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The Day The World ChangedBruce’s Giffin’s poignant Vietnam-era

recollection of his Air Force pilot uncle Ross’s last days in the U.S., p. 32

Our TownAlan Parsons, sound guru on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, to perform for United Boys

and Girls Club, p. 27

Village BeatMontecito honors Citizen of the Year Dick

Thielscher, Dan and Lana Gude, Jon and Mary Lou Sorrell and art contest winners, p.8

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

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LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYSongwriter-composer, Footloose Broadway producer, and Montecito resident Tom Snow among noteworthy TEDx speakers at Music Academy, story on page 22

Milt and Arlene Larsen clean up after fire at L.A.’s Magic Castle; Thom Steinbeck launches Silver Lotus at Tecolote; Bianchis open

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5 Editorial Veterans Day Remembrance; roundup of not-to-be-missed high school musicals; BEST

ballots have been counted; subscribe online to MJ6 Montecito Miscellany Fire at Magic Castle; Thom Steinbeck debuts third novel; Kim Kardashian’s divorce

repercussions; Michael Gross’s Unreal Estate; bash at Bianchi’s Montecito estate; Cloud Nine at UCSB; SB Polo Club celebration at Tiffany; three performances at Campbell Hall; Kensington Palace to get new residents

8 Village Beat Beautification recap; neighborhood associations meet; Caltrans to show plans; Montecito

Association board meets; tanker base upgraded; Mesa Artists open studios; more on Laguna Blanca history

Sheriff’s Blotter House theft and bicycle stolen on Fairway Road 9 Letters to the Editor Leoncio Martins responds to Diana Thorn; Ray Wynn expounds on the way it should be;

Carole Lieff opines that San Ysidro sidewalk not necessary10 Community Calendar Food drive at MUS; MERRAG meets; Michael Kessler exhibit; La Bohème at Granada;

TEDxAmericanRiviera; Mesa artists open homes; Master Gardener Orientation; Tea Fire poetry reading; MUS board meeting; Caltrans discusses plans with community; tour of OLMC; Montecito/Hope Ranch Republican Women's Club's lecture and lunch at MCC; Summerland merchants host open house; Montecito Trails hike

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

beach14 Seen Around Town Community Environmental Council’s Green Gala; Sansum Clinic’s 90th birthday

celebration; SB Historical Museum lecture 22 Montecito Connection Montecito’s Tom Snow, prolific songwriter-composer, will speak at TEDx event26 Your Westmont Westmont hires Mark Sargent as new provost; tickets are available for this year’s Christmas

Festival; Kiplinger’s names Westmont to list of Best Values27 Our Town Joanne Calitri speaks to music producer Alan Parsons at his Santa Barbara home29 n.o.t.e.s. from downtown After 30 years together, Jim and Lora take on their biggest challenge yet: planning a party32 In Remembrance Bruce Giffin recounts his vivid and emotional memory of the last day he saw his uncle34 State Street Spin MYNX headlines Hollywood’s Whisky a Go Go; Erin recommends SB reality shows 35 On Entertainment La Bohème at Granada; Lobero hosts Come Fly Away; “Whose Live Anyway” brings improv

to SB36 World of Wine Beaujolais Nouveau is coming to a table near you, if you’re lucky37 In the Garden Monarch caterpillars feast on Mexican milkweed plants; tips for rejuvenating tired-looking

houseplants38 On Health Steve talks to Dr. Andrew Weil about new book, Spontaneous Happiness40 Calendar of Events Pink Martini at Arlington; Veterans Day events; Santa Barbara Poetry Series;

flatpicking guitarist Dan Crary; Alan Parsons rocks Lobero; Arts Fund’s 10th anniversary; SOhO hosts “Sounds of Shearing”; sounds of New Orleans at UCSB; SB Youth Symphony; Stephen Petronio Dance Company; rapper Common signs latest book

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 A look at the current Heat scores compared to last year’s at this time 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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Veterans Day Remembrance

Bruce Giffin co-founder – along with Geoff Crane – of Giffin & Crane General Contractors, Inc., has penned an especially poignant recollection of the last time he saw his uncle Ross. It was 1965 and the Vietnam War

was fully underway. Ross was an Air Force pilot and flew an F-4 Phantom, at the time “the most powerful and modern fighter jet on the planet,” as Bruce tells it. It is his way – and ours – of remembering veterans of all the armed services and of all the wars, police actions, and military responses the nation has endured. You’ll find his well-told tale – “The Day the World Changed” – on page 32.

High School MusicalsHere is a pre-Christmas, pre-holiday-season suggestion: attend one of the

public high school plays being put on this weekend and next. For example, Santa Barbara High School presents Alice In Wonderland, with Clayton Barry as the Mad Hatter and Emma Robins as Alice. The play has been adapted by Otto Layman, Mike Madden is responsible for the set and lighting, Lise Lange has created more of her unique costumes, and both the choreography and the pup-pets are by Christina McCarthy. Call Laura Lewis for tickets at 698-2162. San Marcos High School is featuring three performances of Arsenic and Old Lace on November 10, 11, and 12, featuring Zachary Sener, Glee Morse, David Childs, Jocelyn Flattery and Anjuli Das. Directed by David Holmes. Call 967-4581, ext. 355 for more information, or go online to buy tickets at www.smroyals.org. Dos Pueblos High School is presenting the West Coast premiere of Like You Like It, a musical based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, set in a mall circa 1980s, and starring Nanda Douglas, Talya Steinberg, and Ray Cothern. Performances are set for November 11, 12, 17, 18, and 19. More information online at: dptheatre company.org. Santa Barbara Junior High is putting on Much Ado Out West, a spoof on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Performances are scheduled for November 18 and 19. Call 963-7751 for more info. Tickets for all these shows range from $5 to $15, and would be money well spent in each case.

The BEST of MontecitoThe ballots have been counted, the winners chosen and you have chosen the

BEST of Montecito. Unfortunately, we did not have time to take our photos and write it up properly, so we’ve had to put it off until next week. It’ll be worth the wait as your selections contain surprises and intriguing recommendations. Thank you for your input and your patience.

Subscribe to Montecito JournalOur subscription count continues to swell as we head for our 10,000th online

subscriber. We’ll continue to promote this free subscription (online) until we reach what as of now seems like an elusive goal. Here’s how you can sub-scribe: go online to montecitojournal.net. When you get there, press the icon near the top of the page that reads “subscribe.” It will ask for your email address. Type it in and you will be sent an email that requires confirmation. Once you’ve clicked on the “Yes, Subscribe me to this list” button in the email, you’re done. There’s no charge and it is emailed every Thursday, one day after our print edition hits the streets. Subscriptions are particularly useful for those whose travels take them out of town, but subscribers have told us it also makes it much easier to send friends and family members items from the paper (in PDF form). •MJ


Consequences, opened with his brother, Bill, in 1963.

“Luckily, most of the Halloween events happened in the week leading up to Halloween night, so it wasn’t a huge loss business-wise and, thank God, everything is fully insured. It seems the fire started with a work-er on the roof with a blow torch, but with one hundred and twenty-five L.A. city firefighters battling the blaze, and an extensive sprinkler sys-tem, it was quickly brought under control.”

It is planned to have the club, which has 5,000 members, back in business by this weekend.

“It will probably be the cleanest it has ever been, given we are open seven days a week, day and night,” adds Arlene. “This enables us to get everything done in readiness for the Christmas season, which is the busiest of the year.”

Magical, indeed...

Thom’s TomeSanta Barbara’s Thom Steinbeck,

son of the late Nobel Laureate John, has just launched his third novel Silver Lotus, about an American mer-chant captain at the forefront of the New World, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Cantonese family.

“Their adventures shape their

lives and their marriage eventually serves as a foundation of the growth and development of the Northern California coast,” Thom told guests, including fellow author T.C. Boyle, at a book bash at Tecolote, the tony tome temple in the Upper Village.

Thom, 66, who has written two previous novels, Down to a Soundless Sea and In the Shadow of the Cypress, describes his 342-page book as being steeped in the rich culture of the Orient, set against the burgeoning trade routes of the Pacific Rim.

He is now planning his fourth novel.“I have a lot of ideas, but no one

seems to be biting,” says Thom. “Maybe it’s more bait than they can handle?”

Separation SituationThe fallout from Kim Kardashian’s

split with her husband, Kris

Castle on Fire

Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

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

Timing is everything!Just ask Milt Larsen, the

Santa Barbara-based owner of Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle, whose century-old Victorian pile suf-fered a major blaze on, of all occa-sions, Halloween night.

With a certain amount of irony, invi-tations stated: “For the last week of

October, the Magic Castle will be on fire with the spirit of Halloween!”

“Who knew?” theatrical producer Milt tells me. “It started with a fire in the attic around 12:30 pm, about the same time Harry Houdini passed away on October 31, 1926. An eerie coincidence!

“Most of the damage, fortunately, was done to the executive offices on the third floor and the aptly named Dante Room, a dining area on the floor below, while miraculously, or magically, the rest of the castle, which contains priceless artifacts and mem-orabilia, was untouched by actual flames. Water damage, however, is another matter.”

Milt’s wife, Arlene, says a lot of the damage is to the many oriental rugs in the castle, which Milt, a for-mer writer on the TV show Truth or

Like the Phoenix, Milt Larsen’s Magic Castle rises from the flames

Author Thom Steinbeck debuts third novel

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Humphries, after just 72 well-reward-ed days, continues to create new dra-mas.

The couple hadn’t spoken to each other since the divorce last month, according to reports, but at the week-end she flew to Minnesota for a two-hour counseling session with him.

Kardashian, 31, returned to Los Angeles after curtailing a promotional trip to Australia and will suppos-edly be guarding her privacy – a most unusual circumstance – until she begins filming Tyler Perry’s aptly titled movie The Marriage Counselor, which means missing the birthday din-ners of her mother, Kris Jenner, and her brother-in-law, Lamar Odom.

And the family, reportedly, have even banned E! TV, which runs their top rated reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians and paid a hefty multimillion dollar fee to cover the Montecito nuptials, from screen-ing anything to do with the divorce drama, although others are saying the new spin-off series Kourtney & Kim Take New York will feature the doomed relationship heavily when it premieres on Nov. 27.

It’s claimed Kardashian won’t be shooting any footage for the original show until the beginning of next year and is insisting she does not want to exploit the ‘real’ moments behind the divorce on TV.

Meanwhile, she will be keeping her $2 million 20.5 carat diamond engage-ment ring, but reportedly reimbursing pro basketball player Humphries, 26, for its cost, as per their pre-nuptial agreement.

Stay tuned...

Gross-ly Huge EstatesBest selling author Michael Gross, a

former colleague of mine at New York Magazine, has come up with a real cracker with his latest tome, Unreal

Estate, a 535-page turner on money, ambition, and the “lust for land” in Los Angeles.

Based on 16 great estates in the best neighborhoods of the Big Orange, including Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills, most of them are still occupied today.

Of interest to readers of this illustri-ous organ will be the chapter devoted to Hilda Olsen Boldt Weber, the widow of Charles Boldt, whose Cincinnati glassmaking enterprise eventually morphed into Corning, the world leader in specialty glass and ceram-ics, with 26,000 employees worldwide and $6.6 billion in sales last year.

The wealthy twosome built a 6,000-sq-ft 20-room mansion in Beverly Hills in 1922 and six years later bought a 16-acre estate with a 22-room house in Santa Barbara, complete with a 171 ft. yacht, which was eventually bought by Howard Hughes.

As it was the Prohibition period, the property even boasted a 150 ft. tunnel leading to a hidden walk-in wine cellar. It was later offered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be used as a summer White House, but was declined.

It is now the site of Marymount School.

After her husband died, Hilda mar-ried the chauffeur-butler and bought another property in Bel Air, drop-ping a mind-boggling $100,000 in 1933 on two lots, totaling nine acres, sur-

rounded on three sides by the Bel-Air Country Club.

The 40-room, 35,000-sq-ft copper roofed mansion, with a tunnel direct to the club, took four years to com-plete at a cost of $3 million, the equiv-alent of nearly $50 million today.

After a downturn in her finances, much of it due to gambling on horses and cards, the swanky pad, complete with contents, was eventually sold at

a knockdown price of $225,000 in 1950 to Texas hotelier Conrad Hilton, who re-named the Bellagio Road prop-erty Casa Encantada, or House of Enchantment.

The former nurse eventually com-mitted suicide, at the age of 65, in Santa Barbara and is interred in Charles Boldt’s mausoleum.

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lunch of hot dogs and chili was served by Montecito Fire Fighters.

Beautification awards were present-ed to Dan and Lana Gude, Laguna Blanca Lower School, and Jon and Mary Lou Sorrell by local TV person-ality Mike Klan. Dick Thielscher was the man of the hour, being recognized as Citizen by the Year with a declara-tion by First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal. And local school kids were given awards for art projects made

specifically for Beautification Day. A number of informational tables

were set up for participants to peruse, including Maritime Museum, Montecito Water District, Braille Institute, Opera Santa Barbara, Wildlife Care Rescue, MERRAG, Montecito Fire Protection District, and others. The Land Trust for Santa Barbara was also there, making a push

They came, they ate, they beautified. Hundreds turned out for Montecito Association’s

26th annual Beautification Day this past Saturday, headed up by chair Mindy Denson and her chocolate chip cookie-making committee. The sun was shining while participants donned their Kelly green tee shirts, munching on breakfast provided by Montecito Country Club before hitting Montecito trails, streets, and beaches with plastic bags and gloves in hand.

As always, MarBorg provided a giant dumpster which was stationed in the Upper Village parking lot. Trash collectors returned to the village green with bags of garbage, tossing them proudly into the dumpster before a

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SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

Theft from Residence on Fairway RoadTuesday, 1 November, 1:16 pm – Deputy Smith responded to a call reporting

a burglary from a residence on Fairway Road. Smith contacted the property owner, who uses the residence as a rental; she said that day she was show-ing the property to a possible renter. She arrived at the property at noon, and noticed that the flat panel TV was missing from the living room. The home-owner last saw the TV at an open house on Sunday, October 30. Smith walked through the home with the homeowner and they discovered that two sets of French doors in the home were closed but unlocked; there was no evidence of forced entry into the home. A report was taken.

Bike Stolen on Fairway RoadWednesday, 2 November, 12:21 pm – Deputy Smith responded to a report of a

stolen bike on Fairway Road. The victim stated that one of her bikes was miss-ing from a parking garage located under her apartment complex. The bikes were left unlocked in the victim’s parking space; the missing bike is not regis-tered or licensed. A report was taken. •MJ

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Beautification Day Recap

Village Beat by Kelly Mahan

Kids (and parents) took short rides on a mini fire engine, waving to passersby in the Upper Village park-ing lot

Beautification Chair Mindy Denson with Citizen of the Year Dick Thielscher

Supervisor Carbajal thanks Dick Thielscher for his volunteer work in Montecito

Wildlife Care volun-teer Caroline Burry and her seeing eye dog, Tri, volunteer Jay van Meter, and president of Braille Auxiliary Joanie Kelly at Beautification Day

Montecito Firefighters show off their picked up trash

Montecito Union School moms and kids manned the H2O station, where people could fill up their water bottles

10 – 17 November 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 9Tragically, “Green” is the new refuge of scoundrels – Victor Davis Hanson

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Unbridled Hypocrisy

It is amazing to watch the absolute unbridled hypocrisy being displayed by Diana Thorn

regarding the Occupy Movement and President Obama (“Obama’s Hypocracy” Letters to the Editor MJ # 17/44). I am sure we all remember a time when it was just considered awful and anti-American to criticize the “Corporate Tea Party’s” attempts to absolutely disrupt town hall meetings surrounding the health care debate. They were to be allowed to interrupt anyone that was talking, shout them down, and boo those that disagreed with them. Hell they were even allowed to bring guns to events attended by President Obama.

Boy how the time changed. The reason that the Republicans hate the Occupy Movement with such veracity is because this movement is using the Tea Party tactics as they did, but this time it is against them and that is just horrible.

Eric Cantor is the latest Republican to cancel a planned speech because of the planned protest by the Occupy Movement to his speech. Many other Republicans have canceled town halls and speeches recently because they flat out did not want to deal with people challenging them.

The Democratic Congressmen a few years ago did not cower, they did not cancel town halls or speeches simply because they knew that “Corporate tea Party” was going to be in atten-dance. They went ahead and did their duty as a Congressperson.

The Republicans, however, refuse to do any meeting, town hall, or speech if there is even a chance that there will be any opposition in attendance.

The Republicans have proven, once again, just how hypocritical they are. They first time we saw this level of hypocrisy was when they campaigned in 2010 that Democrats were trying to cut social programs and that if elected they would protect those programs. Naturally after being elected they immediately began to try to cut every social program they could find.

However, do not call them on it, because they simply do not recognize their own hypocrisy.

I used to believe they knew they were hypocritical and just did not care but after dealing with quite a few of these Republicans they honestly do not believe anything they do to be hypocritical.

They do not see that demanding respect and the ability to disrupt any

political event and then calling oth-ers that do the same as nothing than thugs to be hypocritical.

Another Republicans hypocrisy is on a settlement with the nation’s big-gest banks over the foreclosure abuses that come to light several months ago, including the widespread of “robo-signers.”

A bipartisan groups of Attorney General have been pushing for the banks to pay a monetary penalty – in the form of reducing loan principal for troubled borrowers – but eight Republicans AG’s have broken with the group and sided with the banks, saying that they shouldn’t have to pay for their mortgage abuses.

The outrages truth is that in many cases, banks are blocking such mutu-ally beneficial deals, so that they can continue to extract fees.

Diana Thorn see Republicans actions as heroic and extremely patriotic. She see the actions of anyone not believing they way she does (even if the actions are exactly the same) as barbaric and anti-American. Armed with that delu-sion of grandeur she is able to cast aside the notion of hypocrisy.

Sincerely,Leoncio MartinsMontecito(Editor’s note: Wow. Talk about “spin”!

You can’t really believe any of this, as the Tea Party folks were respectful, as opposed to the actions of the motley gangs of malcontents on display in the center of many U.S. cities, calling themselves “occupiers.” As for townhall meetings, it was Democrat officeholders that refused to respond to citizens’ fears and complaints by either not answering questions or sim-ply folding up their meetings. “Delusion of grandeur?” One can only shake one’s head in wonder at your version of real-ity. - TLB)

Too Many TakersI was thinking about the Eisenhower

years last night. Don’t ask me why. Part of it might have been a result of seeing, for the third time, the movie October Sky. It is a chronicle of Homer Hickman, one of the pioneers in the U.S. space program who came from a poor Virginia coal mining family, eventually rising to the status of star. My dad was a coal miner, and I was a pseudo scientist, but the parallels end there. By the way, the movie comes highly recommended. Bring Kleenex if you are a real American.

Even though I was working for a

large nuclear weapons defense con-tractor and could have been exempt from the service, all ‘able bodied’ – which I was not – men over the age of eighteen had to serve at least six months in active military service. During basic training at Fort Ord on the Monterey California peninsula, our company was marched out into the cold clear morning and ordered to watch Sputnik edge across an unusu-ally clear Monterey sky. A static-rid-den shortwave radio receiver echoed the beep-beep of the satellite. The cap-tain said loudly, “Men, look up, there is the enemy!” Then he loudly barked, “About face … company dismissed.” Off we went to an early morning breakfast of S.O.S. ‘Stuff On a Shingle.’

That remembrance then led me, for some even more obscure reason, to the Federal budget and the pickle in which we find ourselves today. In 1957, my income tax return was filled out on an IBM-like punch card, asking for precious little data. You attached your check with the card in the enve-lope provided and mailed it off. I actually paid with a U.S. postal money order. The whole exercise took all of three minutes, and if you were enti-tled, a refund check came in about ten days. My first refund – I still have the stub somewhere – was $16 and a few cents. The matter was forgotten until the following year. I think the rate was about 3% for me. By the way, the highest rate was about 92%! That was for the really rich people who had tax-able incomes over $250,000 per year. Of course, just like today, precious few paid the higher rate, and the number of people in that category could prob-ably be counted in the hundreds. My stepfather had a well-paid job as a heavy equipment operator and made a good salary of $4,200 per year.

I started looking for the least com-mon denominator as to why we are in the so-called pickle in which we find ourselves. A recently quoted Irish taxi driver put it quite accurately and very simplistically when he said, “Too many takers and not enough givers.” Well, that certainly gets to

the nub of it! One only has to look at the Payments

to Individuals as a percent of Federal Spending to understand the basic problem. Payments to Individuals are the government costs for pay-ments to individuals who currently do nothing for the money. The next most important item is the percent of people who pay no federal taxes. The number of workers who will pay no taxes in 2013 is projected to be 53%. The truth is, that there is nowhere in the Constitution that provides for the benevolent payments to individuals who are not employees of the federal government.

Madison was alarmed at this pros-pect when Congress, without any Constitutional authority, appropriated $15,000 to ‘assist’ French refugees in 1792, he stated:

“I cannot undertake to lay my fin-ger on that article of the Constitution, which grants the (any) right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their con-stituents.”

Of course, Madison was right. There is no such provision, yet today at least 65% of the federal budget is used to do just that. It is essentially taking the proceeds of the work of others and giving it to those who do not work. One can certainly argue that we can-not let the sick, the mentally ill and children without parents left uncared for. But that is not what we are doing. We took care of those classes of per-sons up through the 1950s and 1960s. We are paying people to not work and encouraging them to be lazy and non-productive, giving bonuses to out-of-wedlock mothers, giving them two and three years unemployment at pay levels above the market rates for many available jobs, etc., etc. etc. It started in the late 1960s and has increased at an exponential rate unabated until now.

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Mesa Artists Studio Tour Twelve artists, whose output includes abstract, representational, landscape and figurative work in watercolors, pastels, oils, acrylics and other media host annual Mesa Artists Studio Tour, opening their homes for a pre-holiday exhibit and sale. Follow red balloons and signs to enjoy the art of Karin Aggeler, Susan Belloni, Deborah Breedon, Sarah Carr, Ron Freese, Morgan Green, Cree Mann, Margaret Nadeau, Ellen Yeomans, Erin Williams and Paige Wilson.When: Saturday and Sunday November 12 and 13, noon to 5 pmCost: freeMap and info: www.santabarbaramesaartists.com or 962-7425

Master Gardener OrientationLearn about how to become a Master GardenerWhen: 10 am-11:30 amWhere: 6950 Hollister Ave, #275 (NW corner of Hollister/Storke intersection, parking in back)Info and RSVP: [email protected]

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15

Montecito Union School Board MeetingWhen: 6 pmWhere: 385 San Ysidro RoadInfo: 969-3249

Caltrans MeetingCaltrans reps meet with the public to discuss High Occupancy Vehicle project

Opening Night Dinner will be held in the Founders Room starting at 5 pm. For more information, visit www.operasb.org.When: 7:30 pm Friday, 2:30 pm on Sunday, November 13Where: Granada Theater, 1214 State Street

TEDxAmericanRivieraTEDx, an independently organized TED event, comes to the Music Academy with this year’s theme, The Spark Within: Exploring Creativity. The all-day event includes TEDTalks, video and live speakers (including Montecito residents songwriter Tom Snow and filmmaker Mike deGruy), which will combine to spark deep discussion and connections in a small group. Since only a limited number of registrations are available, those who wish to attend must provide information about themselves in order for the TEDx team to evaluate the requests. There will be an after-party immediately following the event that includes dinner, libations, entertainment, and interactions with producers and speakers of the event.When: Registration begins at 10 am, the event runs from 11 am - 6:30 pm, after party will be from 6:30 pm - 9:30 pmWhere: Music Academy of the West,

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10

Food Drive at MUSTo benefit Unity Shoppe, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot. Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup and canned goods.Where: 385 San Ysidro Road

MERRAG Meeting and TrainingNetwork of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This month, Light Search and Rescue. When: 10 amWhere: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro RoadInfo: Geri, 969-2537

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13

Remembering the Tea Fire: A Community ReadingSanta Barbara Poet Laureate Paul Willis and Coyote Road neighbor Gudrun Bortman host a free poetry reading and invite members of the community to participateWhen: 4 pm to 5 pmWhere: Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge, Kerrwood Hall, 955 La Paz RoadContact: Paul Willis 565-7174 if you’d like your reading to be added to the program

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18

Summerland Open House ’Tis the season. Bonita, Amelia Jane, botanik, Cafe Luna and Summerland Winery are having a Holiday Open House. Make merry, meet and mingle with the shop owners. Rita Villa will be toasting the season at Bonita, her Spanish-influenced clothing boutique for women. Be sure to try La Bonita, her signature cocktail. Erin Taylor will be decking the halls (and walls and more!) at Amelia Jane baby and toddler boutique and botanik garden and home design. Dan and Janette Van Hirtum will be gathering around the hearth at Cafe Luna. And Bilo Zarif will be in the spirit at Summerland Winery. Eat, drink and enjoy holiday cheer. When: 3 pm to 6 pmWhere: Lillie Avenue in Summerland

Montecito Art Series An exhibit featuring the works of Michael Kessler. Light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served. When: 6 pm to 8 pmWhere: Montecito Aesthetic Institute, 1150 Coast Village, Suite H

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11

Opera Santa BarbaraOpera Santa Barbara presents Puccini’s La Bohème – a tale of ill-fated love set against the carefree and reckless lifestyle of 19th Century bohemian Paris. Encompassing romance, drama, and unforgettable music, La Bohème has been called “the world’s most popular opera” by The New York Times. The production will be fully staged and will feature professional opera singers, full orchestra, sets and costumes. A pre-performance talk – free to ticket holders – is held in the theater 45 minutes prior to each performance, and a Gala

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through Montecito, set to break ground in 2015When: 5:30 pm to 8 pmWhere: Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit RoadInfo: 549-3144

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16

Caltrans MeetingCaltrans reps meet with the public to discuss High Occupancy Vehicle project through Montecito, set to break ground in 2015When: 5:30 pm to 8 pmWhere: Carpinteria High School, 4810 Foothill RoadInfo: 549-3144

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17

OLMC School TourHosted by principal Karen Regan, prospective parents can meet the staff, visit classrooms, and discover the K-8 program at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School. Applications now being accepted for 2012-13 academic year.When: 9 amWhere: 530 Hot Springs Road in Santa BarbaraInfo and reservations: 969-5965

Caltrans MeetingCaltrans reps meet with the public to discuss High Occupancy Vehicle project through Montecito, set to break ground in 2015When: 5:30 pm to 8 pmWhere: QAD, 100 Innovation Place in SummerlandInfo: 549-3144

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18

Lecture and Luncheon Two local residents, Margaret Orhalmi and George Rusznak, who suffered under Nazi occupation and later fled Communist oppression in Hungary, will speak during the “Flee for Freedom” luncheon sponsored by the Montecito/Hope Ranch Republican Women’s Club. Rusznak has a permanent exhibit at the Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center in Santa Barbara as part of its “Portraits of Survival: Life Journeys During the Holocaust and Beyond.”Reservations for the luncheon, which begins with registration at 11:30 am, may be made by calling 805-270-5760 or by e-mail at [email protected]. When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pmWhere: 920 Summit Road Cost: $25 prepaid or $30 at the door

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19

MTF HikeMontecito Trails Foundation 4-mile, 850-foot altitude-gain hike up Hot Springs trail to McMenemy trail, east to Vincent/Saddle Rock trail, up to Catway, west to Hot Springs and return. Bring food and water for this intermediate hike. When: 8:20 for check-in and release formsWhere: trailhead on East Mountain Drive west of Hot Springs RoadInfo: 568-0833

ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS

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

TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS

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

WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS

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

MONDAYS

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

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

TUESDAYS

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

THURSDAYS

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

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

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Association of Associations

On Monday, November 7, nearly fifty Montecito residents, represent-ing their neighbors and homeowners’ groups, packed into the Hydrangea Room at San Ysidro Ranch to discuss issues affecting Montecito neighbor-hoods. Organized by the Montecito Association, led by president Dick Nordlund, the meeting was intended to bridge the gap between neighbor-hood groups, as well as inform resi-dents how Montecito land use is gov-erned.

“We are an unincorporated part of Santa Barbara County, but uniquely we have our own architectural review and planning commission,” said for-mer MA president Bill Palladini, speaking on behalf of Montecito Architectural Board of Review (MBAR). “Participation by the public is extremely important,” he added.

Palladini, joined by fellow MBAR member Marsha Zilles, explained that MBAR gives new projects in Montecito the official first look, guid-ed by the Montecito Architectural Guidelines & Development Standards document, which was created in 1995.

Before being seen by MBAR, home-

owners or business owners who wish to develop their properties can first be seen by the Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee, which Montecito Planning Commissioner Michael Phillips says plays a “criti-cal” role in Montecito development. “Without their degree of concern, we wouldn’t have a sense of what the community is feeling about a project,” he said.

Dozens of homeowners’ associa-tions were represented at the get together, including Featherhill Road, Glen Oaks, Montecito Valley Ranch, Miramar Beach Association, Bonnymede, Montecito Avocado Ranch, El Dorado HOA, Mountain Drive Community Association, Eucalyptus Hill, Periwinkle Lane, Birnamwood, El Montecito Verde, Riven Rock, Seaside Association, Wyant Road, Picacho Meadows, Hermosillo Road, and several oth-ers. Common issues brought up included traffic, parking, road main-tenance, pedestrian safety, fire threat, tree maintenance, new development, Caltrans’ plans, and the Miramar Hotel.

Commissioner Phillips explained the Montecito Planning Commission’s role in carrying out the policies of the Montecito Community Plan. “We approve, deny, review, and condition-ally approve projects in Montecito,” he

said. MPC is also the appellant body for MBAR, and makes recommen-dations to the Board of Supervisors regarding development guideline amendments, zoning code amend-ments and other ordinance changes.

MA executive director Victoria Greene told the attendees that the MA is available to answer questions, pro-vide support, and address neighbor-hood concerns. The MA office is open Monday through Thursday 9 am to 2 pm, in Montecito Community Hall. The association board meets once a month to discuss Montecito issues, and also hosts town hall style meet-ings to discuss controversial projects in detail with community members. Several attendees at the meeting made positive mention of the new walking path being installed on San Ysidro Road, which the MA board spent many hours helping to revise in order to be in line with the village feel and look of Montecito.

First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, who attended the meet-ing with assistant Jeremy Tittle, addressed the attendees, answer-ing questions about issues currently affecting Montecito, including the Miramar Hotel. Supervisor Carbajal is expected to meet with Miramar owner Rick Caruso this month, to discuss the possibility of demolishing the dilapi-dated buildings on the 16-acre site,

which many residents have called for. Caruso, who bought the property in 2007 and holds approved plans for the resort, has said he has spent over $1 million per year to maintain the vacant site, while waiting for the econ-omy to turn around before developing the hotel.

Supervisor Carbajal reported he has charged county staff with finding a “legal way” to incentivize Caruso to demo the buildings, which could cost a reported one million dol-lars. Referring to staff findings as “a pathway to demolition,” Carbajal remained mum on what the findings are, but said he hoped to present them to Caruso, Montecito Planning Commission, and the community in the near future. “The choice to demol-ish will remain in Caruso’s hands,” Carbajal said. He went on to say that hindsight is twenty-twenty, and expressed remorse that demolition of the buildings was not built into the conditions of approval for the project back in 2008. “If it had been, we wouldn’t be having this conversa-tion,” he said.

Supervisor Carbajal also noted the importance of the Montecito Association and his monthly meet-ings with Nordlund. “The Association helps me keep my finger on the pulse of Montecito,” he said.

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meeting was one of several meet-ings the MA has planned to bring Montecito neighbors together. The association representatives pres-ent at the meeting were encour-aged to get their respective asso-ciations involved with Montecito Association, and to attend MBAR and MPC meetings to weigh in on neighboring projects. Neighborhood associations are also encouraged to officially register with the county. For more information call Montecito Association, 969-2026.

Caltrans Meetings next Week

Next week Caltrans will host three identical meetings in Montecito, Carpinteria and Summerland regard-ing 10.9 miles of freeway expansion between Casitas Pass Road and Hot Springs Road. The project, which will add an intermittent High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane through Montecito, is expected to cost $425 million. One hundred and forty million dollars of that will be funded locally by a renew-al of Measure D.

This project will close the gap between the current construction (Hot Springs and Cabrillo Blvd oper-ational improvements) and a project which is set to begin next year: wid-ening the 101 between Carpinteria and Mussel Shoals. Preliminary design of the project is currently underway; environmental review is nearly complete.

Construction on the freeway expan-sion through Montecito is expected to break ground in 2015, although it is slated to start first in Carpinteria, with the Montecito portion not expected to start until 2018/19, according to First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal.

The project has already had its share of controversy, with Caltrans report-ing left hand off ramps will be deleted or moved, including the Cabrillo Blvd northbound exit and the southbound Hot Springs and Sheffield Drive exits. Different proposals have been circu-lated with several possible configura-

tions, one which closes the Hermosillo Road exit and one which extends it and makes it the only north bound beach access exit in Montecito. Neighbors worry changes to the freeway will increase traffic on Hermosillo Road. Coast Village Road is also a concern; it is already heavily trafficked with beach goers on busy summer days, as well as Friday afternoons through the rest of year.

The meetings next week will give residents an opportunity to hear more about the project, see plans, and ask questions. The meetings are sched-uled for Tuesday, November 15, at Montecito Country Club, Wednesday November 16 at Carpinteria High School, and Thursday November 17

at QAD Inc. in Summerland. For more information call (805) 549-3144.

Montecito AssociationAt this month’s Montecito

Association board meeting, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Kelly Moore reported thefts from vehicles at trailheads are again increas-ing, and for residents to be vigilant about not leaving valuables in their vehicles. “With Christmas season com-ing up, it’s a good time to remind peo-ple to not keep valuables in their cars,” Moore said. He also said the Sheriff’s Department is currently working with the MA to find a place to host a Sheriff’s substation in Montecito, in conjunction

with a new history archive location. Site visits for possible locations will take place later this week.

In other community reports, Fire Chief Kevin Wallace reported Montecito Emergency Response & Recovery Action Group (MERRAG) has received a donation from the Orfalea Foundation for a satellite sys-tem to be installed on the MERRAG van. The system will enable the fire department and MERRAG to have Wi-Fi and phone lines via satellite in case of a power or network outage. Chief Wallace also reported that the fire district board is “on the path” to put an item on next year’s general elec-

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Among the feathers, brass, beads,

candles and tassels, costumed gypsy servers passed around organic wines and decadent specialty drinks. The canapés came directly from a pizza oven run by Full of Life Flatbread who also served a locally sourced dinner.

The goal of CEC is to transition away from fossil fuels in one gen-eration or “Fossil Free By ’33.” Some

The Community Environmental Council (CEC) invited one and all to an eco-chic party –

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Green Gala event chair Kerry Allen and honorary chair Gay Browne want everyone to know that over 90% of

the waste generated by this party for the last two years has been recy-cled, reused or composted. In the gypsy spirit, almost everything in the Armory was borrowed, repurposed or vintage including the costumes, greenery, décor and centerpieces. A team donated hundreds of hours to create it.

Merryl Brown Events and the com-mittee paid attention to every detail including choosing dinnerware select-ed with thought as to how much

water it takes to wash. The junior committee of high school kids even made napkin rings out of bits and beads in their homes.

After a short live auction, Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles rocked the house. By the way, you can still purchase the gypsy caravan for $30,000. If you would like to know more about CEC visit www.cecsb.org.

Eat Well Stay WellSansum Clinic celebrated its 90th

birthday with an Eat Well & Stay Well event. Geoff and Alison Rusack opened their 38.9-acre Hope Ranch estate, Isla Mar, for the event. It was originally built for Peter Cooper and Angelica Schuyler Bryce in 1926 and is another example of Spanish Colonial Revival style done by architect George

Washington Smith. (He was born on George Washington’s birthday.) Interestingly, it is under restoration by architect Marc Appleton who is the grandson of the original owners and will be completed in 2012.

Sansum Clinic began in 1921 when Dr. Sansum was the only doctor in the United States administering insu-lin for diabetes. The life expectancy was 57 years. Sansum became the first multi-specialty clinic on the West Coast and now has more than 180 affiliated physicians serving more than 150,000 patients (600,000 visits) annually. The life expectancy today is 79 years.

CEO and Medical Director Dr. Kurt Ransohoff addressed the group seat-ed for lunch. “There are thirty-three doctors and nurses here today totaling five hundred and eighty-three years of service.” One was at each table so

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Vice president of development Elizabeth Wagner with “Drina,” seamstress of the gypsies Nikki Hathaway, Tara Stephenson as “Elian,” everyone’s lover, and co-chair Kerry Allen shortly before visiting with the fortuneteller

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The other unique thing was lunch prepared by three different local chefs. The first course was a squash soup by Brandon Hughes from the Wine Cask. Jamie West from San Ysidro Ranch put together the entrée – a chick-en breast with couscous and roasted asparagus. Alberto Morello, owner of Olio e Limone Ristorante and Olio Pizzeria made a variety of desserts. All courses were paired with Rusack’s wines.

There was a short live auction with items like sideline tickets to Super Bowl XLVI and the “Ultimate Dinner Party” with Wolfgang Puck cooking dinner for l6 people in the winning bidder’s home. The home turned out to be our hosts, the Rusacks, who gen-erously bid $57,000.

The two ladies responsible for this special birthday party were co-chairs Julie Nadel and Bobbie Rosenblatt. Title sponsor was Montecito Bank & Trust. President and CEO Janet Garufis spoke to us. She is a trustee and stated, “The bank has supported Sansum for 30 years.” Lee Luria was thanked for her recent donation of $500,000 to help modernize facilities. Sansum is also investing $7 million in a new patient records computer system.

Guests could also help fund the community flu shot program, Camp Wheez, for kids with asthma and diagnostic testing for those without the means to pay. Happy Birthday, Sansum; and many more!

The Best Last PlaceWas it a coincidence that the Santa

Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM) had a lecture about cemeteries on Halloween weekend? The “ghoulish” guests were thoroughly entertained by the speaker, author David Petry, who spent eight years researching while traveling to over 1,500 cem-eteries around the country and the world. His book is titled, The Best Last Place, which he concludes is the Santa Barbara Cemetery founded in 1867.

One of the reasons for this title is

because the Santa Barbara cemetery has not only passed through the vari-ous stages of cemetery development in the United States except church cemeteries, but also has melded these eras into a beautiful and functioning place. The first phase was a town cemetery, then a rural cemetery, lawn park, memorial and now the crema-tion stage. The very first cemeteries were all church related, but Santa Barbara is open to all.

The cemetery started with five acres and now has 44,000 inhabitants. Some of its more famous are Fess Parker, Ronald Colman, John Ireland and Laurence Harvey. When David dis-covered that London was claiming Harvey’s remains, he called and was informed that Harvey had been cre-mated, so who knows what percent we have. The Reagans bought a plot in 1981, but by 1987, when they were going to have their library first at Stanford and then in Simi Valley, they decided to be buried there instead. The plot has since been sold.

There are a thousand cemetery sto-ries and David knows them all. If ever you can go on a tour of the cemetery with him, which we did, don’t pass it up. If you can’t do that read his book, which is for sale at SBHM. •MJ

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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 7)Just one of the many fascinating

stories in this well researched history of ritzy L.A. real estate.

No wonder it has just been bought by HBO for a TV show by Joel Silver, producer of such films as Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and The Matrix...

Stylish Soirée Social gridlock reigned when inter-

national interior designer Penelope Bianchi and her husband, Adam, opened the doors of their Provencal-style Montecito home to celebrate the publication of Patina Style, by authors Steve and Brooke Giannetti.

The 160-page coffee table tome features mostly southern California properties, says Steve, an architect.

“It’s about the idea of aging, and homes and contents improving over time.”

Steve and his interior designer wife are now working on another book on collecting and display.

“Who knows, it could be a trilogy,” he adds.

Among those checking out the latest volume were Tab Hunter and Allan Glaser, Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Corinna Gordon, Laura Motley, and Colin and Sharon Friem-Wallace...

Cloudy MixCloud Nine, the marvelous produc-

tion from UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance, is not for the faint of heart.

Set against a backdrop of Victorian colonialism in Africa and late 1970’s London, the Caryl Churchill award-winning dark comedy, directed by Anne Torsiglieri, contains every sexual permutation imaginable as it explores power, sexuality, gender and self-identity.

As the play, featuring choreography by Christopher Pilafian, evolves so do the characters, even changing roles and gender in the more contemporary scenes.

All the cast, Brian Bock, Dylan Hale, Hasmik Anna Saakian, Brittany Carriger and Garrett Ward, are top

notch, but Andrew Fromer, firstly as a native manservant and then as a young girl, stood out for the nuance and drama of his very different char-acters as did Allie Granat.

Cloud Nine, featuring music by local musician, James Connolly, and costumes by Ann Bruice, is at the Performing Arts Theater through Saturday...

Royal ReceptionAlthough Santa Barbara Polo Club’s

centennial season wrapped last month, memories were brought back when members gathered at Tiffany in La Cumbre Plaza to celebrate the summer’s successful Foundation Polo Challenge, which featured Prince William and his wife, Kate.

The centerpiece of the bash, amongst the other bountiful bling, was the

Authors Brooke

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Mara Abboud, Beverley Jackson and polo club president, Wes Ru, with the Tiffany trophy (Photo: Priscilla)


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“It was undoubtedly the highlight of the season, but I had no idea William would have a wife in tow when I first dealt with Buckingham Palace two years back!” says polo patriarch, Glen Holden, who hosted the soi-ree with his wife, Gloria, Andy and Kim Busch, Tiffany veep Jonathan Bruckner, and store director, Joanna Strange.

Among those reliving the royal visit and quaffing blue Tiffany tinis were Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Wes Ru, Paige Beard, Mara Abboud, Madison Richardson, Geannie and Mike Sheller, Beverley Jackson, Michael Butler, Annette Kaleel, Jeep Holden and Mindy Denson...

Bach to BachOne of the world’s foremost vio-

linists, Gil Shaham, mesmerized the audience at UCSB’s Campbell Hall when he played a flawless all-Bach concert.

The multiple Grammy Award-winning New York-based musician, who has appeared with many of the globe’s top orchestras, devoted the first half of the Arts & Lectures show to “Partita no. 3 in E Major” and “Sonata no. 3 in C Major,” before continuing to transfix the appreciative crowd with “Partita no. 2 in D Minor.”

Before the show, Shaham gave a short talk about how his interpreta-tion of Bach, and other works, had changed with middle age.

This was Bach with bite at its best...

Hubbub at the HallCampbell Hall also figured in my

burgeoning diary twice more when the entrancing New York quartet, Sō Percussion, which started with stu-dents at the Yale School of Music, performed unusual concoctions of percussion works on wood and metal, while 24 hours later the 16-year-old Creole Choir of Cuba sang musical treasures from the Caribbean.

The ten-strong troupe, dressed in traditional costume, peppered their performance with works not only from Cuba, but also Haiti and Dominica, and did a particularly wonderful ren-dition of the late Nat King Cole’s 1961 hit “Unforgettable” in English.

And that it was...

Palace Fit for ThreeKensington Palace, the imposing 17th

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Cambridge, and Prince Harry.The tony twosome will be mov-

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Earlier this year they took residence in nearby two-bedroom Nottingham Cottage to complement their farm-house home in Anglesey, where William is a helicopter search and rescue pilot.

In due course, Nott Cott, as the home is known, will become Prince Harry’s permanent pad.

William and Kate also consid-ered an alternative apartment at St. James’s Palace, near Prince Charles’ home, Clarence House, as well as the late Princess Diana’s home at Kensington Palace, but that, I’m told, was considered to have “too many memories” for William, who lived there until 1998.

The royal trio will share the pal-ace, which was also a home to the future Queen Victoria, with a host of royal relatives, including the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

No wonder Prince Charles has been

known to call it “the aunt heap”...Sightings: Priscilla Presley check-

ing out the wares at Rue de Lillie in Summerland... Carlene Mitchell, coach of UCSB’s women’s basketball team, celebrating their victory over Vanguard University at Cafe Del Sol... Kenny Loggins digging into the food at opal

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If it weren’t for the horrible mon-etary policies (printing money) of the government, interest payments on our national debt would be double. So far, the U.S. has been able to get away with the low interest because it has kept the rate on U.S. paper at an all-time low … and they get the money from themselves. Such a deal. The 10-year U.S. Treasurys fell well below

1.75% recently … a 120-year low. That was accomplished by printing more money. But now, they are finding less appetite from ‘real’ borrowers to take 2% paper. It would not take much of a run for the 10-year rate to double or even triple. Remember that the 10-year treasury was paying 15% dur-ing the Carter years, and has averaged about 5% for the last 100 years. So you see, things could really get out of hand if the average rate returned again. If we just returned to the average, the interest on our debt would double. The interest costs could reach a level nearly equal to the entire Federal bud-get, or even more. The only way out would be for the U.S. to default on its

debts and devalue the dollar.Now, add to this the fact that we

are now borrowing 40% more than we bring in. This is a formula for total disaster. As a nation, we must belly up to the bar and cut the spending on payments to individuals. There needs to be an immediate call to terminate at least 30% of all Federal, state and local employees. Otherwise, pray that your children and their children have a farm someplace safe so they will be able to go back to when one could live off the land and at least provide basic food and shelter for themselves and their families.

Ray WynnMontecito (Editor’s note: We thank you for your

observations and sincerely hope you con-tinue to expound in future issues – TLB)

Sidewalk not necessary

The San Ysidro “sidewalk” under construction will cost taxpayers $500,000. More of these “sidewalks” are planned for Montecito (at odds with our charter and semi-rural zon-ing codes). They are part of a much grander effort called “Safe Routes to School,” spearheaded by an organi-zation called COAST. How it was approved is more complicated.

Ostensibly, COAST pushes side-walks and bike paths for children

attending nearby schools. The San Ysidro project began with a parent who had two children at MUS (until they all moved to England). He want-ed his children to walk to school. To get grant funding for a “sidewalk” (which seems too narrow and too close to San Ysidro Road to be safe for walking) County Public Works must justify pressing need. Meet COAST. COAST told the parent they could show him how to get his grant.

The parent next met with Supervisor Carbajal who obtained $30,000 for an engineering survey. To get grant fund-ing, Public Works needed a “map” in its application to justify the need for a “sidewalk.” The “map” indicated the many, many homes having “school-children” who presumably would benefit from a “sidewalk.” This “map” was to become a lightning rod.

No one knew of the project, or its approval, until a neighbor noticed a press release showing Supervisor Carbajal at the podium at MUS, announcing grant approval.

Neighbors claim not to have received any advance notice. What they say they did receive was a let-ter stating a “sidewalk” was going in, mandating that properties would lose their landscaping and that many vintage camphor trees would have to be felled.

A hue and cry went out. In dozens of packed public meet-

ings of the Montecito Association, neighbor upon neighbor rebuked the Association, claiming homes on the “map” did not exist, and if they did, children were not living in them. They called the “map” apocryphal, its spe-cific intent not accuracy, but a means to push an unpopular construction project through the County.

I phoned Matt Dobberteen, who writes grants for the County in Public Works. When calls weren’t returned, I went in person.

When we finally met, Mr. Dobberteen (a member of COAST) said the “map” was provided by Dick Douglas, principal of MUS at the time, and indeed, was used in his grant

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In addition, I have been informed by the Montecito Planning Commission

that the County is ready to break ground on the Sidewalk Project in the Cold Spring area.

Carole LieffMontecito(Editor’s note: Necessary or not, well-

used or not, the San Ysidro Road “mean-dering” pathway is almost a reality. In fact, while we continue to oppose the use of federal funds for such local projects, it really doesn’t look so bad, and maybe it will be used. – TLB) •MJ

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You are very likely familiar with Oscar-Grammy-Emmy-Tony-nominated Tom Snow’s songs:

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Lucky for us, Tom and Mary Belle are my grandson Deacon’s godpar-ents, so we were able to prevail upon the shy composer-songwriter to agree to the following interview. Tom is slotted as one of the speakers at the upcoming TEDxAmericanRiviera 2nd Annual Conference, to be held at the

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A. Through Eric Greenspan, who owns Make it Work, a company I use and am also an investor in. Recently, Eric and I got together; he issued some secondary stock, I bought a bit, and then next thing I know I got an email from him saying, something to the effect of ‘Hey, you’re quite a character, you should speak at the TEDx event.’ I knew what a TED thing was, just

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In any case, I agreed, and I went and Eric introduced me to Mark Sylvester; we met at Jeannine’s (on Coast Village Road) over coffee. I guess he was getting a sense of who I was. And then I went from there to sort of talking to Kymberlee Weil – I believe it’s his wife – emailing, and then I guess I was vetted, and I made the cut. So I’m doing this talk on cre-ating beauty.

Creating beauty? Was this your sug-gestion?

No, it seems they have three ses-sions. One session is devoted to cre-ating opportunity, which they asked me to speak about to begin with, but I thought, ‘Well I’ve spent all my life making music, and think I’m a little better versed to talk about creating beauty.’ I mean, every song I wrote was an opportunity. But in any case, there is a session, by that I mean a block of time where people come up and talk about creating opportunity, then creating beauty, then one other thing. It’s sort of motivational, inspirational I guess. I’m still wondering why the hell they asked me.

Well, let’s talk about that. We’re not going to go through your entire songbook,

but you have some songs out there that most people are going to know. They may not know the name Tom Snow, but they’re certainly going to know the music. For example, you’ve written the music for a number of songs in Footloose, an updat-ed film version of which has recently been released featuring your hit, “Let’s Hear It For The Boy.”

I wrote the music for that. The lyr-ics were written by Dean Pitchford, another Montecito resident. That actu-ally got into the film, so I think they used the four main songs from the original, obviously Kenny Loggins’ (yet another longtime Montecito res-ident, who now calls Hope Ranch home) “Footloose.”

What was your first big hit?My first really big hit was “He’s So

Shy.” That’s my favorite hit too. I just love that one.

What year was that?1979-80, for the Pointer Sisters. That

was one of those melodies that came after weeks of nothing, nothing going on.

Did you have the tune first or the lyr-ics?

Always the tune first. I had the title as well. It was originally called “She’s So Shy.” And I had that title to work with. But then we changed it to “He’s

So Shy” so the Pointer Sisters could do it.

Is there a song you’ve written that may or not have become a hit that you just love?

Yeah, lots of them.

Is there one in particular?[The songs] that become hits are

obviously the ones that are com-mercial. And then sometimes I don’t really hit the commercial button when I write; I just go to write some-thing really musical and beautiful. There’s a song I wrote called “A Quiet Moment.” The lyrics were sent to me by a woman named Liz Vidal. It’s a beautiful song, just beautiful. And it did get recorded, by Rene Froger, and it does have a big life in of all places, Holland. [Froger] is one of the top, middle-of-the-road – fills soccer stadi-ums – kind of pop singers.

Does he sing it in English or Dutch?He sings it in English, and then in

Dutch. Pretty wild hearing it in Dutch. So anyway, that’s one of them. It’s a song I love.

But, my favorite song of all is “Ronnie-O.” The lyric was written by Gerry Goffin, who wrote all the great hits with his [ex-wife] Carole King. He was a contemporary to Jeff Barry. I worked with Gerry post his big hit years with Carole King. And we

wrote a bunch of songs. He would just generally shoot me a lyric, or I would shoot him a melody; he could work either way. But in this particular case, he had a girlfriend named Ronnie, and they had broken up, and so he wrote this lyric about her. And it’s just one of those things; it sat on the page, and I looked at it, and I could just look at the shape of the lyrics at this point, didn’t even have to read it. I thought, ‘This one is going to write itself.’ And it did. And it sort of exists… Aaron Neville cut it, and it was an album cut. But it just, in its purest form, the demo I gave to the guy, the demo singer who had a voice of an angel; out of all of my songs it’s the song that I’d take to a desert island. And hardly anyone’s ever heard it. But it’s a tune I could just put on repeat. I can’t even believe I wrote it.

Going to that, you come up with the melodies, but have you written words to songs?

Oh I write lyrics, often in conjunc-tion with another person in the room. I always collaborated. Some of my collaborations involved chipping away the bit of music together, then throwing some lyric ideas back and forth across the table. Although gen-erally I always was the main musical

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force in the room. And then, when I worked on film or in theater, I always worked with a proper lyricist, like with Dean [Pitchford] on Footloose, and then the Broadway musical ver-sion of it, I worked with a composer and a lyricist. Obviously, when work-ing with someone like Cynthia Weil, I write a melody. Cynthia liked to write to the melody, so I’d write a melody first, and send it to her. The melody would have, as Quincy Jones put it, Quaalude lyrics. And every now and then you’d find a word that’s a free association or something. And often with Cynthia, her lyric would come back and have that word in it some-

where. It might trigger an idea she actually liked.

And when you say write a melody, you’re not actually writing notes on a page, are you? You’re doing it on piano.

Yeah, on piano; we generally would have a cassette, in my day, you’d have a cassette recorder going, and you would just keep it on ‘record’ and ‘pause,’ and keep banging away. And you think when you have a little phrase, you take it off ‘pause.’ It’s a process that could go on for days.

Let’s go back to “Ronnie-O.” You were sent the lyrics. So you look at them, and then what? You said it almost wrote itself. What did you see there? I don’t know the song, so I don’t know the words.

By this time, it was a byproduct of getting up every day, 24/7 for thirty years, of going and sitting in a room and writing. I mean, it’s the sort of thing that just becomes, at a certain point, fairly instinctual. I wish that it were always that way; I would have written fifty times more hits. You’re mining for something in yourself most of the time, and you have to find ways to bring it out. But every now and then you get a gift like a lyric that looks just right, and you just go, ‘Oh yeah.’ And then you write, and I don’t know how. I just sat down and went, ‘Okay.’ And I just went, and there it was.

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Does the lyricist have a tune in mind, or a tempo in mind, or anything in mind?

Sometimes. The old-school lyricists always wrote the melody first, if in fact the songwriting team was com-prised of a composer and a lyricist. That all changed when you started having folk music people who could play guitars. They weren’t proper composers. They were tunesmiths if you will, to hammer it out together. Or, in the case of James Taylor, he writes everything himself. But in a collaborative team, the lyricist will send the lyric. Usually they write some form of iambic pentameter. Which is too bad because that con-strains the composer to the lyricist’s hearing it, and a composer [doesn’t] write that way. That’s why I was bet-

ter at writing music first. You’re free; you don’t have any particular meter constraints when you’re writing just pure music.

Occasionally, I would surprise a lyricist who’d send me a lyric. I remember one guy, Marty Panzer, who wrote a lot with Barry Manilow; he sent me a lyric called “I can’t believe it’s really you.” And I’m pret-ty sure he sent it to me expecting a big, lush ballad. And instead I wrote sort of an up, bouncy, cool little mel-ody. He was a little shocked when I played it to him.

It was not what he had in mind?No. I said, ‘Well, if you don’t like

it…’ He said, ‘No I’ll get used to it.’

Going to the creative process: how do you know you’re not cribbing from another song?

Well, you don’t at first. I was never accused of it; it never happened to me. But, I’ve had friends who had insurance because they’d been sued. Usually they were frivolous suits, but they’d been sued by some person out there who thinks, ‘Oh I know how to get lots of money.’ So I never wor-ried about that too much, although there would be times that I would write a musical phrase and think,

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has also written about film and early American literature and history.

His scholarly work won acclaim when he discovered that one of the original manuscripts William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Plantation, wrote in 1648 didn’t match the versions transcribed and pub-lished for more than 300 years.

Sargent, a Southern California native who grew up in Orange County, suc-ceeds Westmont history professor Rick Pointer, who has served as act-ing provost, supervising the college’s academic program, including the bud-get, faculty development and curricu-lum.

Sargent and his wife, Arlyne, are well acquainted with Westmont. Arlyne graduated from Westmont, as did their son, Daniel. Their daughter, Andrea, is a first-year student at the college.

“During the last three decades of my life in Christian higher education, I have enjoyed a special rapport with many Westmont faculty and staff,” Sargent says. “I have walked through the remnants of burned homes with Westmont friends, invited Westmont scholars to review our programs, and watched plenty of Warrior soc-cer games. I look forward to working with Westmont’s outstanding faculty.”

Christmas Festival to Celebrate ‘Messiah’

The seventh annual Westmont Christmas Festival, “Messiah,” fea-tures dramatic readings as well as the college orchestra and choirs perform-ing selections of Handel’s “Messiah” and other seasonal musical arrange-ments Dec. 2-3 at 8 pm and Sunday, Dec. 4 at 3 pm all in First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. A lim-ited number of tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis begin-ning Thursday, Nov. 10, at 5 pm. To reserve up to six tickets, please go online to: www.westmont.edu/christ masfestival. Tickets are free, but must be reserved. We expect them to go quickly.

In response to an expected high demand for Christmas Festival tick-

ets, Westmont is allowing the pub-lic to attend the dress rehearsal of the program on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 pm. The doors will open for the dress rehearsal at 7:15, and no reserva-tions are required. Please do not arrive before 7 pm if you wish to attend the dress rehearsal. This will be a working rehearsal, but it will be in full, formal attire and will run as seamlessly as possible.

Kiplinger’s names Westmont a Best Value

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has ranked Westmont in the top 100 lib-eral arts colleges in its Best Values in Private Colleges list. The report, which named Westmont #88, ranked the schools based on outstanding aca-demics and great economic value.

Kiplinger’s noted Westmont’s high four-year graduation rate, low aver-age student debt at graduation, good student-to-faculty ratio, excellent on-campus resources and overall great value.

“The institutions on Kiplinger’s rankings for best value in private col-leges represent schools that provide high-quality academics as well as affordable cost even in these tough times,” said Jane Bennett Clark, senior associate editor for Kiplinger’s. “With money tight and the college choice

so important, you have every reason to expect the best bang for your buck.”

In Sept. 2011, the Department of Education released figures that showed a steep increase of bor-rowers defaulting on federal student loans, but Westmont students were repaying theirs. The DOE reported the cohort default rates increased for all sec-tors — from 6 to 7.2

percent for public institutions and from 4 to 4.6 percent for private institutions. Westmont’s default rate decreased from 1.3 percent to .9 per-cent in 2009.

Westmont continues to move up in rankings of colleges and universi-ties this year. Earlier, Forbes maga-zine recognized Westmont in their 2012 America’s Top Colleges list, which includes only 650 institutions nationwide. Westmont ranks 76th, up from 81st last year. Westmont leaped nine spots in the best liberal arts col-leges ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges, 2012 Edition.” Of the nation’s 252 lib-eral arts colleges in this list, Westmont finished tied for 90th. •MJ

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“Mark is a stalwart veteran of Christian higher education, and we’re honored that he’s joining Westmont’s executive team,” says President Gayle D. Beebe. “He has demonstrated strong leadership in initiating aca-demic programs and expanding initia-tives promoting global education.”

Previously, Sargent was vice presi-dent and chief academic officer at Spring Arbor University in Michigan for three years. He served at Biola University in La Mirada, California for 12 years as professor of English and associate dean.

Sargent, an alumnus of UC Santa Barbara, earned a master’s degree and doctorate at Claremont Graduate University, specializing in 19th-cen-tury American literature. He also received a Fulbright scholarship to teach American literature and his-tory at the University of Utrecht

in the Netherlands. The Council of Independent Colleges named Sargent the National Chief Academic Officer of the Year in 2008.

As a college administrator and par-ent of Westmont students, Sargent believes a Westmont education pro-vides significant benefits. “Few Christian colleges can integrate spiri-tual seriousness and academic rigor the way Westmont does,” he says.

Sargent has contributed numerous essays and chapters in both profes-sional and academic journals, includ-ing Moral Imagination at a Christian Institution, in the book Christianity and the Soul of the University; and Soul Care: Christian Faith and Academic Administration, an edited book of essays to be released in February. He

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A Santa Barbara resident since 1999 – and one of the most talented music producers of

our time – London-born Alan Parsons is once more performing to raise funds for charity. This time, it is a three-hour benefit concert for the United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County, at the Lobero Theater, November 12. Opening for Alan Parsons Live Project is David Pack of Ambrosia, for whom Alan produced their album Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled in 1976. Michael W. Rattray, CEO of the United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County, told the MJ that the proceeds from the concert will support the Learning Care Centers serving youth programs and curriculums from ages five to eighteen. “I couldn’t be more pleased that Alan has adopted the United Boys and Girls Clubs by graciously giving his time and talents both at this concert and coming to our clubs in support music appreciation. Music transcends every language. We are continuing to add more arts and music curricula into our clubhouses as it continues to be less of a priority in schools.”

Alan’s music producing bio reads like a four decade listing of Grammy Awards, commencing with his engi-neering work at Abbey Road Studios in 1967. His credits include the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother and The Dark Side of the Moon, several albums with The Hollies, Al Stewart’s The Year of the Cat, and many others through the years to his own band The Alan Parsons Project. His most recent creation in 2011, a band called SubClones, is about a new sound, “that incorporates past and present music composition styles, and is ‘heavily processed’ as we say.

The lyrical concept of the band is to raise awareness in people to help them survive the changes that are coming our way in the world. A very positive and full of life message,” Alan explains.

I interviewed Alan this week at his new home, an organic avocado farm in the foothills of Santa Barbara. We talked about his music making, where music has been and is headed, and the upcoming Alan Parsons Live Project benefit concert. His lovely wife Lisa was with us. Lisa and Alan have been together 16 years and married for eight. They proudly state they have never spent a night apart since they married. Lisa has owned a modeling agency in Baltimore, is a former travel agent, and now works as Alan’s tour manager. As parents, Alan has two sons living in the UK and Lisa has two daughters living here in Santa Barbara. Their farm grows certified organic avoca-dos and Yuzu limes. Animal lovers as well, they have a male bulldog named Diesel, a female bulldog named Nut, a Shepherd mix named Doobie and a Spaniel mix named Buddy.

Q. Tell us about your inspiration to study and make a lifetime career of music.

A. I grew up in a musical family. My father played the flute and the piano and my mother played the Celtic Harp. My mother was an actress with a beautiful speaking voice. My father, a scientist at heart, worked on the devel-opment of new inventions, in particu-lar, the hovercraft, which is now used for public transport across the English Channel between England and France. We had all sorts of gadgets around the home, including a tape recorder, and

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‘Oh I like that. Wait a minute. Let me think about that.’ It would have been written; I would have gotten it down. And I’d say, ‘Okay let’s check.’ I’d try to scroll through my head. I’m pretty honest with myself, so I’d know. And I may have once or twice said, ‘Oh shoot, that’s some Beatles song, I can’t do that. So let’s start over again.’ But I never really had that problem.

Is there a computer program nowadays that would tell you?

Oh I bet there is. Copyright checker. Absolutely. Just to be sure, you play your song and it kind of recognizes it.

But you don’t use that at the moment anyway?

I don’t write anymore.

You don’t write anymore? I thought you said 24/7. I know you play some golf, but I thought…

We were just in Big Sur for my birthday, and MB [Mary Belle] and I were in Nepenthe and there was a band there and I sat in with the band and played. That was fun. But I have no… after thirty-five years hammer-ing away alone in a room trying to make my living writing songs.

Nobody paid me to get up and write songs by the way.

You have made a pretty good living doing that though.

I managed to get lucky.

Have you written music and then sent it to a lyricist you thought would do a good job with it and had the same experi-ence as Marty Panzer had with you?

Oh yeah, I sent one to Bernie Taupin. Bernie knew who I was; his manager was a friend of mine, I used to play tennis with him. But Bernie was kind of a shy guy, so he didn’t want to see me. So I wasn’t able to talk to him, I had to talk to the man-ager. I came up with a melody for an album I did for Arista (Records) in 1982 or something. So it was a fully formed melody and I sent it over through the manager and about a week later I got the lyric back; it was totally not even close.

Do you have to pay for something like that?

No, it’s all on spec. Unless you get hired by a movie studio, like if you work at Disney where there’s a cre-ative fee involved.

So you mean, any lyricist who heard of you without knowing you personally could send you lyrics, and if you felt like it, you would do the tune and send it back, and there would be no charge?

Yeah, that’s the way it works. Although that rarely happened with me. Occasionally I’d get a lyric from

someone who wanted to write, who was sort of in the community down there in L.A., and I’d look at it and if I liked it… or a publisher would call me and say, ‘Look, we’ve got a new young lyricist here.’ I’d say ‘Okay, send it over and we’ll see what they do.’ If I found something there, I might say, ‘Oh, this looks good.’

What do you look for most in a poten-tial song?

As a composer generally, you’d be looking for a good title and good lyric. A good title is a big deal. If you go to Nashville, which is a lyric-driven town, the music traditionally is simple three-chord kind of stuff: ‘three chords and the truth.’ Down there, you sit down and have break-fast with someone and you can’t get through a cup of coffee without say-ing, ‘Oh that’s a title; wait a minute.’ When you’re in writing mode, you’re constantly preoccupied.

I’d spoken to Norman Gimbel (who also has a home in Montecito!) quite a number of years ago and he had clipped out a phrase from an Argentinean novel. In the novel, the line “killing me soft-ly with his blues” appeared. Norman changed “blues” to “song.” He liked the phrase and hoped to use it for a song. And he got around to it a long time later, to great success, so I get what you mean. You save these lines…

Norman Gimbel is a classic exam-ple of a pure lyricist… he’s the old school. Any of the people who are strict lyricists have got to have good titles hanging around.

Speaking of lyrics, is there a length of a line that is either too long or too short to make a melody out of?

Well, I can almost look at a page and if there’s too many words, I’m not interested. It’s just not going to make it. A lyric is different from a poem, for instance. It has to summon up rich imagery with very simple language, not the other way around. It has to be written in a way that a good melody will bring it to life. A good example is “Somewhere Down The Road,” a song Barry Manilow had a hit on. It was one of the best melodies I ever wrote, just a pure melody; it was a ballad that just came out of me. All of a sudden, it erupted out of me, after weeks of banging away and getting nothing. It was an intense experience.

So, here comes the melody, and I’m going, ‘Oh my God. Hold on!’ So I get this melody out, and I send it to Cynthia Weil with this sort of jibber-ish words… I think I might have said ‘something, something’… She likes that. It took her three weeks. She said, ‘This melody is amazing; please be patient, I don’t want to mess it up.’ So she sends me back these lyrics and it was titled “Somewhere Down

The Road” and when I first looked at the lyrics, I was talking to her on the phone – this is how we always worked. She’d read it to me, or I’d get it, she’d fax it to me. She said, ‘Now, just give it a chance. I know it looks a little prosaic.’ And I actually, in the back of my mind, I thought… ‘I was expecting a little more…’ There’s an example of a lyric that’s very simple and elegant and beautiful and it mar-ried itself perfectly to the melody.

Weren’t you going to be a singer at one point? In the early days of your career?

Well I had to sing for my supper early on. So by necessity, I was a singer-songwriter.

So, you sang your own material accom-panied by a piano or guitar?

Yep. I had a little Wurlitzer electric. And I worked with another guy who had a guitar; we used to drive around in his ’53 Plymouth, knock on doors of restaurants in Venice (California); this is all in 1969.

It was a good time to be doing that.For sure. I wouldn’t want to be try-

ing to break into the business today. But yes, out of necessity, I sang.

And you had your singing career, cor-rect?

Yes. I got picked up by Peter Asher who managed James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt; he believed in me as a singer-songwriter. So we worked together and I did a couple of records. But it never quite worked, and I got back into what I originally wanted to do when I left Boston in the first place and that was be a behind-the-lines songwriter. Write hits for others.

Was there a point in time when you realized you may not be good enough as a singer?

I was just turning twenty-five, so I’d been at it four or five years. I got dropped by Capitol Records in the middle of rehearsing for another tour. So that was the point. Capitol records said ‘Thanks but no thanks; see you later,’ and I went, ‘Okay, I’m going to

need to adjust’. Which is always what you have to do in show business. If one thing doesn’t work, if performing doesn’t work, then direct. If you can’t direct, then teach. If you can’t teach, become a critic.

Tell us about your talk at the upcoming TEDx at the Music Academy.

It’s going to be about creating. And the subtext of my take on it is why do I think I have the ability to cre-ate music. If in fact what I’m talking about is meant to inspire, then the assumption is that people need to hear how to do that. So I need to get the point across that no matter what you think of yourself, and generally in the artistic mind, it’s usually, ‘I’m a piece of [crap].’ Or you have all these dark thoughts about yourself, whatever it might be: fear, anxiety, low self-esteem. Another subtext is what I call my mulch pile. A big old heaping, steaming, pile of decompos-ing rotting yuck that you spread all over your garden and make gorgeous things grow. And beauty comes out of the dirt basically. If there was ever a metaphor to help reinforce the idea that you can create beauty no matter what you think of yourself, this is it.

•••TEDxAmericanRiviera is an inde-

pendently organized TED event pro-duced and hosted by 74 Degrees, LLC, a joint venture between TEDsters Kymberlee Weil, Eric Greenspan and Mark Sylvester. They’ve titled their all-day speakfest “The Spark Within,” and in addition to Tom, Montecito res-ident Mike deGruy, violinist Robert Gupta, chef-author Matthew Kenney, illustrator Stefan Bucher, photogra-pher Chris Orwig, humorist Jenna McCarthy and CEO-musician Eugene Lee and perhaps others will bounce around their ideas on creativity.

There may still be space avail-able, so if you are interested in attending, you should go to: www.TEDxAmericanRiviera.com; the con-ference will also be streamed live on the event website if you can’t make it to the Music Academy. •MJ

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Lora and I have stood by each other in hard times, both economical and emotional. We’ve

survived bringing up a child (though just barely). We’ve managed to stay together through the death of loved ones, summer with the grandkids, and yes, even El Niño, but we’ve never had to endure planning a big party.

In November, Lora and I will have been together for thirty years. Yes, it’s no coincidence that we met the same year John Lennon came out with “Starting Over,” Diana Ross and Lionel Richie harmonized “Endless Love,” Rod Stewart crooned “Passion,” Grover Washington, Jr. sang “Just The Two of Us,” and Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty belted out “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”

To my way of thinking, there were only two ways to celebrate this occa-sion. We could fly to Phoenix and watch the St. Louis Rams play the Arizona Cardinals, or we could throw a party. Lora voted along strict party lines and we came up with a theme – “Celebrate With Us Thirty Years Of Not Being Married.”

“Wait,” some of you may say. “Not married? I’ve heard you refer to Lora as your wife.” That’s because after ten years together, it sounded pretty ridicu-lous calling her my girlfriend. Around year twelve I began introducing her as my lover but that sounded almost as silly. Through the years, her title has evolved from “my fiancée,” to “my mate,” then to “my better half,” even-tually to “The Sergeant”, and finally, though only once, “The Old Lady.” After the lump on my forehead sub-sided (those frying pans really hurt!) I decided to skip right over introducing her as “The Ball and Chain” and “The Old Gray Mare” and simply begin call-ing her my wife.

When The Old Gray... I mean Lora, and I started talking about this party, it sounded like fun – a few friends, a couple bottles of wine, Carole King’s “Tapestry” on the turntable, but when the guest list somehow climbed to over 100, we realized what naive party plan-ners we were and I saw a dark side to Lora I never knew existed. She even started using four-letter words like “jerk” and “dolt” and “stubbornjack-ass”...wait, that’s more than four letters isn’t it?

Our lack of party planning expertise isn’t really our fault. We’ve never had a party before because we live in a shoe box (size 5½). If more than four people visit us at the same time, we have to draw straws to see who sits on the toilet. Even small dinner parties are impossible because Lora is a quilter

and twenty years ago she designated our tiny dinette as her sewing room. I know there’s a dining table in there somewhere, but our grandkids have never seen it and they’re under the impression that the five-foot high stack of fabric scraps in the middle of the room with chairs around it is where the evil quilt monster lives. Don’t ask me who put that silly idea in their little heads.

I knew we were in trouble with this party when we couldn’t even agree on the venue. Lora wanted a catered affair in a hall, with flowers, color coordi-nated tablecloths and centerpieces. I wanted the bowling alley with pins, balls, and Reese’s Pieces. She wanted Boursin cheese-stuffed mushroom caps and seafood crostini hors d’oeuvres. I suggested peppered elk jerky in an exquisite teriyaki glaze and beanie weenies. I told her she could have her way if she could spell hors d’oeuvre. That night, I ordered the jerky on the internet (the apostrophe always gets them).

Our bickering about the party only increased. It wasn’t so much the details that got to us. I mean, who really cares if there’s two hors d’oeuvres or three, or if there’s an actual restroom or just a designated “potty” bush (come to find out, Lora does). It was our tempera-ment that did us in. Lora complained that I talked to her like I was a judge and she was Lindsay Lohan. I swore her incessant tone had a hidden mes-sage that said, “I can’t believe you made it out of junior high you opos-sum-eatin’, Dodger-loving, mooncalf.”

We both apologized and I think we’re over the worst part. If and when we recuperate from the Thirty Years Not Married party we’re actually going to get married. Some of you may wonder why. Well, I think it’s time I started call-ing her “The Little Missus.” •MJ

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by the way, that was in 1950! My dad recorded me singing in the bath when I was two years old. It was natural for me to be musically inspired and have a flair for electronics and gadgetry running alongside. I formally studied piano and flute and taught myself gui-tar and bass. Singing is something I’ve got into more recently.

Did you team up with your music-pro-ducing contemporaries, such as Andrew Loog Oldham (Beatles and Rolling Stones), George Martin (Beatles 1962-69) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)?

I never knew Andrew Oldham, although my late Project partner, Eric Woolfson, did some work with him as a songwriter. I did work with George Martin as part of my apprenticeship at Abbey Road on the last two Beatles albums. He is about twenty years my senior. George is an unbelievable mas-ter of diplomacy, as well as being a great musician, having formal training in music from the Guildhall School Of Music in London. I learned much from him on how to interface with musi-cians. The Beatles would have been out of control without him. I didn’t meet Jimmy Page until about twelve years ago, while I was running Abbey Road studios as the boss for a brief period, before I ran away screaming because of expectations of my hyper-bureaucratic colleagues and superiors. Jimmy was working with Robert Plant on the sec-ond Page and Plant album.

You engineer, produce, score, play and sing music. Is there one that speaks more to your inner core?

I am most proud of the fact that I am recognized for high quality sound. That has to be seen as a combination of production and engineering skills, I suppose.

What are your thoughts and perceptions

of the path music making has taken since 1960 to present day, in terms of composi-tion, lyrics, production, and where do you see it headed?

Music goes in cycles and will continue to do so. All art evolves as a retrospec-tive on itself. Pop and rock music mak-ing can be likened to a fashion business, catering to the adolescent population. We all said we would never be like our parents and dismiss the music we lis-tened to in our teens or abhor youth cul-ture in general. Modern top forty pop and rock is nothing like what I listened to as a teenager. I try to be open-minded and accept that no matter how uneasily some new music may fall on my ears, the people making it successfully are undoubtedly talented. Unfortunately, music has for those with tuned ears, been reduced in quality by poor digital formats, such as MP3, and the obvious-ly tacky cell phone video recordings of live concerts posted on YouTube. While I don’t wish to be deliberately negative about iTunes, the concept of downloads, in addition to the diversity of music that people demand nowadays, has changed our attitudes towards the place music holds in our daily life. One used to sit and listen to music (sometimes in a darkened room, sometimes in altered states) uninterrupted for the full length of an album. Now, music is mostly a background phenomenon; there are too many distractions – cell phones, texting, TV, the Internet, video games, etc. The only time one sits and listens to music in a focused manner these days is at a live concert. This change in listening habits has increased attention in the music business to live concerts while direct purchase of quality recordings is in serious decline.

Do you have a YouTube site?No! I would resist any song of mine

being placed on there. It’s anoth-er excuse to access music for free.

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Is there a future for concept albums?There may be in the future, but not

now. The concept album is “out of fashion,” especially as music is pre-dominately sold on iTunes and other download sites in three-minute seg-ments.

Is there a digital format that you would recommend for uploading music to pre-serve its total quality, given the compres-sion of the MP3s?

Yes, I recommend 96 KHz, 24-bit .wav files – they are better than CD. But with current technology, they take up a lot of storage space and it takes a long time to upload and download them. But that situation can only improve. One day we’ll laugh at MP3, just like we laugh at cassettes now.

Tell us about music production; what has changed, and how has it affected the overall sound we are being subjected to?

I continue to have a preference for recording the “old school” way, by recording the right combinations of musicians playing together at the same time, usually about four to five musi-cians. To me, that’s when the “magic” of making music happens. Today, bud-ding rock stars can lay down individual tracks or performances one instrument at a time in their living room using a laptop computer using cheap or even free software. Auto-Tune corrects any vocal or instrumental pitch problems, and other software can correct other mistakes of timing or execution. Using quality musicians and vocalists play-ing together is so much better a way of working and much more inspirational and much less sterile. I wouldn’t say all modern recordings are junk, but the accessibility of recording facilities to the man in the street has definitely made selectivity an issue. Its unfortu-nate – some new artists are hugely tal-ented, but are just not being developed or utilized to their best advantage.

Your legacy is excellence in music pro-duction. What makes a great music pro-ducer?

I am very proud to have been called a “Sound Guru” by my contempo-raries, and for being highly regard-ed in the area of producing qual-ity music. Good producers have the ability to deal with artists, to know their limits and how not to destroy their talent by being overbearing; encouraging them rather than push-ing them beyond their natural abili-ties. It’s important for artists to feel they own their creations while being influenced and guided to a higher level by a producer they trust. In my early days, although I was hired as an engineer, I would step out of that rather technical role and more into creative production. Traditionally, the engineer was not involved in studio logistics, helping the artists choose the songs to record, the instrumen-tations, which “take” worked best, or suggesting things like including an acoustic guitar on a track, or that something was out of tune. I had the ear for it, and people wanted that bit extra out of me, even though I was still classified as an engineer, not a producer.

What is your next tour schedule coming up?

In early 2012, we will be in Mexico for two shows and performing with a full symphony orchestra. We also have plans for European and South American tours over two week peri-ods. I’m not interested in touring on a bus for months on end. In this economy, shows are rarely planned more than seven or eight weeks ahead.

What are your thoughts about doing benefit concerts and other philanthropic work?

I welcome the opportunity to do them. For the United Boys and Girls Clubs, Michael Rattray, their CEO, asked me if I would help them out by playing a show. Like all charities, the current economy has decreased overall the donations usually counted on. I have also assisted with their associ-ated Notes for Notes MusicBox Studios program, which is a drop-in recording studio environment for youths aged sixteen to eighteen. There they have free access to musical instruments, instruction and the tools to create and record their own music. I wish I’d had such an experience.

Thank you Alan, and we wish you the best for your upcoming birthday.

FYI: Alan Parsons Live Project, Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 7:00-10:00 PM. For info: www.lobe-ro.com or call the box office at (805) 963-0761 •MJ

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The last time I saw my uncle Ross was in March, 1965. I was nine years old and he was

thirty. I was wearing a white cotton T-shirt, blue jeans and Converse sneakers. In the dry air and sunshine of springtime Southern California, it was warm, even hot. Especially in the car, and, especially squeezed in between all the grownups.

We were in Grandmother Fobair’s car, a pale green 1962 Rambler with dark green upholstery. Three years later, she still had the seat covers on, plastic, brittle, yellowing from too much time spent in the low desert where she taught school in Thermal.

For a kid pressed in between his grandmother in her verde green print flower dress and his uncle in an Air Force green flight suit, in her soft pale hospital green car, it was a tight, green, green world.

The three of us sat up front while the other three young Air Force fighter pilots sat in the back. My grandmother never drove fast as a rule, always ten miles below the speed limit. For her, it was a matter of principle, although in her opinion stop signs were often meant to be ignored. Did she mean to do these things intentionally, to drive those around her crazy or was that just her comfort zone? At the age of nine, I wondered if my uncle was as embar-rassed of her in front of his friends as I was in front of mine.

They were going to Vietnam soon, within a few weeks. I didn’t know where that was, except that every morning on my way to the comics, on the front page of the L.A. Times, there’d be a big headline story about Vietnam. Meanwhile, life at home was a set routine. Except for today.

Today, it was different. My uncle and his three squadron mates had flown their fighters from Florida to California on what was called a

two-ship cross-country training mis-sion for a weekend visit. Ross had arranged it so they would all spend the night at my mother’s home in Los Angeles. This Sunday morning, the smells of breakfast filled her kitchen. My mother had cooked up her famous Leo Lumkey scrambled eggs, thick bacon, fresh squeezed orange juice, Danish pastries, coffee and plenty of it. The kitchen was packed with people. There was a lot of talk in the air. My grandmother was there to see her son, and my stepfather’s parents joined us too.

They Believed in the MissionThe guys were bright and young

and energetic. They flew F-4 Phantoms, then the most powerful and modern fighter jet on the planet. They knew how to deliver tactical bombs and provide top cover pro-

tection from enemy MIGs to their brethren fighter bombers. They were the cutting edge, the fierce swift sword of President Johnson’s Rolling Thunder bombing campaign to drive the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. Would it succeed? No one knew, but to all who met these men, it was apparent that they believed in what they were doing, their training and the mission. These were vital young men. They were capable and intelligent, willing and able to give it their best effort, to live on the edge or die trying. Although no one expected that to happen. That happened to other people.

Breakfast wound down. It got clos-er to the time to drive them out to the air base for their flight back to Florida. My uncle made phone calls regarding weather forecasts and filed a flight plan. Fewer and fewer things were said and my grandpar-ents exchanged meaningful looks as the men gathered up their flight bags. A sober emotional stew of stilt-

Bruce Giffin lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Kelley, and their menagerie of dogs, cats, birds, fish and horses. He is co-founder of Giffin & Crane. He spent November 1997 in Vietnam while his uncle’s crash site was excavated. Lt. Col.

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The world changed the day my uncle Ross left in March of 1965.

I didn’t know it then, but my age of innocence ended then. I

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Outside at the curb along the park-way, the Rambler was loaded and my grandmother started the car up as Uncle Ross’s wing mates climbed into the back seat. My mother came out to hug her kid brother goodbye. They embraced and thirty years of shared history touched for a moment. Thirty years of struggle and deliver-ance, of losing Dad when they were seven and two, of homesteading in the Barstow desert with Mother, of working their way through schools, college, families, marriages, divorces and careers. Thirty years summed up in a touch. Then Ross got in the car and we pulled away from the curb.

It seemed like a long drive out from the San Fernando Valley to George Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. It was quiet in the car, quiet and sticky, as the plastic seat covers didn’t breathe.

Hugs All AroundWe drove through the air base

and parked near their two Phantoms out on the ramp. Flight bags were stowed and pre-flight inspections begun. My grandmother and I stood and watched. As they finished, my uncle climbed back down from the ladder on the side of the cockpit and came up and hugged me. He gave my grandmother a big hug. The other three pilots settled into their seats. I looked back at her. Her eyes were red and she was quietly cry-ing. Uncle Ross murmured words of reassurance. There was one last moment and he hugged her again.

Looking over his shoulder back at me, he said, “Stick around for a few minutes after we take off.” With that, he climbed into the back seat of the lead fighter.

The engines were lit up and the canopies came down. With a wave, they taxied away. We watched them as far as we could see until there were only heat waves shimmering off in the distance.

After what seemed like forever to a nine year old, we heard the jets spool up louder and louder. They came screaming down the runway, so loud it hurt our ears. I clamped my hands over my ears and watched the planes disappear into the sky. All that was left was a thick smoky trail of spent kerosene fuel which we could taste as the roar of their flight slowly faded away. Moments seemed like minutes. They ticked by, punctuated by the silence of an air base on a Sunday morning.

“Can we go now?” I asked. Spinning around, Grandmother

glared down at me. “He said stick around; we’re going to stick around!”

I looked for a rock to kick. There

were none. Then, away in the distance, we

could hear the low-pitched roar of the fighters coming again. We turned and there they were, two dark specks streaming exhaust trails in the sky, quickly changing into two very fast and loud Phantoms flying a low pass over the runway right in front of us. And as they flew by, Uncle Ross and his white helmeted wing mates waggled their wings in farewell and climbed up again, leaving another smoky trail wafting into the warm clear blue March desert sky.

We stood there and watched until we could no longer see them. Then we listened until we could no lon-ger hear them. There was a space of silence that got filled up with the sounds of insects, a whiff of a desert breeze and the buckling of dry heat off the tarmac. My legs were tired, but I said not a word. Grandmother kept staring into the distance for the longest time. Then after a while, without looking at me, she said, “Okay, let’s go.” We got in the car and neither one of us said much on the long drive home to my mother’s.

Innocence LostFive months later, we got the

news. Ross had been shot down on his last mission. His squadron came home the next day, yet he was miss-ing, missing in action, never to be seen or heard from again. He was the first they shot down with a mis-sile, a brief milestone marker in the chronicles of that war, a victory for them and a loss for us. He would not be the last.

The world changed the day my uncle Ross left in March of 1965. I didn’t know it then, but my age of innocence ended then. I wasn’t alone; it happens to everyone, that loss of innocence.

Relentlessly, every day, especially in the 1960s, that world of innocence ended, day after day, day in and day out. For many, it ended when they or family or friends were shipped off to Southeast Asia. For others, when JFK was assassinated. Or when Bobby Kennedy was shot. For others, when Martin Luther King was killed. Race riots, protests in the streets, Kent State, sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and seeing children, black, white, brown and yellow, living and dying in fire-fights in Vietnam on TV in our living rooms, all became defining moments of our lives.

And so today, on those days when I read about the sacrifices some young person has made on behalf of our country, or on those rare occasions when I see a fighter jet flying low, I think of that time a long, long time ago when I was nine and my uncle was thirty. •MJ


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Our local band of beauties features Montecito residents Vivien Alexander (vocals and rhythm guitar), Laurie Deans (lead guitar and vocals) and Stacey Fergusson (bass and vocals), plus Dawn Sherry (keyboards and vocals) and Donna Eveland (drums).

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Famers) the Tearaways, has mentored this all-girl group since its start a year ago and set up the L.A. gig.

Recently in the local scene, MYNX rocked out at SOhO, and was featured at the Avocado Festival, and will be playing the Wildcat on December 9.

Leslie Lauded for Lifetime of Largesse

My friend, lovely Leslie (that’s Ms. Ridley-Tree to you), has been up to all kinds of philanthropic-ness recently. First she took on – chaired and hosted – the Girls Inc. annual luncheon just a month back, planning every detail, and greeting each guest graciously at her door to raise scholarship funds for the girls.

Then, as previously noted in MJ, Westmont named their Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in honor of Leslie’s multimillion-dollar donations and French art collection.

But wait, there’s more! Next week, on Tuesday the 15th, she will be hon-ored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Other institutions locally such as Cottage Hospital, the Museum of Art, Music Academy, the Symphony, SBCC, the Zoo, and the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse have all basked in the warmth of her profusely generous touch. And now turnaround is fair play – and she will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy.

(The luncheon at the Biltmore will also honor Jelinda DeVorzon as Volunteer of the Year.) Brava!

Revenge of the Real Housewives of Santa Barbara

Last week, Richard Mineards’ col-umn gave a scoop that Bravo TV is planning to produce some kind of Santa Barbara semi-scripted reality show, along the lines of the nauseat-ingly successful “Real Housewives of... “ series.

I hope the producer pulls a crash course and reads one of my How To Santa Barbara books before he com-pletely misrepresents and blows off the community.

Remember when they had a “Santa Barbara” soap opera? Remember how no self-respecting Santa Barbarian would watch it because – of course – it was not Santa Barbara at all? The town and characters had nothing whatsoever to do with SB and I don’t think you can even find three people

who even saw the series (other than to watch the opening shot of the harbor).

However, confused people who could not tell the difference between reality and Hollywood (think “D.C.”), would call up Mayor Sheila Lodge or Police Chief Breza to complain about how things were handled by the city or police... in the pretend TV show!

I remember Chief Breza telling me that he would try to explain, “Well, you see that only happened on the TV show.” Then the caller would self-righteously declare, “Yes, that is right! I witnessed the whole thing with my own eyes right there on TV.”

As they say in Britain, ”Mind the gap.”

So to help out with this new Hollywood endeavor, I am proposing some reality shows that might actu-ally exemplify our community:

Real Philanthropists of 93108 Here at a high falootin’ black tie

dinner, our local loaded luminaries do not try to out-do one another, but are pleasantly cooperative and collabora-tive, much to the producer’s annoy-ance. Each philanthropist invites other high rollers to their pet charity (over 900 to choose from), and the others return the favor with invitations of their own for other events. Everybody attends the usual chicken dinners with gracious tolerance and just cheerfully dumps money all over town, to the benefit of the happy Santa Barbara community. This series is soon can-celled because it is too boring; there is not sufficient snarky-ness and drama.

So we move on.

Real Housewives of the Parent-Teacher Workshop

Helicopter mothers hovering over their three- and four-year-olds befriend and battle one another about providing healthy snacks (gluten free, no nuts, no dairy, no eggs), deter-mining whether the other’s child is “making good choices,” leaving con-veniently early “for an appointment” before their share of toys are cleaned up, and throwing thematic birthday parties with educational components and “activity centers.”

Here we have it…

Real Homeowners of the Santa Barbara Planning Commission Hearing

Cat fights! Brawls! Hidden agendas! This has the drama Hollywood looks for. Will the 10’ x 10’ granny room extension really alter the rural charac-ter of the neighborhood into perpetu-ity? Do two dozen 12-foot Eugenia trees constitute a “spite hedge” just because they are planted four feet from the neighbor’s ocean view win-dow? Throw in a PR campaign and ballot measure, and this could be a long-running series – even outside of Santa Barbara. •MJ

Santa Barbara’s MYNX at the Whisky features Montecito residents Vivien Alexander (rhythm), Laurie Deans (lead) and Stacey Fergusson (bass), plus Dawn Sherry (keyboards) and Donna Eveland (drums) (Photo: Kelly Combs)


Opera Santa Barbara knows a good thing when it finds it. So the company is bringing back

Rebecca Davis, the soaring soprano who captured hearts all over town in her Santa Barbara debut as the tragic Violetta in Verde’s La Traviata. This weekend, Davis – who is blessed with a warm timbre as well as versatility, stretch and range – plays another iconic role from a classic Italian opera: the ill-fated lover Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème, directed by Met/San Francisco Opera veteran Brad Dalton with Dean Williamson conducting. It’s a far cry from her days on the road back in her college years as a backup singer to her aunt, country superstar Suzy Bogguss.

Q. Not a whole lot of people come to opera through country. How did that happen?

A. That was my major influence in singing when I was younger. I even played the guitar at one time, although I haven’t touched it in ten years. I also did lots of other things in school, of course, like choir, and I sang a lot of jazz in high school. But the great thing was going on the road with my aunt for six months. But I wanted to be acting on stage, too, and that’s what made opera make sense. I haven’t looked back since. I’ve loved every minute.

So is there some connection between country music and opera?

They both tell really great sto-ries, especially country music from the eighties. Those artists had a lot to say. My aunt sang a song called “Cinderella,” which was about the aging process for women from a posi-tive point of view. There are a lot of issues beyond the dogs and the trucks. Opera is more historic, and you get a broader spectrum of time. My dad was a history major, and I’ve always loved it myself, so that appeals to me. Country expresses it differently, and they only have three minutes rather than three hours, to tell the story.

You’ve received praise not only for the beauty of your voice, but also, as Opera Santa Barbara’s Jose Condemi says, its inherent vulnerability. Can you talk about the technique?

That’s been a comment I’ve been getting more recently. I think I just have it naturally. I’m pretty open as a person, and I wear my heart on my sleeve. So it’s easy to read my emo-tions because of who I am. But I’m also drawn toward those kinds of characters who are vulnerable. Mimi is so shy and awkward at first, but she

does want to be around people, and she’s craving socialization, a world Rodolfo opens up to her. I just really click with her. Violetta was that way too, but covered it up to play the courtesan.

Do you see some similarities in the roles? They’re both beautiful but sick women who fall in love, experience great romance and passion, and die in their lov-ers’ arms.

Vocally of course, they’re different. Puccini has a lot of stretch to the line, while Verdi has more of a dramatic arc to the story. Mimi’s illness takes a lot longer. She’s coughing the whole time, except for a brief time in act two. She knows she’s sick, while Violetta was in denial. But they’re both such big, hearty characters, and that’s fun to play. The music is so beautiful in both of the shows: I mean, it’s Puccini and Verdi.

What’s the most fun and/or challenging part of this role?

Okay, well, I love doing dramatic scenes. The audience will love act two because of the party, but my favorite is in act three when I do a duet with Marcello about looking for Rodolfo. It’s pour-your-heart-out beautiful music. She’s jealous and it comes out. It’s such a dramatic climax, with tons of high notes. Most of Mimi’s arias are

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Race to the Table

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Do you know where your wine will be just after midnight on November 17th? If you are

one of future owners of a bottle of 2011 French Beaujolais Nouveau, it will be on its way from a little town (or village) from that region to Paris, from where it will be shipped abroad, mainly to the United States, Japan, and Germany.

Many producers race to deliver the first of the vintage to celebrations throughout France and the world. As has been the case for almost 50 years, at one minute past midnight on the third Thursday of each November, with release strictly regulated world-wide by French Law, the bottle that may end up on your Thanksgiving or other holiday table begins its race to beat the pack and be the first to arrive to your wine retailer that same day.

Over 70 million bottles, about half of the Beaujolais region’s total

annual production, is made into the Beaujolais Nouveau that is bottled, sold, and often quaffed just weeks after the wine’s grapes are harvested.

In France there is a saying, “Beaujolais Nouveau is to autumn what the swallow is to spring. We know it’ll come back every year on the third Thursday of November but we don’t know what its plumage will be.” Tasting the Beaujolais Nouveau wines can give some indication of what the year’s vintage from France will taste like, so when these wines arrive in the United States, many enophiles will

visit wine shops to preview the 2011 vintage.

History and TraditionsThe history of winemaking cele-

brates community and sharing. Just as folks are invited now by some wineries in the Santa Ynez Valley to participate in grape picking, stomp-ing, and bottling, such has long been the custom in villages in Beaujolais when villagers who helped with the harvest returned in November with their ceramic bottles that were filled with the Beaujolais Nouveau wine just fermented from that year’s grapes. In the same informal pours from pitch-ers filled with their new Beaujolais Nouveau, the wines’ producers shared samples of this wine at local bistros and cafes in their villages.

Minimalist Winemaking and Easy Drinking

Beaujolais Nouveau is a red wine made from Gamay grapes grown in the Beaujolais region of France. Unlike most red wines that improve with age, Beaujolais Nouveau, the ultimate in hands-off wine, celebrates the fresh characteristics of the grapes harvested just weeks before. It is made to be enjoyed without any bottle aging and

is at its best and most fruity when enjoyed within a year of release and served slightly chilled.

These wines reflect the concen-trated fruit flavor of the grapes that are fermented over a few weeks. Fermentation is so short and the wine is pressed early (after only about three days), the astringent tannins, normal-ly found in red wines, are quite light. The wine is then bottled without time in wooden barrels.

Because this process is quite simi-lar to the production of some white wines, Beaujolais Nouveau has been acknowledged as a transitional wine for those wanting to move from white to red wines. Like most whites, it is low in alcohol and tannins. Beaujolais Nouveau is easy to drink with fruit forward flavors such as raspberries and cherries, and subtle contrasting spice and pepper.

Food and the Beaujolais Beaujolais Nouveau is a very popu-

lar wine for serving during the holi-days due to its availability, low cost, and its food-friendly versatility. The ripe berry aromas and flavors are wel-come accompaniments to a great vari-ety of dishes including picnic foods like salami, ham, cheese, cold roast beef, chicken as well as to hearty veg-etable soups and stews.

Thanksgiving may be the most sig-nificant holiday meal in the year, par-ticularly when you consider the loving care and attention given to the turkey and supporting delights prepared by family and friends. By tradition, more wine is sold for Thanksgiving Day dinner than for any other meal of the year and it is a big day for enjoying the newly released Beaujolais Nouveau.

Pleasers for ‘10 for about $10From the Beaujolais offerings last

year, several were considered top bang for the buck at about $10 each. The Labouré-Roi Beaujolais was nota-ble for fruity red berry aromas with pepper and spice flavors balanced with soft tannins. George Duboeuf Beaujolais starts with floral aromas followed by ripe cherry and spice. Maison Joseph Drouhin offered ripe berry aromas, red currant and cherry flavors, and refreshing acidity.

With the bargain prices and charm-ing history, it is a treat to include this homage to community at your holiday table.

Sip Tip: Join the fun at the “Evening in Tilly’s Kitchen” theme Tasting Party at Oreana Winery on Nov. 18 for a new limited edition release of Tilly, a “super Tuscan” red Sangiovese-Cabernet blend. 100% of the sales of the wine at the event will go to the California Central Coast Alzheimer’s Association. 205 Anacapa Street, 805-962-5857, www.oreanawinery.com •MJ

Beaujolais Nouveau will be making its annual debut on November 17


Dear Mr. Greenjeans,A few months ago, I planted some

of those beautiful Mexican milkweed plants in my garden to attract mon-arch butterflies. I started with one-gallon sized plants and initially they did really well. But now they are being totally grazed on by some sort of stripy worms and there’s some cot-tony, fuzzy stuff all over what’s left of the plants. Also, I haven’t seen too many monarchs. What’s going on do you think?

Signed,Concerned on Coast Village

Dear Concerned,First of all take a few breaths.

Everything you describe is as it should be and the good news is that your monarchs are on the way or are already here.

The stripy worms you describe that are eating your plants are the cat-erpillar or larvae stage of the mon-arch butterfly. These black, yellow and white squiggly guys need to feast on the leaves of the Mexican milk-weed (Asclepias curassavica) in order to pupate and turn into an orange and black monarch butterfly.

You may have also noticed the lit-tle blue-green pupae or chrysalides hanging like little lanterns around your garden. It’s a complicated, mind-boggling process, but basically the caterpillar is in there morphing into a butterfly. It’s not unlike the trans-formation of a superhero. In this case, the caterpillar is Clark Kent, the mon-arch butterfly is Superman and the chrysalis is the phone booth. It’s very similar indeed, as both fly away after emerging.

The “cottony, fuzzy stuff” you describe is also good news. If you look closely at all that fuzz you’ll see the seeds. These have been released from the long, narrow seedpods that

have dried and split open at the ends of the milkweed stems. Mexican milk-weed readily reseeds in your garden from these seeds virtually guarantee-ing another crop of milkweed for the next generation of monarchs.

I am reminded of the words of a now departed and beloved Montecito friend, Beatrix Oddy who used to gaze into her garden, shake her head and say to me, “Ain’t nature grand?”

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tired. The foliage is dull, limp and the tips of the leaves appear brown or burned. I’m pretty good about water-ing them and give each one a little bit of water once a week. Do you have any good ideas about how I can perk them up? Although I’ve become quite attached to them, maybe it’s just time to replace them with new, fresh ones. What do you think?

Signed,Lifeless on Ladera

Dear Lifeless,Yours is a common problem. The

simple fact is that after a number of years, most houseplants just get tired of being in the same ol’ pot in the same ol’ soil. In addition, some plant like “peace lilies” (Spathyphyllum) are very sensitive to the salts in our water and eventually show tip burn.

If you continually add just a little bit of water at a time to your plants, the salts build up in the soil and will even form white deposits on the out-side of clay pots.

One thing that will help is to occasion-ally take your plants to the sink or, if they’re large, to the bathtub or outside and thoroughly flush out the soil. By this I mean, wash down the plant, soil and the pot with a hand-held shower or hose nozzle until lots of water comes

out the drainage hole. If you do this every once in a while, it will help to dissolve the salty buildup in the soil. I’ve found that after doing this even one time my own plants looked noticeably healthier and happier.

Keep in mind though, that if you do take your plants outdoors to wash and rehab them, make sure you don’t leave the plant in the sun for even a few minutes. A plant grown indoors is too tender to take direct sun and will be toast in no time.

Another reason your plants may be unhappy could be that they’ve out-grown their current containers. If your plants seem to be too large for their existing pots it could be time to repot it. Unless your houseplants have gotten exceptionally overgrown, only repot into the next size container. This will give them an inch or two of extra room to grow into. Using a quality brand of potting soil like Uni-Gro or Fox Farm Ocean Forest will help too. •MJ


made it worse. But it is only one fac-tor. [In addition to the things above], there’s also not getting enough physi-cal activity, or eating to promote men-tal health.

On that subject, you’ve frequently discussed anti-inflammatory foods and medicines in relation to health in previous books. The connection with the prevention and treatment of depression doesn’t seem as obvious.

It’s a really new theory and it sounds right to me. I think it makes sense. I’ve been promoting the diet for general health and longevity and now there’s some evidence that with depression, too, there’s increased inflammation in the body. This whole idea of the role of inflammation in undermining health is very powerful and we’re going to see more and more evidence of that.

OK, for lazy folks, what’s the number one most important thing we can do right now to improve our health, particularly mental or emotional?

Make sure you’re getting exercise every day. Stop eating manufactured refined food. Take fish oil supple-ments. Check your vitamin D levels. Place limits on how much you let the Internet into your life.

Yikes, that’s five things already! Which makes me wonder, what do you say to people who look at the book and think “It’s too much of a lifestyle change, especially when I’m depressed.”

That’s why it’s broken into small steps, and spread out over the eight-week program, which seems to be the right period to experience the effects of change. If you do it at your own pace, you begin to see the positive outcomes and are motivated to do more. You don’t have to do it all at once.

Can we clear up something else: Every expert, especially in dietary fields, seems to have their own take on natural med-icine, with often contradictory advice.

How are we to figure out what to heed? One of my functions is to sort

through the information and try to guide people effectively. I really try to document everything I write with published scientific information.

So what do you do or eat every day for optimal health and wellness?

I do some sitting meditation in the morning, and the breathing exercises I describe in the book. I eat an anti-inflammatory diet, I take fish oil and Vitamin D, and I make sure I get enough good quality sleep. And since writing the book, I make an effort to express gratitude on a daily basis, which I never knew about before, at least the scientific evi-dence. [From that alone], I definitely became happier as a result of writing this book.

When you look back over the last twenty years, would you change anything from your earlier books and advice?

I haven’t been wrong about too much. I have a good intuitive sense and a way of knowing where the research is going. I often tell people about things five years before they’re generally accepted. I think that’s been helpful.

What will you do with your extra time in Santa Barbara?

I’ve got some friends to visit, I’ll certainly go to the beach, and I’d like to go to the farmers’ market.

That’s where I’m headed when we hang up.

Oh, good! I envy you.

(UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Dr. Andrew Weil’s talk “Spontaneous Happiness and Why Our Health Matters” at 8pm Wednesday, November 16, at the Arlington, 1317 State Street. Tickets are $38. Call UCSB at 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or the Arlington at 963-4408.) •MJ

Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Happiness, will speak at the Arlington on November 16

Emotional Sea LevelOn Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Mind-body expert and best-selling author Dr. Andrew Weil, a pioneer in the field

of “integrative medicine” which combines Western and Eastern philosophies toward health, struck a chord with a growing legion of natural health-seekers with his seminal book Spontaneous Healing back in 1995. Sixteen years and eight books later, Dr. Weil has applied those same methods and approach to the mental health crisis in his new book Spontaneous Happiness, published last Tuesday.

On the road to promote the new work, Dr. Weil will speak at the Arlington Theatre on Wednesday, just in time to offer some tips to help us through the approaching holiday season. Dr. Weil discussed Happiness and more over the telephone from the airport in Phoenix last Saturday morning.

Q. For those who aren’t familiar with your work, can you briefly explain the concept of Spontaneous Healing?

A. That book set out a lot of the the-ory of the kind of medicine I practice, which is to call attention to the fact that in our bodies, the organism has the capacity to self-diagnose, repair, regenerate, and adapt to injury and loss. To me, that healing mechanism is the most interesting aspect of our biology. It’s very disappointing that it’s not taught in medical school.

Why isn’t it? Medicine in the past century has

become so disconnected from nature. That’s not served us very well. These “cures” that we put in our bodies in the form of drugs simply don’t honor the healing power of nature, which is very great.

Your new book is on happiness, depres-sion and whatever lies between. You’ve only recently revealed that you have bat-tled depression in your own life. Why now?

My own bouts were much earlier in my life, and they’ve receded as I’ve gotten older, mostly as a result of life-style changes, as I’ve explained in the book. But I became very concerned by the statistics on the depression epidemic that we’re in the midst of. The numbers of Americans, especially kids, taking psychiatric drugs is just shocking. Mental Health profession-als are really limited with being so obsessed with brain biochemistry and the use of pharmaceuticals as the only method of treating. It’s really time to take a look at why and to understand all the things you can do to improve your emotional well-being.

How did it get this bad? What hap-pened? It wasn’t that way, say, one hun-dred years ago.

Well, some of it is manufactured by the medical-pharmaceutical complex, maybe even a third. But if you take that away, there’s still an awful lot of depression. I don’t think it has to do with the state of the world, because it’s actually been worse in the past. I think it’s more the accumulation of changes in modern living that are really a mismatch from what are genes are encrypted for. We’re disconnected from nature. We’re increasingly social-ly isolated. Our diet has impacted our mental health for the worse. The effects from media and information overload are very great.

You write that just like our body was designed to heal itself, so too are we “wired” for emotional well-being. So, what happened?

But we’re not meant to be happy all the time. It’s more important to work toward contentment, and resilience and balance – what I call emotional sea level. Our moods are supposed to vary. There may even be some value in experiencing mild to moderate depression occasionally – it may help us solve problems and tap into cre-ativity. So the first thing is to change that cultural expectation of happiness, which isn’t very useful. And we’re heading into the holiday season when it becomes most intense and destruc-tive.

You’ve already mentioned nature a couple of times. While I love the phrase “nature deficit disorder” from the book, is walking in the woods and breathing the air really all we need?

It’s a big factor. When you think how many people in our country don’t have a chance to experience it at all... it really does matter to our mental health.

Maybe it’s not such a big problem here, though, where we have the beach and mountains right nearby. But you can always be miserable in paradise, too.

Some of my worst times of depres-sion were when I was in some very beautiful places. The contrast between what I thought I should be feeling and what I was actually experiencing only

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


County Supervisor, Congressmen Elton Gallegly, and Brett Matthews of Montecito, who worked with the local and national forest service staff and the Association of Santa Barbara County Fire Chiefs to craft a solution that works for all of our citizens,” he said.

For more information about defensi-ble space and the Santa Barbara County Fire’s “Ready, Set, Go!” program, visit their website at www.sbcfire.com.

Mesa Studio Artists Tour Mesa Artist Tour

This Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, November 13, a free tour of award-winning artists studios on the Mesa will take place. This annual event will take guests on a tour of twelve open studios, whereupon the works of the artists can be enjoyed.

The artists, including Karin Aggeler, Cree Mann, Susan Belloni, Deborah Breedon, Sarah Carr, Ron Freese, Morgan Green, Margaret Nadeau, Erin Williams, Paige Wilson, John Williams, and Ellen Yeomans, will present a spectrum of styles including contemporary to traditional.

Deborah Breedon, an instructor at SBCC, will present her Plein Air pas-tels, while award-winning artist Sally Hamilton will show off her landscape and abstract paintings. Susan Belloni is known for her beach, ranch and lagoon paintings using oils and acryl-ics. Karen Aggeler, who has had her abstract paintings displayed in several galleries around town, will display her newest additions in her recently reno-vated backyard.

The studios are a short drive from each other and make for an easy and enjoyable weekend activity. Follow the

signs and the red balloons!For the map to the Mesa

Artists Studios, go to www.SantaBarbaraMesaArtists.com. The event takes place each day from noon to 5 pm.

Omissions & Corrections

The following was sent to us by Barbara McDonald, who we mentioned in last week’s issue (MJ #17/44).

“I was pleased to read that the Laguna Blanca Lower School received a beautification award for their ‘Secret Garden.’ The dedication was a lovely event and I was honored to participate. My twin brother, Hugh Carpenter, and

I contributed a sundial to honor our parents, Warwick and Peggy Carpenter, who owned and ran The Howard School for 27 years on the site that is now Laguna Blanca Lower School. We combined our father’s background in math and our mother’s love of garden-ing in selecting the memorial for the garden. I wanted to emphasize that our parents were not merely teachers at the school, but owned it. (Although our father taught Math and English, and our mother taught Kindergarten and fourth grade Math, most of their efforts went into managing the school.) The Howard School was a school of about 85 day students with a boarding capac-ity of 12, and our parents were totally dedicated to it and the students and staff. Hugh and I considered ourselves ‘permanent boarders’ and the school was our home.” •MJ

A man’s face is his autobiography; a woman’s face is her work of fiction – Oscar Wilde

tion ballot to poll Montecito voters on whether the board should move from a three member board to a five member board.

Montecito fire fighters attended the meeting to tell the board about Movember, their annual mustache-growing contest. We’ll have a more in depth story, with mid-month mustache progress, in next week’s issue.

Highway construction guru Gregg Hart reported that current construc-tion near Milpas and Salinas Streets is expected to be finished in April of next year. California Highway Patrol’s Rob Stuva reported that last month, Montecito drivers were involved in 16 traffic collisions, received 6 stop sign violations, and two violations for pass-ing over the double yellow line on the 192.

Montecito Union School superinten-dent Tammy Murphy said the student body continues to increase, and that many new families have moved to Montecito specifically for the school district. Cold Spring School super-intendent Tricia Price announced November 22 will be the school’s first annual Grandparents’ Day, from 10:30 am to 12:15 pm.

Land Use LatestLand Use Chair Dave Kent reported

that a controversial development on East Mountain Drive received a land use permit from county staff after being preliminarily approved by Montecito Architectural Board of Review. The project will require approximately 8,000 cubic yards of grading and the construction of a 1,100-ft driveway to access the property, which would require two bridges to cross a drain-age. It would require the removal of 18 oak trees, and significantly impact 21 others. Kent reported that two neigh-bors intend on appealing the project to the Montecito Planning Commission. If that happens, the Land Use Committee will send a letter to MPC in support of the appeal.

Committee ReportsBeautification Chair Mindy Denson

thanked all those who helped set up, clean up and serve lunch at this past Saturday’s Beautification Day. Dick Thielscher, who was honored as Citizen of the Year, thanked Mindy for her hard work. “She does such a huge job, and it’s a big job!” Thielscher said.

History Chair Elisa Atwill reported the committee is seeking donations to purchase a plaque honoring local historian David Myrick, who passed away in September. The plaque will be mounted on one of three rocks outside Montecito Hall; the other two have plaques memorializing Maria Herold and Maria Churchill.

Executive Director Victoria Greene previewed for the board a new website design, which will launch later this

month. The new website is completely remodeled, and features pictures, com-munity events, interests, meeting agen-das and minutes, membership infor-mation, pertinent links, MA bylaws, and much more. Publicity Chair Tom Schleck has been hard at work put-ting the website together. Check out www.montecitoassociation.org later this month to see the new design.

The next Montecito Association Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 13.

Fire Tanker Base Update

On the eve of the third anniver-sary marking the Tea Fire in Montecito, Los Padres National Forest and the Association of Santa Barbara Fire Chiefs announced earlier this week new operational plans for the Santa Maria Air Tanker Reload Base.

The U.S. Forest Service retardant contract at Santa Maria will be modi-fied so that the appropriate staff will be on site throughout next year’s declared fire season, something Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Wallace has been working diligently toward for the last two years (see MJ #16/23).

In 2009, the tanker base, which ser-vices Montecito and Santa Barbara County, was downgraded to a “call when needed” (CWN) status due to budget shortfalls. This downgrade sig-nificantly impacted the fire response time in our area, as the nearest full service base is located in Porterville. Through hours of research, Wallace found that keeping the base CWN was actually more expensive than full ser-vice status, because of the high number of fire events in the county. He took that information to his counterparts in other parts of the county, as well as state politicians. “It just didn’t make any sense,” Wallace says.

The new contract change ensures a timely response to fire emergencies occurring in the communities adjacent to National Forest System lands. The tanker base is already staffed, through November 15, the end of the declared fire season.

“We are pleased that the forest service has modified the Santa Maria contract in order to return it to full service next year,” Chief Wallace told us. “The abil-ity to have a quick reload and return to a fire in our front country is essential to combating the spread of a wildland fire that may endanger structures in Montecito. Also, the full service con-tract enables the forest service to stage air tankers, during predicted high fire threat, at Santa Maria to reduce the initial attack response time.”

Wallace was also quick to point out the change in status comes after a lot of hard work both locally and at the state level. “I really want to thank Willy Chamberlin, former Santa Barbara

Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Wallace is pleased to report the Santa Maria Air Tanker Reload Base will be fully staffed during fire season; the change could signifi-cantly improve fire response times in Montecito

Warwick and Peggy Carpenter taken around 1977 in the living room of The Howard School - where Laguna Blanca lower school is now

VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Think Pink! – What with all the Portland bands performing in town in recent months – including a full night’s lineup during last weekend’s New Noise Festival – it might seem like we’ve become a suburb of the Oregon city. Especially now that the biggest band in the landlocked town is heading our way for another, almost annual appearance at the Arlington. Pink Martini, the über-hip so-called “little orchestra” – which features a dozen musicians led by pianist/chief songwriter Thomas Lauderdale – plays an irresistible mix of heady and sophisticated cocktail music for the modern ear – seductive, glamorous and infinitely intoxicating. Former “Rock Star: Supernova” contestant Storm Large steps in as regular singer China Forbes recovers from throat surgery, but don’t expect a reduction in extravagance from the outsized redhead: she led a band called The Balls in Portand for most of the last decade. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street COST: $38-$58 INFO: 893-3535 or www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Veterans Day – Montecitans John and Hazel Blankenship and Marilyn Gilbert and Nathan Rundlett once again team up with the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Museum and Library to honor veterans and service personnel for their commitment and sacrifice with two days of events. The Veterans Day Parade begins at 11am on State Street at Solo and ends up in front of the Veterans Memorial Building on Cabrillo Boulevard, and honors veterans of all branches of the military in

the Santa Barbara area. A free outdoor concert in the Courthouse Sunken Gardens follows at 2pm. Saturday beginning at 5pm, it’s the 16th annual Military Ball, a black-tie event held at the Fess Parker Double Tree Resort that features a cocktail hour, gourmet dinner, a keynote speaker, and swing dancing. All branches of the military are represented by both veterans and active duty personnel. Keynote speaker Louis Zamperini is the real life hero of the current bestselling book Unbroken. The Torrance native competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin then became a bombardier on a B-24 in the South Pacific during World War II. His plane crashed into the sea and only he and two others survived, spending the 47 days floating on rafts with no food or water before being “rescued” by the Japanese who held them in POW camps for two more years. The 94-year-old Zamperini still tours as a speaker, with many inspiring stories in his arsenal. INFO: 966-1660 or 969-7183 or visit www.pierreclaeyssensveteransmuseum.com

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Poetry pairing – Voracious devourers of verse are verily vindicated by this weekend’s offering of two separate poetry events, linked by Paul Willis, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate and Professor of English at Westmont College. Tonight, the Contemporary Arts Forum is the venue for the Santa Barbara Poetry Series, featuring words and song by Arturo Tello, Jeff Aflier, Dorothy Barresi and Francis Pettey Davis as well as Willis. Tomorrow, Willis and his Coyote Road neighbor Gudrun Bortman host “Remembering the Tea Fire: A Community Reading,” featuring local poets and residents reading

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

by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Dan’s the man – If he’d never done anything else, flatpicking guitar innovator Dan Crary would deserve a place in the folk music Hall of Fame just for the terrific album Jammed If I Do (which might also be the greatest title of an LP in any genre), which featured the talents of fellow American six-stringers Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Norman Blake plus Italian maestro Beppe Gambetta. But of course Crary’s been responsible for a whole lot more in his half-century career, including re-establishing flatpicking guitar as a soloing instrument, in the process helping to popularize bluegrass in California. While he’s completely at home in band settings, it’s as a solo performer that he truly shines, able to

showcase his witty and tasty style across several traditional genres. If you’re only going to make it to one Song Tree Concert Series show this year (which admittedly isn’t saying much, since there’s only a couple left in 2011), make it to this one. Dan’s the man! WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview, Goleta COST: $15; kids under 16 free INFO: 403-2639 or www.songtree.org

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Get your Shearing check – Three former members of the George Shearing Quartet – vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake, guitarist Ron Anthony and drummer Colin Bailey – are part of “Sounds of Shearing,” which came together originally for a one-time gig in tribute to the jazz great who composed 300 songs and was a legend as a bandleader and orchestrator from the 1960s-80s. Now an ongoing quintet, the group – rounded out by bassist Luther Hughes and pianist Terry Trotter – emulates Shearing’s sound with piano, vibes and guitar playing the melody in unison. WHEN: 1-4pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street COST: $15 general, $7 musicians INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

their own works or those written by others, to mark the occasion recalling the devastating blaze. WHEN: 7-9pm Saturday; 4-5pm Sunday WHERE: Saturday: CAF, Upper level of Paseo Nuevo Mall; Sunday: Hieronymus Lounge, Kerrwood Hall, Westmont College campus, 955 La Paz Road COST: Tonight: $5 general, $3 students suggested donation; Tomorrow: free INFO: Saturday – 966-1423; Tomorrow – 565-7174

Progressive rock for progress – British producer-musician Alan Parsons may have had his “Eye in the Sky” for his biggest hit with Alan Parsons Project, but his feet remain firmly on the ground and his heart is in the right place for tonight’s big benefit concert raising funds for the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County. Parsons – who started out working in various engineering and producer capacities for landmark British rockers The Beatles, The Hollies and Pink Floyd – has called Santa Barbara home for several years although he still tours the world with the Alan Parsons Live Project, the latest version of which features local guitarist Alastair Greene. Opening for the rock legend is David Pack, the lead singer/songwriter of Ambrosia. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido Street COST: $61 (VIP $101 includes reception and priority seating) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

‘Double Trouble’ marks decade – The Arts Fund celebrates the 10th anniversary of its gallery with an

exhibition of eight Santa Barbara area artists who are also partners as couples. “Double Trouble: Married to Art and Each Other” features artist couples Mary Heebner and Macduff Everton, Jane Callister and Philip Argent, Kimberly Hahn and James Van Arsdale, and Marie Schoeff and Dane Goodman. Each twosome will share one of the gallery’s walls and will oversee its layout. While most of the artists are drawing from new and existing inventories of work to portray their domestic and aesthetic relationships, Hahn and Van Arsdale are designing a multimedia installation marking their first-ever collaboration. WHEN: Opening reception with the artists 5:30-7:30pm Saturday; exhibition continues through January 14, 2012 (open 1-5pm Tuesday-Saturday) WHERE: 205C Santa Barbara Street (in the “Funk Zone”) COST: free INFO: 965-7321 or www.artsfundsb.org

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

‘Treme’endous – When Celeste Billeci visited New Orleans for the first time this past spring, she brought back more than just memories. The UCSB Arts & Lectures head honcho also emerged with a fervent desire to bring the sounds of the Crescent City back home to the American Riviera. Hence the birth of “The Big Easy: Music of New Orleans” series, comprised of four concerts capturing the sassy and sizzling sounds of N’awlins. The second installment tonight is dubbed “A Night in Treme: The Musical Majesty of New Orleans,” and naturally focuses on music from that

10 – 17 November 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41It’s not that the Irish are cynical; it’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody – Brendan Behan

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Kinder music – The fellows at the Music Academy of the West, which won’t resume its season for another seven months, are relatively young. The musicians in the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, for the most part, are even younger. Sixty 12-20 years olds comprise the ensemble, now under

the auspices of the Santa Barbara Symphony, which will perform three concerts at the Lobero Theatre this season. The program for tonight’s “winter” event (albeit six weeks early) conducted by Andy Radford, includes Ravel’s “Tzigane Concert Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra,” plus Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony No.8 in B minor” (allegro, moderato and adagio, con moto movements) and Shostakovich’s “Symphony No.5,” Op.47’s fourth movement, the finale. Katrina Schaefer, who at age 11 was the youngest winner of the Santa Barbara Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Grand Prize in 2005, returns to town to solo in the Ravel. WHEN: 3pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido Street COST: $15 general, $10 seniors, free for preschoolers INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Cave in the ‘Underland’ – The Stephen Petronio Dance Company is no stranger to Santa Barbara, having performed here twice during the winters of 2004 and 2007. But its first local appearance in nearly four years might be the most highly-anticipated as the popular and critically-acclaimed troupe known for combining modern music, visual art and fashion with modern dance is bringing “Underland” for its Santa Barbara premiere. The multimedia dance piece features music by the darkly moody indie pop balladeer Nick Cave, imagery by visual designer Ken Tabachnick and video artist Mike Daly, and costumes from Tara Subkoff of the fashion label Imitation of Christ. Commissioned by the Sydney Dance Company back in

2003 (Cave is an Aussie), the work just premiered in New York last April, so we’re getting it early. But it’s already a favorite in the Petronio catalogue: “The dark beauty of his music, its rawness, pain and redemption speak directly to my artistic motor,” the choreographer has said. Enter the dark and seductive underworld at your own risk. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB Campbell Hall COST: $40 INFO: 893-3535 or www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

neighborhood that has been a source of African-American music – especially the brass band traditions – for decades. The legendary Rebirth Brass Band – which blends the traditional sound with hip hop-influenced funk, Latin-tinged beats and more – are the headliners, supported by five more performers who were also featured on the popular HBO TV series and Grammy-nominated soundtrack Treme: musical director, alto saxophonist and Mardi Gras Indian chief Donald Harrison, Jr.; singer and percussionist Cyril Neville (of the Neville Brothers); clarinetist and historian Dr. Michael White; trumpeter James Andrews (big brother of Trombone Shorty, who kicked off the “Big Easy” series in October); and trombonist and singer Glen David Andrews. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: UCSB Campbell Hall COST: $38 (series tickets

discounted 20 percent) INFO: 893-3535 or www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Rapper talks – Hip hop artist, actor and activist Common (previously known as Common Sense) has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for nine others. He’s also dabbled in acting, appearing in Smokin’ Aces and several other movies and TV series (plus a voice role in the upcoming Happy Feet Two). But now he’s on out the road for a book tour, promoting his recently released memoir entitled One Day It’ll All Make Sense. A Q&A session and book signing follows, but don’t expect a whole lotta rhymes. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB Campbell Hall COST: $29 in advance, $35 at the door INFO: 893-2064 or www.asprogramboard.com •MJ

tame and well thought out, so this is when she gets to really let it all out. But I also love the great comedic break you get in the middle of the opera. It’s not tragic the whole time. You get to see these guys at play, the poets and writers and teachers, just being guys. It’s a lot of fun.

(OSB presents La Bohème at 7:30pm Friday and 2:30pm Sunday at the Granada Theatre. Tickets cost $28-$128. Call 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org.)

Come Fly AwayA mid-autumn Monday night

might be a precursor to the blues. But instead, you can be swept away to vibrant New York City in a swirl of romantic dances and music, as the

Lobero Theatre hosts Come Fly Away. The new musical boasts choreography by Tony-winner Twyla Tharp and music from the Frank Sinatra catalog featuring a live, on-stage band playing new arrangements behind the voice of Ol’ Blue Eyes himself.

Dubbed “a love letter to romance,” the story follows four couples as they fall in and out of love during a single song-and-dance filled evening at a crowded nightclub, a total of 14 danc-ers gliding and leaping to such clas-sics as “Fly Me to the Moon,” “My Way,” and “That’s Life.” We caught up with John Selya, a Tony nominee who was part of the original cast in Atlanta and on Broadway, and now serves as the resident director and twice-a-week performer.

Q. You’ve been dancing with Twyla Tharp for more than a decade. What attracts you to her choreography?

A. It’s totally and always coming from a physical place. I was a trained ballet dancer, and sometimes ballet can get kind of boring and a little pre-tentious. What she’s able to do is take good basic technique and furnish you with material that’s much more hip than Sleeping Beauty or even modern ballet. She finds a great contemporary context. The other reason why I keep

coming back to her stuff is that she’s unique in that she allows so much freedom on stage with the material she’s given you.

You were a part of her two previous big pop music Broadway shows: Moving Out (with Billy Joel music), which was a big hit, and The Times They Are A-Changing (Bob Dylan), which wasn’t. Why did one do so well and the other bomb?

My guess is that Moving Out was all choreography and dancing through the storytelling. The Dylan was not so much dancing. You win some and then you, ah, tie some.

Very diplomatic. So where does Come Fly Away fall?

It’s completely different. The narra-tive is not as defined. It’s more about

the relationship between the couples, the four couples and their courtship. Where Moving Out was a portrait of a generation, this is more about arche-types of love and couplings. Where that spanned years, this takes place in one evening.

Twyla Tharp has worked several times in the past with Sinatra music. What keeps her coming back, if you know? I mean, what was left new to say?

She’s never explained why she chooses it as a backdrop for choreog-raphy, but part of working with her is having questions, never answers. You try to answer them yourself. I’d say that Sinatra music is so timeless, romantic and classic – it provokes a number of different emotions. Each song clearly defines an emotion. The piece is all about love, and he’s one of the best at conveying that in a dif-ferent way. And so is she. That’s why they fit together.

Do the movements literally interpret the songs?

No, not much. Sometimes it’s direct, sometimes it’s abstract, or it may be a slant or even irony. On “Let’s Fall in Love,” [Twyla] chose to literally have

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The Lobero hosts Come Fly Away on Monday, a musical that takes place during one New York City night, with a live on-stage band playing Sinatra hits

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Bella Vista $$$1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella Vista’s ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor 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)

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

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

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M O N T E C I T O E AT E R I E S . . . A G u i d e Plow & Angel $$$San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine on traditional dishes such as mac ‘n cheese and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original artwork, including stained glass windows and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the 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 Roasting Company coffee. Offerings are made from fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farm-ers’ 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)

Whodidily Cupcakes1150 Coast Village Rd (969-9808)

In Summerland / Carpinteria

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

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

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

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

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

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

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 moun-tains and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoying fresh seafood straight off the boat. Dinner is served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is offered on Saturday and 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-made 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 – 17 November 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 43In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure – Malcolm X

. . . E AT E R I E S10:30 am to 9 pm.Enterprise Fish Co. $$225 State Street (962-3313)Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lobsters 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.

Moby Dick Restaurant $$220 Stearns Wharf (965-0549)Sitting right on Stearns Wharf, Moby Dick of-fers fish, lobster, clam chowder, fish and chips and a plenty more. A great place to watch the sun set over the ocean. Open 7 days a week from 7 am to 9 pm.

Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$ Olio Pizzeria $ 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699) Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery 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 mozzarella, seafood, black truffles, and sausage. Salads, innovative appetizers and an assortment 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 din-ner; 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 week-ends.

Ojai

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

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Information Listedfor Fr iday thru Thursday

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IMMORTALS (R)

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in 3D:Fri/Sat - 5:30 8:15 11:11Sun-Tue - 5:30 8:15Wed/Thu - No Shows

Thursday, November 17MIDNIGHT SHOW

THE TWILIGHT SAGA:BREAKING DAWN PART 1

IN DIGITAL (PG-13)

1317 State Street - 963-4408ARLINGTON

2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.RIVIERA

371 Hitchcock Way - S.B.PLAZA DE ORO

225 N. Fairview - Goleta

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

METRO 4618 State Street - S.B.

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12:15 2:35 5:00 7:20 9:35 Sun - 12:15 2:35 5:00 7:20Mon-Thu - 2:35 5:00 7:20

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12:30 5:20 9:45Sun - 12:30 5:20Mon-Thu - 5:20

THE IDES OF MARCH (R)Fri-Sun - 12:00 5:10Mon-Thu - 5:10

THE RUM DIARY (R)Daily - 2:25 7:40

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7:50 10:15Thu - 12:10 2:40 5:10 7:50

IN TIME (PG-13)Fri-Wed - 12:30 3:00 5:30

8:00 10:30Thu - 12:30 3:00 5:30 8:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3Fri-Wed - 8:00 10:10 (R)Thu - 8:00

Thursday, November 17 -SEE THEM ALL:

TWILIGHT SAGA (PG-13)3:45 - TWILIGHT6:30 - NEW MOON9:00 - ECLIPSE12:00 - BREAKING DAWN

THE WAY (PG-13)Fri & Mon-Thu - 4:45 7:30Sat/Sun - 2:00 4:45 7:30

ANONYMOUS (PG-13) 7:45

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people falling on the stage. But I think the songs serve as a perfect catalyst to the dances.

So what makes it different from the other Sinatra pieces?

I think because this show revolves around an anti-hero. There’s a char-acter named Marty. He’s a barback, just an underling, who is able to tran-scend his mundane job and find love in that place and evolve as a person emotionally. As long as I’ve known Twyla, she’s always been drawn to the underdog prevailing. I think that’s where the idea came from and she elaborated on it.

For all its success, the show did get some criticism in New York for its length.

It’s changed for the touring compa-ny, which Twyla initiated. It’s straight-through eighty minutes with no inter-mission now. A few songs were omit-ted, and there’re a few new ones. It’s a much sleeker, faster-paced show, with more emphasis on dancing than narrative. It’s really improved. And the dancers are great! Anybody in the ensemble can do the leads. We’re just stacked with talent.

(Come Fly Away takes place at 8pm Monday at the Lobero Theatre. Tickets cost $53-$78 [patrons $128]. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.)

Whose Line Goes LiveWhen you’ve spent more than a

decade doing live improv comedy, the spontaneity just comes with the scenery.

Case in point: when I kidded Whose Line Is It Anyway? veteran Chip Esten that I was expecting to talk with Ryan Stiles, he didn’t miss a beat. “That’s all right,” he offered. “I’m more forth-coming about him than he would be.”

Esten comes to the Granada Theatre next Tuesday along with fellow Whose Line alumni Stiles, Greg Proops and Jeff Davis for a 90-minute onstage version called “Whose Live Anyway.” For the Groundlings graduate, it’s a chance to revisit what he calls the “magic show of comedy.”

“Sometimes you feel like a Houdini in a comedy straight jacket where the constraints of the scene are the locks. It’s ‘Okay, Ryan and Greg, you

work in a bakery, you’re his son and, oh yeah, it’s during the Renaissance. Now, go!’ To watch them escape and make it a very funny scene contains an element of magic. You can’t help but think, ‘Wow, how did they do that?’”

Every once in a while however, to longtime fans at least, it might have seemed like the escape route was a little familiar, as one of the comedi-ans resurrected a joke or two. But, Esten took pains to explain why you thought you’d heard that line before.

“Your tools are your palette, just like a painter,” he said. “But where they have paint and brushes, we have ourselves: what strikes you as funny, the way your body moves, your facial expressions. So when they give you the suggestions for the scene, you’re always going to put part of yourself on the canvas. There’s always going to be some of Chip Esten and what’s in his wheelhouse.”

Which is why, Esten explained, the performers crave new and unusual suggestions from the audience, whose shouted-out offerings form the bulk of the scenes of each evening’s “games,” which include the old standby’s “Sound Effects” and “Song Styles.”

“We’re starving for something we’ve never done before,” he said. “I mean, yeah I can do ‘Songs of the Fireman’ again, and I’ll try to be origi-nal. But I am going to have to rhyme something with ‘hose’ and ‘pole’ and ‘alarm.’ Now you give me ‘Songs of the Cellist’ and it’s great. I’m terrified, because I don’t know anything about it and I have no idea where to go, but it’s also exciting and fresh.”

Nowadays, with the show off the air and the actors involved in other series (he’s on Enlightened, Stiles has Two and a Half Men), the “Whose Live” gang gets together only sporadically, Esten said.

“We’re not road warriors always hanging out. We just see each other for these things and when we do we’re so thrilled to be able to do it again. It’s like a party that can always go out of control. I think we might have more fun than the audience.”

(UCSB A&L presents “Whose Live Anyway” at 8pm Tuesday at the Granada Theatre. Tickets cost $38-$48. Call 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org.) •MJ

The crew of Whose Line is it Anyway?

brings a ‘magic show of comedy’

to the Granada on Tuesday

EnTERTAInMEnT (Continued from page 41)


$5m and aboveWith 10% fewer homes on the mar-

ket than last year, this sector scored

a zero. Extraordinary opportunities here and most sellers here are very much willing to talk. •MJ

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it – Abbie Hoffman

Real Estate View by Michael Phillips

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

This year, the Montecito market continues to be controlled by buyers, and from most sellers’

viewpoints, a few more would be welcomed. There have actually been more buyers stepping forward than last year – 13% more, in fact – a strong year over year increase compared to nearly everywhere else. However, should you be selling a property in the higher end of our market, your experience will be different and has been for the last four years, more or less.

This column answers the question each month, “How is the market today?” By examining the ratio of present listings to those pending clo-sure in five distinct price sectors, we identify current demand. And since the market fluctuates seasonally if not monthly, we compare the present “heat” to that of last year on this date.

The combined Heat score today is 47. Last year, the score was 50 and the first Heat column published May 31, 2007 reported 110. Two sec-tors are less active today while three are showing more activity than a year ago. The weakest sectors are the $3-4m and $5m and above both scoring a zero. The big surprise is the $4-5m sector scoring an extremely strong 18. The results by sector are:

$1-2m With the occasional sharing of top

Heat honors with the $2-3m group, this sector has been in most demand since mid 2007. Buyers want these properties and they are purchasing in spite of a real estate market the likes of which reminds too many of the post-1929 period. Today it posted a 23, an increase of 92% over last

year’s score. Short sales (bank agrees to accept less than loan amount) and cash offers are prevalent here. A 2,600-sq-ft, four-bedroom ranch style on East Valley is being looked at here as a short sale at somewhere close to a million less than its 2008 purchase price.

$2-3mThis group constitutes our largest

sector and continues to be favored by buyers. It scored a six outperforming last year’s score of four. Inventory is dropping here, however. There are a third fewer homes for sale in this sec-tor than a year ago. A 3,600-sq-ft, five-bedroom 1960s ranch near Romero Canyon on an acre is in contract in this group. In 2005, it sold for $3.165m.

$3-4m Twenty-seven estate homes in this

group and it scored a zero. Last year, this sector scored a respectable 12.

$4-5mWith a posting of 18, this is a

big score for this sector, the least in demand since the meltdown. And it outperformed last year’s surpris-ingly strong score of 14. There are only 11 homes now in this sector. A tri-level Miramar beach house and a nice looking Tuscan-style Birnam property are in contract.

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