed all those parts, overlaid gui-tar lines, kind of like he was writing for a string quartet... What he was doing was playing the guitar in a way like a violin, using an amplifier to sustain the notes like a bow on the string. You can get pretty darn close on the violin without using electronics at all, just by the feeling of the phrasing. And it can imitate the voice too.”

But TIQ’s interpretation goes far beyond the notes, as Balakrishnan himself admitted.

“Jimi was much more into soul-ful sexiness and depth,” he said. “We tried to get more of the sinuous phrasing; instead of overplaying, we tried to get into the gorgeousness of the sound.”

That also helped TIQ avoid any questions of covering Hendrix as a gimmick to get noticed.

“I love Hendrix, I grew up with that music,” Balakrishnan said. “It’s

in my DNA as a musician. I really didn’t want to do it at first, because I knew no one would understand it. But I knew if it would work it would come from a place of deep perspec-tive and what he stood for... And you know the album isn’t purely a Hendrix tribute: half of it is my orig-inal music – so it’s really about me.”

(Turtle Island Quartet performs at 7:30pm Sunday at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium. Tickets cost $19. Call 963-4364 ext. 400 or visit www.sbma.net. The group also plays Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Matilija Auditorium in Ojai. Tickets are $30. Info at www.ptgo.org.)

“From Bach to Ravel,” this week-end’s program from the Santa Barbara Symphony at the Granada spans a wide swath of periods as violinist Anne Akiko Meyers guests on signature pieces for violin and orchestra including Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending,” Haydn’s “The Hen” Symphony and Ravel’s “Tzigane.” The five-work program begins with a pairing of Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3” and Ernest Bloch’s “Concerto Grosso”... Duo Amantis, featuring guitarist Michael Kudirka and flut-ist Tara Schwab, perform the first Yellow House Concert of the year on Sunday afternoon at the private artist residence near the Bacara in Goleta (info at yellowhousecon certs.com). Also on Sunday: Pianist Thomas Pandolfi performs works by Liszt, Schumann, Paganini, Chopin, Wild and Gershwin in the Song Tree Classical Concerts series in Goleta (www.SongTree.org).

Short Cuts Radiohead is returning to the

Santa Barbara Bowl, kicking off the concert season on April 12. Tickets go on sale 11am Saturday and are sure to sell out instantly. The band is timing the concert as a preview to its shows at the Coachella Music Festival, which is expanding this year to two weekends featuring identical line-ups. Other interesting acts on tap in Indio for April 13-15 & 20-22 include The Black Keys, David Guetta, Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Florence & the Machine, Feist and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, while ex-mates reuniting for the fest include At the Drive-In, Swedish punksters Refused, Pulp, Mazzy Star and fIRE-HOSE.

Pop crooner Johnny Mathis (“Misty”, “It’s Not for Me to Say,” “Chances Are”) returns to the Chumash Casino on Thursday, January 19. Prog-rock band Styx is due next Thursday, and aging but still acerbic comedienne Joan Rivers makes her first appearance in the region in eons on February 9. More returnees coming soon: Boz Scaggs (February 9), Paul Anka (March 1), Willie Nelson (March 8), and the Doobie Brothers (April 19). Tickets and info at (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com/entertainment.

Elsewhere, DJ/producer Steve Aoki, a double-major in Women’s Studies and Sociology at UCSB who also goes by Kid Millionaire, performs at the Earl Warren Showgrounds on Friday, the same night the singer-songwriter known as the White Buffalo returns to SOhO. Sings Like Hell hosts the Santa Barbara debut of Boston-based chamber pop group Joy Kills Sorrow – who play an intoxicating bluegrass-folk-Celtic music-jazz hybrid – at the Lobero on Saturday night. Roots music singer-songwriter Andrew Calhoun – who has played every-thing from Celtic tunes to spirituals to comic pieces and a large batch of original songs over a 40-year career that also includes founding the tiny-but-influential WaterBug Records – performs at Trinity Backstage, also on Saturday. That’s also when Angels & Airwaves – the alterna-tive rock supergroup led by Blink-182 guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge that provided the soundtrack and impetus for one of the more popu-lar films at the 2011 SBIFF – return to town for a gig at Velvet Jones. Finally, the backwoods/vision-ary rock goddess country heroine-poetess Lucinda Williams returns to the area for the first time in a couple of years with a performance at the Majestic Ventura Theater on Wednesday night. •MJ

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The Turtle Island Quartet brings its classical string quartet structure that plays American roots and jazz songs to the Museum of Art on Sunday evening


Located a few steps from Crane School on San Leandro, a renovated, late fifties, 2,300-sq-ft, 3-bd/3-ba with a modern feel has partial ocean views and is offered for $1.695m. It was pur-chased in April 2007 for $1.6m.

In the Eastern part of Montecito on Toro Canyon Road, a traditional 3,025-sq-ft circa 1989 Mediterranean design with high ceilings, saltillo tile, and covered verandas and ocean views from its second level is available for $1.695m. It was purchased new in 1989 for $800,000.

Winding Creek Lane is found from East Valley to Romero Canyon towards the mountains. Here, a ranch style house built in 1964 is in fair con-dition and is offered “As Is” for $1.6m.

It has three bedrooms and baths and is 3,300-sq-ft on just over an acre.

A two-bedroom, 1,800-sq-ft Montecito Shores condo was just listed. This unit has been renovated and is on the second floor. Asking $1.395m, it was purchased for $1.4m in May of 2010. In the Cold Spring School community off Barker Pass and Sierra Vista Roads on Canon View Road, a four-bedroom, three-bath sold for $1.925m in May of 2010; it is now offered for $1.249m as short sale. Built in 1978, it is described as in excellent condition and sits on an acre. And on Virginia Road, walking distance to Butterfly Beach, a 3-bd/1-ba, 1940s cottage is offered for $900k. It last sold in late 2002 for $750k. •MJ

This 7,000-sq-ft estate on Freehaven Drive boasts impressive views and is back on the market for $12.5m

Montecito ListedReal Estate View by Michael Phillips

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

With the beginning of the New Year, twelve Montecitans have offered their homes

to buyers. The grandest property to be placed in consideration is on Freehaven Drive.

Freehaven is found off East Valley Road beyond Sheffield as you approach Summerland. Here, the views of ocean and coastline towards Ventura are perhaps Montecito’s best. In 2005, a Mediterranean estate was completed on 24 of those acres. With two levels and six bedrooms and seven full and two half baths, this 7,000-sq-ft home has everything you might desire, including a step-out-the-door infinity pool and spa. This property first came to the market two years ago at $14.9m and withdrew three months later. It is now offered at $12.5m. The final sale price is subject to court approval.

Panoramic ocean, island, coast-line, harbor and mountain views also define a Mediterranean estate just list-ed on East Valley Road at Ladera lane. Built in 2004, this 5,700-sq-ft home has four bedrooms with two master suites and six baths. It enjoys a one bedroom guest house, two gated entrances on East and Hidden Valley roads, and an infinity pool and spa on 9.29 acres just five minutes from the upper vil-lage. This estate also has a success-ful experience as a high-end vacation rental. It sold last in 2008 for $9.15m and is offered today, after subsequent upgrades, for $9,975,876.

A 1902 two-story craftsman in Riven Rock with pool, spa, and McCormick era waterfall in a gated, private, land-scaped almost one-acre garden setting is offered for $3.450m. It is 3,100-sq-ft, with five bedrooms including guest-house, four fireplaces, wine cellar and elevator. It sold last in 1996 for a little over a million dollars.

On Eucalyptus Lane just steps from the Miramar, another early 20th cen-tury two-story craftsman is for sale. On a flat half acre, this updated 3,700-sq-ft house, once featured in Santa Barbara Magazine, has both attached and unattached living units for pos-sible multi-family living. With seven bedrooms and five baths, it is offered for $3.25m. It was purchased in July of 2007 for $3.5m.

In Ennisbrook, a nearly 4,000-sq-ft five-bedroom, four-bath estate home with three fireplaces on 1.18 acres is offered for $3.189m. It was purchased seven years ago for $3.997m. And a 3,200-sq-ft, three-bedroom, two-story Mediterranean style Casitas home with three fire-places also in Ennisbrook is avail-able for $2.175m.

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SENIOR CAREGING SERVICES

Caregiver for elderly available, will come to home for bathing, meal prep & running errands. Several yrs exp with exclt refs. $20 hourly. Call Marie 805-729-5067

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

COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES

VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERSHurry, before your tapes fade away. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott

COMPUTER SOLUTIONSI provide expert virus removal and tune-up services that will get your computer running like new. I can also set your computer up with the proper defenses it needs to continue running flawlessly with no further technical maintenance required. Call Preston at 805-708-0058.

TUTORING SERVICES

PIANO LESSONSKary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now accepting enthusiastic children and/or adults.Call us at 684-4626.

ALTERATIONS/SEWING SERVICES

Torn, damaged? Don’t throw your favorite/sentimental clothing away. Let me fix them! Alterations, mending, ironing. 684-7009 or 453-9510 [email protected]

FUR SERVICES

Remodeling, Repair, AlterationsRelining, Insurance AppraisalsCleaning, ConsultingUrsula’s Fur Studio 962-0617


GARDENING/LANDSCAPING/TREE SERVICES

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

High-end quality detail garden care & design. Call Rose 805 272 5139 www.rosekeppler.com

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Complete landscape Installation • Water efficient irrigations systems • synthetic lawns • grading, pruning, cleanups, hauling • garden maintenance • concrete-pavers-retaining walls. All projects done by owner Enrique (805) 452-7645 lic#855770.

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Jewelry Restoration

Buyers of Fine Jewelry, Gold and SilverConfidential Meeting at Your

Office , Bank or Home

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allergic to dogs!5480 OverpassRd., SB 805-681-0561, [email protected]. Adoption hrs Fri – Sun noon to 5:00 PM or any other time by appointment. To see our other adoptable dogs, go to www.sbdawg.org

Central Coast House CallsDr. Robert Zylstra M.D

Medical Care in the comfort of your home

Medicare accepted for all qualified [email protected]

Attorney Mark A. MeshotFor All Your Legal Needs

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Telephone (805) 969-2701

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www.tatianaspilates.com BASI-certifi ed Pilates instructor

Fully equipped Pilates studio downtown Carp 5320 Carpinteria Ave. Suite F. Carpinteria,Ca 93013

“Better than climbing Gibraltar”

LUCKY’S steaks /chops /seafood /cocktails

Dinner & Cocktails Nightly, 5 to 10 pm. Brunch Saturday & Sunday, 9 am to 3 pm. Montecito’s neighborhood bar and restaurant. 1279 Coast Village Road Montecito CA 93108 (805)565-7540

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BRUNCH SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 9 AM TO 3 PM

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