The Road To Hollywood

Mike deGruys Celestial Wave
Friends and family, gathered on East Beach

to throw flowers into the sea in tribute to
Mike deGruy, moved by unusual cloud
formation, p. 22
Lighting The Way
Theyre lightweight (4 oz), durable, and
inexpensive ($12) and Dawn OBar hopes
to sell 200,000 of them to third-world
inhabitants this year, p. 29
Village Beat
Dads and daughters do the Watusi,
Mashed Potatoes, Cha Cha and Stroll to
DJ Frankie Gs mix at MUS Father-Daughter
Valentines Day Dance, p. 35
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Vol 18 Issue 7

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 40 MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 42
Westmonts John Blondell to
direct Shakespeares Henry VI at
Londons Globe Theatre, p. 33
The Worlds
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The Road To hollywood
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Journey, Hush, The Girl
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and Dying With Laughter;
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director-screenwriter
Aija Mayrock, a
Laguna Blanca
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gaze on Hollywood
(story on page 6)
Matt Middlebrook,
Caruso Affiliated
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Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated
(full story on page 6)
Cover photo by Matthew Szlakowicz
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Mr. Connerly urges citizens starting with President Obama to step away from race-
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6 Montecito Miscellany
Laguna Blancas Aija Mayrocks blossoming flm career; Kathy Ireland graces cover of
Forbes; Hollywood Reporter focuses on Montecito; Kim and Kris stand of; DRI and S.B.
County Vintners Foundation bash; SB symphony; David Marins personal book; Nicholas
Daniel receives Queens Medal; Festival of Hearts; Oprah and Barbara battle for Pippa;
sightings
8 Letters to the Editor
Kellam de Forest suggests rebuilding and renting out Miramar cottages; Patrik Maiani sees
ghost of Jacques; Don Michel may or may not be marginally attached; Nigel Gallimore
educates on wine; Deacon T update
10 This Week in Montecito
Polar Bear event at the Library; fundraiser for Hannah-Beth Jackson at Just Folk; book
signing at Tecolote; reception for Linda Lingle; Italy expert at SBMA; MUS school board
meeting; MPC hears from Miramar reps; Westmont seminar; Heidi Tiess speaks at
MHRRWC; Lotusland exhibit; Maritime Museum fundraiser; wedding showcase; Zucker
twins sign cookbook; ongoing events
Tide Guide
Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach
12 Village Beat
Montecito Association meeting recap; Turk Hessellund project approved; Toy Crazys new
events; Womens Auxiliary presents big check to Music Academy; Flat File Project at Jane
Deering; Simpatico Pilates open house; free public viewing at Westmont observatory
14 Seen Around Town
Young Americas Foundation celebrates Reagans birthday; SB Maritime Museum War of
1812 commemoration; Historical Museum exhibition opening
20 Rays Ramblings
Did President Obama really nix Keystone pipeline to help good buddy (and political
backer) Warren Bufett? Ray wonders
21 Coup de Grace
2012 has already been a whirlwind for Grace, from vlogging to cascading rocks
22 Coming & Going
Mike deGruys good-bye; Unite To Lights All Purpose Solar Light goes international
23 Book Talk
In true murder-mystery form, Arthur Koestlers Te Case of the Midwife Toad begins with
the discovery of a biologists corpse
26 Our Town
NAMM brings big names in the music industry to Anaheim, one of which being Seymour
Duncan, award-winning local guitar pickup manufacturer
28 On Finance
Investors in for disappointing ten-year returns, predicts Tim Hatton
31 Sheriffs Blotter
Man arrested for possession of marijuana on Cold Spring Road; suspicious activity on
Olive Mill Road
32 Montecito Diary
Tird Annual Sports Drive at the Boys & Girls Club
33 Your Westmont
Professor John Blondell directs Henry VI in Santa Barbara before taking the play to
Shakespeares Globe Teatre in London
36 LifeStyle
La Petite Chouette ofers alternative and fun option to stay in shape
38 On Entertainment
Tom Dugan stars in one-man show, Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal; Garland Jefreys
makes Santa Barbara debut; Fiesta 5 and UCSB screen exemplary flms
40 Calendar of Events
Jane Hirshfeld reads at UCSB; Szymanowski Quartet plays SBMA; beneft for Te
Rhythmic Arts Project; Chieftains visit Granada; U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West;
Tartufe at UCSB; Shakespeare at Center Stage; Music at Trinity concert; Tong-Il Han at
Lobero; Sir Ken Robinson speaks at Campbell Hall; Jambo Watoto
42 Guide to Montecito Eateries
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by Ward Connerly
In Search of Post-Racial America
O
ver the years, there has been considerable erosion in our adherence to
the fundamental American values of liberty, equality, individual merit,
and economic opportunity for all, but the most profound change over
the past ffty years has been the extent to which the government at all levels
and in all branches has radically transformed our dedication to the principle
of equal treatment based on individual merit into the conscious pursuit of
diversity based upon skin color, ethnicity and gender.
The lofty ideal of President John F. Kennedy that race has no place in
American life or law and the dream of Martin Luther King for the day when
the color of his childrens skin would be subordinate to their character have
been replaced by chants that we must celebrate our diversity.
Diversity has become a widely accepted excuse to discriminate on the basis
of whatever factors specific agencies deem appropriate. This rush to diversity
is diminishing freedom, obliterating the principle of individual merit, creating
a regulatory burden for the private sector, dividing Americans, and weakening
the competitiveness of our nation in the world marketplace.
Few policies have had the reach, immortality and consequences of Affirmative
Action. As a policy that could be justified when it was originated, affirmative
action has become yesterdays solution to yesterdays problem. Yet, it endures as
if nothing has happened since the concept was introduced over fifty years ago.
There is an interracial man although self-identified African-American
occupying the White House; blacks are on our courts, including the highest
court in the land; blacks are mayors of major cities, and heads of American
corporations.
Notwithstanding all this, President Obama recently signed an Executive
Order (13583) to promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce.
The irony is that few institutions in America are more diverse and inclusive
than the Federal Government. For example, 17% of the federal workforce con-
sists of blacks, but blacks are roughly 13% of the U.S. population.
The White Male Exclusion Act
In addition to the presidents Executive Order, included in the Dodd-Frank
Financial Regulatory Reform Act is a section (342) that should rightfully be
called the White Male Exclusion Act. This section establishes an Office of
Minority and Women Inclusion with responsibility for ensuring diversity
in management, employment and business activities in all federal financial
regulatory agencies.
It is doubtful that anyone can name a government agency that does not
already include an affirmative action office or diversity department in its
structure. The infrastructure of the diversity network is vast. More than any-
thing else, the pursuit of diversity overshadows and insubordinates excellence
and competence and often requires us to be content with mediocrity.
One would have thought our preoccupation with race and skin color would
have ended with the reign of a so-called post-racial president, but that has
not come to be. Instead, the federal government has intensified and expanded
its affirmative action activities.
Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution recently observed that, the values
that made us exceptional have been smeared with derision Talk of merit or
a competition of excellence in the admissions office of any Ivy League univer-
sity today and then stand by for the howls of academic laughter.
As a former Regent of the University of California and one who has fought for
the principle of merit at the university and elsewhere, I can confirm that these
howls of academic laughter and worse are not confined to the Ivy Leagues.
When former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor ruled in the
Grutter v. Bollinger decision, in 2003, that the use of race preferences was
constitutional while in the pursuit of diversity, she offered the hope that such
preferences would no longer be necessary by 2028.
Eight years after OConnors aspiration, the federal government is moving
further away from that goal, not closer.
If President Obama is serious about having the country rededicate itself
to its ideals, that journey should begin with him leading us from the swamp
of race-based policies. Repeal his Executive Order; get the Congress to
rescind Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank bill, lead the Census away from asking
Americans to check race boxes, and urge Americans, especially those on his side
of the political divide, to cease the racial name-calling and demonizing.
If the president will do these things, perhaps we can move closer to the
post-racial America that was so widely touted during his campaign for
president in 2008. MJ
seven days she directed Dying With
Laughter, about a comedian who dies
and his relationship with his grand-
son.
She is now working on another
lengthier project for next years movie
fest, expanding on A Hearts Journey.
That was about bullying and teen
suicide and I want to do more about
it, explains Aija. It is so important
and has to be dealt with. It is a hor-
rible epidemic, so the more attention
drawn to it the better.
I will either get a job so I can pay a
small crew or try for a grant or two.
Aija, who has also been taking act-
ing classes at City College, says her
future will definitely now be in acting,
screenwriting and directing.
This has completely changed her
life, says Alecia. It is really amazing.
She writes every day and her head
is packed full of ideas. Its all rather
extraordinary!
Supermodel, Supermogul
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But, in a decidedly glamorous
photo shot by top snapper, Michael
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line Supermodel, Supermogul,
Kathy, 48, will be staring out from
newsstands across America at the
end of this month, accompanied by
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moved to Montecito four years ago.
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from her namesake vinyl and plastic
replacement windows, with a retail
outfit, Window World, moving $400
million of them annually, the article
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Kathy, who has also published six
books, receives a royalty payment of
around six percent on the wholesale
sales, which is around $50 million
in revenue for her 42-staff company,
much of it pure profit.
No wonder Forbes dubs her the
$350 million mogul.
The article also reveals that Kathys
property is also home to an Oscar,
which formerly belonged to her good
friend, the late Elizabeth Taylor. The
biz whiz will also be front and center
at the fifth annual Womens Festival
at City College when receives the
Gutsy Gals Inspire Me award from
Montecito founders, Patty DeDominic
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Magnetic Montecito
The Hollywood Reporter has just
focused its celebrity lens on our Eden
by the Beach.
In an article Second Homes of
Santa Barbara, writers Degen Pener
a successor of mine at New York
Magazine and Marissa Gluck say,
that despite the economy, our tony
town has seen a number of headline-
generating sales and listings in the
past 12 months or so.
Two of note, they report, are pur-
chases by mega-director George Lucas
on Padaro Lane and actress Drew
Barrymore, both exclusively revealed
in this illustrious organ at the time.
The magazine also reveals that actor
Rob Lowe and his jewelry designer
wife, Sheryl who built a Georgian-
style 20-room mansion with four
kitchens in our rarefied enclave two
and a half years ago , sold a beach-
front second house in Summerland in
September for $5.9 million.
But the headline-generating trans-
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Kathy Ireland, a cover girl yet again
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Rent The Cottages
I
read Richard Paynes letter
(Credit Where Credit Is Due MJ
# 18/6) thanking Caruso Affliated
for its support of the annual Polar
Bears Swim. I am pleased to learn that
the Miramar Beach and Tennis Club is
still extant.
Following the Caruso request for
the County to fund the cleanup of the
Miramar property, I have a sugges-
tion. Could the cleanup not be done
in stages? The area from the railroad
tracks to the sand could be cleaned
up and rehabilitated now. The beach-
front cottages and boardwalk could
be rebuilt and the beach club rejuve-
nated. The rebuilt cottages would be
rented, thus providing a cash flow. I
note online that a two-bedroom cot-
tage on Miramar Beach Road rents for
$4,000 to $6,000 a month. The rental
income would provide the funds for
the cleanup of rest of the property,
which also could be done in stages.
Sincerely,
Kellam de Forest
Montecito
(Editors note: We like your way of
thinking! J.B.)
The Ghost of Jacques
When I was a kid, there was a
Frenchman lifeguard for 30 years who
relished in kicking us local kids off the
beach in front of the Miramar Hotel. I
think his evil French spirit lives on .
If the Miramar hotel was never
allowed to be torn down and left
abandoned for the last 12 years and
the city made the owners keep it open
for low-cost housing until they had
passed every hurdle of the permit
process etc., or until they were shovel
ready to rebuild, the city and owner
could and would have had 150 rooms
for low-cost housing for 12 years at
$300 per month rent for each room at
$10 per day, the city could have gen-
erated $6.5 million dollars of income
and helped local teachers and schools
with the profits. At $20 per day, 13
million or $1,100,000 per year going
to local schools. What a waste of
real estate, time, money, and the lost
opportunity to turn a negative scene
into a positive one.
I know a lot of good local working
peeps that would have jumped at
affordable housing at the Miramar
hotel for 12 years .
But what do I know? Im only a
piano teacher who patented an easier
way to read music after 500 years of
funny looking notes that most of soci-
ety cant read. I almost forgot I am also
a real estate agent that only charges
1% instead of 3%. But thats how I roll.
What is wrong with our country is
the peeps in charge have no imagina-
tion or desire to let the best idea win,
but to the contrary they keep all new
ideas quashed because it makes them
seem superior and fresh ideas will
change the world for the better and
we cant have people succeeding or
helping each other. Thats way too lib-
erating, groovy and free spirited. Sort
of like when all us Cito rats bravely
gave the finger to old Jacques when he
chased us off of his sand.
Okay, here is a simple idea: lets just
mow it totally down and make it a
nature preserve for the endangered
Cito rats to check the waves. At least
someone will enjoy and benefit from
19 abandoned acres on the beach in
Montecito.
Patrik Piano Maiani
President of Montecito Music
(Editors note: For the record, the City
of Santa Barbara has absolutely no juris-
diction over the Miramar property, as
it is located in Montecito and official-
ly lies in the non-incorporated area of
Santa Barbara County. Its the Board of
Supervisors that must decide those issues.
It is a 14.66-acre property. TLB)
Marginally Attached
It seems that with a growing pas-
sion, our society feels the need to
shield itself from the rigors of reality
by employing euphemisms to describe
almost every situation.
The latest euphemism marginally
attached is a term that has been cre-
ated to describe those who have been
out of work for such an extended
period of time, that they no longer
even try to look for work, and are also
no longer counted as unemployed.
The number of marginally
attached individuals in this country,
according to government statistics,
has now swelled to 2.8 million.
The fact that the 2.8 million mar-
ginally attached are no longer consid-
ered unemployed, necessarily helps to
lower the closely watched unemploy-
ment rate. This fact is lost, however,
in the flurry of presidential re-election
designed television and newspaper
headlines.
Real job improvement will occur
when the unemployment rate and
the number of marginally attached
begins to decline.
I, myself, have been marginally
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attached for so many years I am no
longer marginally attached to the mar-
ginally attached. This lack of attach-
ment is wholly an agreeable one.
Don Michel
Montecito
(Editors note: Seems to us that our
president is also among those marginally
attached J.B.)
Out With The Old;
In With The new
To find out what U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
really thinks about the Constitution
she has sworn to protect, preserve,
and defend, visit this Egyptian TV
site: memritv.org/clip/en/3295.
The Constitution does not provide
the wording for this oath, leaving
that to the determination of Congress.
From 1789 until 1861, this oath was,
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support the Constitution of the
United States. During the 1860s, this
oath was altered several times before
Congress settled on the text used
today, which is set out at 5 U. S. C.
3331.
All federal employees, other than
the President, now take the following
oath:
I, _________, do solemnly swear
(or affirm) that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic; that I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same; that
I take this obligation freely, without
any mental reservation or purpose
of evasion; and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the
office on which I am about to enter.
So help me God.
With that in mind, the following is
a transcript of a portion of a recent
interview Justice Ginsberg gave to an
Egyptian journalist about the recent
elections in Egypt and the ongoing
attempt to craft a workable constitu-
tion for a newly elected democratical-
ly-inclined government:
Justice Ginsberg: I met with the
head of the elections commission. I
think the first step has gone well
elections have been held for the lower
house that everyone else has consid-
ered to be free and fair, so thats one
milestone. The next will be the draft-
ing of a constitution. I cant speak
about what the Egyptian experience
should be, because Im operating
under a rather old constitution we
have the oldest written constitution
still in force in the world.
Let me say first, that a consti-
tution, as important as it is, will
mean nothing unless the people are
yearning for liberty and freedom.
If the people dont care, then the
best constitution in the world wont
make any difference. So, the spirit
of liberty has to be in the popula-
tion. The constitution, first, it should
safeguard basic fundamental human
rights, like our First Amendment is
the right to speak freely, and to pub-
lish freely, without the government
as a censor. You should certainly be
aided by all the constitution writ-
ing that has gone on since the end
of World War II. I would not look to
the US constitution if I were drafting a
constitution in the year 2012. I might
look at the constitution of South Africa
[italics ours]. That was a deliber-
ate attempt to have a fundamen-
tal instrument of government that
embraced basic human rights, had
an independent judiciary It really
is, I think, a great piece of work that
was done.
Much more recently than the U.S.
Constitution, Canada has a Charter
of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from
1982. You would almost certainly
look at the European Convention on
Human Rights. Yes, why not take
advantage of what there is elsewhere
in the world?
Wouldnt it be worth asking the
other members of the U.S. Supreme
Court if they feel the same way? If
they agree with her, I would suggest
that maybe its time to consider find-
ing another line of work, or, even bet-
ter, another country.
Dale Lowdermilk
Montecito
(Editors note: We watched the video
on this and were as appalled as you were.
Silly of us, isnt it, to believe that the
tired, worn-out old U.S. Constitution is
the ultimate law of the land? J.B.)
Local Wine Factoids
Richard Mineards (Montecito
Miscellany MJ # 18/5) writes that
the American Wine Society has a new
Santa Barbara Chapter www.awssb.
org and recently had a meeting in
the Upper Village at Pierre Lafond
Montecito Wine Bistro.
It was in 1919 that Congress passed
the Volstead Act and the follow-
ing year the law went into effect,
outlawing alcoholic beverages until
Prohibition ended in 1933. It would
be nearly 30 years before Santa
Barbara Countys winemaking tradi-
tion was resumed.
In 1962, Pierre Lafond established
the first commercial winery in the
county since the end of Prohibition
and went on to start his own vine-
yard in 1972. As vineyards became
established in Santa Barbara County
during the 1970s, a multitude of win-
eries began to emerge as grape grow-
ers also became winemakers.
It was in 1972 that Brooks Firestone
founded the regions first estate
winery, and 1975 that Fred Brander
started his vineyard and became one
LETTERS Page 244
Coast Village Road as well as a discussion
of the Miramar hotel and other items.
When: 9 am
Where: Country Engineering Building,
Planning Commission Hearing Room,
123 E. Anapamu
The Art of Ornamentation
Join Westmont music instructor
Nona Pyron, who earned bachelors,
masters and doctoral degrees from
USC, in a discussion about The Art of
Ornamentation. The free seminar will
include a lecture and student performance
demonstration.
When: 2 to 4 pm
Where: Westmonts Deane Chapel,
955 La Paz Road
Info: 565-6040

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25
Ganna Walska: Collections and
Keepsakes
Lotusland will kick off the 2012 tour
season with the exhibit, Ganna
Walska: Collections and Keepsakes.
This eclectic mix most of which has
never been seen by the public features
some of Madame Walskas personal
possessions ranging from correspondence
and photographs of famous friends to
clothing, accessories and keepsakes. On
display in the Pavilion, Madame Walskas
private residence, the exhibit reveals the
personality of this remarkable woman in
an intimate setting.
The exhibit will be included in Lotuslands
regular docent-guided tours. The cost
for non-members is adults $35; ages
5 through 18, $10; 4 and under, free.
Reservations are required and may be
made by calling 805-969-9990 or by
sending an email to reservation@lotusland.
org. A confrmation and directions to the
Visitor Entrance will be provided on receipt
of your reservation. For more information
about Lotusland, visit www.lotusland.org.
When: Saturday, February 25 through
Saturday, April 21
was Dean of the joint Faculty of European
Studies for a consortium of American
Universities and Colleges, and has been
recently lecturing at the Smithsonian
Institute. Over the last six years, he
has walked every path and village
of the sixty inhabited Greek Aegean
islands to prepare the twenty volumes of
McGilchrists Greek Islands. He lives near
Orvieto in Italy where he produces olive
oil and red wine.
When: 3 pm
Where: Mary Craig Auditorium,
1130 State St.
Cost: Free for museum members, free for
non-members with museum admission
Info: www.sbma.net or 884-6423
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21
MUS School Board Meeting
When: 6 pm
Where: Montecito Union School,
385 San Ysidro Road
Info: 969-3249
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22
Montecito Planning Commission
Meeting
MPC ensures that applicants adhere to
certain ordinances and polices and that
issues raised by interested parties are
addressed. Today the agenda includes a
courtesy review of the Chevron remodel on
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16
Polar Bear at the Montecito Library
Join in for an educational evening about
the polar bears from Churchill, Canada.
Naturalist Colin McNulty, led tours in
Churchill for many years and has lots
of interesting information and images to
share. For all ages.
When: 6:30 pm to 8 pm
Where: 1469 East Valley Road
Info: 969-5063
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18
Book Signing at Tecolote
Barbara Lampert heads to Tecolote Book
Shop to sign her recently published book,
Charlie: A Love Story. The book came about
after Charlie, a Golden Retriever, started
having health problems at age 11, and
Barbaras daily gardening journal turned
into a journal solely about Charlie and her
bond with him. Barbara is a Marriage and
Family Therapist living in Malibu with her
husband of 28 years, David, and Harry,
their six-year-old Golden Retriever.
When: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Where: Tecolote Book Shop,
1470 E. Valley Road
Info: www.charliealovestory.com
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Montecito Tide Chart
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Sat, Feb 18
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Sun, Feb 19
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Tues, Feb 21
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Wed, Feb 22
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Thurs, Feb 23
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24
Lecture and Luncheon
Military Service, Patriotism and Conservatism will
be the topic of a talk by Army veteran Heidi Thiess
when she speaks to the Santa Barbara Republican
Womens Club, Federated (formerly known as the
Montecito Hope Ranch Republican Womens Club). Ms
Thiess, who earned her jump wings at Airborne School,
enlisted in the US Army as a 17-year-old freshman in
college and served simultaneously in the US Reserves and
ROTC until her graduation and commissioning. She graduated with a BA degree
in International Affairs with a specialty in Soviet Politics and a minor in Military
Science before continuing her service overseas. Since her separation from military
service, Ms Thiess has remained active in veterans advocacy and politics, with a
focus on sovereignty and national security issues. She is a founding cadre member
of the national veterans group, the Gathering of Eagles. Currently, she owns a small
frearms business, specializing in home defense and self-protection for women.
When: 11:30 am
Where: 920 Summit Road
Cost: $30 in advance, $35 at the door
Info: MHRRWC@gmail.com
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16
Fundraiser at Just Folk
Hannah-Beth Jackson is running for State
Senate, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall,
and Just Folk in Summerland invite you to a
fundraising party that features live jazz by Stu
Carey and X-Tet, wines from Melville Winery, Just
Folks signature Piggy Martinis, and dancing
When: 5 to 7 pm
Where: Just Folk Gallery, 2346 Lillie Avenue,
Summerland
Cost: $250 and up
Info: info@hannah-beth2012.com or 203-6337
Reception for Linda Lingle
Milt and Debbie Valera host a
reception in support of U.S. Senate
Candidate for Hawaii, Linda Lingle.
Ms Lingle served as Governor of Hawaii
from 2002 until 2010, and was the frst
woman, frst person of Jewish ancestry,
and the frst Republican in 40 years to lead
the Aloha State. Today, Governor Lingle
serves as one of the six founding members
of the Governors Council at the Bipartisan
Policy Center, a national public policy and
advocacy organization.
When: 5 to 7 pm
Where: At the home of Milt and
Debbie Valera
Cost: $1,000 and up
Info: info@hannah-beth2012.com
or 203-6337
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19
Best of Italy at SBMA
Italy expert Nigel McGilchrist comes
to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art to
take the public on a virtual tour of each
of the major regions of Italy, including
Sicily, with his picks for greatest works of
art and architecture in each region. Nigel
was Director of the Anglo-Italian Institute
in Rome, taught at the University of Rome,
This Week
in Montecito
UPCOMING EVENTS
Book Signing
Judi and Shari Zucker, The Double Energy
Twins, sign their latest book, The Ultimate Allergy-
Free Snack Cookbook at Chaucers
When: Thursday, March 1, 6:30 pm to 8 pm
Where: 3321 State Street
Info: 682-6787
Harbor Tastings and Treasures
Celebrate and support the Maritime
Museum at this annual fundraiser. Over 30
local restaurants, caterers, and wineries will
prepare tastings for guests while competing
for awards by celebrity judges Tommy
Tang and Michael Hutchings. Proceeds
from the event help to support the Maritime
Museums educational and curatorial
programs, along with general operating
expenses. Each year up to 8,000 tri-county
students visit the Santa Barbara Maritime
Museum to learn more about our local
maritime history and culture.
When: 5 pm to 8 pm
Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum,
Waterfront Center, 113 Harbor Way
Cost: $100 per person
Tickets: 962-8404 x 102
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26
Wedding Showcase
A Bridal Show and Wedding Fair
Featuring over 50 wedding professionals
When: 11 am to 3 pm
Where: Santa Barbara Rockwood
Womens Club, 670 Mission Canyon Road
Cost: $10 admission.
Info: 965-8249 or www.simplythebestofsb.
com
ONGOING
MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS
Art Classes
Beginning and advanced, all ages and by
appt, just call
Where: Portico Gallery,
1235 Coast Village Road
Info: 695-8850
TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS
Adventuresome Aging
Where: 89 Eucalyptus Lane
Info: 969-0859; ask for Susan
WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS
Live Entertainment at Cava
Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road
When: 7 pm to 10 pm
Info: 969-8500
MONDAYS
Story Time at the Library
When: 10:30 to 11 am
Where: Montecito Library,
1469 East Valley Road
Info: 969-5063
Connections Early Memory Loss
Program
Where: Friendship Center,
89 Eucalyptus Lane
Info: Susan Forkush, 969-0859 x15
TUESDAYS
Boy Scout Troop 33 Meeting
Open to all boys ages 11-17; visitors
welcome
When: 7:15 pm
Where: Scout House, Upper Manning
Park, 449 San Ysidro Road
WEDNESDAYS
Story Time
Stories read to little ones at Montecito toy
store, Toy Crazy. All books are discounted
10% for purchase during story time
mornings.
When: 11 am to 11:30 am
Where: 1026 Coast Village Road
(in Vons shopping center)
Info: 565-7696
THURSDAYS
Pick-up Basketball Games
He shoots; he scores! The Montecito Family
YMCA is offering pick-up basketball on
Thursdays at 5:30 pm. Join coach Donny
for warm-up, drills and then scrimmages.
Adults welcome too.
When: 5:30 pm
Where: Montecito Family YMCA,
591 Santa Rosa Lane
Info: 969-3288
FRIDAYS
Farmers Market
When: 8 am to 11:15 am
Where: South side of Coast Village Road
SUNDAYS
Vintage & Exotic Car Day
Motorists and car lovers from as far away
as Los Angeles and as close as East Valley
Road park in front of Richies Barber
Shop at the bottom of Middle Road on
Coast Village Road going west to show
off and discuss their prized possessions,
automotive trends and other subjects.
Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Corvettes
prevail, but there are plenty other autos to
admire.
When: 8 am to 10 am (or so)
Where: 1187 Coast Village Road
Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com
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Closing In On Miramar Cleanup
Village Beat
by Kelly Mahan

A
t this months Montecito
Association board meeting, the
board voted to send a letter to
the Board of Supervisors in support of
the extension of Rick Carusos Coastal
Development Permit by one year.
The letter also states the Association
Boards support of the current effort
between the Caruso group and the
county, which will ultimately result in
the cleanup of the Miramar site.
Caruso will be at the Board of
Supervisors in March asking for an
extension of his Coastal Development
Permit, as well as a county-wide
ordinance that will give luxury hotel
developers who build in Santa Barbara
County a Transient Occupancy Tax
rebate. As part of this package,
Caruso is also asking for indefinite
extensions on all other permits associ-
ated with the approved hotel project.
Caruso rep Rick Lemmo was
in attendance at the meeting, and
explained to the board that if the
package is accepted by the county, the
buildings on the Miramar site could
be demolished by the end of the year
after asbestos, lead and other environ-
mental remediation takes place.
Several board members and some
audience members asked Lemmo
the reason for the indefinite permit
extensions, which he explained are an
incentive to build the hotel. Lemmo
estimates by the time the site is demol-
ished, Caruso will have put $12 mil-
lion into the hotel. We dont want to
begin the whole permitting process
again once we get financing, Lemmo
said. At that point we are not spend-
ing wisely. He estimated that con-
struction of the 186-room resort could
begin as early as next year, depending
on financing.
I wholeheartedly support the nego-
tiations, said former Land Use chair
Darlene Bierig, who was in the audi-
ence. I think its in the communitys
best interest and I think you should
support them.
The ordinance extension will be in
front of the Board of Supervisors on
March 6; at that time the Board is
expected to ask staff to construct the
TOT rebate ordinance, which could
take 60-90 days.
We want [First District Supervisor]
Salud Carbajal to work as hard as he
can to get those buildings down, said
MA president Dick Nordlund.
Hot Springs Latest
This week, Montecito Water
District sent a letter to Montecito Fire
Protection District asking it to concep-
tually take control of a 40-acre parcel
included in the Hot Springs prop-
erty. The Land Trust of Santa Barbara
raised $8.7 million to purchase the
462-acre property last year, but ran
into issues when the Forest Service,
which was to take over the property
for maintenance, refused to take over
the property because of ground water
right issues. The Montecito Water
District owns ground water and well
rights on 40 acres of the property, and
wants to protect those rights.
At their board meeting this week,
the MWD board agreed to take over
the deed for those 40 acres, and has
asked that MFPD take control of that
portion of the property, as they are
more suited for fire prevention and
trail maintenance. The Forest Service
would then be deeded the other 416
acres. MFPD will discuss the issue
briefly next week at its board meeting
on February 21; it will be formally on
the agenda in March.
Community Reports
In other fire news, Chief Kevin
Wallace and his team taught twenty
people Hands Only CPR on Valentines
Day in the Upper Village. He remind-
ed the board that in November, a
ballot item will be part of the general
election to determine whether the fire
district board should be a five person
board rather than three person. As the
election gets closer, more information
will be posted at www.montecitofire.
com.
Lieutenant Kelly Moore with the
Sheriffs Department reported that
car burglaries have significantly
increased, but so have arrests of peo-
ple involved in the burglaries. We
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need to be vigilant about locking our
vehicles, he said. He also reported a
panga boat was found off of Fernald
Point, and after investigation of the
boat, it is assumed that it was used to
traffic people and drugs. Residents are
urged to call the Sheriff Department if
they see anything suspicious.
California Highway Patrols Rob
Stuva listed the statistics in Montecito
over the last month: four traffic colli-
sions, seven DUI arrests, 29 seatbelt
and cell phone citations, 13 speeding
tickets, and eight stop sign citations.
Cold Spring School superintendent
Tricia Price reported that a group
gathered last month which included
Nordlund, Carbajal and Public Works
representatives. The group walked
along streets surrounding the school,
to see the problems that kids face
on their way to class. In a grassroots
effort, school parents knocked door
to door and asked neighbors if they
would allow the parents to clear a
pathway in front of their properties. It
was a success, said Price, and 125 feet
of path was cleared near the school.
Gregg Hart reports that the Hot
Springs to Cabrillo highway construc-
tion project is 96% complete. The
bulk of the distracting construc-
tion will be gone, he said. He also
reported that the issue of the San
Ysidro southbound freeway entrance
will be included in SBCAGs Regional
Transportation Plan.
The next Montecito Association
Board meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday, March 13 at 4 pm.
nursery Project
Approved
On Thursday, February 9, the
Santa Barbara Planning Commission
approved a mixed-use project slated
to replace Turk Hessellund Nursery,
on the corner of Coast Village Road
and Coast Village Circle. The project,
which includes two townhome style
residential units, a 42-seat restaurant,
commercial office and retail space,
and a 40-space underground parking
garage, is owned by Alberto Valner
and has been designed by architect
Brian Cearnal.
Alberto was very clear that he
wanted a project that was sensitive to
the site and sensitive to the communi-
ty, Cearnal told the commission. The
project has garnered mostly praise
in the community; Mr. Valner has
presented the plans to the Montecito
Land Use Committee, Coast Village
Business Association, and Citizens
Planning Association, as well as gov-
erning bodies including the Citys
Architectural Review Board, and
Montecito Planning Commission, who
T
he Reagan Ranch Center, which
is located at 217 State Street and
owned by the Young Americas
Foundation, was the site of an all-
day celebration of President Ronald
Reagans 101
st
birthday on February
6. This four-story building, which
used to be a hotel, has morphed into
a museum, theater and learning center
just across from the railroad depot.
The Center had been open all day
with docent-led tours, screenings of
Reagans Hollywood films, documen-
taries, speeches and ranch events. We
had all gathered in the early evening
to hear Michael Reagan speak and
have him sign his book, The New
Reagan Revolution. And, of course, to
eat cake.
Executive director of the Young
Americas Foundation, Andrew
Coffin, welcomed us to (as Reagan
would say), The sixty-second anni-
versary of his thirty-ninth birthday.
This past centennial year was a big
one for Young Americas Foundation,
as conservative leaders such as
Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Donald
Rumsfeld and Marco Rubio helped
us carry the banner of Reaganism
forward. They had all spoken at the
Center.
It was pointed out that in a recent
Gallup poll, Ronald Reagan was the
most respected president by the U.S.
population at large, but in academia
60% of 284 college professors didnt
even rank him in the top ten. The
Young Americas Foundation feels
that students should hear both views.
Stephen Bannon spoke to the
crowd. Hes the director of the films,
In the Face of Evil, Still Point in a
Turning World and one soon coming
called The Conservatives. His daughter
just returned from duty in Iraq and
Stephen pointed out, These kids are
as great as the greatest generation. The
greatest generation was all drafted.
Now there is no draft. He feels that
Reagans greatest quality was grit and
tenacity.
Michael Reagan spoke lovingly and
humorously about his dad. He was
afraid to fly and when he was spokes-
person for General Electric, he took
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trains and buses all over the United
States. He thought God only gave you
so many air miles. When Reagan ran
for president he had to fly. Ironically,
when you visit the Reagan library,
the main exhibit is Air Force One, his
presidential plane. Then it was time to
let us eat cake.
We didnt have nearly enough time
to see the gallery exhibits. We did see
a piece of the Berlin wall and the jeep
that Nancy gave her husband for his
birthday in 1983. This was the infa-
mous jeep that Reagan used to drive
Queen Elizabeth to his ranch when
only the day before in the torrential
rains, a woman in her car had washed
away in one of the streams they ford-
ed. There was also a giant boulder
on display. When we asked why, the
docent explained, Walt Disney made
those for Reagan. They were put by
the fence at the Rancho del Cielo and
filled with sensors but they are light
enough to toss around. Reagan called
the ranch his open cathedral.
The Center is open Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 11 am to 4:30 pm.
There are always docents to show you
around. If you like history, youll like
your visit.
War Of 1812
Bicentennial
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
commemorated the Bicentennial of
the War of 1812 (sometimes called the
second American Revolution) with an
exhibition of 25 oil paintings of those
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retiring, traded in sailing knots for
paintbrushes and began his full-time
artistic career. To date, he has painted
over 3,000 oil paintings and rendered
the 25 for the show in the last year in
his studio in Petaluma.
Hans told me, I served on sixteen
Liberty ships during WWII and was
sunk three times. Luckily he was
rescued by part of the ships convoy.
Many were not. Hans said he used to
paint even while the ship was rolling.
My brain is still out to sea.
Executive director Greg Gorga
asked the group for a moment of
silence to remember world-acclaimed
underwater photographer, filmmaker
and ocean advocate Mike deGruy,
who was just killed in a helicopter
accident near Australia while he was
location hunting. He was a great
friend of the Museum. The movie,
Santa Barbara at Sea, which is being
shown here, has three board mem-
bers in it: Don Barthelmess, Mike
McCorkle and Mike deGruy. Two past
presidents of the board, Jean Schuyler
and Ken Clements were also attend-
ing. Hans granddaughter, Christina
Sikes, and great granddaughter,
Victoria Sanchez, were there to sup-
port him.
We sang Happy Birthday to Hans
and toasted him with Deep Sea wine,
which appropriately came from the
nautical wharf tasting room.
The exhibition will be on display
until July 8, 2012 at the Maritime
Museum, located at the Santa Barbara
Harbor and open daily from 10
am to 5 pm. The museum is closed
Wednesdays.
The Flying A
The day before the Santa Barbara
International Film Festival (SBIFF)
began, the Santa Barbara Historical
Museum (SBHM) held their own sold-
out opening of its newest exhibition,
complete with a red carpet and Klieg
lights flashing in the sky. And it was
about film where it all began right
here in Santa Barbara at The Flying A
studios on State Street. Coincidentally,
the hot Academy Award nominated
movie The Artist is also a silent film.
The green room used by the Flying A
casts is still at the corner of Mission
and Chapala Streets.
The tented courtyard was like a
theatre lobby except the popcorn and
candy were free followed by wine
and sumptuous sliders, shrimp and
more. The outgoing president Eleanor
Van Cott introduced the SBHMs new
board president, Marlene Miller. The
exhibition is a collaborative effort of
UCSB professor Dana Driskel, histo-
rian Neal Graffy and curator Daniel
Calderson. Others helped including
Executive Director David Bisol.
Before we got to see the collec-
tion, Dana spoke to the group. He
had begun his career 40 years earlier
as a messenger boy on a bicycle at
Disney delivering scripts. He gave us
a lengthy history of Flying A, which
cranked out more than 900 films from
1912 to 1920 when everyone moved
to Hollywood. They pioneered tech-
niques that are still in use today.
Amazingly these films were distrib-
uted around the world and many
were never returned, so they are lost
to us. In the gallery, commemorating
the centennial anniversary, were four
of the old silent films causing raucous
laughter from the viewers.
Neal Graffy writes in the forward
of the catalogue, The story of the
Flying A began for me in the sum-
Artist and
birthday
boy Hans
Skalagard,
SBMM curator
and director
of education
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with executive
director Greg
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Santa Barbara Maritime Museum operations man-
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ket, just as in Los Angeles, contin-
ues to lose ground, say the authors.
For 2011, the median list price in
Montecito was $1.35 million, down
almost seven percent from the year
before.
And prices are still going down, at
least 30 to 40 percent off from what
they were at their peak, according to
Sothebys International Realtys Lisa
Loiacono. People are being very cau-
tious.
Examples of celebrities offering cut
price deals on their properties include
Michael Douglas ex, Diandra, come-
dian Dennis Miller and director
Michael Bay...
Continuing Contention
It was one of the most publi-
cized weddings in years, but Kim
Kardashians jilted groom, basketball
ace Kris Humphries, is not interested
in the reality stars money in a divorce
settlement, it would seem.
The couple, who split in October
just 72 days after their over-the-top
Montecito ceremony, signed a pre-
nuptial agreement on how to divide
their assets.
However, Kardashian, 31, is said
to have offered him a financial settle-
ment in order to get their divorce com-
pleted as soon as possible.
But Humphries, 27, is reportedly
adamant he doesnt want any money
and is determined to pursue his claim
to have the divorce granted on the
grounds of fraud, arguing that he
and Kardashian married under false
pretenses.
A source tells RadarOnline: There
have been informal settlement talks
going on between Kim and Kris
respective lawyers.
Team Humphries has made it crys-
tal clear that Kris isnt seeking any
money from Kim. Kris doesnt want
one penny from her. His lawyers have
said the only terms acceptable for a
settlement would be if Kim agrees to
Kris contention that the marriage was
a fraud.
There is a stand-off at this point
because Kim will never agree to that.
She says the marriage wasnt a fraud,
it just didnt work out.
Stay tuned...
Coral Casino Royale
Oenophiles were in heaven when
the Santa Barbara County Vintners
Foundation and Direct Relief
International hosted the seventh bien-
nial American Riviera Wine Auction at
the Coral Casino, which was expected
to raise well in excess of $500,000 for
the popular charity.
The Casino Royale-themed bash,
which attracted 330 guests in black
tie and glittering gowns, featured
silent and live auctions with some
most impressive offerings, includ-
ing court-side seats to the L.A.
Lakers, attending the finale of the
hit Lifetime TV show Project Runway,
tickets to Judge Judy, The Tonight
Show and Glee, the Hollywood red
carpet premiere of Julia Roberts
latest film Mirror Mirror, a glider trip
over the Santa Ynez Valley, a week
in Costa Rica, a weekend in Aspen,
four nights at a French chateau, a
South African safari and a trip to
Laos and Cambodia.
It is really amazing the support
we get, says Thomas Tighe, DRIs
president. I think people appreciate
the work we do in the U.S. and our
quick response to global emergen-
cies.
Montecitos Billy Baldwin, just
back from filming in Denmark and
making an appearance on his broth-
er, Alecs, hit NBC TV show 30 Rock
in New York, emceed the windy
bash, which featured vintage wine
from every conceivable vineyard
and food prepared by celebrity chef
Bradley Ogden, Frank Ostini and
Biltmore culinary whiz Alessandro
Cartumini.
Among the gloriously glamorous
glitterati attending the elegant soire
were Fox TV chief Gary Newman,
Project Runway producer Jane Cha,
Days of Our Lives soap opera hunk
Bryan Dattilo, Glee actress Jane
Lynch, Martin Gore of Depeche
Mode, Joanna Kerns, veteran gos-
sip Rona Barrett, Brooks and Kate
Firestone, Robert and Gretchen Lieff,
Arlene Montesano, Bilo Zarif and
Mara Abboud...
Superb Symphony
Santa Barbara Symphony, under
maestro Nir Kabaretti, was accentuat-
ing the negative at its latest concert at
the Granada.
Undoubtedly one of the best
performances of the season, the
show opened with Ansel Adams:
America, with a large screen hov-
ering above the orchestra showing
the iconic monochromatic landscape
works of the late renowned photog-
rapher, accompanied by the music of
jazz supremo Dave Brubeck and his
son, Chris.
George Gershwins 1924 gem
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pianist Terrence Wilson, a graduate of
New Yorks Juilliard School, was an
absolute show stopper, with a thunder-
ous standing ovation, richly deserved.
The second half was given over to
Charles Ives Symphony No. 2, a mix
of movements he wrote after graduat-
ing from Yale.
When it premiered in New York
in 1951, conducted by the legend-
ary Leonard Bernstein, the cantanker-
ous curmudgeon didnt even attend
and only begrudgingly listened to his
piece on the radio.
On meeting with Bernstein some
time later, Ives lost no time in berat-
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conducting it so badly!...
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Adopting three witness protection
children from Santa Barbara County
social services as a single parent is
quite an onerous responsibility in the
best of scenarios.
But to also find time to write a book,
This Is US: The New All-American Family,
about the experience is quite miracu-
lous, but David Marin, who took on
the task eight years ago, seems to have
balanced both responsibilities well.
I began to keep a journal. Jotting
down notes at night, to decompress
primarily, says the divorced attorney
and former Santa Maria newspaper
executive.
After they moved into my home
I began to write the book, but it took
six years to finish because I had a few
other things to do, like working and
raising a newfound family.
A first draft, written like a reporter
would write, did not have me in it. My
plan was to relate the facts to people
and let them decide what to feel. That
fell flat as people wondered who I was
and why I did what I did. So I started
over.
The story does touch on my jour-
ney through the maze of social ser-
vices, the inspiration I found in social
workers who care about what theyre
doing, and the frustrations I felt parry-
ing with indifferent bureaucrats.
A touching, inspirational and thor-
oughly readable tome...
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Old credit cards have their uses as
the audience at Camerata Pacificas
concert at the Music Academy of the
Wests Hahn Hall found out when cel-
list, Ani Aznavoorian, played seven
Chinese works by Bright Sheng.
It was suggested I use a guitar pick
to get the necessary sound effect, but
I found that difficult, Aznavoorian
explained to the packed house. So
I started to use an old expired credit
card instead, which works very well.
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Schumanns Marchenbilder includ-
ing Richard Yongjae ONeill on viola
and Beethovens Trio in B-flat Major,
No. 4 completing the program.
On a majestic note, the groups
British oboist, Nicholas Daniel, wholl
be playing at the March concert, has
just been given the Queens Medal for
Music. Hell receive the coveted award
from the monarch at a Buckingham
Palace audience later this year.
Daniel is the seventh winner of the
honor, following in the footsteps of
well-known recipients such as London
Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir
Colin Davis, and opera singers Bryn
Terfel and Dame Emma Kirkby...
Hearts and Art
Hearts of varying sizes, designs
and color abounded at the Friendship
Centers 13th annual Festival of
Hearts at Fess Parkers Doubletree,
which raised more than $50,000 for
the 36-year-old charity which looks
after frail seniors.
Around 90 artists donated works,
including former supermodel Kathy
Ireland and Oscar-winning actor Jeff
Bridges, and bubbly auctioneer Gail
Rappaport sold off a variety of items,
including a jungle spa vacation in
Costa Rica, a desert getaway in Palm
Springs and a San Francisco week-
end at the tony hostelry, the Mark
Hopkins.
Among those checking out the event
were Kellam de Forest, Andy and
Dolly Granatelli, Ron Gallo, Rona
Barrett, David Borgatello, Montecito
fire chief Kevin Wallace, board presi-
dent Marty Moore, Penny Mathison
and mayor Helene Schneider...
Pulling for Pippa
The Duchess of Cambridges sister,
Pippa, would appear to be the prize
in a $500,000 bidding war between
two TV talk show queens for her first
television interview.
Oprah Winfrey and Barbara
Walters, archrival heavyweights, are
said to be pulling out all the stops
to snare her as a guest in an hour-long
special.
The slender brunette became quite a
sensation after her scene-stealing turn
as a bridesmaid at her sister Kates
wedding to Prince William last year.
Chat show bosses see the 28-year-
old who is about to start promoting
a new book on throwing the perfect
party as the biggest prize among
their dream guests for 2012.
U.S. TV executives are reportedly
fighting to seal a deal with Penguin,
Pippas London publishers, for her
first proper television interview later
on this year.
Watch this space...
Sightings: Lord of the Rings actor
Andy Serkis checking out opal...
Symphony conductor Nir Kabaretti
noshing at the new La Arcada Bistro...
Actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley
sweating it out at Santa Barbaras
Bikram Yoga
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lmost coincidently, although
not accidently, two events
occurred recently. In the frst
instance, Berkshire Hathaway CEO
Warren Buffet invested heavily in
his Burlington Northern Railroad
consortium. Secondly, President
Obama indefnitely delayed
construction of the Keystone XL
pipeline. What is the signifcance?
What is the connection between
pipelines, trains, oil and Ohio corn?
Well, one wonders how Warren
Buffet knew to order more rolling
stock for his Burlington Northern rail-
road nearly two years ago the high-
est rate of increase in rail rolling stock
in nearly 40 years. The order consisted
mostly of tanker cars. Is it possible
that Obamas close friend and finan-
cial advisor knew something the rest
of us didnt as a result of his many
conversations with the President? And
why the advance orders for all of those
railroad tank cars? Werent we in a
recession?
Take a breather, because the story
gets a little more complicated.
First, lets take a little side trip to
the U.S. Congress. To be specific, H.R.
3784, co-sponsored by Representative
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) along with
five other Democrat foot soldiers.
What do they grow in Ohio? Corn,
which most of us thought was food.
Most of us, of course, would be
wrong.
An exponentially increasing per-
centage of our supply of this foodstuff
is used to make a gasoline additive.
How does it get shipped hundreds
and up to a thousand miles to blend-
ing refineries? Well, a large portion of
it rolls along on Burlington Northern.
The good folks in Ohio use petroleum-
based fertilizers to grow corn that
gets turned into a replacement for
real petroleum. Now that chain of
events could only be invented by the
federal government. Nobody else is
that dumb. And, government gives
outlandish grants and subsidies to
the farmers who engage in this near-
ly criminal activity. Representative
Kucinich certainly knows how to take
care of his home boys.
Excess Profits Taxes
Kucinichs H.R. 3784 would provide
for an excess profits tax on all sellers
of any petroleum product. The bill
calls for a three-man board appoint-
ed by the President of The United
States, with absolutely no oversight
from Congress or any other regula-
tory agency. Members of the board
would decide with guidance from
the president the definition of excess
profits; the bill provides for the taxa-
tion of up to 100% of excess profits.
Naturally, all agricultural fuels read
corn would be exempt from such
taxes.
We really dont want to burden corn
growers in the Kucinich district with
taxes on a product that is already sup-
ported by tax dollars, do we? Why that
would be downright un-American.
You know, I spent hours trying to find
in our Constitution where it gives this
kind of power to the executive branch.
Maybe I didnt look hard enough. If
you can find it, let me know. Can you
spell Atlas Shrugged?
The Keystone Pipeline has been
studied by everybody from the EPA,
Department of Energy, Homeland
Security, oil companies and a spate of
environmentalists, both pro and con,
for nearly seven years. The general
consensus, even by the government,
was that this was a slam dunk. That
was until Mr. Buffet appeared on the
scene. As for Mr. Kucinich, there are
at least two reasons he and his cro-
nies dont want a pipeline running
through their cornfields, and neither
has anything to do with environmen-
tal impact or the water aquifer.
Firstly, the Keystone XL pipeline
would, according to almost every-
one including the governments own
Department of Energy, increase the
availability of oil to the United States
by about 25%. That would replace
nearly all the oil we get from our dear
friends in Saudi Arabia and at a cost
of at least 30% less. At the same time it
would also bring into very sharp focus
the stupidity of turning a large portion
of our food supply into automobile
fuel and stop the insane subsidies.
Take a look at the price of your
breakfast corn flakes compared to two
years ago. The price has gone up about
250%, mostly due to using corn as an
expensive gasoline additive. And it
is not just corn flakes; corn and corn
byproducts are used in virtually every
food we consume, from ice cream to
our daily bread.
Secondly, it is not in concert with
the Obama deal with Warren Buffet.
Whatever people bring to us, were
ready to haul, Krista York-Wooley,
a spokeswoman for Burlington
Northern, a unit of Buffetts Omaha
Rays Ramblings

Hailing originally from Price, Utah, and growing up in Las Vegas, Ray, has been
managing his own companies for many years. His extensive rsum includes pro-
gram manager for Rover-Nerva nuclear rocket program, nuclear weapons testing,
co-designing photo sensor imaging systems for Mars Viking Lander-Orbiter cameras, co-inventing bi-
polar accelerator for cancer treatment, and semiconductor related patents. He lives in Montecito.
by Ray Winn
Pipeline, Trains, Oil and Corn
Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway
Inc. (BRK/A), said in an interview. If
Keystone XL doesnt happen, were
here to haul. And haul they will,
including all the petroleum products
from the Bakken shale finds. Ms.
York-Wooley attested that Burlington
Northern carries about twenty-five
percent of the oil from the Bakken
and hopes to double their market
share within one year. The company
can carry higher volumes from North
Dakota or Alberta, and any rail port of
entry from Canada.
Explosive Railroad
Hauling Growth
To give the reader an idea of the
explosive growth of the oil schlepping
business, the volume of shipments
from Bakken by rail has increased
from about 500 carloads for the entire
year of 2009 to nearly 20,000 carloads
in 2011 with an expected minimum of
37,000 carloads in 2012. Oil spokes-
men agree that number could double
every two years for the next six years
for a total of about 250,000 carloads
per year. And good ole boy Obama
advisor Buffett will be in for a really
big chunk of this. By the way, there
will be no excess profits committee
overlooking the costs of rail trans-
portation. Recent proposals to build a
pipeline from Bakken have been met
with statements of the dire conse-
quences for the environment from the
typical alarmists. The rail system can
charge whatever it wants. After all,
their good friend Obama took away
the only other competition from cen-
tral Canadas border the Keystone
Pipeline. And they can just pass the
extra cost along to the consumer with
virtually no regulation.
One savvy Wall Street analyst esti-
mates that Burlington Northern will
turn in profits on this endeavor of
about $1.8 billion over the next five
years, with a big chunk of it going
into the pocket of Warren Buffet. The
long-term cost of shipping oil by rail
compared to the Keystone pipe line
is higher by about 200-300% and is
subject to accidents, union work stop-
pages and weather issues. The envi-
ronmental impact is huge. All trains
are powered by diesel; the cost of
the fuel for these
trains will be about
$2.2 billion per
year and will emit
at least 250,000 tons
of pollutants per
year into the atmo-
sphere.
The pipeline
emits nothing! So
much for green
thinking.
Canada has all
the plans in place
to build the pipe-
line to its west coast in the event
Keystone is cancelled or delayed.
They are not going to wait, as they
need the addition of the oil to fuel
the economic engine for their own
economy. Canada is our second most
important trading partner, and if you
didnt know it, our largest supplier
of oil. The Canadians are about to
send their oil to their west coast and
sell it on the open market, with our
dear close friends the Chinese being
the main beneficiary. In the mean-
time, we will continue to ship oil on
Buffets trains and Kucinich will keep
the corn subsidies for his farmers
making the most expensive gasoline
on the planet.
You can bet that Burlington
Northern and Obama are in the back-
ground trying to get the Canadians
to ship by rail from central Canada
rather than build a pipeline to the
west coast. If they are successful, the
rail system would be stretched well
beyond capacity, and the environmen-
tal impact of that expansion would
make the impact of building the pipe-
line look like a spilled office waste
basket. They might have some suc-
cess with the Canadians, but it is a lot
cheaper and structurally easier to let it
flow continuously through a big pipe,
with the attendant economic advan-
tages in the market place, not to men-
tion the freedom from union work
stoppages and weather delays. Two
pipelines, one from Bakken and one
from central Canada will do 90% of
the work, avoiding tens of thousands
of dangerous rail tanker shipments
across the country. There will be train
wrecks and when they occur they will
make the typical pipeline oil spill look
like a stain on your favorite tie.
There are pressures on Obama
to change his mind. The voters are
almost unanimously in support of a
pipeline, as are most of the govern-
ment agencies involved in the deci-
sion. He now has to decide whether to
bend to the few environmentalists and
billionaire backers such as Buffett or
the ever-increasing pressure from the
voters. In the end if the past is any
indication of the future we know he
will go down the path that will ensure
the greatest number of votes in the
2012 elections. MJ
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Coup De Grace
by Grace Rachow
Ms. Rachow says the best part of gardening is leaning on a shovel and video-
ing it after the work is done. You can see videos of her yard on YouTube.
notes from the Vlog-o-sphere
N
ew Years Eve I went to dinner
with a group of friends,
including Jim Pomodoro
Alexander, the famed Montecito Journal
columnist and fellow competitor in
our yearly tomato-growing contest.
We went around the table, each of
us announcing resolutions for the
upcoming year. Mine was to have the
first ripe tomato of 2012.
Mr. Alexander scoffed. No [bad
word] way.
Barring a hail storm before mid-
night, I knew I had this contest in the
can, because one of my 2011 tomato
plants was still loaded with red toma-
toes.
The next morning, I leapt out of bed,
threw back some French roast cof-
fee, and got busy. After brief instruc-
tion from my husband, the technology
nut, I videoed my tomato plant and
uploaded it to YouTube.
Its lovely to start the year with a big
fat gloat fest, isnt it?
What I didnt know was that Mr.
Alexander also had red tomatoes on
his 2011 vine. His return photo looked
suspiciously like one hed sent last
July, and there was a can of red spray
paint in the background. Still, whom
can you trust if not your arch garden-
ing rival?
So the tomato-growing contest was
a draw on day one. I had to dream up
another crazy scheme to occupy my
ego for the rest of the year.
I had such a good time making the
first video, I thought Id do another, a
two-minute soliloquy on my compost.
I uploaded my garbage to YouTube.
While composting might not sound
like such a glamorous subject, I had
viewers, and apparently people all
over the world were interested in what
I do with my kitchen trimmings.
I heard from a guy in South Carolina
who was going to start doing the same
thing. And then another viewer from
New Zealand wrote to suggest I should
not put citrus in the compost, because
it scares the worms away. I wrote back
and told him that California worms
love orange peels so much I feared I
was contributing to global worming.
Bottom line, I hadnt had so much
attention since that time the lower half
of my swimsuit slipped when I was
waterskiing. The suit ended up around
my thighs and was just the thing to
stabilize my stance for perfect slalom-
ing. Unfortunately, I was in Nebraska
where nudity does not exist, so I had
to let go of the rope and make a quick
underwater wardrobe adjustment.
Luckily, this was all before the day
when video-capable devices were in
every pocket.
On the third day of the year, after
another garden video, someone said,
Hey, enjoyed your vlog. Vlog? I
barely understood the term blog,
and now I was a vlogger. It sound-
ed Swedish and vaguely sexy. I was
hooked.
Every day since, Ive taken my iPad
to the garden, shot a short video with
pithy garden advice, and posted it to
YouTube.
Sometimes just minutes after post-
ing, I have official thumbs up and com-
ments, and not just from my husband
whos mandated by marital vows to
immediately watch each video I make.
I have real followers from as far away
as Sri Lanka.
Friends, strangers, and long-lost rel-
atives now see our front or back yard
every day. So I had to dream up things
to show them, as I figured even the
most enthusiastic of organic gardeners
would soon tire of my compost pile.
Thus I began the ambitious cas-
cading rock garden project. I dont
have the greatest green thumb, and I
regularly do plants in. I figured rocks
would be harder to murder. I just
about killed myself hauling soil and
rocks to the slope at the rear of the
back yard, but I took videos each day,
no matter what kind of mess I was in,
and voila, after eight days, I had a cas-
cading rock garden.
Someone asked, Whats next?
The pressure was on. I had YouTube
guests arriving in my garden every
day, and I had to have something new
to show them.
People like to see some kind of
progress. It doesnt have to be a big
project. If I have an area overgrown
with gnarly weeds, thats okay, as long
as I show how it looks after I pull them.
If in the process I find the rake thats
been missing since November, all the
better.
By February, my YouTube views
had surpassed one thousand. While
my garden videos havent exactly
gone viral, 2012 has already turned
out to be a very strange and wonder-
ful year. MJ
Its lovely to start the
year with a big fat gloat
fest, isnt it?
Frank deGruy spoke, he ended
his tribute by underlining Mikes
continuing and all-consuming
passion, intoning that, Mikes entire
life was an exclamation point!
Call it magic, call it coincidence,
call it a divine apparition, but as the
overflow crowd of Mikes friends
joined Mimi, Frances, and Max in
a traditional Hawaiian Lehua Ke
Kai (Flower to the Ocean) ceremo-
ny, there in the sky, high above the
assembled mourners on East Beach, a
cloud formation appeared that trans-
formed itself into an enormous excla-
mation point.
It was, one could hardly doubt,
Mike deGruys way of saying good-
bye.
Lighting Up The night
The simple, durable, practical,
handsome green device I held in my
hands was originally called the All
Purpose Solar Reading Light, but
its name has been shortened to All
Purpose Solar Light, as Unite To
Lights board of directors discovered
that many of those they hoped would
purchase the lamp, cannot read.
We are looking, Unite To Light
Vice-President Dawn OBar admits
as we settle in at an outside table at
the Java Station on Hollister, for a
really great name, as the All Purpose
Solar Light is a bit of a mouthful.
The complete product features a
flexible neck, a bright LED bulb, sits
in a small plastic casing and takes
only one AA battery, which is con-
tinually recharged via a small solar
panel array on its upside. Eight hours
of sunlight will produce four hours of
inside light for reading, cooking, or
whatever. It is truly a modern techno-
logical marvel.
The goal of the non-profit Unite to
Light, Inc. is to get these little devic-
es into as many hands as possible
throughout the third world and other
places, such as Japan, where, after the
earthquake and tsunami of last year,
the lights proved invaluable; power
was cut off for days and weeks fol-
lowing the destruction at Fukushima.
They can go to school in many
[third-world and impoverished]
countries, but when those students
arrive at home and it gets dark, they
cant do their homework, Dawn
explains. Kerosene lamps, which are
the most common forms of indoor
lighting in many areas, are both
expensive and dirty. Having an all
purpose solar light (which sells for
around $12), will give them the
opportunity to do their homework,
she adds.
Dawns interest in the all purpose
light began when she first volun-
teered with Unite to Light, Inc. in
November 2010. The product was in
development for six to nine months
before that, so by that time the com-
pany had firmly established itself as a
non-profit 501(3)(c).
Before volunteering, Dawn had
worked for the Montecito YMCA for
nearly nine years. She was trans-
ferred to Santa Barbara YMCA, then
moved on to Sansum Clinic and
worked there for sixteen years in the
health education department. Dawn
has done a lot of volunteer work
throughout her life. Just the idea of
doing something good in the world
has always been really fun for me,
she says. She has since become vice-
president of Unite To Light (in June
2011), and continues to do every-
thing from business development to
working on the companys Facebook
account, taking in money, establish-
ing relationships across the world
with people that want lights, and
distributing them.
Currently, the lights are manufac-
tured in Taipei, Taiwan and now in
Hong Kong. Nearly twenty thousand
have already been made and distrib-
uted, but with the new Hong Kong
connection, Dawn says that should
bring down the cost of the light, and
also allow us to provide more lights
because the demand is there and
weve found we have to ramp up pro-
duction. The lights, the solar panels,
the battery, the plastic pieces that are
attached all come from Taiwan or
Hong Kong; Its just less expensive
to produce it there, Dawn says.
The genesis of the lightweight all
purpose light began at UCSB, where
Professor John Bowers, director of the
Institute For Energy Efficiency at the
university, put it together. Professor
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ou may not believe in a higher
power, but it was impossible
to look up as fowers were
thrown into the ocean at the beach
across Cabrillo Boulevard from Fess
Parkers DoubleTree in honor of Mike
deGruys life and not understand
that something greater than human
bigger than organic life had just
taken place in the sky. Earlier, Titanic/
Avatar director James Cameron
offered a description of Mikes last
hour on earth (they were together
in Australia scouting locations for
an upcoming shoot) followed by a
moving elegy. Childhood friend Paul
Atkins and Film Festival Artistic
Director Roger Durling also spoke;
all commented on Mikes unbridled
enthusiasm. When Mikes brother
Fess Parkers DoubleTree rotunda could barely contain the number of people who came to honor Mike
deGruy
As friends and family gathered to remember Mike
deGruy and celebrate his life, this cloud formation
appeared above them (photo taken by Joanne A.
Calitri at Butterfly Beach)
Coming & Going
by James Buckley
Mike deGruys
Heavenly Good-Bye
COMInG & GOInG Page 294
were the engines driving future evolu-
tion.
As Arthur Koestler observes in The
Case of the Midwife Toad, this was at the
time and still is an explosive issue
among biologists; the controversy
between Darwinians and Lamarckians
has raged for nearly a century, charged
with emotional, political, even theo-
logical passion, and conducted, as we
shall see, with astonishing disregard
for the rules of fair play. This was the
intellectual climate which made the
scandal blossom and end in tragedy.
And now, lets bring on the toad.
Ayltes obstricians are a genus of frogs
whose males carry a strand of fertil-
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Send in the Toads
Arthur Koestlers The Case of the Midwife Toad
examines the life of biologist Paul Kammerer,
who claimed to have found evidence proving the
evolutionary hypothesis of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
T
he most signifcant convention
for the modern mystery calls for
an early discovery by someone
of a corpse. In that regard, The Case of
the Midwife Toad is on target from the
opening sentence.
In the early afternoon of September
23, the text tells us, a road worker
found the dead body of a well-dressed
man in a dark suit on an Austrian
mountain path.
The man was in a sitting position,
his back against a rock face. His right
hand clutched the pistol hed used in
shooting himself through the head.
Regular readers in the mystery genre
will pounce on the apparent clue of
self-inflicted death, suspecting some
unseen hand as the orchestrating force
in a conspiracy of murder and cover-
up. Indeed, subsequent events will
reveal a significant number of indi-
viduals with arguable motive for such
an act of violence. The corpse will be
identified as a scientist who has come
to be suspected of the single most
heinous crime a scientist can com-
mit. The stage setting resembles the
memorable Agatha Christie mystery,
Murder on the Orient Express.
The title is another enhancement
to our curiosity, suggesting among
other venerable contributors to the
mystery canon such authors as Ellery
Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner, and G.
K. Chesterton, all of whom at one time
or another used the trope, The Case
of___ for their mystery titles.
Arthur Koestler, the author of The
Case of the Midwife Toad, had demon-
strable skills as a novelist, includ-
ing the ability to produce provocative
titles. He achieved international rec-
ognition with his 1940 novel, Darkness
at Noon, producing five others over
the years, but there is no indication he
itched to join the legion of fiction writ-
ers who tried their hand at the mys-
tery genre. The events of The Case of
the Midwife Toad were all too real. The
stakes for many involved in it were
too high, the acrimony and implica-
tions too unsettling.
A Corpse and a Toad
Lets begin with the corpse.
The corpse was Paul Kammerer, an
energetic and devoted biologist (1880-
1926), who attempted to tie the can of
adaptive characteristics to the tail of
Darwinian evolutionary theory based
on random mutations. Kammerer
had become convinced of the valid-
ity of the hypothesis of Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck, that adaptive traits acquired
by an organism during its lifetime
ized eggs on their back until they
hatch into tadpoles, thus the street
name of midwife toad. The male
toads have on their forelegs spiny
pads which Kammerer called nuptial
pads because, given the toads watery
habitat, they allow the male a greater
purchase on the females back during
the mating process.
After long, careful observation,
Kammerer became convinced that
these pads were a significant proof of
the theory of inherited characteristics.
His published papers, presentations,
and speeches drew responses from
his opponents of the sort one would
expect from university-level depart-
ment meetings.
The nuptial pads of the midwife
toad, Koestler writes, provide all the
makings of a thriller with a lurid
end. It was actually turned into a
film, in Stalins Russia, where the
Establishment was committed by the
Party line to the Lamarckian theo-
ry of evolution, in contrast to the
Darwinism of the West. The film was
called Salamandra; it was made imme-
diately after Kammerers death, and
was so popular that I was able to see it
six years later when I was in Moscow
The hero of the film was subjected
to various ignominies by reaction-
ary Darwinian scientists, aided for
good measure by reactionary monks.
This was an exaggeration: Kammerer
was exposed only to academic venom.
Vienna, as Freud could testify, had a
justified reputation for it.
Now comes what filmmakers refer
to as the mise-en-scene. The Austrian
mountains, where Kammerer ended
his life, become an irony in this drama.
Here, at the lower and upper altitudes,
Kammerer discovered the midwife
toad, blissful in their ignorance of the
parts into which they were about to
be cast.
Simply put, the toads at one level
had nuptial pads while those toads
at the opposing altitude had none.
In all other respects, the toads were
similar. Kammerer attempted to dem-
onstrate that the immediate relatives
of the toads without the pads could be
programmed to grow them, demon-
strating his belief in the hypothesis of
evolution of acquired tastes. Koestler
spends a satisfying amount of time
reporting on Kammerers alleged hei-
nous crime, committed among the
midwife toads.
With The Case of the Midwife Toad,
Arthur Koestler has contributed to
the evolution of the nonfiction mys-
tery, an exploration of the enigma
surrounding events in human experi-
ence. These experiences may deal with
wars, such as Norman Mailers Why
Are We in Viet Nam?, or crimes, such
as Truman Capotes In Cold Blood, the
remarkable how-things-and-people-
work opera of John McPhee, and the
insightful core samplings of events
manifest in the nonfiction of Joan
Didion. These writers are, each in an
individual way, linked by a sense of
seriality anticipated by the Italian
philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-
1744), Carl Jung and, of course, Paul
Kammerer.
Evolution is not just a fair dream
of the last century, Kammerer wrote,
the century of Lamarck, Goethe, and
Darwin; evolution is truth sober,
dignified reality. It is not merciless
selection that shapes and perfects the
machinery of life; it is not the desper-
ate struggle for survival alone which
governs the world, but rather out of
its strength everything that has been
created strives upward towards light
and the joy of life, burying only that
which is useless in the graveyard of
selection. MJ
Here, at the lower and upper altitudes, Kammerer
discovered the midwife toad, blissful in their ignorance
of the parts into which they were about to be cast
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to be from the AVA region.
The art of winemaking in this region
has traveled a long journey since 1800
when the Franciscan padres of Santa
Barbara became the first growers of
wine grapes for religious services.
Nigel Gallimore
Santa Barbara
(Editors note: We thank you for the
historical update L.B.)

Gone To The Dark Side
You may have heard: Mayor
[Helene] Schneider has proposed
putting four measures on the city
ballot for the upcoming November
2012 election.
The proposed measures are:
1) All city employees who par-
ticipate in the California Public
Employee Retirement System (PERS)
should pay their full share for their
retirement rather than only part of it,
as they now do. This would save the
city $2M-$2.5M a year. Requiring the
police and fire and other city employ-
ees to contribute fully to their own
retirement will take the issue off the
table in future contract negotiations.
This has been a bone of contention
for a long time, and frankly has given
the unions a black eye in the public
purview.
2) Downtown businesses that serve
liquor after 11 pm (pretty much only
the clubs) would have a business
license fee increase to pay for the cost
of police enforcement there, since
the police have to focus so much
attention on this part of town as the
bars close. This would raise about
$250,000 annually.
3) Add a -cent sales tax citywide
on everything purchased by all of us
in the city (probably raising $10 mil-
lion annually).
4) Agreement to split the results
of the tax increase described in (3)
above evenly between the City and
our schools;

Even in difficult economic times
such as these, it may be desirable
to seek more funds to accomplish
civic goals, such as better and more
successful handling of indigents, re-
opening the Main Library on Monday,
increasing the number of police on
the street, and many other improve-
ments. While the City Council could
have undertaken these initiatives on
its own, Helene has wisely (in my
opinion) turned to the public at large
to establish your preference.
What happens next?
First, all four of the initiatives must
garner enough voter signatures to be
placed on the ballot approximately
9,000. These must be collected by
early June.
Secondly, a majority of us you,
me and our fellow citizens must
approve the measures at the ballot
November 6, 2012, assuming enough
signatures are obtained. Thus we
have two opportunities to state our
preferences: Once re signing on to
this for the ballot, and a second time
at the ballot itself.
Finally, the sales tax and the retire-
ment contribution measures are inter-
dependent. Both must pass, or neither
passes. Either we are all contributing,
including ourselves and our public
employees, or none of us is.
As you can probably tell from the
tone of this letter, I think the Mayors
initiatives are smart and courageous.
She is putting herself in the cross-
hairs of fire, police and other unions
for the sake of the city at large. She
understands that any suggestion of a
new tax is not going to win immedi-
ate or universal approval. And obvi-
ously the downtown clubs are going
to object vociferously, although they
havent been paying for their extra
police coverage for years.
In closing, let me add that unfortu-
nately Jerry Brown has emptied our
purse for the sake of the states poor
economic policies by shutting down
our Redevelopment Agency and tak-
ing all the money we saved in it over
the years. These initiatives seek to
make up the difference.
I think it would be great to elimi-
nate PERS contributions from labor
negotiations and have the employees
contribute all they should to their
own retirement, just as you and I
must do for ourselves.
Our schools are operating in the
red. Good schools are essential for a
successful community. Without them,
a city will deteriorate.
And I have always argued for more
police and more effective social ser-
vices to better handle the indigents
who live and die on our streets.
My goal remains to dramatically
reduce or eliminate our public
streets as a place to dwell.
Thank you for taking the time to
read such a lengthy letter.
For more on this, please go to
www.InvestInSantaBarbara2012.com,
where Helene explains it in greater
detail.
Cordially,
Frank Hotchkiss
Santa Barbara
(Editors note: The following e-mail
exchange occurred upon receipt of the
above:
Frank, we are so disappointed in read-
ing that youve gone over to the dark
side. Theres no way Montecito Journal
LETTERS (Continued from page 9)
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can support any of this. Stop the out-
of-control spending first. These pro-
posed actions simply enable you folks at
city hall to continue partying without
actually having to budget anything,
although the word budget has been a
misnomer for many years. What is pre-
sented to the public is always a spending
plan and never has anything to do with
budgeting. J.B.
No dark side for me. Weve been blind-
sided by Jerry [Brown]. And we dont
have to do these things, but I sure would
like to get cops et al paying their retire-
ment portion. And if the populace wants
more cops, this is a way to do it. The city
has been pretty diligent over the last sev-
eral years cutting personnel and costs.
Not everyone knows that. If you would
like a one-on-one with anyone there to
go over this for a possible story, let me
know. F.H.
As I understand it, law enforcement is
still allowed to add overtime to their
last years salary to determine retire-
ment benefits. Along with the tax-free
income from disability, it all seems like
an enormous union scam to me, unless
were missing something. J.B.
I think its called spiking, and you are
right, we should do something about
that. Im not sure what yet, but Ill let
you know. F.H.)
Must Add Tort Costs
Ernest Salomon notes that the
U.S. has the worlds highest average
per capita health care spending (No
Free Market Here MJ # 18/5), in
part because the system is not as effi-
cient as the systems in Germany and
Japan. I wonder if Mr. Salomon has
ever considered the role that medi-
cal malpractice insurance and defen-
sive medicine play as cost drivers in
America versus Germany and Japan?
Does Mr. Salomon think there is any
German or Japanese equivalent of
John Edwards, who became a dou-
ble-digit millionaire in large part by
suggesting that cerebral palsy might
be the result of failure to deliver
by C-section? Fortunately, Edwards
theories have since been debunked,
and the resulting spike in C-sections
has leveled off, but substantial costs
were incurred. Malpractice insurance
is estimated to add about 10% to
health care costs in America, and
while there is no generally accept-
ed estimate for defensive medicine
costs, it is also surely significant. If
Mr. Salomon agrees that America
needs medical tort reform, I wonder
if he would care to speculate why
this was not dealt with in the recent
legislation?
Larry Lambert
Montecito
(Editors note: Great point, Larry. Tort
reform was not even mentioned in the
2,700-page Health Care Bonanza Bill. Of
course, that should come as no surprise:
trial lawyers, along with government
unions, are among the President's main
donors. J.B.)
Whats Up
With Deacon T?
I was hoping to read regular month-
ly Deacon T updates in the Journal.
How is your grandson? Is he walking
yet? Does he have any teeth? Hair?
Whats going on? Im sure Im not the
only one out here who wants to know,
so lets have more Deacon T!
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The nAMM Report
T
he National Association of
Music Merchants (NAMM)
Show is a major trade show
for domestic and international music
product inventors, manufacturers and
distributers.
Industry leaders in guitars and other
string instruments at NAMM from
our locale included world-renowned
Seymour Duncan, a key innovator
in single coil and humbucker gui-
tar pickups since 1976, Don Young
and Eric Smith of San Luis Obispos
National Resophonic Guitars, found-
ed in 1989 in a garage, Lloyd Baggs,
owner of LR Baggs acoustic string
instrument pickups based in Nipomo,
and if youre heading north it would
be worth it to visit Richard Hoover,
founder of Santa Cruz Guitars.
Music celebrities included Duane
Eddy, Alice Cooper, Alan Parsons
(now a Santa Barbara resident), Eric
Johnson, Doug Aldrich, Erin Davis
(son of Miles), Danny Gottlieb, Neal
Schon, Orianthi, Dave Navarro,
Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani, as well
as the NAMM band jam stage which
features celebrities from various back-
grounds who jam all night, and the
John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.
King of Guitar Pickups
When we visited the Seymour
Duncan booth, it was packed with
industry peers, celebrities, neo-celeb-
rities and fans. Seymour was being
interviewed by local TV stations and
promoting Monster Cables. He won the
Vintage Guitar Hall of Fame Innovator
Award for 2011 as voted by the maga-
zines readers, and won the Music
and Sound Retailer magazine Lifetime
Achievement Award, voted by retail-
ers. Over the course of two days in
Santa Barbara, Seymour, shared his
history with us in his soft-spoken
manner.
Q. What inspired you to become
involved in music?
A. As a kid I was very shy, having
moved six times and starting as a new
kid in six different schools due to my
fathers job. Music found me when
I was eleven years old; it saved me.
My uncle introduced me to Les Paul
backstage after his show. I was blown
away and asked Les how Mary Ford
did the harmonies on the songs. Les
was so impressed that a young boy
asked such a loaded question he took
me under his wing and showed me
how it was done with multi-tracking.
I was also influenced at a young
age by Eddie Lang, guitarist for Paul
Whitemans Orchestra; and to fol-
low came greats like Jimmy Bryant,
Speedy West, Chet Atkins, and later
on, the Ventures.
When I heard Green Onions by
Booker T., I had to get a guitar, which I
got for Christmas when I was thirteen.
It was a Sears Silvertone and I played
it every day. Since I was a shy kid, it
brought me out, as I played in bands
for sock hops and in Atlantic City
bars with Levon Helm (Levon and
The Hawks, who later played with
Bob Dylan). Since I was underage to
be in bars, they would hide me back-
stage after the gig. My heroes still are
Jeff Beck, early Cream, Albert Collins,
Duane Eddy. I like the blues and in
my playing to this day, try to stay true
to it. My current band is called the
Seymour Duncan Band.
How did you come to develop a product
niche in guitar pickups?
After high school in New Jersey, we
moved to Cincinnati where I worked
in TV for eight years. By chance, I
played an instrumental version of the
song Shaft on the Nick Clooney
Show, which was heard by Roy
Buchanan. He took me to England
in 1972 to work for Polydor and for
the Fender Sound House. I did guitar
repairs for Robert Palmer, the Rolling
Stones, Pete Townsend and many oth-
ers.
In 1973, I met Jeff Beck through
Roy. Beck was influenced by Roy
and dedicated his version of Cause
Weve Ended As Lovers from his
Blow by Blow album to him. Jeffs
Gibson Les Paul guitar was stolen
and I built a telegib with two thumb
pickups for him. Jeff and I have been
friends ever since. In 1976, I landed
in Topanga, California and moved
to Santa Barbara working for Jensen
Music doing rewinds and custom
work. In 1977, I started my own busi-
ness on Yanonali Street making pick-
ups by hand and hired Kevin Beller
and Jos Cuevas, who are still with
the company.
In 1978, I got into making
Humbucker pickups by injection
mold and moved to Bond Avenue.
As the company grew, we moved two
more times before our current location
on Hollister Avenue in 1993. Today we
continue to cater to professional musi-
cians and current trends in guitar-
making that require certain tones from
pickups, as well as custom work. The
goal is quality tone. When I was a kid,
I would buy music on what was called
reel-to-reel. I played the tapes at half
speed every night for hours to learn
each note in the songs. I would play
them over and over til I identified the
tones and noted perfectly in my ear.
Tone is important to me.
Where do you think music is headed?
We need to educate our kids about
quality music and musicianship.
Musicians need to be able to hear
sounds and play them exactly, and
to create music that will then create a
lifetime of memories. We dont need
to invent a new instrument to do that;
the guitar is the most versatile instru-
ment we have, it can be played in
every genre of music from classical,
blues and jazz to metal. My goal is to
help others get involved in music, to
increase the opportunity to play in a
band and to have an increase in live
music clubs.
Whats new from Seymour Duncan this
year?
We announced three artist products
at NAMM this year:
The Joe Bonamassa Signature dual-
humbucker set accurately replicates
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lees Tama Starclassic roller coaster drum kit in maple with concert
toms, on display at the Tama booth at the National Association of Music Merchants show
Seymour Duncan being interviewed by local Los Angeles television stations at the NAMM show
Joanne with the legendary Duane Eddy at the
Gretsch Guitars booth
Swingin Dave test drives yet another Django
Reinhardt guitar
16 23 February 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 27 When a man gives his opinion hes a man; when a woman gives her opinion shes a bitch Bette Davis
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the PAF pickups in Joes beloved 1959
Sunburst Les Paul, so its a traditional
blues tone.
The Gus G. FIRE Blackouts System
blends the best aspects of the power
of active pickups and the response of
passive pickups, named after Gus G.,
guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne.
The Synyster Gates of Avenge
Sevenfold customized Invader hum-
bucker pickup has a very bright out-
put, razor-fast notes and pushes the
amp very hard.
Gear for the new Year
Nearly all the hot gear we found at
NAMM was American made, much of
it right here in California.
Universal Audios (UA) technologi-
cal innovations have set a new prece-
dent in the music industry. To explain,
as UAs entire line of Powered Plug-
Ins requires a UAD card, and factoring
in laptop owners, the ultimate solu-
tion is its new UAD-2 Solo/Laptop.
This high-performance DSP accelera-
tor takes the load off your laptops
CPU, just like the UAD-2 Solo does for
desktop computers. It plugs into your
ExpressCard slot and comes with four
essential plug-ins to get you started:
UA 1176SE Compressor, Pultec EQP-
1A, CS-1 Channel Strip and Realverb
Pro.
Next pumping most of the press
pre-NAMM was Universal Audios
Apollo High Resolution Audio
Interface. Add UAs move to partner
with Sonnex as Direct Developers for
its UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins and you
have it all in one complete neat bundle
that is oh so portable.
UA is a company based in California
founded in 1958 by Bill Putnam, Sr.,
widely regarded as the father of modern
recording, with many of his legendary
studio and equipment designs still in
use today. His son, Bill Jr., carries on
the legacy.
Celemony Soars
The software company Celemony
was awarded a Technical Grammy
on February 11. At NAMM 2001, it
launched a program called Melodyne,
an audio pitch modification software
similar to Auto-Tune. Melodyne is
used by Peter Gabriel, and many
other pros, to tune and manipulate
audio signals, typically a singers
vocals. It can time-stretch, rebuild
melodies, create background vocals
from a lead vocal and its Direct Note
Access software provides indepen-
dent manipulation of individual
notes within chords and polyphonic
recordings.
Pickups and Pedals
Across from UA our pick for Best
Booth Music Quote at Parker Guitars
was from Albert Einstein, who appar-
ently said: I often think in music, I
live my daydreams in music, I see my
life in terms of music. Couple that
with some fairly glossy axes and
basses, and Parker was a clear hot
gear choice.
ToneCandy pedals, handcrafted one
at a time in the USA, have amp-like
touch sensitivity and get the same
tone without losing bottom at any
volume. Designed and owned by
Mike Marino in California, the ped-
als, played by a broad spectrum of
musicians, received two 5-star ratings
in Premier Guitar magazine. People
would ask me how I was getting that
tone, Mike explains, and I ended up
building custom pedals by request.
When youre playing, you shouldnt
have to think about your equipment
just the music. The Skull Overdrive
and Distortion Pedal with a black
skull face and red eyes that light up, is
two different pedals in one.
Instruments
to Impress
Richard Hoover, founder of Santa
Cruz Guitars 1976, was showcasing
his 2012 Cowgirl guitar, aptly named
Clementine. One of 10 made in
the series, it has a cocobolo back and
sides with an Italian Spruce top and
inlaid designs on the neck, retailing
at $9,700.
The Marcodi Harpejji designed by
Timothy Meeks and made in the
USA, is a tapping instrument func-
tioning like both an electric guitar
and keyboard. The body is solid
bamboo and the strings are by Ernie
Ball. Tim told us his inspiration to
make the Harpejji was the Chapman
Stick.
Making us feel like we were
in the Matrix movie was Elation
Professional Lighting Products
booth showing its top two for
NAMM 2012: A unique flexible LED
panel that can bend around dimen-
sional surfaces to create curved
video walls ($1,800) and a DMX-512
moving head video camera that can
project images of people and objects
in a room or dance floor onto a video
wall or TV. Elation also displayed its
RGB LED pixel tape, which can be
affixed to the edges and surfaces of
any object to highlight it with a bor-
der of changing colors.
Award-winning guitarist Martin
Taylor was at the Peerless Guitar
booth promoting the models named
after him: The Maestro and The
Virtuoso. The Maestro is the higher
spec model with blonde carved solid
spruce top, antique sunburst carved
solid maple back and solid maple
sides, an ebony fretboard, bridge,
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The Changing Investment Landscape
On Finance
by Tim Hatton
Tim Hatton is the Owner and President of Hatton Consulting, Inc, a registered
investment advisory firm. He is the author of, The New Fiduciary Standard,
which outlines the prudent investment process individuals and trustees
should follow in order to meet the high standard of a fiduciary. He holds
the Certified Financial Planner and Accredited Investment Fiduciary designations. He lives in
Montecito with his wife Jen and two children, Heidi and Hudson. He can be reached at thatton@
hattonconsulting.com or at (602) 852-5525
W
hen I began my investment
career in 1988, the
investment landscape was
quite different. For nostalgic purposes
Ive kept the ticket (the form used
to give a wire operator indicating
what security we were buying or
selling) of the frst investment I
ever made for a client. That frst
investment was neither a stock nor
a bond; it was a federally insured
certifcate of deposit. What makes
this frst investment interesting is
the fact that it had a maturity of only
three months and had an interest rate
of 8%. The client only wanted a three-
month maturity because she was
concerned that interest rates would
keep rising; she was worried shed be
stuck with a guaranteed investment
only paying 8%. As you are aware,
rates did not go up; they have
steadily declined to a point where
short-term high-quality investments
pay virtually zero. Yes, the investing
landscape has changed dramatically.
You may have heard of a relatively
new investment term: new normal.
First, what is the old normal?
The eighty-year average returns for
stocks and bonds are approximately
10% and 5%, respectfully. Recently
however, measured by the S&P 500,
stocks have returned only 1.4% annu-
ally for the ten-year period ending in
December 2010. Bonds, measured by
the Barclays U.S. Government-Credit
intermediate index, have returned
5.5% for the same period. The new
normal does not mean bonds will
continue to outperform stocks, it
simply suggests future stock and
bond returns are expected to be sig-
nificantly lower than their historical
averages.
What does the future hold for returns?
Its impossible to predict accurate-
ly what market returns may be in
short time periods, whether that be
a day, month, quarter or a year or
more. However, over longer periods
of time, the following two formulas
can provide the best estimate of what
returns may be in five years and
beyond.
For Equities: Expected Return =
Current Dividend Yield + Earnings
Growth Rate +/- Expansion-
Contraction of Price Earnings
Multiple;
For Bonds: Expected Return =
Current Coupon (or yield to maturi-
ty) +/- effect of increasing or decreas-
ing interest rates.
What can we expect for equities in the
next decade?
The current dividend yield on the
S&P 500 is approximately 2%. Well
use 5% for the earnings growth rate;
this is a 100-year average of corpo-
rate earnings growth. The expan-
sion-contraction of the price earnings
multiple is a bit tricky. I prefer to use
the Schiller 10-year P/E. This price
earnings ratio is based on average
inflation-adjusted earnings from the
previous 10 years and in my opinion
is a better gauge than a current P/E
using earnings from the last year.
As of February 6, the Schiller P/E
is 22.5, the long-term average P/E is
16.4. Therefore, from a P/E perspec-
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approximately 27%. This suggests
we may get a contraction of the P/E
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adjustment downward on our esti-
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estimate to be 2% per year. Therefore
the average expected return over the
next decade for equities is: 2% + 5%
- 2% = 5%.
How about bonds?
The current coupon rate (as of
2/7/12) for the Barclays intermedi-
ate index is approximately 2.1%. Like
the expansion-contraction of the P/E
multiple, the effect of increasing or
decreasing interest rates is also a bit
tricky. But with the 10-year Treasury
bond at 1.8%, its more probable
interest rates will climb over the next
decade. I will therefore make a %
per year downward adjustment. So,
the expected return for bonds over
the next decade is: 2.1% - 0.5% =
1.6%.
Sorry to possibly disappoint you
with an expectation of very low
returns, but it is better to have
proper expectations so you can plan
accordingly. I will check back in
ten years to see how accurate these
estimates were, but I can say with
confidence that returns will con-
tinue to be frustratingly low over
the next ten years; the new normal
is low returns relative to historical
averages.
One final and important thought.
There are several investment firms
that claim to have strategies that can
prosper and deliver high returns in a
low-return environment. Remember,
the vast majority of investment man-
agers whether they are mutual
funds, hedge funds, some kind of
pooled account, a separate account
manager or a broker underper-
form the market. Yes, there will be a
few managers that will perform well
and you can always indentify them
after they outperform, but identifying
them before they outperform is virtu-
ally impossible. MJ
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told Bowers they needed something
for the kids to read by at night.
Something that didnt have black
smoke, that was healthy, energy effi-
cient, and perhaps most importantly,
didnt cost too much.
So, Bowers and his team got to work.
At first, they believed there had to be a
light on the market that could already
do that. But, after a thorough search,
they discovered that, although there
were many things available, there was
nothing as simple and economical
as what they eventually created. The
light they came up with weighs just
four ounces.
We wanted to be environmentally
friendly; the other lights [that were
available] had numerous batteries.
Ours has just one, Dawn points out,
and if that one battery could no
longer hold a charge, you only had
to throw one out, rather than two or
three.
The battery will recharge for 550
cycles, which means it will last for up
to two years. Then, Dawn says, if
people will send the battery back to
us (so they dont end up in some gar-
bage can somewhere), well sell them
a new one for two dollars.
Q. How does someone in, say, Ghana
get one of these?
A. Right now, you have to know
somebody. We have a few Peace
Corps workers that are over there
working with a couple of organiza-
tions in different locations and they
are distributing some of the lights
in Ghana. Thats one of the projects
were working on this year: to come
up with some big distribution part-
ners that are on the ground in these
particular countries that can be part
of the network, so if somebody does
want one in India, we can tell them:
here is a distributor or distribution
network where you can go to get one.
The idea is to make it a sustainable
business; what wed really like to do is
get it into the hands of people who can
use this as a microenterprise, a small
business that can generate an income
to keep the business going, by say,
making a dollar on each light sold.
So, these are not given away?
We do donate some lights and of
course as a non-profit we want to get
the lights out there. Were very cre-
ative with people. If somebody says
I cant really afford this, they can
pay part of it now and part of it in
thirty days. Were definitely giving
out a number of lights and people are
trying them out in different countries
in small quantities to see if they can
make a business out of it. In Kenya,
for example, there are probably five
different distributors selling the lights.
If Im a Montecito or Santa Barbara
resident with some extra cash and
feel inclined to further this cause, what
would you suggest I do?
On our website (unite-to-light.org),
we have added a buy one; give
more option, so you could not only
get a light for yourself but youll
also get a tax-deductible donation for
the balance of what you purchased
a light for, which is $25. Well cer-
tainly accept any donations, how-
ever, even if you dont want a light
of your own. During the holidays
we had a big gift-giving campaign
that included this receipt note: You
are receiving this light as a gift. With
each light given, additional lights are
being distributed to those in need,
dramatically improving the quality
of life. Thank you for sharing the gift
of light.
We ship them directly out from the
post office, or through churches in
Santa Barbara, Ojai, and local thrift
stores, so we do a little bit of a con-
signment for them too.
How durable are the LED bulbs?
Oh my gosh. If Im out giving a
talk, I will throw the light across the
room (I actually did this at the Dons
Caf at Santa Barbara High School). I
threw the light across the room and
the kids eyes were just [as wide as
could be]. They gasped. But, literally,
the only thing that may happen is
that the battery cover may come off;
I put the battery back in and turn the
light on and it works just fine. We
have tested these pretty significantly,
dropped them from six-foot ladders,
so we know they are very durable.
They have water-resistance capabili-
ties too. If they are left out in the rain,
they will still work.
Your current goal is what?
Getting 200,000 lights out this year.
Last year we were at 13,000. Weve
partnered with Rotary International.
Direct Relief International has been
kind enough to send a lot of our
lights in their medical birthing kits.
Theyre going out to help midwives
deliver babies.
Those interested in helping dis-

tribute or donate these versatile and
helpful devices (theyre great for
campsites!) are invited to email Ms
OBar at: dawn@unite-to-light.org,
or call her at 805-452-4575. To see a
demonstration, go to: youtube.com/
unitetolight.
Its not too early, by the way, to
think about housewarming gifts for
the holiday season. A 4-ounce All
Purpose Solar Light makes an excel-
lent gift. Make sure you keep at least
one for yourself; you will love it and
use it. Guaranteed. MJ
Unite To Light Vice-President Dawn OBars 2012 goal is to get 200,000 All Purpose Solar Lights out to
those that need them most
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had courtesy review of the project.
The most significant issue with the
plans come from the Hardey family,
which owns Jeannines bakery next
door. Jeannines deck is attached to
a tree that sits on Valners property,
slated to be removed during construc-
tion. The deck, built before Jeannines
opened twelve years ago, will need
partial reconstruction. He has the
right to build on his property, but
it has a tremendous impact on our
property, said Gordon Hardey. We
welcome Mr. Valner to our commu-
nity, and we think the project will
complement Montecito. The problem
is, its going to devastate Jeannines,
added Allison Hardey, who operates
the business.
As part of the conditions of approv-
al, the commission required that at
the request of the Hardeys, a wall
will be built to screen the construc-
tion in order to contain dust, pollution
and noise. How am I going to keep
our customers from leaving us? Ms
Hardey asked. The business owners
and Valner will have to agree on con-
struction hours; county code states
construction can legally take place
Monday through Friday from 7 am
to 5 pm, and Saturdays from 9 am to
4 pm.
Danny Copus, president of Coast
Village Business Association gave his
support of the project, but said he
hopes the Hardeys and Valner can
come to an agreement so Jeannines is
not badly affected.
Because the project was already in
the pipeline, it is exempt from a new
policy developed in the General Plan
process which requires that residen-
tial units and sensitive use businesses
be set back 250 feet from the freeway.
Cearnals plan takes into consider-
ation the policy, but the 250-ft line cuts
through one bathroom and a bedroom
in one of the townhomes. He is also
asking for a modification for balconies
on the commercial part of the build-
ing, which he says add character to
the architecture. The project also takes
into the consideration the pedestrian
improvements outlined in the Citys
General Plan; the building will be set
back 12 feet from the curb to allow for
ample pedestrian room.
It was inevitable that sometime in
our lifetime the Turk Hessellund prop-
erty would be sold and developed,
Turk Hessellund Nursery will be replaced with
a mixed-use building; Santa Barbara Planning
Commission approved the project last week
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said Planning Commissioner Deborah
Schwartz, who once lived on Middle
Road in Montecito. She, along with
the other commissioners, praised the
low-key scale of the project.
The project will be seen by the
ABR for final design approval. The
Planning Commissions approval is
appealable for ten business days to the
City Council.
Toy Crazy Update
On the day of her six month mark as
a store owner in Montecito, Toy Crazy
owner Melissa Moore sat down with
us to discuss the popular shops latest
happenings. We have been so warm-
ly welcomed in this community, she
said as she and her associate, Kristy
Wylie, unloaded a truck full of new
toy arrivals.
Moore, who traveled to New York
last weekend for an annual Toy Fair
to scout new toy offerings, opened
the shop in Montecito Country Mart
in August. We had a great holiday
season and have been well received.
Our customers tell us there was a
definite need for us in Montecito,
she said. The shop, which boasts 1,150
square feet of wall-to-wall and floor-
to-ceiling toys, is the third location of
Toy Crazy; the other two are located
in Brentwood and Malibu. Moore says
she weeds through toys to find the
best of the best for all ages.
Melissa, who began her toy career
22 years ago, has launched three new
events at the store, including a week-
ly storytime held every Wednesday
at 11 am. We have so many non-
school-aged kids who come in with
their parents at that time of day. Why
not offer a fun event for the littles
right before their lunch? she asked.
Melissa will be the main reader, but
will have appearances and readings
by local authors as well. On March 21,
Butterfly Beach author Polly Caldwell
Bookwalter will be the guest read-
er. During Wednesday mornings, all
books in the store are 10% off.
Toy Crazy has also launched
Allowance Day every first Sunday of
the month, beginning March 4. Kids
can bring in their allowance and get
15% off their purchases. A sign up
sheet for birthday discounts is now in
effect too.
Melissa has made many charita-
ble contributions from Toy Crazy,
including Crane Country Day School,
Montecito Union School, Cold Spring
School, Montecito YMCA, The Oaks
Parent-Child Workshop, The Waldorf
School of Santa Barbara, Our Lady
of Mount Carmel School, Lou Grant
Parent Child Workshop and The Santa
Barbara Birth Center. The store also
participated in a Holiday Giving Tree
in December at the Country Mart,
benefitting Transition House.
Wylie tells as that as always, Toy
Crazys signature gift wrap is com-
plimentary, they offer wish lists for
special occasions, and have gift cards
and shipping available.
For more information, call 565-7696
or come by 1026 Coast Village Road.
Music Academy Latest
At its meeting on February 9, the
Womens Auxiliary of the Music
Academy of the West presented
Academy President Scott Reed and
Academy Board Chair Sharon Westby
a check in the amount of $228,422, the
total raised by the Auxiliary on the
Music Academys behalf in 2011. In
addition to organizing May Madness,
the annual estate sale benefiting
the Music Academy, the Womens
Auxiliary oversees operations at
the Rack and Treasure House, the
Marijuana Possession on Cold Spring Road
Saturday, February 4, 12:57 am Deputy Padilla was patrolling through
Montecito when he spotted a young man and his girlfriend sitting in the
bushes near a school on Cold Spring Road. When Padilla stopped to contact
the couple, the deputy noticed that the young man appeared to be intoxicated.
A small plastic clear box with marijuana in it was on the ground next to him.
When Padilla asked if he possessed marijuana, the young man denied it. Padilla
attempted to search him for weapons, and the man was uncooperative. He was
arrested for possession of marijuana, and handcuffed for the deputys safety. He
was cited and released.
Suspicious Circumstances on Olive Mill Road
Monday, February 6, 2:31 pm Sheriff deputies were dispatched to Hot
Springs Road and Olive Mill Road on report of a male brandishing a gun.
Upon arrival, Deputies Padilla and Johnson contacted a man who said he
was sitting at a bus stop when a fellow bus rider waiting for the bus began
looking at him weird.
The reporting party in the incident was another man who was waiting in
his car near the bus stop, and the victim of the weird looks contacted the
man in the vehicle and told him he had been threatened by the man at the bus
stop, who allegedly said he was going to kill him with a gun. The reporting
party then contacted police. Deputy Johnson made contact with the MTD bus
driver who had just picked up passengers from the stop; the driver reported
there was no suspicious persons on the bus or any suspicious activity. A report
was taken.
Butterfly Beach will be the story read by author
Polly Caldwell Bookwalter on March 21 during
weekly story time
Melissa Moore
of Toy Crazy
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by Julia Rodgers (photos courtesy of Santa Barbara Sports Drive)
Third Annual Sports Drive
Julia Rodgers lives in
Montecito with her hus-
band and two young sons.
She is a former journalist
and lawyer who moved
here from Chicago eight
years ago.
A
s many as 2,000 underprivileged
children in Santa Barbara could
have smiles on their faces
soon if all goes well with the Third
Annual Sports Drive being planned
for Saturday, February 25 at the Santa
Barbara Boys & Girls Club.
Thats how many tickets the orga-
nizers of this years sports drive are
printing in hopes that they will col-
lect enough used sports equipment to
serve double the number of children
as last years event.
Were hoping to expand it this
year, said Elijah Bittleston, a junior
at Laguna Blanca School, who was
one of the founding members of the
sports drive. Last years event attract-
ed 1,000 children who were able to
choose from a wide variety of used
sporting equipment, free of charge.
Back in 2010, Matt Wagonhurst, a
junior at Santa Barbara High School,
discovered a new pair of baseball
shoes in his closet that he didnt need.
He talked to his basketball coach at
the Boys & Girls Club, Kim Kjar, and
they came up with the idea to start
a drive for low-income children. He
gathered a group of about 30 friends
who became the founding mem-
bers.
It was all their idea we just gave
them the venue, said Kjar, who is the
athletic director at the Boys & Girls
Club. They never asked anything of
the Boys & Girls Club other than to
bring the kids.
The sports drive works like this:
the teen organizers spend several
months collecting used sporting
equipment from friends, neigh-
bors and students at area schools.
After sorting through the equip-
ment, cleaning it and organizing it
by sport, they distribute free tickets
to children from Transition House,
Court Appointed Special Advocates,
and members of the Boys & Girls
Club. On February 25, the children
are invited to the Boys & Girls Club
to pick out pieces of equipment. The
teen organizers work with each child
to help them figure out what equip-
ment they need for the sport they are
interested in.
Thats what is unique about our
system we meet every single one of
the children, Bittleston said. Its a
really personal experience.
For the third year of the sports
drive, the organizers have enlisted
the help of the owner of PODS, Steve
Yapp, who has donated PODS con-
tainers to collect the sporting equip-
ment. PODS containers are placed at
Laguna Blanca School in Hope Ranch,
the downtown Boys & Girls Club and
Crane School in Montecito. Items may
be dropped off at Laguna and Crane
until February 20, and at the down-
town Boys & Girls Club location until
February 24.
Examples of the types of equipment
the drive needs include: balls, bats,
gloves, helmets, boogie boards, skate-
boards, bikes, rackets, shin guards,
pads, jerseys, shirts, shorts and shoes.
No large kayaks, motorized vehi-
cles, trampolines or treadmills can
be accepted. A raffle is held for the
larger items during the sports drive on
February 25.
New this year, organizers also have
a hotline to call if you need someone
to pick up sports equipment from your
house: (805) 729-0353. You can also
submit a form to have items picked up
by visiting www.sbsportsdrive.com.
Scholarships
Another part of the sports drive is
an effort to raise money to provide
scholarships to children who can-
not afford to attend the Boys & Girls
Club, which provides a safe environ-
ment, fosters academic success and
provides fun athletic and recreational
activities six days a week. All money
donated goes directly to the Boys &
Girls Club, and will provide a one-
year scholarship to the club (valued
at $20 per child). Donations can be
made online at www.sbsportsdrive.
com.
According to Kjar, approximately
50 scholarships were awarded last
year as a result of the fundraising.
We hope to raise even more this
year, Kjar said. Because of bud-
get cuts to after school programs,
we are getting a lot more kids here
now.
Bittleston said he hopes that the
sports drive tradition will contin-
ue after he and the other found-
ers have gone to college. A lot of
us have younger siblings, and were
hoping to teach them how to do
it and have them continue it, he
said. Additionally, Bittleston and his
friends are hoping high school stu-
dents in other communities will fol-
low their lead and organize their own
sports drives. To make it easy to do,
they have created a 19-page step-by-
step tool kit and posted it in a PDF
format on their website, called How
To Do A Successful Sports Drive in
Your Community.
In addition to Wagonhurst and
Bittleston, the other founding mem-
bers of the sports drive are: Eddie
Conk, Nicky Von Wiesenberger,
Kyle Mayfield, Logan Carmody,
Peter Ghersen, Mason Pereira, Andy
Busch Jr., Miles Waters, Brendan Fay,
James Schuerman, Will Zimmerman,
Penn Stussy, Jamie Morton and
Teddy Rollins. The junior members
are: Chris Wagonhurst, Andrew Fay,
Duncan King, Anthony Spann, Max
Henderson, Jacob Greenspan, Nick
and Will Busch, David Schaeman, Chet
Stussy and Dylan Carmody. MJ
Kim Kjar, Athletic Director of the Boys & Girls Club
of Santa Barbara, and Matt Wagonhurst, one of
the founding members of the sports drive, at last
years event
Eddie Conk (left) rewarding the winner of last
years raffle with a bike
M
ontecitos award-winning
director John Blondell is
reaching new heights in
his career. The Westmont theater
arts professor will direct a play at
Shakespeares Globe Theatre in
London. As part of the London
2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Globe
offers Globe to Globe, featuring 37
international companies presenting
every one of Shakespeares plays.
The productions begin April 21 and
continue for six weeks. Blondells
task is directing Shakespeares Henry
VI, Part 3, staged by actors from the
National Theatre of Macedonia and
performed in their language.
Before performing the show in
Macedonia and London (May 12-13),
Blondell directs an English version
of Henry VI, Part 3 for Lit Moon
Theatre Company on February 17-18,
23-25 at Center Stage Theater in Santa
Barbara. Tickets, which are $16.50-
$26.50, are available through www.
centerstagetheater.org and by calling
(805) 963-0408.
Blondell has directed three other
foreign-language projects, including
his award-winning production of The
Wonderful Adventures of Nils. He staged
that play in the United States before
taking it to Finland. Performing
Henry VI in Santa Barbara gives me
a seven-week experience of the play,
working with American actors using
the play in English, Blondell says.
Itll give me a sense of what the
important conversations are with the
actors and their mental and emotional
experiences.
He describes the play, which
has the most battle scenes of any
Shakespearean drama, as gripping
and visceral. The rarely-performed
historical tragedy depicts the blood-
saturated events of the English
civil war known as the Wars of the
Roses. There are dizzying reversals
and betrayals that drive the violent
action, Blondell says. It also marks
the rise of a truly memorable villain,
Richard III, who sets forth on a ram-
page of murder and deceit.
Language no Barrier
Blondell says that he tends to watch
his collaborators as he directs a play
in another language, whether theyre
actors off-stage or assistants in the
room with him. I use them as mir-
rors to see what is going on, he says.
I watch people watch the rehearsal
to see what their body language is
and what people pay attention to at a
particular moment. And if I see them
actually looking with their mouths
open, thats a good sign. Something
has captivated them.
Language doesnt represent as
large a barrier as it would in the U.S.
Blondell says its far more common
in Europe for directors to undertake
plays in a foreign language. Working
with actors is working with actors,
he says. Whenever I open my mouth,
I am constantly teaching the meaning
of the play, the psycho-emotional situ-
ation of characters, et cetera.
Blondell has also learned to think
of the text more musically. I break
the text into rhythms and tempos, he
explains, creating moments that have
a particular kind of intensity rhyth-
mic variation, or tempo, or dynamic
level.
The Santa Barbara production fea-
tures eight Lit Moon actors, including
Westmont faculty member Victoria
Finlayson and Westmont alumnae
Kate Paulsen, Marie Ponce, Sara
Reynolds and Diana Small. Other
cast members are Brian Harwell,
Stan Hoffman and Jeff Mills. Jim
Connolly provides original music and
Ted Dolas does the lighting.
Blondell, who completed a doc-
torate from UC Santa Barbara, first
earned critical acclaim with his 1989
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productions of Peter Pan and Table
Manners. Since then he has received
many awards for his work with
Westmont and Lit Moon, including
three Shakespearean plays: Henry V
(2000), Much Ado About Nothing (2000),
Hamlet (2001-04) and King Richard II
(2006).
Blondell says that contributing to
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this company, he says. I still pinch
myself. I cant believe it. I never imag-
ined Id have the opportunity to work
there. Im excited. Im anxious. Im
thrilled.
Special Guests and
Events in Montecito:
Shakespeares Henry VI plays: A
Modern Perspective, Randall Martin,
the University of New Brunswick and
editor of the Oxford Henry VI, Part
3. Thursday, February 16 at 4 pm,
Adams 219, Westmont College.
On Editing Shakespeare, Randall
Martin. Friday, February 17, 9:15 am,
Black Box Theatre, Westmont College.
Directors Talk Henry, Nikita
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In Business:
Simpatico Pilates
Simpatico Pilates on Coast Village
Road held an open house last month
to unveil new offerings at the long-
time Montecito exercise studio. Owner
Mindy Horwitz, who took over the
studio about a year and a half ago,
has added more affordable options
to the businesss offerings, includ-
ing group classes, and discounts for
students and dancers. She also offers
discounted workshops for local busi-
nesses, so people can try out Pilates
and Gyrotonic.
The studio, equipped with eight
Pilates reformers, a Gyrotonic
machine, six Pilates towers, and sev-
eral stability chairs, offers various
classes and combinations, individu-
alized to ability and preference. The
studio boasts eight instructors who
hold various Pilates and Gyrotonic
certifications.
Two additional rooms at the facility
have been transformed into a chiro-
practic room and a massage therapy
room. Chiropractor Aaron Stauber,
an upper cervical spine specialist,
and Jen Wood, a massage therapist
and Pilates instructor, now conduct
business out of Simpatico. It really
rounds out what we have to offer
here, Horwitz told us during a visit
last week. Adorning the walls of the
space is artwork by Lori Wolf Grillias.
Horwitz also tells us Simpatico has
partnered with Chef by Request, a
meal delivery service featuring gour-
met meals aimed to be tasty and
healthy. New office manager Julie
Tomlinson, who has a background in
nutrition, is heading up the partner-
ship.
For more information about
Simpatico, and to check out the latest
schedule, visit the new website, www.
simpaticopilates.com or call 565-7591.
Simpatico is located at 1235 Coast
Village Road, upstairs.
Jane Deering
Flat File Project
Montecito resident and artist Jane
Deering introduces Meet the Flat
Files, the latest in the continuing
Short Talks Series at the Jane Deering
Gallery at 128 East Canon Perdido
Street. Among the works present-
ed were ten photographs by Roger
Craton of Santa Barbara.
The Flat File Project is a collec-
tion of artworks on paper housed in
the gallery. Participating artists work
in a wide range of media includ-
ing graphite, ink, a variety of paints,
photography, printmaking and col-
lage. Although many of the artists
with work in the Project are based in
the Santa Barbara area, living in the
region is not a requirement for par-
ticipation.
Deering tells us the concept for The
Flat File Project began at Pierogi, an
artist-run gallery in the Williamsburg
neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Pierogi was founded by artist Joe
Amrhein in the mid-1990s with the
idea of making works on paper avail-
able to a larger audience. In 1999,
the Bernard Toale Gallery brought
the concept to Boston. Deering (origi-
nally from the Boston area) has long
admired this project and says she is
pleased to bring the concept to Santa
Barbara.
Dropping in on Jupiter
by Scott Craig
The gas giant Jupiter will be the
focus of attention for stargazers at a
free public viewing with the power-
ful Keck Telescope Friday, February
17. The viewing, which begins about
7 pm, lasts several hours. The obser-
vatory opens its doors to the public
every third Friday of the month in
conjunction with the Santa Barbara
Astronomical Unit, whose mem-
bers bring their own telescopes to
Westmont for the public to gaze
through. In case of inclement weath-
er, please call the Telescope Viewing
Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check
the Westmont website to see if the
viewing has been canceled.
Westmont physics instructor
Thomas Whittemore says Jupiter and
Venus are getting closer together in
the night sky. Though we will not be
looking at Venus through a telescope
that evening, its interesting to watch
the closing distance between the two
planets over the next month or so, he
says. Venus will lie far lower in the
southwestern sky than Jupiter and far
brighter than Jupiter as well.
Other celestial objects that may
be featured include the Great Orion
Nebula, M42. This stellar nursery lies
about 1,400 light-years away, but is so
bright that it can easily be seen with
the naked eye in a reasonably dark
sky, Whittemore says.
Whittemore says hell target several
open clusters in Winter Milky Way
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he says. These clusters are about
2,000 light-years away but are still
bright enough to be seen even in
smaller telescopes. The different pat-
terns of stars in their fields should be
dazzling if the conditions are good.
For these kinds of objects the 8-inch
refractor telescope, rather than the
24-inch reflector, is the better-viewing
instrument.
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by Lily Buckley
Over 200 attendees showed up
dressed to impressed and ready to
bust a move at the second annual
Valentines Father-Daughter Dance,
held in the auditorium at Montecito
Union School. All girls grades kin-
dergarten through sixth were invit-
ed, as well as the girls fathers or
any other important male figure in
their lives. The auditorium was filled
with Valentines-themed balloons and
streamers, Frankie G had his DJ booth
set up on the stage, and there were
snacks and lemonade in the back for
those who needed a well-deserved
break from dancing. The PTA and
specifically parent Lucia Engel put
on the festive event. MJ
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T
he 27
th
annual SBIFF has come
and gone, and you may have
noticed some high-fying acts,
notably at the Martin Scorsese tribute
party and the Cinema Vanguard
Awards. The performers are part of
the La Petite Chouette Aerial Dance
Studio (LPC). Many of the performers
have been with the dance studio for six
years, under the guidance of director
and owner, Ninette Paloma. The
group is accustomed to performing
at major Santa Barbara events, as
Lotusland, Santa Barbara Museum of
Art, and the Dream Foundation are a
few of the clients for which they have
performed in the past.
Ninette followed her dream of join-
ing the circus at the age of 18. She
grew up as a gymnast and became
disenchanted with the rivalry of com-
peting against her own teammates.
She came across an open call for a
local Midwestern Circus and decided
to audition for the tightwire even
though she had never walked on a
tightrope before. She figured if she
could walk the balance beam, she
could eventually master the tight-
rope. I just had to be more care-
ful, chuckled Ninette. Eventually,
Ms Paloma, a Chicago native, made
her way to Santa Barbara and opened
a small aerial dance studio for eight
students in 2006. As of now, LPC
has flourished into an international
performance company and training
school for over 100 students of all
ages.
The studio has been the secret for
many Montecito residents as a way
to stay fit, flexible and enjoy the thrill
of dancing through the air, wheth-
er its with a static trapeze, silks,
lyra (spinning hoop suspended in
the air), tightrope, or the corde lisse
(a traditional aerial apparatus, sleek
minimalist rope). All levels and
sizes can twist, turn and challenge
themselves in the ultimate total body
workout. Youre never too old to join
the circus! quips Ninette. For begin-
ners, Ms Paloma recommends trying
the Mixed Apparatus class or Aerial
conditioning class that allows the
student to try a different apparatus
each week. You get an idea of which
apparatus you connect with best,
what works with your body type and
most importantly what inspires you,
she explains.
Or if you prefer to stay on the
ground, recently added to LPC is
Christina Sanchez, former member
of Alvin Ailey Company. She will
be teaching the aerialist class on the
floor. Students with little to no dance
experience can learn modern dance
and ballet. Eventually, they can use
these techniques to transition their
body from floor to air.
Whats in store for the summer?
LPC will be performing its newly
choreographed show, Indah, at the
Lobero. Indah explores the new
modern circus, weaving a tale of love,
loss and resurgence. Interlacing eight
classic and invented aerial appara-
tus with contemporary dance. Live
music and media art will be inter-
laced throughout the show, explains
Ninette. In July and August, Ms
Paloma will host two separate sum-
mer programs, one for adults and one
for children.
Find more information about classes
and performances of La Petite Chouette
Aerial Dance Studio at: www.lapetite
chouette.com or by calling (805) 284-
8785. The studio is located at 810 East
Gutierrez Street, Suite B. MJ
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Students practic-
ing on silks in La
Petite Chouettes
studio
Director and owner of La Petite Chouette Aerial
Dance Studio, Ninette Paloma, on silks
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Joanne tests the fretless candy lemon yellow
Parker Bass
The boys of
National Reso
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Martin Taylor (center) at Peerless Guitars promotes the two models named after him
Renowned luthier Richard Hoover and his Clementine with Swingin Dave
Tom Dugan, nazi Hunter
On Entertainment
by Steven Libowitz
Steven Libowitz has
reported on the arts and
entertainment for more
than 30 years; he has
contributed to Montecito
Journal for over ten
years.
T
om Dugans one-man show,
Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal,
about the World War II survivor
who tracked down 1,100 war criminals
in his 60-year career, has played to
strong reviews and sold out audiences
across the Southland and around the
country. Now the 50-year-old actor-
playwright who dons a fat suit and
an hours-worth of makeup to portray
Wiesenthal in his 80s is bringing
the show the L.A. Times raved about
as a compelling accessible history
lesson to our neck of the woods for a
four-week run at the Rubicon Theater
in Ventura.
Dugan who as Wiesenthal takes the
audience from Vienna to Argentina,
the Warsaw Ghetto and an Israeli
courtroom awaiting Adolf Eichmanns
trial discussed the subject of the play
and his own career over the telephone
after a tech rehearsal early this week.
Q. Why were you drawn to portray
Wiesenthal?
A. My father was awarded the
Bronze Battle Star in WWII after
his 80th infantry discovered the
Buchenwald concentration camp. I
grew up with his stories of being
there. He rejected the idea of collective
guilt. Half of his family was German,
and he had no bad feelings toward
the country. He always believed you
should judge people by their actions,
not the group they belong to. I grew
up learning that and it also lined
up with Wiesenthals views. Also,
although Im Irish Catholic, I mar-
ried a Jewish woman and Ive got two
Jewish boys. So I think I come by the
story fairly honestly.
I know its important to always
remember, as they say, but it seems
theres a new Holocaust movie or book or
documentary every year. Why do we need
this now?
If you, or anyone, has to ask to ask
why, its my opinion that the infor-
mation isnt coming out very well. If
youre having Holocaust fatigue
which was Wiesenthals own descrip-
tive, apt phrase its because youre
feeling mired in the past. Its under-
standable if it doesnt resonate as time
goes by, if you think, What does this
have to do with me? I resent it! I want
to move on and live in the present.
But the focus of Wiesenthals work
and what I capture in the play is the
relevance to tomorrow. We take the
lessons of yesterday and apply them
to now. Its about Syria, the Middle
East, and lots of other places So you
can forget; thats fine. Remembering
alone isnt enough. You have to do
something about it.
Tell me about the structure. I under-
stand it begins on the day of his retire-
ment, with one final group of students
at his Jewish Documentation Center in
Vienna.
One of his greatest accomplish-
ments was being a teacher. Hed love
students to come into the center and
listen to him talk about his life as
an example. That is the structure.
The audience is put in the place of
an American group of college stu-
dents whose teacher has finagled to
have them be the last group to hear
him talk. Hes packing up boxes, hes
done. Hes retiring. But hes agreed to
see one more group because theres
one thing he forgot. Its not something
to tell, or answer. But a question he
forgot to ask. Thats the key to the
play.
Im told theres surprising humor to
the show. I know he was sometimes called
The Jewish James Bond, but whats
funny about hunting Nazis?
When I first thought about writ-
ing this show, I figured it would be
interesting, but why would anyone
want to sit through it? Then I found
out that he was an amateur comedian
before the war. The more I researched,
I learned that not only was he a funny
guy, he was a riot. He had a great
sense of humor, and he understood its
value, that you cant just tell people
sad stories, but you have to be enter-
taining. Thats why the show is a
success and has been nominated for
all these awards One of the golden
rules of playwriting is that you cant
start a show with a joke because you
have to set it up. But the set up is
already there. People are thinking its
going to be such a drag; Ill take my
medicine and come to the show. So
I took a chance and the first line in
the show is a very dour story, but its
actually a blue joke. It just kills every
night, because theyre all so shocked
and so friggin relieved that the eve-
ning isnt going to be a drag. Its a
great way to start.
Wiesenthal also had his share of detrac-
tors, those thought he had a bit too much
pride and may have lied about his accom-
plishments. Also there was his defense of
Kurt Waldheim. Do you delve into that in
the show?
Sure. You cant take on a character
like this without it. I have no inter-
est in hearing the story of someone
as a saint. Who can relate to that?
I read all the books, ones that span
the gamut from those who wor-
shipped him to those who said he
was the devil incarnate. That helps
you develop a three-dimensional
picture. Wiesenthal did have a lot
of pride, there was some arrogance.
It charged his batteries, he liked the
fame. And there are those who say
he exaggerated his importance. But
they focused on his early work, not
taking into the full account his later
perspectives. He learned things as
he went along. As far as Waldheim,
there just wasnt any proof, and
Wiesenthal didnt want to detract
from the cause when you couldnt
prove it.
Youve also done one-man shows on
Robert E. Lee and Frederick Douglas,
humble heroes, as you put it. But you
dont just play heavy characters: your
IMDB page shows a lot of credits in fun
stuff: Bones, Curb Your Enthusiasm
and Naked Gun, to name just a few. Got
any stories to share?
Oh, absolutely. When I was doing
Ghostbusters II, I was a young actor
and it was a big hoot. I played a cop
who was in a whole bunch of scenes,
in the background, of course. In one
scene, I was driving a cop car with
all four Ghostbusters in the back. I
was supposed to pull up to Gracie
Mansion at 60 miles per hour and
stop with a screech on this 3-inch
piece of tape theyd put down on
the ground. Im not a stunt driver,
and Im petrified Im going to kill
somebody. Anyway, the cameras are
rolling, sound guys are ready, and
we start, and Bill Murray and Dan
Aykroyd are joking around in the
back with Harold Ramis, laughing
it up. And I had to turn around and
say Guys, shut up! Im trying to
hear the director! And theyre like
Ooh, ooh, making fun of me. Then
just as I start driving, Bill Murray
flicks the back of my ear and says
Dont [screw] up, dont [screw] up,
over and over again. Somehow I still
managed to get it done I ended up
doing five movies for Ivan Reitman.
Id love to work for him again. I hope
he reads this.
One last question: Do you ever get mis-
taken for the BMX rider?
Yeah, I do. I got a letter a month ago:
Dear Mr. Dugan, Im writing from
my sixth grade class. Im supposed to
do a report on one of my heroes. Im
all tearing up as I read it. Then it says,
What kind of bike should I buy? I
guess I have to work harder. This guy
is beating me out. You Google Tom
Dugan and he comes up. It used to
be me.
Nazi Hunter - Simon Wiesenthal
opens Saturday at Venturas Rubicon
Theatre and continues Wednesdays-
Sundays through March 11. Tickets cost
$39-$59 general, $25 students. Call 667-
2900 or visit www.rubicontheatre.org.
Also in theater, writer-actress Maria

Lane Ross has teamed up with vet-
eran Santa Barbara thespian Ed Giron
to create The Jaguars Nest, a fiction-
al story of an individuals struggle
against a society that neglects mental
illness. Giron directs while Ross stars
in the staged reading of the funny,
irreverent, dramatic, and sometimes
heartbreaking story she co-wrote of a
womans struggle within herself and
with a failed system, where when
everything looks to be stripped from
you, if you still have hope, miracles
happen. The two performances, at 3
and 7pm Sunday at Center Stage, ben-
efit Peoples Self-Help Housing, with
Q&A sessions following the shows.
Call 963-0408 or visit www.centerstag
etheater.org.
Tom Dugan brings his one-man show that he wrote and stars in, Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal, to the
Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, which runs until March 11
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Warsaw wonder Formed in
post-Soviet bloc Poland in 1995, the
Szymanowski Quartet has developed a
strong international reputation in barely
a decade and a half via sophisticated
programs that present a perfect balance
between intellect and passion. The
ensemble has performed at prestigious
festivals and concert halls in Europe,
the United States, Asia, Australia and
South America, and returns tonight to
the chamber music series at the Mary
Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara
Museum of Art where theyll play
Mendelssohns Capriccio in E major,
Op.118 and String Quartet No. 6 in F
minor, op. 80; Beethovens String Quartet
No. 8 in E minor, op. 59 no. 2; and
Bachs Vor deinen Thron tret ich, BWV
668. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: 1130
State Street COST: $19 general, ($4
discount for museum members) INFO:
963-4364 ext. 400 or www.sbma.net
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
TRAP set The annual beneft concert
for The Rhythmic Arts Project has grown
from its recent days as a picnic/jam
session on the lawn behind Girls Inc. in
Carpinteria. Now the show is commanding
an evening at the Lobero, as befts a
powerful headlining tandem of Robben
Ford and The Yellowjackets. Ford is the
Ojai-based blues-jazz-fusion guitarist
whose resume includes stints with John
Mayalls Bluesbreakers, Chick Corea,
the Gregg Allman Band, KISS, as well as
a mid-70s term with Tom Scotts L.A.
Express during its time with Joni Mitchell
when they served as her backing band
for the seminal Court and Spark album
(plus Hissing of Summer Lawns and the
live Miles of Aisles). It was after leaving
the Express in 1976 that Ford recorded
his solo album The Inside Story with the
band that became the Yellowjackets,
and later played on the groups frst
two discs. That group, which became a
more eclectic, electro-acoustic jazz/R&B
band after offcially forming in 1981, still
features keyboardist Russell Ferrante
and bassist Jimmy Haslip more than
30 years later. But the event is much
more than a simple concert. Legendary
drummer John Densmore (The Doors),
who has long worked with TRAP, and
actor/activist Edward James Olmos
serve as co-hosts, with percussionist
and former Santa Barbara resident and
frequent TRAP supporter Airto offering a
special blessing. All are there in support
of TRAP, a nonproft founded by Eddie
Tuduri, who benefted from similar
work that is dedicated to educating
thousands of individuals with intellectual
and developmental differences in Santa
Barbara and around the globe by
embracing a curriculum that encompasses
rhythm as a modality to address basic
life and learning skills as well as reading,
writing and arithmetic. WHEN: 8pm
WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon
Perdido St. COST: $50.50 general (VIP
tickets $105.50) INFO: 963-0761 or
www.lobero.com or www.traponline.org
Hitching up to Paddys wagon
The Chieftains just released a new
CD, somewhere around their 40th or
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by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Sensuously philosophical As befts
a longtime practitioner of Zen Buddhism,
award-winning poet and essayist Jane
Hirshfeld elegantly speaks to the core issues of
existence in her writing, with her verse touching
on topics of desire and loss, impermanence and
beauty, and our daily experience and connections
with others. Her six collections of poetry include
After, which was named a best book of 2006
by The Washington Post; Given Sugar, Given Salt, a
National Book Critics Circle Award fnalist; and The
October Palace, plus a new volume just published
last August, Come, Thief, which addresses the
passage of time and its ramifcations. Described
by The New York Times as radiant and passionate, Hirshfeld muses not only on
the emotional and metaphysical, but also more tangible subjects such as politics, the
ecology and science, offering nuanced observations that help us understand ourselves
better. Raved the Washington Post: The poems are so open-hearted and marvelously
conceived that they are not just beautiful themselves but effortlessly contain beauty
Whats more, they make us suddenly aware of what we too contain at every
savored moment of the day. Tonights reading is the culmination of her week as a
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative Studies. WHEN: 8pm
WHERE: UCSBs Campbell Hall COST: $15 general, free age 18 and under INFO:
893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Music to fy by Led by
Commander and conductor Captain
Haley Armstrong, the concert
band of the United States Air
Force Band of the Golden West,
is comprised of 40 professional
Airman-musicians from Travis Air
Force Base who support the global
Air Force mission by providing
musical presentations and services
for offcial military, recruiting and
community relations events. Its
mostly the latter function that brings
the group to UCSB tonight for a free show meant to foster Americas rich national
heritage through a varied repertoire of standard wind ensemble literature, orchestral
transcriptions, military marches, jazz and pop arrangements, Broadway standards
and, of course, patriotic music complete with instrumental soloists and featured
vocalists. The concert is free, but tickets are required and are available online at
www.bandofthegoldenwest.af.mil. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Lehmann Hall, UCSB
Campus INFO: 893-3230 or www.music.ucsb.edu
so. Its called Voice of the Ages, which
might seem presumptuous on some
other band, but consider that were
talking about the worlds most popular
Irish traditional folk group celebrating
half a century of making music. The
six-time Grammy Award winners who
have become, as one newspaper put it,
a musical genealogical society, once
again tap into a vast array of friends
and colleagues to enlist collaborators,
including highly-regarded indie rockers
Bon Iver and The Decemberists and
recent Americana ambassadors The Civil
Wars and Carolina Chocolate Drops (not
to mention coproduction from T Bone
Burnett) plus one from their own neck of
the woods, Irish and Scottish folkie Paolo
Nutini. The Chieftains, who more or less
singlehandedly launched the world music
boom back in the 1960s, kick off the U.S.
leg of their 50th anniversary tour which
culminates in a St. Patricks Day show at
Carnegie Hall in New York City right
here in Santa Barbara led by, as always,
founder Paddy Moloney, who frst
enlisted top Irish musicians as cohorts way
back in 1962. Expect the Chieftains usual
expert musicianship laced with twinkle-in-
the-eye Irish humor, plus an assortment of
visiting dancers and pipe bands as has
become the bands wont in recent years.
WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Granada Theatre,
1214 State Street COST: $35-$55 INFO:
899-2222 or www.granadasb.org or 893-
3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Classics, part I UCSB Theatre takes on
Tartuffe, 17th century French playwright
Molires most famous comedy that still
has ramifcations in todays world full of
fnancial charlatans and TV evangelists. An
imposter insinuates himself into the home
of a wealthy French family posing as a
spiritual guide to the head of the household
while trying to seduce his wife, marry his
daughter and eventually steal the entire
estate. Think Bernie Madoff as a playboy
peddling derivatives for a modern-day
view, although UCSBs version, directed
by faculty member Tom Whitaker and
starring a cast of talented student actors,
will hone closer to the original, which still
evokes laughs more than 300 years later.
WHEN: 8pm tonight, tomorrow and Feb.
21-24, plus 2pm tomorrow, Sunday and
Feb. 25 WHERE: Performing Arts Theater,
UCSB campus COST: $13-$17 INFO:
893-7221 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu
Classics, part II No one does
Shakespeare quite like Lit Moon, the
theater company founded and directed by
Westmont professor John Blondell. In a
gripping, visceral staging of Shakespeares
rarely performed by great historical
tragedy Henry VI, Part 3, eight actors will
depict the blood-saturated events of the
English civil war known as the Wars of
the Roses, which also has applications for
todays world. On the heels of the Arab
Spring, and other sites where civil war
has or is about to break out, this story
is especially resonant and provocative,
Blondell said in a press release. The play
is jam packed with action; harrowing
death scenes; and beautiful, grief-flled
laments. Lit Moon principal Victoria
Finlayson (also Blondells wife) takes
on the title role, with Stan Hoffman,
Jeff Mills, Brian Harwell, Marie
Ponce, Diana Small, Kate Paulsen
and Sara Reynolds taking on the other
parts augmented by original music by
Jim Connolly. The local production
comes in advance of Blondells staging
of the play for the Macedonian National
Theatre in Bitola, who have been invited to
16 23 February 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41 If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldnt be any inducement to go to heaven Will Rogers

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Out of Our Minds Thats the title for tonights
talk (and popular book) from education innovator Sir
Ken Robinson thats all about learning to be creative.
Robinson, renowned for radical ideas on education
reform and innovation in the classroom, has gained
worldwide fame for his humorous and insightful talks
at the TED Conferences, which have been seen by 200
million people in more than 150 countries. In exploring
questions like: Why is it essential to promote creativity?
Is everyone creative or just a selective few? Robinson
urges schools at all levels to focus on cultivating creativity
and acknowledging multiple types of intelligences as
he argues for drastic shifts to meet the extraordinary
challenges of the times. His 2009 book The Element:
How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything was a New York Times bestseller and
has been translated into 21 languages. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSBs Campbell
Hall COST: $20 general, $10 youths 18 and under INFO: 893-3535 or www.
ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

BOXTALES is back Santa Barbaras popular
childrens theater company is bringing back Jambo
Watoto: Tales and Rhythms of Africa for one night
only as a fundraiser for Peabody Schools Assembly
program. A loving homage to the rich and wonderful
cultures of Africa, Jambo Watoto features storytelling,
drama, traditional West African drumming, richly
detailed masks (made by Lindsay Rust) and energetic
movement (choreographed by world renowned theatre
director Eva Magyar), all culled from many different
regions. For nearly 20 years, performers-creators
Michael Andrews, Matt Tavianini and Jeff Mills
work together to provide a fun, interactive and athletic theatrical experience for the
whole family; Jambo Watoto is one of the companys favorites. WHEN: 6:30pm
WHERE: Peabody Charter School Auditorium 3018 Calle Noguera COST: $10
general, $5 kids (at the door) INFO: www.boxtales.org/jambo.htm
participate in the Globe Theatres Globe
to Globe Festival, presented as part of
the 2012 Olympic Games, where all 37
of Shakespeares plays will be played
in 37 different languages. The company
is also offering three free special events
at Westmont College in association with
the production, including two talks by
noted Shakespearean scholar Randall
Martin, and a directors roundtable with
Blondell and Serbias Nikita Milivojevic
and Albanias Adonis Filipi, who are
directing Henry VI, Part 1 and Part 2,
respectively, for the Globes festival.
WHEN: 8pm tonight & tomorrow, and
Feb. 23-25 WHERE: Center Stage Theater,
upstairs in Paseo Nuevo mall COST:
$26.50 general, $16.50 students INFO:
963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19
French kiss A special Music at Trinity
concert presents Santa Barbara futist
Suzanne Duffy and French pianist
Sophia Vaillant in Music Inspirations,
from France to the United States, a
celebration of the 18th-century writer,
philosopher and composer Jean-Jacques
Rousseau on the 300th anniversary of
his birth. The duo will perform the same
program they played last month in France,
featuring works by Lukas Foss, CPE Bach,
Claude Debussy, Emanuele Krakamp,
Franz Schubert, Cesar Franck, Samuel
Barber and Aaron Copland. WHEN:
3:30pm WHERE: Trinity Episcopal Church,
1500 State Street COST: free INFO: 965-
7419 or www.trinitysb.org
Han solos In his decades-long
career, Korean pianist Tong-Il
Han has performed with the New
York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra,
the Chicago Symphony, the London
Philharmonic and many others. The
69-year-old Han played at the White
House during President Kennedys term
and was also a guest on Steve Allens
old hit TV show Ive Got a Secret. But
hes just now making his Santa Barbara
debut, playing with the Santa Barbara
Chamber Orchestra with whom hell
perform Beethovens Piano Concerto
No. 3 before the ensemble plays the
composers Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) in
a program cleverly titled Beethovens
Thirds. The composer himself conducted
the symphonys premiere and performed
as soloist when the concerto debuted.
WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Lobero Theater,
33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $42 &
$47 (discounts for students and free tickets
for families available) INFO: 963-0761 or
www.lobero.com MJ
Pop Tarts
Elvis Costello and the Talking
Heads both released their debut LPs
in 1977, but Rolling Stones new artist
of the year was a guy named Garland
Jeffreys.
Dont feel foolish if you havent
heard of him. After that years Ghost
Writer which featured an ambitious
array of rock n roll both redemptive
and romantic including the striking
urban anthem Wild in the Streets, fol-
lowed by the equally masterful Escape
Artist in 1981 Jeffreys wasnt able
to capture the commercial success of
the similarly-raised and like-minded
Bruce Springsteen (both grew up near
amusement parks in the Northeast
near the ocean) nor carve out a niche
la college buddy Lou Reed.
Then he released only two more
records before taking a 13-year hiatus
in 1998. And even though his new
album, The King of In Between, was
one of the most searing discs of 2011,
addressing Jeffreys typical poetry and
defiance the issues of the day, it didnt
get a lot of attention from anyone
who didnt already know about him.
But now that youre reading this, go
download the album or his whole
catalogue, actually and get to SOhO
on Sunday, where the singer-song-
writer will be making his absurdly
overdue Santa Barbara debut.
The 68-year-old Jeffreys discussed
King and its antecedents over the tele-
phone from his home in New York.
Q. Lets just get right to it: where the
heck have you been?
A. Well, you know. Im a dad now.
I have a fifteen-year-old girl. When
the opportunity came along, it was
a chance to really step into being a
father. Theres quite a learning curve.
I dug in and suspended performing,
touring, running around and became
really involved in my daughters life.
I took her to nursery school every
day. That was my number one prior-
ity My daughter is a musician too
a singer, songwriter. Finding her
gravitating toward music rekindled
my interest and enthusiasm. Then the
fever hit me. Why dont I get back to
writing songs and face the challenge
of creating new music and making a
good album again?
In the beginning, you worked with
Lou Reed before the Velvet Underground,
played at the Bitter End and Kennys
Castaway and all those Village hangouts,
and your first band Grinders Switch
backed up John Cale on his first solo
album, Vintage Violence. Heady stuff.
What was that time like?
I grew up around a lot of jazz, danc-
ing around the house, then got into
Motown and Dylan. You can almost
define me completely in those two
alone: the intelligence of Dylan and
the soul of Motown. Lou Reed and I
met in 1961 we liked similar music;
he called it doo wop. We did a
couple of gigs together in the city.
Then I met John Cale in 1965 before
the Velvet Underground and he asked
me to write a song for him, and a
poem for the album cover. We were
all friends for a while. Lou and I to
this very day are still very close. We
were just exchanging emails today. I
think the idea that I could create my
own band came from Lou, too, as well
as Felix Cavaliere (the Young Rascals)
who also went to Syracuse.
Lets talk about Wild In the Streets
Where did it come from?
I read one day about a murder in
the Bronx, three kids who were very
young, including a girl who had been
Recently named
Rolling Stones
artist of the year,
Garland Jeffreys
makes his Santa
Barbara debut at
SOhO on Sunday,
February 19
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Bella Vista $$$
1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)
Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella Vis-
tas ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor
Mediterranean courtyard. Executive Chef
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Cafe Del Sol $$
30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)
CAVA $$
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Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking
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ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunfower-
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freplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor
people-wat ching front patio. Open Monday-
Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday
10 am to 10 pm.
China Palace $$
Montecitos only Chinese restaurant, here youll
fnd large portions and modern dcor. Take out
available. (Montecito Journal staff is especially
fond of the Cashew Chicken!) China Palace also
has an outdoor patio. Open seven days 11:30 am
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Giovannis $
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Little Alexs $
1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)
Luckys (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$
Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak-
house in the heart of Americas biggest
little village. Steaks, chops, seafood,
cocktails, and an enormous wine list are
featured, with white tablecloths, fine
crystal and vintage photos from the 20th
century. The bar (separate from dining
room) features large flat-screen TV and
opens at 4 pm during the week. Open
nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday &
Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm.
Valet Parking.
Montecito Caf $$
Montecito Coffee Shop $
1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)
Montecito Wine Bistro $$$
516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520
Head to Montecitos upper village to indulge
in some California bistro cuisine. Chef
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include fsh and vegetarian dishes, and fresh
fatbreads straight out of the wood-burning
oven. The Bistro offers local wines, classic
and specialty cocktails, single malt scotches
and aged cognacs.
Pane Vino $$$
Peabodys $
Plow & Angel $$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine
on traditional dishes such as mac n cheese and
ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original
artwork, including stained glass windows
and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore,
hanging above the freplace. Dinner is served
from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extend-
ing until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight
on Friday and Saturday.
Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$
Stella Mares $$/$$$
50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)
Stonehouse $$$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Located in what is a 19th-century citrus pack-
inghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a
lounge with full bar service and separate dining
room with crackling freplace and creekside
views. Chef Jamie Wests regional cuisine is
prepared with a palate of herbs and vegetables
harvested from the on-site chefs garden.
Recently voted 1 of the best 50 restaurants in
America by OpenTable Diners Choice. 2010
Diners Choice Awards: 1 of 50 Most Romantic
Restaurants in America, 1 of 50 Restaurants
With Best Service in America. Open for dinner
from 6 to 10 pm daily. Sunday Brunch 10 am
to 2 pm.
Trattoria Mollie $$$
Tre Lune $$/$$$
A real Italian boite, complete with small but
fully licensed bar, big list of Italian wines, large
comfortable tables and chairs, lots of mahogany
and large b&w vintage photos of mostly fa-
mous Italians. Menu features both comfort food
like mama used to make and more adventurous
Italian fare. Now open continuously from lunch
to dinner. Also open from 7:30 am to 11:30 am
daily for breakfast.
Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria $$
Delis, bakeries, juice bars
Blenders in the Grass
Heres The Scoop
1187 Coast Village Road (lower level)
(969-7020)
Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises.
Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm,
12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 12
pm to 9 pm on Sundays. Scoopie also offers a
full coffee menu featuring Santa Barbara Roast-
ing Company coffee. Offerings are made from
fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farmers
Market, and waffe cones are made on site
everyday.
Jeannines
Montecito Deli
Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm.
(Closed Sunday) This eatery serves home-
made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and
its specialty, The Piadina, a homemade flat
bread made daily. Owner Jeff Rypysc and
staff deliver locally and cater office parties,
luncheons or movie shoots. Also serving
breakfast (7am to 11 am), and brewing Peets
coffee & tea.
Panino
1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137)
Pierre Lafond
516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502)
This market and deli is a center of activity
in Montecitos Upper Village, serving fresh
baked pastries, regular and espresso coffee
drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade
soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches
and wraps available, and boasting a fully
stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws
crowds of regulars daily. The shop also
carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery
staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am
to 8 pm.
Village Cheese & Wine

In Summerland / Carpinteria
The Barbecue Company $$
3807 Santa Claus Lane (684-2209)
Cantwells Summerland Market $
2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5894)
Corktree Cellars $$
910 Linden Avenue (684-1400)
Corktree offers a casual bistro setting for
lunch and dinner, in addition to wine
tasting and tapas. The restaurant, open
everyday except Monday, features art from
locals, mellow music and a relaxed atmo-
sphere. An extensive wine list features over
110 bottles of local and international wines,
which are also available in the eatery's
retail section.
Garden Market $
Jacks Bistro $
5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558)
Serving light California Cuisine, Jacks offers
freshly baked bagels with whipped cream
cheeses, omelettes, scrambles, breakfast bur-
ritos, specialty sandwiches, wraps, burgers,
salads, pastas and more. Jacks offers an ex-
tensive espresso and coffee bar menu, along
with wine and beer. They also offer full ser-
vice catering, and can accommodate wedding
receptions to corporate events. Open Monday
through Friday 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday
and Sunday 7 am to 3 pm.
Nugget $$
Padaro Beach Grill $
A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery
its charm and makes it a perfect place to
bring the whole family. Its new owners added
a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with
freplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill op-
tions, along with salads and seafood plates.
The Grill is open Monday through Sunday
11 am to 9 pm
Slys $$$
686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)
Slys features fresh fsh, farmers market veg-
gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate
Specials and vintage desserts. Youll fnd a full
bar, serving special martinis and an extensive
wine list featuring California and French wines.
Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to
9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday
and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and
brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am
to 3 pm.
Stackys Seaside $
Summerland Beach Caf $
Tinkers $
2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)
Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row
Andersens Danish Bakery &
Gourmet Restaurant $
1106 State State Street (962-5085)
Established in 1976, Andersens serves Danish
and European cuisine including breakfast,
lunch & dinner. Authentic Danishes, Apple
Strudels, Marzipans, desserts & much more.
Dine inside surrounded by European interior
or outside on the sidewalk patio. Open 8 am to
9 pm Monday through Friday, 8 am to 10 pm
Saturday and Sunday.
Bistro Eleven Eleven $$
1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)
Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the
bistro serves breakfast and lunch featur-
ing all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix
of traditional favorites and coastal cuisine.
The lounge advancement to the restaurant
features a big screen TV for daily sporting
events and happy hour. Open Monday-
Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday
6:30 am to 10 pm.
Chucks Waterfront Grill $$
113 Harbor Way (564-1200)
Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy
some of the best views of both the mountains
and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly
renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoy-
ing fresh seafood straight off the boat. Dinner is
served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is offered
on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations
are recommended.
El Paseo $$
813 Anacapa Street (962-6050)
Located in the heart of downtown Santa Bar-
bara in a Mexican plaza setting, El Paseo is the
place for authentic Mexican specialties, home-
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made chips and salsa, and a cold margarita
while mariachis stroll through the historic
restaurant. The dcor refects its rich Spanish
heritage, with bougainvillea-draped balconies,
fountain courtyard dining and a festive bar.
Dinner specials are offered during the week,
with a brunch on Sundays. Open Tuesday
through Thursday 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday and
Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, and Sunday
10:30 am to 9 pm.
Enterprise Fish Co. $$
225 State Street (962-3313)
Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise
Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lob-
sters served with clam chowder or salad, and
rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour
is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open
Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and
Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm.
The Harbor Restaurant $$
210 Stearns Wharf (963-3311)
Enjoy ocean views at the historic Harbor
Restaurant on Stearns Wharf. Featuring prime
steaks and seafood, a wine list that has earned
Wine Spectator Magazines Award of Excel-
lence for the past six years and a full cocktail
bar. Lunch is served 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Monday-Friday, 11 am to 3 pm Saturday and
Sunday. Dinner is served 5:30 pm to 10 pm,
early dinner available Saturday and Sunday
starting at 3 pm.
Los Agaves $
600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)
Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, us-
ing only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and
friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner,
with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-
tures traditional dishes from central and south-
ern Mexico such as shrimp & fsh enchiladas,
shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade
mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to
9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.
Mir $$$$
8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa
(968-0100)
Mir is a refned refuge with stunning views,
featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-
rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that
accents fresh, organic, and native-grown in-
gredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open
Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm
to 10 pm.
Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$
Olio Pizzeria $
17 West Victoria Street (899-2699)
Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this
friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery
featuring Italian food of the highest order. Of-
ferings include eggplant souff, pappardelle
with quail, sausage and mushroom rag, and
fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator
Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private
dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also
available.
Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have
added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired
by neighborhood pizzerie and enoteche in
Italy. Here the focus is on artisanal pizzas and
antipasti, with classic toppings like fresh moz-
zarella, seafood, black truffes, and sausage.
Salads, innovative appetizers and an assort-
ment of salumi and formaggi round out the
menu at this casual, fast-paced eatery. Private
dining for up to 32 guests. Both the ristorante
and the pizzeria are open for lunch Monday
thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner
seven nights a week (from 5 pm).
Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro $
516 State Street (962-1455)
The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California
cuisine specializing in local products. Pair
your meal with wine from the Santa Barbara
Winery, Lafond Winery or one from the list
of wines from around the world. Happy
Hour Monday - Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The
1st Wednesday of each month is Passport
to the World of Wine. Grilled cheese night
every Thursday. Open for breakfast, lunch
and dinner; catering available.
www.pierrelafond.com
Renauds $
3315 State Street (569-2400)
Located in Loreto Plaza, Renauds is a bakery
specializing in a wide selection of French
pastries. The breakfast and lunch menu is
composed of egg dishes, sandwiches and
salads and represents Renauds personal
favorites. Brewed coffees and teas are organic.
Open Monday-Saturday 7 am to 5 pm, Sunday
7 am to 3 pm.
Rodneys Steakhouse $$$
633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554)
Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of
Fess Parkers Doubletree Inn on East Beach
in Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells
and serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal,
halibut, salmon, lobster and other high-end
victuals. Full bar, plenty of California wines,
elegant surroundings, across from the ocean.
Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at
5:30 pm. Reservations suggested on weekends.
Ojai
Maravilla $$$
905 Country Club Road in Ojai (646-1111)
Located at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, this
upscale eatery features prime steaks, chops
and fresh seafood. Local farmers provide fresh
produce right off the vine, while herbs are har-
vested from the Inns herb garden. The menu
includes savory favorites like pan seared diver
scallops and braised beef short ribs; dishes are
accented with seasonal vegetables. Open Sun-
day through Thursday for dinner from 5:30 pm
to 9:30 pm, Friday and Saturday from
5:30 pm to 10 pm. MJ
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thrown off a roof. The story really
moved me. My intent was just to come
to terms with it, as I sat in my apart-
ment that was also my studio in New
York. Dr. John helped me arrange the
song and we recorded it with some of
his band members. It just took off from
there, especially when I put it out later
on Ghost Writer, which was a super
breakthrough record for me. I was
able to bring together all my talents
for the first time. And those songs still
resonate. Theyre not just casual regur-
gitations now. The stories still dig right
into my life I think in a lot of ways
the new album is its companion piece.
There does seem to be some parallels,
with the theme, and even the title.
At its very basic level, its about
being in between the races, neither
black nor white, and part Latino. I
went through a lot of pain as a young
man, and it was quite a challenge. I
wanted to be friends with everybody,
but in those days it was very separat-
ed. People just didnt do that. In some
ways I was way before my time
And its also about jobs, rent, money,
fear, moving along in your life when
you cant get any work, things people
are dealing with today.
You also address mortality.
Its a natural thing when you get
older to begin to fear not being there,
especially in terms of my daughter.
Will I get a chance to see what she
becomes? I take care of myself I
think Im on the ninety-year plan. I
expect to be performing, writing
songs and being a musician as long as
possible. I still have my vitality, a lot
of energy on stage like in the old days.
I put it out there every night. So Im
going to, as my song says, wait until
John Lee Hooker calls me. And I may
not answer right away either.
Focus on Film
With 2012 SBIFF now safely reced-
ing in the rearview mirror, other mov-
ies and cinemas are swinging back
into action. But if you havent yet
seen Pina, which drew raves at the
festival and then opened at the Fiesta
last Friday, rush down immediately to
snag a seat. Wim Wenders brilliantly
seamless documentary currently up
for an Academy Award celebrates
the life and mainly the dances created
by the late German choreographer,
who the director has said influenced
much of his best work, including his
seminal film, Wings of Desire. The
extended dance scenes are meditative
and provocative, the interviews (actu-
ally responses, as the questions are
rarely heard) often insightful and pro-
found, and the 3-D for once actually
enhances the experience without gim-
micks or intrusiveness. Dont miss it.
Elsewhere, UCSB Arts & Lectures
Art | Architecture On Film series
resumes on Sunday afternoon, February
19 at Pollock Theater, UCSBs new
state-of-the-art cinema, with another
intriguing documentary double fea-
ture. Alice Neel chronicles the influ-
ential but troubled American painter
who sacrificed nearly everything for
her art, even though her medium of
portraiture was out of step with the
Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art
of the day until the counterculture dis-
covered her in the late 1960s. The sin-
gle mothers single-minded focus on
work was a detriment to her children
which is interesting because the film
is directed by her son, Andrew. Over
Your Cities Grass Will Grow is a portrait
of German artist Anselm Kiefer, who
has transformed a vast, derelict indus-
trial space in southern France into a
dreamlike city, housing his paintings
and elaborate installations, includ-
ing underground tunnels and towers.
Festival-lovers should note that the
film was played at Cannes, Toronto
and Rotterdam.
The Pollock, by the way, is also
screening all five of the Oscar nomi-
nated foreign films on consecutive
nights this week: Bullhead, which won
a jury prize at SBIFF, plays Thursday,
February 16, Polands In Darkness
screens Friday, February 17; and Israels
Footnote unspools Saturday, February
18. (Canadas Monsieur Lazhar and
Irans A Separation which several crit-
ics have called the best film of the year
in any language screened Tuesday
and Wednesday). Each film will be
preceded by an Oscar-nominated live
action or animated short all of which
screened together at the Arlington ear-
lier this week. (So theres no excuse
for you local Academy members or
anyone else not being up to speed by
Oscar night.) MJ
EnTERTAInMEnT (Continued from page 41)
Germanys Wim Wenders directed, produced,
and wrote Academy Award nominated documen-
tary, Pina, a homage to late choreographer Pina
Bausch, playing in 3-D at Fiesta 5
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