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10 17 November 2011
Vol 17 Issue 45
The Day The World Changed
Bruces Giffins poignant Vietnam-era
recollection of his Air Force pilot uncle Rosss
last days in the U.S., p. 32
Our Town
Alan Parsons, sound guru on Pink Floyds Dark
Side of the Moon, to perform for United Boys
and Girls Club, p. 27
Village Beat
Montecito honors Citizen of the Year Dick
Thielscher, Dan and Lana Gude, Jon and Mary
Lou Sorrell and art contest winners, p.8

COMMUNITY CALENDAR, P. 10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 40 GUIDE TO MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 42
The Voice of the Village SSINCE 1995S
LETS HEAR IT
FOR THE BOY
Songwriter-composer, Footloose Broadway
producer, and Montecito resident Tom Snow
among noteworthy TEDx speakers at Music
Academy, story on page 22
Milt and Arlene Larsen clean up
after fire at L.A.s Magic Castle;
Thom Steinbeck launches Silver
Lotus at Tecolote; Bianchis open
house for Giannettis, p. 6
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5 Editorial
Veterans Day Remembrance; roundup of not-to-be-missed high school musicals; BEST
ballots have been counted; subscribe online to MJ
6 Montecito Miscellany
Fire at Magic Castle; Tom Steinbeck debuts third novel; Kim Kardashians divorce
repercussions; Michael Grosss Unreal Estate; bash at Bianchis Montecito estate; Cloud
Nine at UCSB; SB Polo Club celebration at Tifany; three performances at Campbell Hall;
Kensington Palace to get new residents
8 Village Beat
Beautifcation recap; neighborhood associations meet; Caltrans to show plans; Montecito
Association board meets; tanker base upgraded; Mesa Artists open studios; more on Laguna
Blanca history
Sheriffs Blotter
House theft and bicycle stolen on Fairway Road
9 Letters to the Editor
Leoncio Martins responds to Diana Torn; Ray Wynn expounds on the way it should be;
Carole Lief opines that San Ysidro sidewalk not necessary
10 Community Calendar
Food drive at MUS; MERRAG meets; Michael Kessler exhibit; La Bohme at Granada;
TEDxAmericanRiviera; Mesa artists open homes; Master Gardener Orientation; Tea
Fire poetry reading; MUS board meeting; Caltrans discusses plans with community;
tour of OLMC; Montecito/Hope Ranch Republican Women's Club's lecture and
lunch at MCC; Summerland merchants host open house; Montecito Trails hike
Tide Guide
Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the
beach
14 Seen Around Town
Community Environmental Councils Green Gala; Sansum Clinics 90th birthday
celebration; SB Historical Museum lecture
22 Montecito Connection
Montecitos Tom Snow, prolifc songwriter-composer, will speak at TEDx event
26 Your Westmont
Westmont hires Mark Sargent as new provost; tickets are available for this years Christmas
Festival; Kiplingers names Westmont to list of Best Values
27 Our Town
Joanne Calitri speaks to music producer Alan Parsons at his Santa Barbara home
29 n.o.t.e.s. from downtown
After 30 years together, Jim and Lora take on their biggest challenge yet: planning a party
32 In Remembrance
Bruce Gifn recounts his vivid and emotional memory of the last day he saw his uncle
34 State Street Spin
MYNX headlines Hollywoods Whisky a Go Go; Erin recommends SB reality shows
35 On Entertainment
La Bohme at Granada; Lobero hosts Come Fly Away; Whose Live Anyway brings improv
to SB
36 World of Wine
Beaujolais Nouveau is coming to a table near you, if youre lucky
37 In the Garden
Monarch caterpillars feast on Mexican milkweed plants; tips for rejuvenating tired-looking
houseplants
38 On Health
Steve talks to Dr. Andrew Weil about new book, Spontaneous Happiness
40 Calendar of Events
Pink Martini at Arlington; Veterans Day events; Santa Barbara Poetry Series;
flatpicking guitarist Dan Crary; Alan Parsons rocks Lobero; Arts Funds 10th
anniversary; SOhO hosts Sounds of Shearing; sounds of New Orleans at UCSB; SB
Youth Symphony; Stephen Petronio Dance Company; rapper Common signs latest
book
42 Guide to Montecito Eateries
Te most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito
restaurants, cofee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; some in Santa Barbara,
Summerland, and Carpinteria too
43 Movie Showtimes
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45 Real Estate View
A look at the current Heat scores compared to last years at this time
93108 Open House Directory
Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito
46 Classifed Advertising
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47 Local Business Directory
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Veterans Day Remembrance
B
ruce Giffn co-founder along with Geoff Crane of Giffn & Crane
General Contractors, Inc., has penned an especially poignant recollection
of the last time he saw his uncle Ross. It was 1965 and the Vietnam War
was fully underway. Ross was an Air Force pilot and few an F-4 Phantom, at the
time the most powerful and modern fghter jet on the planet, as Bruce tells it.
It is his way and ours of remembering veterans of all the armed services and
of all the wars, police actions, and military responses the nation has endured.
Youll fnd his well-told tale The Day the World Changed on page 32.
High School Musicals
Here is a pre-Christmas, pre-holiday-season suggestion: attend one of the
public high school plays being put on this weekend and next. For example,
Santa Barbara High School presents Alice In Wonderland, with Clayton Barry as
the Mad Hatter and Emma Robins as Alice. The play has been adapted by Otto
Layman, Mike Madden is responsible for the set and lighting, Lise Lange has
created more of her unique costumes, and both the choreography and the pup-
pets are by Christina McCarthy. Call Laura Lewis for tickets at 698-2162. San
Marcos High School is featuring three performances of Arsenic and Old Lace on
November 10, 11, and 12, featuring Zachary Sener, Glee Morse, David Childs,
Jocelyn Flattery and Anjuli Das. Directed by David Holmes. Call 967-4581, ext.
355 for more information, or go online to buy tickets at www.smroyals.org. Dos
Pueblos High School is presenting the West Coast premiere of Like You Like It,
a musical based on Shakespeares As You Like It, set in a mall circa 1980s, and
starring Nanda Douglas, Talya Steinberg, and Ray Cothern. Performances are
set for November 11, 12, 17, 18, and 19. More information online at: dptheatre
company.org. Santa Barbara Junior High is putting on Much Ado Out West, a
spoof on Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing. Performances are scheduled
for November 18 and 19. Call 963-7751 for more info. Tickets for all these shows
range from $5 to $15, and would be money well spent in each case.
The BEST of Montecito
The ballots have been counted, the winners chosen and you have chosen the
BEST of Montecito. Unfortunately, we did not have time to take our photos and
write it up properly, so weve had to put it off until next week. Itll be worth
the wait as your selections contain surprises and intriguing recommendations.
Thank you for your input and your patience.
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Consequences, opened with his brother,
Bill, in 1963.
Luckily, most of the Halloween
events happened in the week leading
up to Halloween night, so it wasnt a
huge loss business-wise and, thank
God, everything is fully insured. It
seems the fire started with a work-
er on the roof with a blow torch,
but with one hundred and twenty-
five L.A. city firefighters battling the
blaze, and an extensive sprinkler sys-
tem, it was quickly brought under
control.
It is planned to have the club, which
has 5,000 members, back in business
by this weekend.
It will probably be the cleanest
it has ever been, given we are open
seven days a week, day and night,
adds Arlene. This enables us to get
everything done in readiness for the
Christmas season, which is the busiest
of the year.
Magical, indeed...
Thoms Tome
Santa Barbaras Thom Steinbeck,
son of the late Nobel Laureate John,
has just launched his third novel
Silver Lotus, about an American mer-
chant captain at the forefront of the
New World, who falls in love with
the daughter of a wealthy Cantonese
family.
Their adventures shape their
lives and their marriage eventually
serves as a foundation of the growth
and development of the Northern
California coast, Thom told guests,
including fellow author T.C. Boyle,
at a book bash at Tecolote, the tony
tome temple in the Upper Village.
Thom, 66, who has written two
previous novels, Down to a Soundless
Sea and In the Shadow of the Cypress,
describes his 342-page book as being
steeped in the rich culture of the
Orient, set against the burgeoning
trade routes of the Pacific Rim.
He is now planning his fourth novel.
I have a lot of ideas, but no one
seems to be biting, says Thom.
Maybe its more bait than they can
handle?
Separation Situation
The fallout from Kim Kardashians
split with her husband, Kris
Castle on Fire
Monte ito
Miscellany
by Richard Mineards
Richard covered the Royal Family for Britains Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York
to write for Rupert Murdochs newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York
magazines Intelligencer. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and
moved to Montecito four years ago.
T
iming is everything!
Just ask Milt Larsen, the
Santa Barbara-based owner of
Hollywoods famed Magic Castle,
whose century-old Victorian pile suf-
fered a major blaze on, of all occa-
sions, Halloween night.
With a certain amount of irony, invi-
tations stated: For the last week of
October, the Magic Castle will be on
fire with the spirit of Halloween!
Who knew? theatrical producer
Milt tells me. It started with a fire
in the attic around 12:30 pm, about
the same time Harry Houdini passed
away on October 31, 1926. An eerie
coincidence!
Most of the damage, fortunately,
was done to the executive offices on
the third floor and the aptly named
Dante Room, a dining area on the
floor below, while miraculously, or
magically, the rest of the castle, which
contains priceless artifacts and mem-
orabilia, was untouched by actual
flames. Water damage, however, is
another matter.
Milts wife, Arlene, says a lot of
the damage is to the many oriental
rugs in the castle, which Milt, a for-
mer writer on the TV show Truth or
Like the Phoenix, Milt Larsens Magic Castle rises
from the flames
Author Thom
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novel
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Humphries, after just 72 well-reward-
ed days, continues to create new dra-
mas.
The couple hadnt spoken to each
other since the divorce last month,
according to reports, but at the week-
end she flew to Minnesota for a two-
hour counseling session with him.
Kardashian, 31, returned to Los
Angeles after curtailing a promotional
trip to Australia and will suppos-
edly be guarding her privacy a
most unusual circumstance until
she begins filming Tyler Perrys aptly
titled movie The Marriage Counselor,
which means missing the birthday din-
ners of her mother, Kris Jenner, and
her brother-in-law, Lamar Odom.
And the family, reportedly, have
even banned E! TV, which runs their
top rated reality series Keeping Up
with the Kardashians and paid a hefty
multimillion dollar fee to cover the
Montecito nuptials, from screen-
ing anything to do with the divorce
drama, although others are saying the
new spin-off series Kourtney & Kim
Take New York will feature the doomed
relationship heavily when it premieres
on Nov. 27.
Its claimed Kardashian wont be
shooting any footage for the original
show until the beginning of next year
and is insisting she does not want to
exploit the real moments behind the
divorce on TV.
Meanwhile, she will be keeping her
$2 million 20.5 carat diamond engage-
ment ring, but reportedly reimbursing
pro basketball player Humphries, 26,
for its cost, as per their pre-nuptial
agreement.
Stay tuned...
Gross-ly Huge Estates
Best selling author Michael Gross, a
former colleague of mine at New York
Magazine, has come up with a real
cracker with his latest tome, Unreal
Estate, a 535-page turner on money,
ambition, and the lust for land in
Los Angeles.
Based on 16 great estates in the
best neighborhoods of the Big Orange,
including Beverly Hills, Bel Air and
Holmby Hills, most of them are still
occupied today.
Of interest to readers of this illustri-
ous organ will be the chapter devoted
to Hilda Olsen Boldt Weber, the widow
of Charles Boldt, whose Cincinnati
glassmaking enterprise eventually
morphed into Corning, the world
leader in specialty glass and ceram-
ics, with 26,000 employees worldwide
and $6.6 billion in sales last year.
The wealthy twosome built a 6,000-
sq-ft 20-room mansion in Beverly Hills
in 1922 and six years later bought a
16-acre estate with a 22-room house in
Santa Barbara, complete with a 171 ft.
yacht, which was eventually bought
by Howard Hughes.
As it was the Prohibition period,
the property even boasted a 150 ft.
tunnel leading to a hidden walk-in
wine cellar. It was later offered to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be
used as a summer White House, but
was declined.
It is now the site of Marymount
School.
After her husband died, Hilda mar-
ried the chauffeur-butler and bought
another property in Bel Air, drop-
ping a mind-boggling $100,000 in 1933
on two lots, totaling nine acres, sur-
rounded on three sides by the Bel-Air
Country Club.
The 40-room, 35,000-sq-ft copper
roofed mansion, with a tunnel direct
to the club, took four years to com-
plete at a cost of $3 million, the equiv-
alent of nearly $50 million today.
After a downturn in her finances,
much of it due to gambling on horses
and cards, the swanky pad, complete
with contents, was eventually sold at
a knockdown price of $225,000 in 1950
to Texas hotelier Conrad Hilton, who
re-named the Bellagio Road prop-
erty Casa Encantada, or House of
Enchantment.
The former nurse eventually com-
mitted suicide, at the age of 65, in
Santa Barbara and is interred in
Charles Boldts mausoleum.
Author
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spotlight on
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(Photo: David
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lunch of hot dogs and chili was served
by Montecito Fire Fighters.
Beautification awards were present-
ed to Dan and Lana Gude, Laguna
Blanca Lower School, and Jon and
Mary Lou Sorrell by local TV person-
ality Mike Klan. Dick Thielscher was
the man of the hour, being recognized
as Citizen by the Year with a declara-
tion by First District Supervisor Salud
Carbajal. And local school kids were
given awards for art projects made
specifically for Beautification Day.
A number of informational tables
were set up for participants to
peruse, including Maritime Museum,
Montecito Water District, Braille
Institute, Opera Santa Barbara,
Wildlife Care Rescue, MERRAG,
Montecito Fire Protection District,
and others. The Land Trust for Santa
Barbara was also there, making a push
T
hey came, they ate, they
beautifed. Hundreds turned
out for Montecito Associations
26th annual Beautifcation Day this
past Saturday, headed up by chair
Mindy Denson and her chocolate
chip cookie-making committee. The
sun was shining while participants
donned their Kelly green tee shirts,
munching on breakfast provided by
Montecito Country Club before hitting
Montecito trails, streets, and beaches
with plastic bags and gloves in hand.
As always, MarBorg provided a
giant dumpster which was stationed
in the Upper Village parking lot. Trash
collectors returned to the village green
with bags of garbage, tossing them
proudly into the dumpster before a
compiled by Flora Kontilis from information supplied by Santa Barbara County
Sheriffs Department, Carpinteria Division
SHERIFFS
BLOTTER
Theft from Residence on Fairway Road
Tuesday, 1 November, 1:16 pm Deputy Smith responded to a call reporting
a burglary from a residence on Fairway Road. Smith contacted the property
owner, who uses the residence as a rental; she said that day she was show-
ing the property to a possible renter. She arrived at the property at noon, and
noticed that the flat panel TV was missing from the living room. The home-
owner last saw the TV at an open house on Sunday, October 30. Smith walked
through the home with the homeowner and they discovered that two sets of
French doors in the home were closed but unlocked; there was no evidence of
forced entry into the home. A report was taken.
Bike Stolen on Fairway Road
Wednesday, 2 November, 12:21 pm Deputy Smith responded to a report of a
stolen bike on Fairway Road. The victim stated that one of her bikes was miss-
ing from a parking garage located under her apartment complex. The bikes
were left unlocked in the victims parking space; the missing bike is not regis-
tered or licensed. A report was taken. MJ
VILLAGE BEAT Page 124
Beautification Day Recap
Village Beat
by Kelly Mahan

Kids (and
parents) took
short rides
on a mini fire
engine, waving
to passersby
in the Upper
Village park-
ing lot
Beautification Chair Mindy Denson with Citizen of
the Year Dick Thielscher
Supervisor Carbajal thanks Dick Thielscher for his volunteer work in Montecito
Wildlife Care volun-
teer Caroline Burry
and her seeing eye
dog, Tri, volunteer
Jay van Meter,
and president of
Braille Auxiliary
Joanie Kelly at
Beautification Day
Montecito Firefighters show off their picked up trash
Montecito
Union School
moms and kids
manned the
H2O station,
where people
could fill up
their water
bottles
10 17 November 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 9 Tragically, Green is the new refuge of scoundrels Victor Davis Hanson
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Unbridled Hypocrisy
I
t is amazing to watch the
absolute unbridled hypocrisy
being displayed by Diana Thorn
regarding the Occupy Movement
and President Obama (Obamas
Hypocracy Letters to the Editor
MJ # 17/44). I am sure we all
remember a time when it was just
considered awful and anti-American
to criticize the Corporate Tea Partys
attempts to absolutely disrupt town
hall meetings surrounding the health
care debate. They were to be allowed
to interrupt anyone that was talking,
shout them down, and boo those that
disagreed with them. Hell they were
even allowed to bring guns to events
attended by President Obama.
Boy how the time changed. The
reason that the Republicans hate the
Occupy Movement with such veracity
is because this movement is using the
Tea Party tactics as they did, but this
time it is against them and that is just
horrible.
Eric Cantor is the latest Republican
to cancel a planned speech because
of the planned protest by the Occupy
Movement to his speech. Many other
Republicans have canceled town halls
and speeches recently because they
flat out did not want to deal with
people challenging them.
The Democratic Congressmen a few
years ago did not cower, they did not
cancel town halls or speeches simply
because they knew that Corporate
tea Party was going to be in atten-
dance. They went ahead and did their
duty as a Congressperson.
The Republicans, however, refuse to
do any meeting, town hall, or speech
if there is even a chance that there will
be any opposition in attendance.
The Republicans have proven, once
again, just how hypocritical they are.
They first time we saw this level of
hypocrisy was when they campaigned
in 2010 that Democrats were trying to
cut social programs and that if elected
they would protect those programs.
Naturally after being elected they
immediately began to try to cut every
social program they could find.
However, do not call them on it,
because they simply do not recognize
their own hypocrisy.
I used to believe they knew they
were hypocritical and just did not
care but after dealing with quite a few
of these Republicans they honestly
do not believe anything they do to be
hypocritical.
They do not see that demanding
respect and the ability to disrupt any
political event and then calling oth-
ers that do the same as nothing than
thugs to be hypocritical.
Another Republicans hypocrisy is
on a settlement with the nations big-
gest banks over the foreclosure abuses
that come to light several months ago,
including the widespread of robo-
signers.
A bipartisan groups of Attorney
General have been pushing for the
banks to pay a monetary penalty in
the form of reducing loan principal
for troubled borrowers but eight
Republicans AGs have broken with
the group and sided with the banks,
saying that they shouldnt have to pay
for their mortgage abuses.
The outrages truth is that in many
cases, banks are blocking such mutu-
ally beneficial deals, so that they can
continue to extract fees.
Diana Thorn see Republicans actions
as heroic and extremely patriotic. She
see the actions of anyone not believing
they way she does (even if the actions
are exactly the same) as barbaric and
anti-American. Armed with that delu-
sion of grandeur she is able to cast
aside the notion of hypocrisy.
Sincerely,
Leoncio Martins
Montecito
(Editors note: Wow. Talk about spin!
You cant really believe any of this, as
the Tea Party folks were respectful, as
opposed to the actions of the motley gangs
of malcontents on display in the center
of many U.S. cities, calling themselves
occupiers. As for townhall meetings, it
was Democrat officeholders that refused to
respond to citizens fears and complaints
by either not answering questions or sim-
ply folding up their meetings. Delusion
of grandeur? One can only shake ones
head in wonder at your version of real-
ity. - TLB)
Too Many Takers
I was thinking about the Eisenhower
years last night. Dont ask me why.
Part of it might have been a result of
seeing, for the third time, the movie
October Sky. It is a chronicle of Homer
Hickman, one of the pioneers in the
U.S. space program who came from
a poor Virginia coal mining family,
eventually rising to the status of star.
My dad was a coal miner, and I was a
pseudo scientist, but the parallels end
there. By the way, the movie comes
highly recommended. Bring Kleenex
if you are a real American.
Even though I was working for a
large nuclear weapons defense con-
tractor and could have been exempt
from the service, all able bodied
which I was not men over the age
of eighteen had to serve at least six
months in active military service.
During basic training at Fort Ord on
the Monterey California peninsula,
our company was marched out into
the cold clear morning and ordered to
watch Sputnik edge across an unusu-
ally clear Monterey sky. A static-rid-
den shortwave radio receiver echoed
the beep-beep of the satellite. The cap-
tain said loudly, Men, look up, there
is the enemy! Then he loudly barked,
About face company dismissed.
Off we went to an early morning
breakfast of S.O.S. Stuff On a Shingle.
That remembrance then led me, for
some even more obscure reason, to
the Federal budget and the pickle in
which we find ourselves today. In
1957, my income tax return was filled
out on an IBM-like punch card, asking
for precious little data. You attached
your check with the card in the enve-
lope provided and mailed it off. I
actually paid with a U.S. postal money
order. The whole exercise took all of
three minutes, and if you were enti-
tled, a refund check came in about ten
days. My first refund I still have the
stub somewhere was $16 and a few
cents. The matter was forgotten until
the following year. I think the rate
was about 3% for me. By the way, the
highest rate was about 92%! That was
for the really rich people who had tax-
able incomes over $250,000 per year.
Of course, just like today, precious few
paid the higher rate, and the number
of people in that category could prob-
ably be counted in the hundreds. My
stepfather had a well-paid job as a
heavy equipment operator and made
a good salary of $4,200 per year.
I started looking for the least com-
mon denominator as to why we are in
the so-called pickle in which we find
ourselves. A recently quoted Irish
taxi driver put it quite accurately
and very simplistically when he said,
Too many takers and not enough
givers. Well, that certainly gets to
the nub of it!
One only has to look at the Payments
to Individuals as a percent of Federal
Spending to understand the basic
problem. Payments to Individuals
are the government costs for pay-
ments to individuals who currently
do nothing for the money. The next
most important item is the percent of
people who pay no federal taxes. The
number of workers who will pay no
taxes in 2013 is projected to be 53%.
The truth is, that there is nowhere in
the Constitution that provides for the
benevolent payments to individuals
who are not employees of the federal
government.
Madison was alarmed at this pros-
pect when Congress, without any
Constitutional authority, appropriated
$15,000 to assist French refugees in
1792, he stated:
I cannot undertake to lay my fin-
ger on that article of the Constitution,
which grants the (any) right to
Congress of expending, on objects of
benevolence, the money of their con-
stituents.
Of course, Madison was right. There
is no such provision, yet today at least
65% of the federal budget is used to
do just that. It is essentially taking the
proceeds of the work of others and
giving it to those who do not work.
One can certainly argue that we can-
not let the sick, the mentally ill and
children without parents left uncared
for. But that is not what we are doing.
We took care of those classes of per-
sons up through the 1950s and 1960s.
We are paying people to not work and
encouraging them to be lazy and non-
productive, giving bonuses to out-of-
wedlock mothers, giving them two
and three years unemployment at pay
levels above the market rates for many
available jobs, etc., etc. etc. It started in
the late 1960s and has increased at an
exponential rate unabated until now.
Spending on Payments to
Individuals and National Defense
are almost exact reciprocals of each
other. There were only slight bumps
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Cost: Registration $100,
$55 to attend the afterparty
Info and registration: www.
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
Mesa Artists Studio Tour
Twelve artists, whose output includes
abstract, representational, landscape and
fgurative work in watercolors, pastels,
oils, acrylics and other media host annual
Mesa Artists Studio Tour, opening their
homes for a pre-holiday exhibit and sale.
Follow red balloons and signs to enjoy the
art of Karin Aggeler, Susan Belloni,
Deborah Breedon, Sarah Carr, Ron
Freese, Morgan Green, Cree Mann,
Margaret Nadeau, Ellen Yeomans,
Erin Williams and Paige Wilson.
When: Saturday and Sunday November
12 and 13, noon to 5 pm
Cost: free
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Master Gardener Orientation
Learn about how to become a Master
Gardener
When: 10 am-11:30 am
Where: 6950 Hollister Ave, #275 (NW
corner of Hollister/Storke intersection,
parking in back)
Info and RSVP: mgsantab@ucdavis.edu
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15
Montecito Union School Board
Meeting
When: 6 pm
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
Info: 969-3249
Caltrans Meeting
Caltrans reps meet with the public to
discuss High Occupancy Vehicle project
Opening Night Dinner will be held in the
Founders Room starting at 5 pm. For more
information, visit www.operasb.org.
When: 7:30 pm Friday, 2:30 pm on
Sunday, November 13
Where: Granada Theater,
1214 State Street
TEDxAmericanRiviera
TEDx, an independently organized TED
event, comes to the Music Academy with
this years theme, The Spark Within:
Exploring Creativity. The all-day event
includes TEDTalks, video and live speakers
(including Montecito residents songwriter
Tom Snow and flmmaker Mike
deGruy), which will combine to spark
deep discussion and connections in a small
group. Since only a limited number of
registrations are available, those who wish
to attend must provide information about
themselves in order for the TEDx team to
evaluate the requests.
There will be an after-party immediately
following the event that includes dinner,
libations, entertainment, and interactions
with producers and speakers of the event.
When: Registration begins at 10 am, the
event runs from 11 am - 6:30 pm, after
party will be from 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Music Academy of the West,
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10
Food Drive at MUS
To beneft Unity Shoppe, donations can
be left in the schools parking lot. Items
needed include baby food, cereal, pasta,
peanut butter, rice, soup and canned
goods.
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
MERRAG Meeting and Training
Network of trained volunteers that work
and/or live in the Montecito area prepare
to respond to community disaster during
critical frst 72 hours following an event.
The mutual self-help organization serves
Montecitos 13,000 residents with the
guidance and support of the Montecito
Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This
month, Light Search and Rescue.
When: 10 am
Where: Montecito Fire Station,
595 San Ysidro Road
Info: Geri, 969-2537
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Community Calendar
by Kelly Mahan
Montecito Tide Chart
Day Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt
Thurs, Nov 10 2:06 AM 2.1 8:21 AM 5.9 03:24 PM -0.2 09:49 PM 3.8
Fri, Nov 11 2:32 AM 2.3 8:48 AM 6 03:58 PM -0.2 010:29 PM 3.7
Sat, Nov 12 2:59 AM 2.5 9:17 AM 5.9 04:35 PM -0.2 011:13 PM 3.5
Sun, Nov 13 3:27 AM 2.7 9:49 AM 5.8 05:15 PM -0.1
Mon, Nov 14 12:04 AM 3.4 3:59 AM 2.9 10:24 AM 5.5 06:00 PM 0.1
Tues, Nov 15 1:06 AM 3.4 4:40 AM 3.1 11:05 AM 5.2 06:51 PM 0.3
Wed, Nov 16 2:18 AM 3.5 5:47 AM 3.3 11:58 AM 4.9 07:47 PM 0.5
Thurs, Nov 17 3:22 AM 3.7 7:35 AM 3.3 01:12 PM 4.4 08:46 PM 0.6
Fri, Nov 18 4:09 AM 4.1 9:28 AM 2.9 02:45 PM 4.1 09:42 PM 0.8

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Remembering the Tea Fire:
A Community Reading
Santa Barbara Poet Laureate
Paul Willis and Coyote Road
neighbor Gudrun Bortman
host a free poetry reading and
invite members of the community
to participate
When: 4 pm to 5 pm
Where: Westmonts Hieronymus
Lounge, Kerrwood Hall, 955 La
Paz Road
Contact: Paul Willis 565-7174
if youd like your reading to be
added to the program
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18
Summerland Open House
Tis the season. Bonita, Amelia Jane, botanik, Cafe Luna and Summerland Winery
are having a Holiday Open House. Make merry, meet and mingle with the shop
owners.
Rita Villa will be toasting the season at Bonita, her Spanish-infuenced clothing
boutique for women. Be sure to try La Bonita, her signature cocktail. Erin Taylor
will be decking the halls (and walls and more!) at Amelia Jane baby and toddler
boutique and botanik garden and home design. Dan and Janette Van Hirtum
will be gathering around the hearth at Cafe Luna. And Bilo Zarif will be in the
spirit at Summerland Winery. Eat, drink and enjoy holiday cheer.
When: 3 pm to 6 pm
Where: Lillie Avenue in Summerland
Montecito Art Series
An exhibit featuring the works of Michael
Kessler. Light refreshments and hors
doeuvres will be served.
When: 6 pm to 8 pm
Where: Montecito Aesthetic Institute,
1150 Coast Village, Suite H
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11
Opera Santa Barbara
Opera Santa Barbara presents Puccinis La
Bohme a tale of ill-fated love set against
the carefree and reckless lifestyle of 19th
Century bohemian Paris. Encompassing
romance, drama, and unforgettable
music, La Bohme has been called the
worlds most popular opera by The New
York Times. The production will be fully
staged and will feature professional opera
singers, full orchestra, sets and costumes.
A pre-performance talk free to ticket
holders is held in the theater 45 minutes
prior to each performance, and a Gala
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in 2015
When: 5:30 pm to 8 pm
Where: Montecito Country Club,
920 Summit Road
Info: 549-3144
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16
Caltrans Meeting
Caltrans reps meet with the public to discuss
High Occupancy Vehicle project through
Montecito, set to break ground in 2015
Where: Carpinteria High School,
4810 Foothill Road
Info: 549-3144
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17
OLMC School Tour
Hosted by principal Karen Regan,
prospective parents can meet the staff, visit
classrooms, and discover the K-8 program
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School.
Applications now being accepted for
2012-13 academic year.
When: 9 am
Where: 530 Hot Springs Road
in Santa Barbara
Info and reservations: 969-5965
Caltrans Meeting
Caltrans reps meet with the public to
discuss High Occupancy Vehicle project
through Montecito, set to break ground
in 2015
Where: QAD, 100 Innovation Place
in Summerland
Info: 549-3144
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18
Lecture and Luncheon
Two local residents, Margaret
Orhalmi and George Rusznak,
who suffered under Nazi occupation
and later fled Communist oppression
in Hungary, will speak during the Flee
for Freedom luncheon sponsored by
the Montecito/Hope Ranch Republican
Womens Club.
Rusznak has a permanent exhibit at the
Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center
in Santa Barbara as part of its Portraits
of Survival: Life Journeys During the
Holocaust and Beyond.
Reservations for the luncheon, which
begins with registration at 11:30 am,
may be made by calling
805-270-5760
or by e-mail at MHRRWC@gmail.com.
When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Where: 920 Summit Road
Cost: $25 prepaid or $30 at the door
MTF Hike
Montecito Trails Foundation 4-mile, 850-
foot altitude-gain hike up Hot Springs trail
to McMenemy trail, east to Vincent/Saddle
Rock trail, up to Catway, west to Hot
Springs and return. Bring food and water
for this intermediate hike.
When: 8:20 for check-in and release forms
Where: trailhead on East Mountain Drive
west of Hot Springs Road
Info: 568-0833
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
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
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Association
of Associations
On Monday, November 7, nearly
fifty Montecito residents, represent-
ing their neighbors and homeowners
groups, packed into the Hydrangea
Room at San Ysidro Ranch to discuss
issues affecting Montecito neighbor-
hoods. Organized by the Montecito
Association, led by president Dick
Nordlund, the meeting was intended
to bridge the gap between neighbor-
hood groups, as well as inform resi-
dents how Montecito land use is gov-
erned.
We are an unincorporated part of
Santa Barbara County, but uniquely
we have our own architectural review
and planning commission, said for-
mer MA president Bill Palladini,
speaking on behalf of Montecito
Architectural Board of Review
(MBAR). Participation by the public
is extremely important, he added.
Palladini, joined by fellow MBAR
member Marsha Zilles, explained
that MBAR gives new projects in
Montecito the official first look, guid-
ed by the Montecito Architectural
Guidelines & Development Standards
document, which was created in 1995.
Before being seen by MBAR, home-
owners or business owners who wish
to develop their properties can first be
seen by the Montecito Associations
Land Use Committee, which
Montecito Planning Commissioner
Michael Phillips says plays a criti-
cal role in Montecito development.
Without their degree of concern, we
wouldnt have a sense of what the
community is feeling about a project,
he said.
Dozens of homeowners associa-
tions were represented at the get
together, including Featherhill
Road, Glen Oaks, Montecito Valley
Ranch, Miramar Beach Association,
Bonnymede, Montecito Avocado
Ranch, El Dorado HOA, Mountain
Drive Community Association,
Eucalyptus Hill, Periwinkle Lane,
Birnamwood, El Montecito Verde,
Riven Rock, Seaside Association,
Wyant Road, Picacho Meadows,
Hermosillo Road, and several oth-
ers. Common issues brought up
included traffic, parking, road main-
tenance, pedestrian safety, fire threat,
tree maintenance, new development,
Caltrans plans, and the Miramar
Hotel.
Commissioner Phillips explained
the Montecito Planning Commissions
role in carrying out the policies of
the Montecito Community Plan. We
approve, deny, review, and condition-
ally approve projects in Montecito, he
said. MPC is also the appellant body
for MBAR, and makes recommen-
dations to the Board of Supervisors
regarding development guideline
amendments, zoning code amend-
ments and other ordinance changes.
MA executive director Victoria
Greene told the attendees that the MA
is available to answer questions, pro-
vide support, and address neighbor-
hood concerns. The MA office is open
Monday through Thursday 9 am to 2
pm, in Montecito Community Hall.
The association board meets once a
month to discuss Montecito issues,
and also hosts town hall style meet-
ings to discuss controversial projects
in detail with community members.
Several attendees at the meeting made
positive mention of the new walking
path being installed on San Ysidro
Road, which the MA board spent
many hours helping to revise in order
to be in line with the village feel and
look of Montecito.
First District Supervisor Salud
Carbajal, who attended the meet-
ing with assistant Jeremy Tittle,
addressed the attendees, answer-
ing questions about issues currently
affecting Montecito, including the
Miramar Hotel. Supervisor Carbajal is
expected to meet with Miramar owner
Rick Caruso this month, to discuss the
possibility of demolishing the dilapi-
dated buildings on the 16-acre site,
which many residents have called for.
Caruso, who bought the property in
2007 and holds approved plans for
the resort, has said he has spent over
$1 million per year to maintain the
vacant site, while waiting for the econ-
omy to turn around before developing
the hotel.
Supervisor Carbajal reported he
has charged county staff with finding
a legal way to incentivize Caruso
to demo the buildings, which could
cost a reported one million dol-
lars. Referring to staff findings as
a pathway to demolition, Carbajal
remained mum on what the findings
are, but said he hoped to present
them to Caruso, Montecito Planning
Commission, and the community in
the near future. The choice to demol-
ish will remain in Carusos hands,
Carbajal said. He went on to say
that hindsight is twenty-twenty, and
expressed remorse that demolition
of the buildings was not built into
the conditions of approval for the
project back in 2008. If it had been,
we wouldnt be having this conversa-
tion, he said.
Supervisor Carbajal also noted
the importance of the Montecito
Association and his monthly meet-
ings with Nordlund. The Association
helps me keep my finger on the pulse
of Montecito, he said.
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meeting was one of several meet-
ings the MA has planned to bring
Montecito neighbors together. The
association representatives pres-
ent at the meeting were encour-
aged to get their respective asso-
ciations involved with Montecito
Association, and to attend MBAR
and MPC meetings to weigh in on
neighboring projects. Neighborhood
associations are also encouraged to
officially register with the county.
For more information call Montecito
Association, 969-2026.
Caltrans Meetings
next Week
Next week Caltrans will host three
identical meetings in Montecito,
Carpinteria and Summerland regard-
ing 10.9 miles of freeway expansion
between Casitas Pass Road and Hot
Springs Road. The project, which will
add an intermittent High Occupancy
Vehicle (HOV) lane through Montecito,
is expected to cost $425 million. One
hundred and forty million dollars of
that will be funded locally by a renew-
al of Measure D.
This project will close the gap
between the current construction
(Hot Springs and Cabrillo Blvd oper-
ational improvements) and a project
which is set to begin next year: wid-
ening the 101 between Carpinteria
and Mussel Shoals. Preliminary
design of the project is currently
underway; environmental review is
nearly complete.
Construction on the freeway expan-
sion through Montecito is expected to
break ground in 2015, although it is
slated to start first in Carpinteria, with
the Montecito portion not expected to
start until 2018/19, according to First
District Supervisor Salud Carbajal.
The project has already had its share
of controversy, with Caltrans report-
ing left hand off ramps will be deleted
or moved, including the Cabrillo Blvd
northbound exit and the southbound
Hot Springs and Sheffield Drive exits.
Different proposals have been circu-
lated with several possible configura-
tions, one which closes the Hermosillo
Road exit and one which extends it and
makes it the only north bound beach
access exit in Montecito. Neighbors
worry changes to the freeway will
increase traffic on Hermosillo Road.
Coast Village Road is also a concern;
it is already heavily trafficked with
beach goers on busy summer days, as
well as Friday afternoons through the
rest of year.
The meetings next week will give
residents an opportunity to hear more
about the project, see plans, and ask
questions. The meetings are sched-
uled for Tuesday, November 15, at
Montecito Country Club, Wednesday
November 16 at Carpinteria High
School, and Thursday November 17
at QAD Inc. in Summerland. For more
information call (805) 549-3144.
Montecito Association
At this months Montecito
Association board meeting, Santa
Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant
Kelly Moore reported thefts from
vehicles at trailheads are again increas-
ing, and for residents to be vigilant
about not leaving valuables in their
vehicles. With Christmas season com-
ing up, its a good time to remind peo-
ple to not keep valuables in their cars,
Moore said. He also said the Sheriffs
Department is currently working with
the MA to find a place to host a Sheriffs
substation in Montecito, in conjunction
with a new history archive location.
Site visits for possible locations will
take place later this week.
In other community reports,
Fire Chief Kevin Wallace reported
Montecito Emergency Response &
Recovery Action Group (MERRAG)
has received a donation from the
Orfalea Foundation for a satellite sys-
tem to be installed on the MERRAG
van. The system will enable the fire
department and MERRAG to have
Wi-Fi and phone lines via satellite in
case of a power or network outage.
Chief Wallace also reported that the
fire district board is on the path to
put an item on next years general elec-
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pily told us, We sold out three times.
First at 300, then at 325 and finally at
350. He told the audience, This is
the place to be tonight three hun-
dred and fifty of the smartest, green-
est, hippest people in town. The CEC
has been doing its thing for 40 years,
being a local pioneer for a national
movement to the dream of a healthy,
sane, safe future for the world.
Among the feathers, brass, beads,
candles and tassels, costumed gypsy
servers passed around organic wines
and decadent specialty drinks. The
canaps came directly from a pizza
oven run by Full of Life Flatbread who
also served a locally sourced dinner.
The goal of CEC is to transition
away from fossil fuels in one gen-
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Council (CEC) invited one
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the Green Gala Gypsy Caravan. The
Armory was transformed from a big
barn-type room to a fancy Gypsy
village complete with fortunetellers
and tarot card readers. My husband
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most spectacular thing was the
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to gaze into our crystal ball and help
create the clean energy future we all
want.
Green Gala event chair Kerry Allen
and honorary chair Gay Browne want
everyone to know that over 90% of
the waste generated by this party
for the last two years has been recy-
cled, reused or composted. In the
gypsy spirit, almost everything in the
Armory was borrowed, repurposed
or vintage including the costumes,
greenery, dcor and centerpieces. A
team donated hundreds of hours to
create it.
Merryl Brown Events and the com-
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including choosing dinnerware select-
ed with thought as to how much
water it takes to wash. The junior
committee of high school kids even
made napkin rings out of bits and
beads in their homes.
After a short live auction, Tina
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Eat Well Stay Well
Sansum Clinic celebrated its 90
th

birthday with an Eat Well & Stay
Well event. Geoff and Alison Rusack
opened their 38.9-acre Hope Ranch
estate, Isla Mar, for the event. It was
originally built for Peter Cooper and
Angelica Schuyler Bryce in 1926 and is
another example of Spanish Colonial
Revival style done by architect George
Washington Smith. (He was born
on George Washingtons birthday.)
Interestingly, it is under restoration by
architect Marc Appleton who is the
grandson of the original owners and
will be completed in 2012.
Sansum Clinic began in 1921 when
Dr. Sansum was the only doctor in
the United States administering insu-
lin for diabetes. The life expectancy
was 57 years. Sansum became the
first multi-specialty clinic on the West
Coast and now has more than 180
affiliated physicians serving more
than 150,000 patients (600,000 visits)
annually. The life expectancy today is
79 years.
CEO and Medical Director Dr. Kurt
Ransohoff addressed the group seat-
ed for lunch. There are thirty-three
doctors and nurses here today totaling
five hundred and eighty-three years
of service. One was at each table so
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guests could ask any health-related
questions. Every few minutes they
would change tables and there was a
different specialist to speak with.
The other unique thing was lunch
prepared by three different local chefs.
The first course was a squash soup by
Brandon Hughes from the Wine Cask.
Jamie West from San Ysidro Ranch
put together the entre a chick-
en breast with couscous and roasted
asparagus. Alberto Morello, owner
of Olio e Limone Ristorante and Olio
Pizzeria made a variety of desserts.
All courses were paired with Rusacks
wines.
There was a short live auction with
items like sideline tickets to Super
Bowl XLVI and the Ultimate Dinner
Party with Wolfgang Puck cooking
dinner for l6 people in the winning
bidders home. The home turned out
to be our hosts, the Rusacks, who gen-
erously bid $57,000.
The two ladies responsible for this
special birthday party were co-chairs
Julie Nadel and Bobbie Rosenblatt.
Title sponsor was Montecito Bank
& Trust. President and CEO Janet
Garufis spoke to us. She is a trustee
and stated, The bank has supported
Sansum for 30 years. Lee Luria was
thanked for her recent donation of
$500,000 to help modernize facilities.
Sansum is also investing $7 million
in a new patient records computer
system.
Guests could also help fund the
community flu shot program, Camp
Wheez, for kids with asthma and
diagnostic testing for those without
the means to pay. Happy Birthday,
Sansum; and many more!
The Best Last Place
Was it a coincidence that the Santa
Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM)
had a lecture about cemeteries on
Halloween weekend? The ghoulish
guests were thoroughly entertained
by the speaker, author David Petry,
who spent eight years researching
while traveling to over 1,500 cem-
eteries around the country and the
world. His book is titled, The Best Last
Place, which he concludes is the Santa
Barbara Cemetery founded in 1867.
One of the reasons for this title is
because the Santa Barbara cemetery
has not only passed through the vari-
ous stages of cemetery development
in the United States except church
cemeteries, but also has melded these
eras into a beautiful and functioning
place. The first phase was a town
cemetery, then a rural cemetery, lawn
park, memorial and now the crema-
tion stage. The very first cemeteries
were all church related, but Santa
Barbara is open to all.
The cemetery started with five acres
and now has 44,000 inhabitants. Some
of its more famous are Fess Parker,
Ronald Colman, John Ireland and
Laurence Harvey. When David dis-
covered that London was claiming
Harveys remains, he called and was
informed that Harvey had been cre-
mated, so who knows what percent
we have. The Reagans bought a plot
in 1981, but by 1987, when they were
going to have their library first at
Stanford and then in Simi Valley, they
decided to be buried there instead.
The plot has since been sold.
There are a thousand cemetery sto-
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you can go on a tour of the cemetery
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up. If you cant do that read his book,
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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 7)
Just one of the many fascinating
stories in this well researched history
of ritzy L.A. real estate.
No wonder it has just been bought
by HBO for a TV show by Joel Silver,
producer of such films as Lethal
Weapon, Die Hard and The Matrix...
Stylish Soire
Social gridlock reigned when inter-
national interior designer Penelope
Bianchi and her husband, Adam,
opened the doors of their Provencal-
style Montecito home to celebrate the
publication of Patina Style, by authors
Steve and Brooke Giannetti.
The 160-page coffee table tome
features mostly southern California
properties, says Steve, an architect.
Its about the idea of aging, and
homes and contents improving over
time.
Steve and his interior designer wife
are now working on another book on
collecting and display.
Who knows, it could be a trilogy,
he adds.
Among those checking out the latest
volume were Tab Hunter and Allan
Glaser, Robert and Gretchen Lieff,
Corinna Gordon, Laura Motley, and
Colin and Sharon Friem-Wallace...
Cloudy Mix
Cloud Nine, the marvelous produc-
tion from UCSBs Department of
Theater and Dance, is not for the faint
of heart.
Set against a backdrop of Victorian
colonialism in Africa and late 1970s
London, the Caryl Churchill award-
winning dark comedy, directed by
Anne Torsiglieri, contains every
sexual permutation imaginable as it
explores power, sexuality, gender and
self-identity.
As the play, featuring choreography
by Christopher Pilafian, evolves so
do the characters, even changing roles
and gender in the more contemporary
scenes.
All the cast, Brian Bock, Dylan
Hale, Hasmik Anna Saakian, Brittany
Carriger and Garrett Ward, are top
notch, but Andrew Fromer, firstly as
a native manservant and then as a
young girl, stood out for the nuance
and drama of his very different char-
acters as did Allie Granat.
Cloud Nine, featuring music by
local musician, James Connolly, and
costumes by Ann Bruice, is at the
Performing Arts Theater through
Saturday...
Royal Reception
Although Santa Barbara Polo Clubs
centennial season wrapped last
month, memories were brought back
when members gathered at Tiffany
in La Cumbre Plaza to celebrate the
summers successful Foundation Polo
Challenge, which featured Prince
William and his wife, Kate.
The centerpiece of the bash, amongst
the other bountiful bling, was the
Authors
Brooke
and Steve
Giannetti with
Gilda Hariri
(in middle)
Mara Abboud, Beverley Jackson and polo club president, Wes Ru, with the Tiffany trophy (Photo:
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14-pound sterling silver and gold ver-
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was presented to the future King
William V and his teammates at the
glittering July event, which raised
around $5 million for charity, a stag-
gering $1 million for each hour of the
visit to our Eden by the Beach.
It was undoubtedly the highlight of
the season, but I had no idea William
would have a wife in tow when I
first dealt with Buckingham Palace
two years back! says polo patriarch,
Glen Holden, who hosted the soi-
ree with his wife, Gloria, Andy and
Kim Busch, Tiffany veep Jonathan
Bruckner, and store director, Joanna
Strange.
Among those reliving the royal
visit and quaffing blue Tiffany tinis
were Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Wes Ru,
Paige Beard, Mara Abboud, Madison
Richardson, Geannie and Mike
Sheller, Beverley Jackson, Michael
Butler, Annette Kaleel, Jeep Holden
and Mindy Denson...
Bach to Bach
One of the worlds foremost vio-
linists, Gil Shaham, mesmerized the
audience at UCSBs Campbell Hall
when he played a flawless all-Bach
concert.
The multiple Grammy Award-
winning New York-based musician,
who has appeared with many of the
globes top orchestras, devoted the
first half of the Arts & Lectures show
to Partita no. 3 in E Major and
Sonata no. 3 in C Major, before
continuing to transfix the appreciative
crowd with Partita no. 2 in D Minor.
Before the show, Shaham gave a
short talk about how his interpreta-
tion of Bach, and other works, had
changed with middle age.
This was Bach with bite at its best...
Hubbub at the Hall
Campbell Hall also figured in my
burgeoning diary twice more when
the entrancing New York quartet, S
Percussion, which started with stu-
dents at the Yale School of Music,
performed unusual concoctions of
percussion works on wood and metal,
while 24 hours later the 16-year-old
Creole Choir of Cuba sang musical
treasures from the Caribbean.
The ten-strong troupe, dressed in
traditional costume, peppered their
performance with works not only from
Cuba, but also Haiti and Dominica,
and did a particularly wonderful ren-
dition of the late Nat King Coles 1961
hit Unforgettable in English.
And that it was...
Palace Fit for Three
Kensington Palace, the imposing 17
th

century stately pile just a tiaras toss
or two from Londons Buckingham
Palace, is to become the permanent
home of the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and Prince Harry.
The tony twosome will be mov-
ing permanently into the four-sto-
ry 20-room Clock Court, the former
home of Queen Elizabeths sister, the
late Princess Margaret, in 2013 after
extensive renovations, expected to
cost around $3 million.
Earlier this year they took residence
in nearby two-bedroom Nottingham
Cottage to complement their farm-
house home in Anglesey, where
William is a helicopter search and
rescue pilot.
In due course, Nott Cott, as the
home is known, will become Prince
Harrys permanent pad.
William and Kate also consid-
ered an alternative apartment at St.
Jamess Palace, near Prince Charles
home, Clarence House, as well as
the late Princess Dianas home at
Kensington Palace, but that, Im told,
was considered to have too many
memories for William, who lived
there until 1998.
The royal trio will share the pal-
ace, which was also a home to the
future Queen Victoria, with a host of
royal relatives, including the Duke
and Duchess of Kent, the Duke and
Duchess of Gloucester, and Prince
and Princess Michael of Kent.
No wonder Prince Charles has been
known to call it the aunt heap...
Sightings: Priscilla Presley check-
ing out the wares at Rue de Lillie in
Summerland... Carlene Mitchell, coach
of UCSBs womens basketball team,
celebrating their victory over Vanguard
University at Cafe Del Sol... Kenny
Loggins digging into the food at opal
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in defense spending during the Viet
Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. If
we were not giving away to indi-
viduals, our national budget would
be about 30-40% of the current level,
or if we kept our taxes the same for
the last 35 years, we would be look-
ing forward to a Federal surplus of
about $22 trillion dollars by 2014! Do
you think there would really be an
unemployment problem in the United
States? Our Department of Defense is
probably one of the most efficiently
run businesses in the entire world.
We are in three wars and we have
troops in Germany, Korea, Japan, Iraq,
Afghanistan, France, Belgium, Poland,
Spain, Portugal, and at least 90 other
countries; yet we spend less than 20%
(according to OMB) of our direct fed-
eral budget on Defense! Yet, there are
those who would gut our military in
these very uncertain times so they
can give more money to individuals,
who we encourage not to work, in an
unholy exchange for their vote.
If it werent for the horrible mon-
etary policies (printing money) of the
government, interest payments on our
national debt would be double. So
far, the U.S. has been able to get away
with the low interest because it has
kept the rate on U.S. paper at an all-
time low and they get the money
from themselves. Such a deal. The
10-year U.S. Treasurys fell well below
1.75% recently a 120-year low. That
was accomplished by printing more
money. But now, they are finding less
appetite from real borrowers to take
2% paper. It would not take much of
a run for the 10-year rate to double
or even triple. Remember that the
10-year treasury was paying 15% dur-
ing the Carter years, and has averaged
about 5% for the last 100 years. So you
see, things could really get out of hand
if the average rate returned again. If
we just returned to the average, the
interest on our debt would double.
The interest costs could reach a level
nearly equal to the entire Federal bud-
get, or even more. The only way out
would be for the U.S. to default on its
debts and devalue the dollar.
Now, add to this the fact that we
are now borrowing 40% more than
we bring in. This is a formula for total
disaster. As a nation, we must belly
up to the bar and cut the spending on
payments to individuals. There needs
to be an immediate call to terminate
at least 30% of all Federal, state and
local employees. Otherwise, pray that
your children and their children have
a farm someplace safe so they will be
able to go back to when one could live
off the land and at least provide basic
food and shelter for themselves and
their families.
Ray Wynn
Montecito
(Editors note: We thank you for your
observations and sincerely hope you con-
tinue to expound in future issues TLB)
Sidewalk
not necessary
The San Ysidro sidewalk under
construction will cost taxpayers
$500,000. More of these sidewalks
are planned for Montecito (at odds
with our charter and semi-rural zon-
ing codes). They are part of a much
grander effort called Safe Routes to
School, spearheaded by an organi-
zation called COAST. How it was
approved is more complicated.
Ostensibly, COAST pushes side-
walks and bike paths for children
attending nearby schools. The San
Ysidro project began with a parent
who had two children at MUS (until
they all moved to England). He want-
ed his children to walk to school. To
get grant funding for a sidewalk
(which seems too narrow and too
close to San Ysidro Road to be safe for
walking) County Public Works must
justify pressing need. Meet COAST.
COAST told the parent they could
show him how to get his grant.
The parent next met with Supervisor
Carbajal who obtained $30,000 for an
engineering survey. To get grant fund-
ing, Public Works needed a map in
its application to justify the need for a
sidewalk. The map indicated the
many, many homes having school-
children who presumably would
benefit from a sidewalk. This map
was to become a lightning rod.
No one knew of the project, or its
approval, until a neighbor noticed
a press release showing Supervisor
Carbajal at the podium at MUS,
announcing grant approval.
Neighbors claim not to have
received any advance notice. What
they say they did receive was a let-
ter stating a sidewalk was going
in, mandating that properties would
lose their landscaping and that many
vintage camphor trees would have to
be felled.
A hue and cry went out.
In dozens of packed public meet-
ings of the Montecito Association,
neighbor upon neighbor rebuked the
Association, claiming homes on the
map did not exist, and if they did,
children were not living in them. They
called the map apocryphal, its spe-
cific intent not accuracy, but a means
to push an unpopular construction
project through the County.
I phoned Matt Dobberteen, who
writes grants for the County in Public
Works. When calls werent returned, I
went in person.
When we finally met, Mr.
Dobberteen (a member of COAST)
said the map was provided by Dick
Douglas, principal of MUS at the time,
and indeed, was used in his grant
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by James Buckley
Y
ou are very likely familiar with
Oscar-Grammy-Emmy-Tony-
nominated Tom Snows songs:
Lets Hear It For The Boy, Hes So
Shy, Somewhere Down The Road,
Dont Call It Love, I Will Be There,
and If Ever Youre In My Arms
Again are just some of them. Less
known, perhaps, is that Tom lives in
Montecito with his wife, Mary Belle,
and studiously avoids publicity and
interviews.
Lucky for us, Tom and Mary Belle
are my grandson Deacons godpar-
ents, so we were able to prevail upon
the shy composer-songwriter to agree
to the following interview. Tom is
slotted as one of the speakers at the
upcoming TEDxAmericanRiviera 2nd
Annual Conference, to be held at the
Music Academy of the West all day
Friday, November 11.
The following conversation took
place in the living room of Tom Snows
Montecito home.
Q. How did the connection with TEDx
occur here and how is it that youre going
to be one of the speakers at this all-day
event?
A. Through Eric Greenspan, who
owns Make it Work, a company I use
and am also an investor in. Recently,
Eric and I got together; he issued some
secondary stock, I bought a bit, and
then next thing I know I got an email
from him saying, something to the
effect of Hey, youre quite a character,
you should speak at the TEDx event.
I knew what a TED thing was, just
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aware there were subsidiaries of it.
In any case, I agreed, and I went
and Eric introduced me to Mark
Sylvester; we met at Jeannines (on
Coast Village Road) over coffee. I
guess he was getting a sense of who
I was. And then I went from there to
sort of talking to Kymberlee Weil I
believe its his wife emailing, and
then I guess I was vetted, and I made
the cut. So Im doing this talk on cre-
ating beauty.
Creating beauty? Was this your sug-
gestion?
No, it seems they have three ses-
sions. One session is devoted to cre-
ating opportunity, which they asked
me to speak about to begin with, but
I thought, Well Ive spent all my
life making music, and think Im a
little better versed to talk about
creating beauty. I mean, every song
I wrote was an opportunity. But in
any case, there is a session, by that I
mean a block of time where people
come up and talk about creating
opportunity, then creating beauty,
then one other thing. Its sort of
motivational, inspirational I guess.
Im still wondering why the hell
they asked me.
Well, lets talk about that. Were not
going to go through your entire songbook,
but you have some songs out there that
most people are going to know. They may
not know the name Tom Snow, but theyre
certainly going to know the music. For
example, youve written the music for a
number of songs in Footloose, an updat-
ed film version of which has recently been
released featuring your hit, Lets Hear It
For The Boy.
I wrote the music for that. The lyr-
ics were written by Dean Pitchford,
another Montecito resident. That actu-
ally got into the film, so I think they
used the four main songs from the
original, obviously Kenny Loggins
(yet another longtime Montecito res-
ident, who now calls Hope Ranch
home) Footloose.
What was your first big hit?
My first really big hit was Hes So
Shy. Thats my favorite hit too. I just
love that one.

What year was that?
1979-80, for the Pointer Sisters. That
was one of those melodies that came
after weeks of nothing, nothing going
on.
Did you have the tune first or the lyr-
ics?
Always the tune first. I had the title
as well. It was originally called Shes
So Shy. And I had that title to work
with. But then we changed it to Hes
So Shy so the Pointer Sisters could
do it.
Is there a song youve written that may
or not have become a hit that you just
love?
Yeah, lots of them.
Is there one in particular?
[The songs] that become hits are
obviously the ones that are com-
mercial. And then sometimes I dont
really hit the commercial button
when I write; I just go to write some-
thing really musical and beautiful.
Theres a song I wrote called A Quiet
Moment. The lyrics were sent to me
by a woman named Liz Vidal. Its a
beautiful song, just beautiful. And it
did get recorded, by Rene Froger, and
it does have a big life in of all places,
Holland. [Froger] is one of the top,
middle-of-the-road fills soccer stadi-
ums kind of pop singers.
Does he sing it in English or Dutch?
He sings it in English, and then in
Dutch. Pretty wild hearing it in Dutch.
So anyway, thats one of them. Its a
song I love.
But, my favorite song of all is
Ronnie-O. The lyric was written by
Gerry Goffin, who wrote all the great
hits with his [ex-wife] Carole King.
He was a contemporary to Jeff Barry.
I worked with Gerry post his big
hit years with Carole King. And we
wrote a bunch of songs. He would just
generally shoot me a lyric, or I would
shoot him a melody; he could work
either way. But in this particular case,
he had a girlfriend named Ronnie,
and they had broken up, and so he
wrote this lyric about her. And its just
one of those things; it sat on the page,
and I looked at it, and I could just look
at the shape of the lyrics at this point,
didnt even have to read it. I thought,
This one is going to write itself. And
it did. And it sort of exists Aaron
Neville cut it, and it was an album
cut. But it just, in its purest form, the
demo I gave to the guy, the demo
singer who had a voice of an angel;
out of all of my songs its the song that
Id take to a desert island. And hardly
anyones ever heard it. But its a tune
I could just put on repeat. I cant even
believe I wrote it.
Going to that, you come up with the
melodies, but have you written words to
songs?
Oh I write lyrics, often in conjunc-
tion with another person in the room.
I always collaborated. Some of my
collaborations involved chipping
away the bit of music together, then
throwing some lyric ideas back and
forth across the table. Although gen-
erally I always was the main musical
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force in the room. And then, when I
worked on film or in theater, I always
worked with a proper lyricist, like
with Dean [Pitchford] on Footloose,
and then the Broadway musical ver-
sion of it, I worked with a composer
and a lyricist. Obviously, when work-
ing with someone like Cynthia Weil, I
write a melody. Cynthia liked to write
to the melody, so Id write a melody
first, and send it to her. The melody
would have, as Quincy Jones put it,
Quaalude lyrics. And every now and
then youd find a word thats a free
association or something. And often
with Cynthia, her lyric would come
back and have that word in it some-
where. It might trigger an idea she
actually liked.
And when you say write a melody,
youre not actually writing notes on a
page, are you? Youre doing it on piano.
Yeah, on piano; we generally would
have a cassette, in my day, youd
have a cassette recorder going, and
you would just keep it on record
and pause, and keep banging away.
And you think when you have a little
phrase, you take it off pause. Its a
process that could go on for days.
Lets go back to Ronnie-O. You were
sent the lyrics. So you look at them, and
then what? You said it almost wrote itself.
What did you see there? I dont know the
song, so I dont know the words.
By this time, it was a byproduct of
getting up every day, 24/7 for thirty
years, of going and sitting in a room
and writing. I mean, its the sort of
thing that just becomes, at a certain
point, fairly instinctual. I wish that it
were always that way; I would have
written fifty times more hits. Youre
mining for something in yourself
most of the time, and you have to find
ways to bring it out. But every now
and then you get a gift like a lyric
that looks just right, and you just go,
Oh yeah. And then you write, and I
dont know how. I just sat down and
went, Okay. And I just went, and
there it was.
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Does the lyricist have a tune in mind,
or a tempo in mind, or anything in mind?
Sometimes. The old-school lyricists
always wrote the melody first, if in
fact the songwriting team was com-
prised of a composer and a lyricist.
That all changed when you started
having folk music people who could
play guitars. They werent proper
composers. They were tunesmiths if
you will, to hammer it out together.
Or, in the case of James Taylor, he
writes everything himself. But in a
collaborative team, the lyricist will
send the lyric. Usually they write
some form of iambic pentameter.
Which is too bad because that con-
strains the composer to the lyricists
hearing it, and a composer [doesnt]
write that way. Thats why I was bet-
ter at writing music first. Youre free;
you dont have any particular meter
constraints when youre writing just
pure music.
Occasionally, I would surprise
a lyricist whod send me a lyric. I
remember one guy, Marty Panzer,
who wrote a lot with Barry Manilow;
he sent me a lyric called I cant
believe its really you. And Im pret-
ty sure he sent it to me expecting a
big, lush ballad. And instead I wrote
sort of an up, bouncy, cool little mel-
ody. He was a little shocked when I
played it to him.
It was not what he had in mind?
No. I said, Well, if you dont like
it He said, No Ill get used to it.
Going to the creative process: how
do you know youre not cribbing from
another song?
Well, you dont at first. I was never
accused of it; it never happened to
me. But, Ive had friends who had
insurance because theyd been sued.
Usually they were frivolous suits, but
theyd been sued by some person out
there who thinks, Oh I know how to
get lots of money. So I never wor-
ried about that too much, although
there would be times that I would
write a musical phrase and think,
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Tom Snows 1976 self-titled album released by
Capitol Records
has also written about film and early
American literature and history.
His scholarly work won acclaim
when he discovered that one of
the original manuscripts William
Bradford, governor of Plymouth
Plantation, wrote in 1648 didnt match
the versions transcribed and pub-
lished for more than 300 years.
Sargent, a Southern California native
who grew up in Orange County, suc-
ceeds Westmont history professor
Rick Pointer, who has served as act-
ing provost, supervising the colleges
academic program, including the bud-
get, faculty development and curricu-
lum.
Sargent and his wife, Arlyne, are
well acquainted with Westmont.
Arlyne graduated from Westmont, as
did their son, Daniel. Their daughter,
Andrea, is a first-year student at the
college.
During the last three decades of
my life in Christian higher education,
I have enjoyed a special rapport with
many Westmont faculty and staff,
Sargent says. I have walked through
the remnants of burned homes with
Westmont friends, invited Westmont
scholars to review our programs,
and watched plenty of Warrior soc-
cer games. I look forward to working
with Westmonts outstanding faculty.
Christmas Festival to
Celebrate Messiah
The seventh annual Westmont
Christmas Festival, Messiah, fea-
tures dramatic readings as well as the
college orchestra and choirs perform-
ing selections of Handels Messiah
and other seasonal musical arrange-
ments Dec. 2-3 at 8 pm and Sunday,
Dec. 4 at 3 pm all in First Presbyterian
Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. A lim-
ited number of tickets are available on
a first-come, first-served basis begin-
ning Thursday, Nov. 10, at 5 pm. To
reserve up to six tickets, please go
online to: www.westmont.edu/christ
masfestival. Tickets are free, but must
be reserved. We expect them to go
quickly.
In response to an expected high
demand for Christmas Festival tick-
ets, Westmont is allowing the pub-
lic to attend the dress rehearsal of
the program on Thursday, Dec. 1, at
7:30 pm. The doors will open for the
dress rehearsal at 7:15, and no reserva-
tions are required. Please do not arrive
before 7 pm if you wish to attend the
dress rehearsal. This will be a working
rehearsal, but it will be in full, formal
attire and will run as seamlessly as
possible.
Kiplingers
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Kiplingers Personal Finance has
ranked Westmont in the top 100 lib-
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in Private Colleges list. The report,
which named Westmont #88, ranked
the schools based on outstanding aca-
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Kiplingers noted Westmonts high
four-year graduation rate, low aver-
age student debt at graduation, good
student-to-faculty ratio, excellent on-
campus resources and overall great
value.
The institutions on Kiplingers
rankings for best value in private col-
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affordable cost even in these tough
times, said Jane Bennett Clark, senior
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buck.
In Sept. 2011,
the Department of
Education released
figures that showed a
steep increase of bor-
rowers defaulting on
federal student loans,
but Westmont students
were repaying theirs.
The DOE reported the
cohort default rates
increased for all sec-
tors from 6 to 7.2
percent for public institutions and
from 4 to 4.6 percent for private
institutions. Westmonts default rate
decreased from 1.3 percent to .9 per-
cent in 2009.
Westmont continues to move up
in rankings of colleges and universi-
ties this year. Earlier, Forbes maga-
zine recognized Westmont in their
2012 Americas Top Colleges list,
which includes only 650 institutions
nationwide. Westmont ranks 76th, up
from 81st last year. Westmont leaped
nine spots in the best liberal arts col-
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2012 Edition. Of the nations 252 lib-
eral arts colleges in this list, Westmont
finished tied for 90th. MJ
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Westmonts provost and dean
of faculty in spring 2012. For the
past 15 years, Sargent has served
as provost of Gordon College in
Wenham, Massachusetts, supervising
its educational and co-curricular
programs.
Mark is a stalwart veteran of
Christian higher education, and were
honored that hes joining Westmonts
executive team, says President Gayle
D. Beebe. He has demonstrated
strong leadership in initiating aca-
demic programs and expanding initia-
tives promoting global education.
Previously, Sargent was vice presi-
dent and chief academic officer at
Spring Arbor University in Michigan
for three years. He served at Biola
University in La Mirada, California
for 12 years as professor of English
and associate dean.
Sargent, an alumnus of UC Santa
Barbara, earned a masters degree
and doctorate at Claremont Graduate
University, specializing in 19th-cen-
tury American literature. He also
received a Fulbright scholarship to
teach American literature and his-
tory at the University of Utrecht
in the Netherlands. The Council of
Independent Colleges named Sargent
the National Chief Academic Officer
of the Year in 2008.
As a college administrator and par-
ent of Westmont students, Sargent
believes a Westmont education pro-
vides significant benefits. Few
Christian colleges can integrate spiri-
tual seriousness and academic rigor
the way Westmont does, he says.
Sargent has contributed numerous
essays and chapters in both profes-
sional and academic journals, includ-
ing Moral Imagination at a Christian
Institution, in the book Christianity
and the Soul of the University; and
Soul Care: Christian Faith and Academic
Administration, an edited book of
essays to be released in February. He
Mark L. Sargent
becomes
Westmont pro-
vost this spring
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A
Santa Barbara resident since
1999 and one of the most
talented music producers of
our time London-born Alan Parsons
is once more performing to raise funds
for charity. This time, it is a three-hour
beneft concert for the United Boys and
Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County,
at the Lobero Theater, November 12.
Opening for Alan Parsons Live Project
is David Pack of Ambrosia, for whom
Alan produced their album Somewhere
Ive Never Travelled in 1976. Michael W.
Rattray, CEO of the United Boys and
Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County,
told the MJ that the proceeds from the
concert will support the Learning Care
Centers serving youth programs and
curriculums from ages fve to eighteen.
I couldnt be more pleased that Alan
has adopted the United Boys and Girls
Clubs by graciously giving his time
and talents both at this concert and
coming to our clubs in support music
appreciation. Music transcends every
language. We are continuing to add
more arts and music curricula into our
clubhouses as it continues to be less of
a priority in schools.
Alans music producing bio reads
like a four decade listing of Grammy
Awards, commencing with his engi-
neering work at Abbey Road Studios
in 1967. His credits include the Beatles
Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyds
Atom Heart Mother and The Dark Side
of the Moon, several albums with The
Hollies, Al Stewarts The Year of the Cat,
and many others through the years
to his own band The Alan Parsons
Project. His most recent creation in
2011, a band called SubClones, is about
a new sound, that incorporates past
and present music composition styles,
and is heavily processed as we say.
The lyrical concept of the band is to
raise awareness in people to help them
survive the changes that are coming
our way in the world. A very positive
and full of life message, Alan explains.
I interviewed Alan this week at his
new home, an organic avocado farm
in the foothills of Santa Barbara. We
talked about his music making, where
music has been and is headed, and the
upcoming Alan Parsons Live Project
benefit concert. His lovely wife Lisa
was with us. Lisa and Alan have been
together 16 years and married for eight.
They proudly state they have never
spent a night apart since they married.
Lisa has owned a modeling agency in
Baltimore, is a former travel agent, and
now works as Alans tour manager.
As parents, Alan has two sons living
in the UK and Lisa has two daughters
living here in Santa Barbara. Their
farm grows certified organic avoca-
dos and Yuzu limes. Animal lovers as
well, they have a male bulldog named
Diesel, a female bulldog named Nut,
a Shepherd mix named Doobie and a
Spaniel mix named Buddy.
Q. Tell us about your inspiration to
study and make a lifetime career of music.
A. I grew up in a musical family.
My father played the flute and the
piano and my mother played the Celtic
Harp. My mother was an actress with
a beautiful speaking voice. My father, a
scientist at heart, worked on the devel-
opment of new inventions, in particu-
lar, the hovercraft, which is now used
for public transport across the English
Channel between England and France.
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Oh I like that. Wait a minute. Let
me think about that. It would have
been written; I would have gotten it
down. And Id say, Okay lets check.
Id try to scroll through my head.
Im pretty honest with myself, so Id
know. And I may have once or twice
said, Oh shoot, thats some Beatles
song, I cant do that. So lets start
over again. But I never really had
that problem.
Is there a computer program nowadays
that would tell you?
Oh I bet there is. Copyright checker.
Absolutely. Just to be sure, you play
your song and it kind of recognizes it.
But you dont use that at the moment
anyway?
I dont write anymore.
You dont write anymore? I thought
you said 24/7. I know you play some golf,
but I thought
We were just in Big Sur for my
birthday, and MB [Mary Belle] and
I were in Nepenthe and there was a
band there and I sat in with the band
and played. That was fun. But I have
no after thirty-five years hammer-
ing away alone in a room trying to
make my living writing songs.
Nobody paid me to get up and
write songs by the way.
You have made a pretty good living
doing that though.
I managed to get lucky.
Have you written music and then sent
it to a lyricist you thought would do a
good job with it and had the same experi-
ence as Marty Panzer had with you?
Oh yeah, I sent one to Bernie
Taupin. Bernie knew who I was; his
manager was a friend of mine, I used
to play tennis with him. But Bernie
was kind of a shy guy, so he didnt
want to see me. So I wasnt able to
talk to him, I had to talk to the man-
ager. I came up with a melody for an
album I did for Arista (Records) in
1982 or something. So it was a fully
formed melody and I sent it over
through the manager and about a
week later I got the lyric back; it was
totally not even close.
Do you have to pay for something like
that?
No, its all on spec. Unless you get
hired by a movie studio, like if you
work at Disney where theres a cre-
ative fee involved.
So you mean, any lyricist who heard
of you without knowing you personally
could send you lyrics, and if you felt like
it, you would do the tune and send it
back, and there would be no charge?
Yeah, thats the way it works.
Although that rarely happened with
me. Occasionally Id get a lyric from
someone who wanted to write, who
was sort of in the community down
there in L.A., and Id look at it and if
I liked it or a publisher would call
me and say, Look, weve got a new
young lyricist here. Id say Okay,
send it over and well see what they
do. If I found something there, I
might say, Oh, this looks good.
What do you look for most in a poten-
tial song?
As a composer generally, youd
be looking for a good title and good
lyric. A good title is a big deal. If you
go to Nashville, which is a lyric-
driven town, the music traditionally
is simple three-chord kind of stuff:
three chords and the truth. Down
there, you sit down and have break-
fast with someone and you cant get
through a cup of coffee without say-
ing, Oh thats a title; wait a minute.
When youre in writing mode, youre
constantly preoccupied.
Id spoken to Norman Gimbel (who
also has a home in Montecito!) quite a
number of years ago and he had clipped
out a phrase from an Argentinean novel.
In the novel, the line killing me soft-
ly with his blues appeared. Norman
changed blues to song. He liked the
phrase and hoped to use it for a song.
And he got around to it a long time later,
to great success, so I get what you mean.
You save these lines
Norman Gimbel is a classic exam-
ple of a pure lyricist hes the old
school. Any of the people who are
strict lyricists have got to have good
titles hanging around.
Speaking of lyrics, is there a length of a
line that is either too long or too short to
make a melody out of?
Well, I can almost look at a page
and if theres too many words, Im not
interested. Its just not going to make
it. A lyric is different from a poem, for
instance. It has to summon up rich
imagery with very simple language,
not the other way around. It has to be
written in a way that a good melody
will bring it to life. A good example is
Somewhere Down The Road, a song
Barry Manilow had a hit on. It was
one of the best melodies I ever wrote,
just a pure melody; it was a ballad that
just came out of me. All of a sudden,
it erupted out of me, after weeks of
banging away and getting nothing. It
was an intense experience.
So, here comes the melody, and Im
going, Oh my God. Hold on! So I
get this melody out, and I send it to
Cynthia Weil with this sort of jibber-
ish words I think I might have said
something, something She likes
that. It took her three weeks. She said,
This melody is amazing; please be
patient, I dont want to mess it up.
So she sends me back these lyrics
and it was titled Somewhere Down
The Road and when I first looked
at the lyrics, I was talking to her on
the phone this is how we always
worked. Shed read it to me, or Id get
it, shed fax it to me. She said, Now,
just give it a chance. I know it looks
a little prosaic. And I actually, in the
back of my mind, I thought I was
expecting a little more Theres an
example of a lyric thats very simple
and elegant and beautiful and it mar-
ried itself perfectly to the melody.
Werent you going to be a singer at one
point? In the early days of your career?
Well I had to sing for my supper
early on. So by necessity, I was a
singer-songwriter.
So, you sang your own material accom-
panied by a piano or guitar?
Yep. I had a little Wurlitzer electric.
And I worked with another guy who
had a guitar; we used to drive around
in his 53 Plymouth, knock on doors
of restaurants in Venice (California);
this is all in 1969.
It was a good time to be doing that.
For sure. I wouldnt want to be try-
ing to break into the business today.
But yes, out of necessity, I sang.
And you had your singing career, cor-
rect?
Yes. I got picked up by Peter Asher
who managed James Taylor and
Linda Ronstadt; he believed in me
as a singer-songwriter. So we worked
together and I did a couple of records.
But it never quite worked, and I got
back into what I originally wanted to
do when I left Boston in the first place
and that was be a behind-the-lines
songwriter. Write hits for others.
Was there a point in time when you
realized you may not be good enough as
a singer?
I was just turning twenty-five, so
Id been at it four or five years. I got
dropped by Capitol Records in the
middle of rehearsing for another tour.
So that was the point. Capitol records
said Thanks but no thanks; see you
later, and I went, Okay, Im going to
need to adjust. Which is always what
you have to do in show business. If
one thing doesnt work, if performing
doesnt work, then direct. If you cant
direct, then teach. If you cant teach,
become a critic.
Tell us about your talk at the upcoming
TEDx at the Music Academy.
Its going to be about creating. And
the subtext of my take on it is why
do I think I have the ability to cre-
ate music. If in fact what Im talking
about is meant to inspire, then the
assumption is that people need to
hear how to do that. So I need to get
the point across that no matter what
you think of yourself, and generally
in the artistic mind, its usually, Im
a piece of [crap]. Or you have all
these dark thoughts about yourself,
whatever it might be: fear, anxiety,
low self-esteem. Another subtext is
what I call my mulch pile. A big old
heaping, steaming, pile of decompos-
ing rotting yuck that you spread all
over your garden and make gorgeous
things grow. And beauty comes out
of the dirt basically. If there was ever
a metaphor to help reinforce the idea
that you can create beauty no matter
what you think of yourself, this is it.
TEDxAmericanRiviera is an inde-
pendently organized TED event pro-
duced and hosted by 74 Degrees, LLC,
a joint venture between TEDsters
Kymberlee Weil, Eric Greenspan and
Mark Sylvester. Theyve titled their
all-day speakfest The Spark Within,
and in addition to Tom, Montecito res-
ident Mike deGruy, violinist Robert
Gupta, chef-author Matthew Kenney,
illustrator Stefan Bucher, photogra-
pher Chris Orwig, humorist Jenna
McCarthy and CEO-musician Eugene
Lee and perhaps others will bounce
around their ideas on creativity.
There may still be space avail-
able, so if you are interested in
attending, you should go to: www.
TEDxAmericanRiviera.com; the con-
ference will also be streamed live on
the event website if you cant make it
to the Music Academy. MJ
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Its My Party and Ill Argue If I Want To
Mr. Alexander is a retired
exorcist and professional
party planner
L
ora and I have stood by each
other in hard times, both
economical and emotional. Weve
survived bringing up a child (though
just barely). Weve managed to stay
together through the death of loved
ones, summer with the grandkids, and
yes, even El Nio, but weve never had
to endure planning a big party.
In November, Lora and I will have
been together for thirty years. Yes,
its no coincidence that we met the
same year John Lennon came out
with Starting Over, Diana Ross and
Lionel Richie harmonized Endless
Love, Rod Stewart crooned Passion,
Grover Washington, Jr. sang Just The
Two of Us, and Stevie Nicks and Tom
Petty belted out Stop Draggin My
Heart Around.
To my way of thinking, there were
only two ways to celebrate this occa-
sion. We could fly to Phoenix and
watch the St. Louis Rams play the
Arizona Cardinals, or we could throw
a party. Lora voted along strict party
lines and we came up with a theme
Celebrate With Us Thirty Years Of Not
Being Married.
Wait, some of you may say. Not
married? Ive heard you refer to Lora
as your wife. Thats because after ten
years together, it sounded pretty ridicu-
lous calling her my girlfriend. Around
year twelve I began introducing her as
my lover but that sounded almost as
silly. Through the years, her title has
evolved from my fiance, to my
mate, then to my better half, even-
tually to The Sergeant, and finally,
though only once, The Old Lady.
After the lump on my forehead sub-
sided (those frying pans really hurt!) I
decided to skip right over introducing
her as The Ball and Chain and The
Old Gray Mare and simply begin call-
ing her my wife.
When The Old Gray... I mean Lora,
and I started talking about this party,
it sounded like fun a few friends, a
couple bottles of wine, Carole Kings
Tapestry on the turntable, but when
the guest list somehow climbed to over
100, we realized what naive party plan-
ners we were and I saw a dark side to
Lora I never knew existed. She even
started using four-letter words like
jerk and dolt and stubbornjack-
ass...wait, thats more than four letters
isnt it?
Our lack of party planning expertise
isnt really our fault. Weve never had
a party before because we live in a
shoe box (size 5). If more than four
people visit us at the same time, we
have to draw straws to see who sits
on the toilet. Even small dinner parties
are impossible because Lora is a quilter
and twenty years ago she designated
our tiny dinette as her sewing room.
I know theres a dining table in there
somewhere, but our grandkids have
never seen it and theyre under the
impression that the five-foot high stack
of fabric scraps in the middle of the
room with chairs around it is where
the evil quilt monster lives. Dont ask
me who put that silly idea in their little
heads.
I knew we were in trouble with this
party when we couldnt even agree on
the venue. Lora wanted a catered affair
in a hall, with flowers, color coordi-
nated tablecloths and centerpieces. I
wanted the bowling alley with pins,
balls, and Reeses Pieces. She wanted
Boursin cheese-stuffed mushroom caps
and seafood crostini hors doeuvres.
I suggested peppered elk jerky in an
exquisite teriyaki glaze and beanie
weenies. I told her she could have her
way if she could spell hors doeuvre.
That night, I ordered the jerky on the
internet (the apostrophe always gets
them).
Our bickering about the party only
increased. It wasnt so much the details
that got to us. I mean, who really cares
if theres two hors doeuvres or three,
or if theres an actual restroom or just a
designated potty bush (come to find
out, Lora does). It was our tempera-
ment that did us in. Lora complained
that I talked to her like I was a judge
and she was Lindsay Lohan. I swore
her incessant tone had a hidden mes-
sage that said, I cant believe you
made it out of junior high you opos-
sum-eatin, Dodger-loving, mooncalf.
We both apologized and I think were
over the worst part. If and when we
recuperate from the Thirty Years Not
Married party were actually going to
get married. Some of you may wonder
why. Well, I think its time I started call-
ing her The Little Missus. MJ
If more than four people visit
us at the same time, we have
to draw straws to see who sits
on the toilet
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recorded me singing in the bath when
I was two years old. It was natural for
me to be musically inspired and have
a flair for electronics and gadgetry
running alongside. I formally studied
piano and flute and taught myself gui-
tar and bass. Singing is something Ive
got into more recently.
Did you team up with your music-pro-
ducing contemporaries, such as Andrew
Loog Oldham (Beatles and Rolling
Stones), George Martin (Beatles 1962-69)
and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)?
I never knew Andrew Oldham,
although my late Project partner, Eric
Woolfson, did some work with him as
a songwriter. I did work with George
Martin as part of my apprenticeship
at Abbey Road on the last two Beatles
albums. He is about twenty years my
senior. George is an unbelievable mas-
ter of diplomacy, as well as being a
great musician, having formal training
in music from the Guildhall School Of
Music in London. I learned much from
him on how to interface with musi-
cians. The Beatles would have been out
of control without him. I didnt meet
Jimmy Page until about twelve years
ago, while I was running Abbey Road
studios as the boss for a brief period,
before I ran away screaming because of
expectations of my hyper-bureaucratic
colleagues and superiors. Jimmy was
working with Robert Plant on the sec-
ond Page and Plant album.
You engineer, produce, score, play and
sing music. Is there one that speaks more to
your inner core?
I am most proud of the fact that I
am recognized for high quality sound.
That has to be seen as a combination
of production and engineering skills,
I suppose.
What are your thoughts and perceptions
of the path music making has taken since
1960 to present day, in terms of composi-
tion, lyrics, production, and where do you
see it headed?
Music goes in cycles and will continue
to do so. All art evolves as a retrospec-
tive on itself. Pop and rock music mak-
ing can be likened to a fashion business,
catering to the adolescent population.
We all said we would never be like our
parents and dismiss the music we lis-
tened to in our teens or abhor youth cul-
ture in general. Modern top forty pop
and rock is nothing like what I listened
to as a teenager. I try to be open-minded
and accept that no matter how uneasily
some new music may fall on my ears,
the people making it successfully are
undoubtedly talented. Unfortunately,
music has for those with tuned ears,
been reduced in quality by poor digital
formats, such as MP3, and the obvious-
ly tacky cell phone video recordings of
live concerts posted on YouTube. While
I dont wish to be deliberately negative
about iTunes, the concept of downloads,
in addition to the diversity of music
that people demand nowadays, has
changed our attitudes towards the place
music holds in our daily life. One used
to sit and listen to music (sometimes in
a darkened room, sometimes in altered
states) uninterrupted for the full length
of an album. Now, music is mostly a
background phenomenon; there are too
many distractions cell phones, texting,
TV, the Internet, video games, etc. The
only time one sits and listens to music
in a focused manner these days is at a
live concert. This change in listening
habits has increased attention in the
music business to live concerts while
direct purchase of quality recordings is
in serious decline.
Do you have a YouTube site?
No! I would resist any song of mine
being placed on there. Its anoth-
er excuse to access music for free.
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copyright owners will never sort out
the mess its tragic.
Is there a future for concept albums?
There may be in the future, but not
now. The concept album is out of
fashion, especially as music is pre-
dominately sold on iTunes and other
download sites in three-minute seg-
ments.
Is there a digital format that you would
recommend for uploading music to pre-
serve its total quality, given the compres-
sion of the MP3s?
Yes, I recommend 96 KHz, 24-bit
.wav files they are better than CD. But
with current technology, they take up a
lot of storage space and it takes a long
time to upload and download them.
But that situation can only improve.
One day well laugh at MP3, just like
we laugh at cassettes now.
Tell us about music production; what has
changed, and how has it affected the overall
sound we are being subjected to?
I continue to have a preference for
recording the old school way, by
recording the right combinations of
musicians playing together at the same
time, usually about four to five musi-
cians. To me, thats when the magic
of making music happens. Today, bud-
ding rock stars can lay down individual
tracks or performances one instrument
at a time in their living room using a
laptop computer using cheap or even
free software. Auto-Tune corrects any
vocal or instrumental pitch problems,
and other software can correct other
mistakes of timing or execution. Using
quality musicians and vocalists play-
ing together is so much better a way of
working and much more inspirational
and much less sterile. I wouldnt say
all modern recordings are junk, but
the accessibility of recording facilities
to the man in the street has definitely
made selectivity an issue. Its unfortu-
nate some new artists are hugely tal-
ented, but are just not being developed
or utilized to their best advantage.
Your legacy is excellence in music pro-
duction. What makes a great music pro-
ducer?
I am very proud to have been called
a Sound Guru by my contempo-
raries, and for being highly regard-
ed in the area of producing qual-
ity music. Good producers have the
ability to deal with artists, to know
their limits and how not to destroy
their talent by being overbearing;
encouraging them rather than push-
ing them beyond their natural abili-
ties. Its important for artists to feel
they own their creations while being
influenced and guided to a higher
level by a producer they trust. In my
early days, although I was hired as
an engineer, I would step out of that
rather technical role and more into
creative production. Traditionally, the
engineer was not involved in studio
logistics, helping the artists choose
the songs to record, the instrumen-
tations, which take worked best,
or suggesting things like including
an acoustic guitar on a track, or that
something was out of tune. I had the
ear for it, and people wanted that bit
extra out of me, even though I was
still classified as an engineer, not a
producer.
What is your next tour schedule coming
up?
In early 2012, we will be in Mexico
for two shows and performing with
a full symphony orchestra. We also
have plans for European and South
American tours over two week peri-
ods. Im not interested in touring
on a bus for months on end. In this
economy, shows are rarely planned
more than seven or eight weeks
ahead.
What are your thoughts about doing
benefit concerts and other philanthropic
work?
I welcome the opportunity to do
them. For the United Boys and Girls
Clubs, Michael Rattray, their CEO,
asked me if I would help them out by
playing a show. Like all charities, the
current economy has decreased overall
the donations usually counted on. I
have also assisted with their associ-
ated Notes for Notes MusicBox Studios
program, which is a drop-in recording
studio environment for youths aged
sixteen to eighteen. There they have
free access to musical instruments,
instruction and the tools to create and
record their own music. I wish Id had
such an experience.
Thank you Alan, and we wish you the
best for your upcoming birthday.
FYI: Alan Parsons Live Project,
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The Day the World Changed
T
he last time I saw my uncle
Ross was in March, 1965. I
was nine years old and he was
thirty. I was wearing a white cotton
T-shirt, blue jeans and Converse
sneakers. In the dry air and sunshine
of springtime Southern California,
it was warm, even hot. Especially in
the car, and, especially squeezed in
between all the grownups.
We were in Grandmother Fobairs
car, a pale green 1962 Rambler with
dark green upholstery. Three years
later, she still had the seat covers on,
plastic, brittle, yellowing from too
much time spent in the low desert
where she taught school in Thermal.
For a kid pressed in between his
grandmother in her verde green
print flower dress and his uncle in
an Air Force green flight suit, in her
soft pale hospital green car, it was a
tight, green, green world.
The three of us sat up front while
the other three young Air Force
fighter pilots sat in the back. My
grandmother never drove fast as
a rule, always ten miles below the
speed limit. For her, it was a matter
of principle, although in her opinion
stop signs were often meant to be
ignored. Did she mean to do these
things intentionally, to drive those
around her crazy or was that just her
comfort zone? At the age of nine, I
wondered if my uncle was as embar-
rassed of her in front of his friends as
I was in front of mine.
They were going to Vietnam soon,
within a few weeks. I didnt know
where that was, except that every
morning on my way to the comics,
on the front page of the L.A. Times,
thered be a big headline story about
Vietnam. Meanwhile, life at home
was a set routine. Except for today.
Today, it was different. My uncle
and his three squadron mates had
flown their fighters from Florida
to California on what was called a
two-ship cross-country training mis-
sion for a weekend visit. Ross had
arranged it so they would all spend
the night at my mothers home in
Los Angeles. This Sunday morning,
the smells of breakfast filled her
kitchen. My mother had cooked up
her famous Leo Lumkey scrambled
eggs, thick bacon, fresh squeezed
orange juice, Danish pastries, coffee
and plenty of it. The kitchen was
packed with people. There was a lot
of talk in the air. My grandmother
was there to see her son, and my
stepfathers parents joined us too.
They Believed in the Mission
The guys were bright and young
and energetic. They flew F-4
Phantoms, then the most powerful
and modern fighter jet on the planet.
They knew how to deliver tactical
bombs and provide top cover pro-
tection from enemy MIGs to their
brethren fighter bombers. They
were the cutting edge, the fierce
swift sword of President Johnsons
Rolling Thunder bombing campaign
to drive the North Vietnamese to the
negotiating table. Would it succeed?
No one knew, but to all who met
these men, it was apparent that they
believed in what they were doing,
their training and the mission. These
were vital young men. They were
capable and intelligent, willing and
able to give it their best effort, to live
on the edge or die trying. Although
no one expected that to happen. That
happened to other people.
Breakfast wound down. It got clos-
er to the time to drive them out to
the air base for their flight back to
Florida. My uncle made phone calls
regarding weather forecasts and
filed a flight plan. Fewer and fewer
things were said and my grandpar-
ents exchanged meaningful looks
as the men gathered up their flight
bags. A sober emotional stew of stilt-
Bruce Giffin lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Kelley, and their menagerie of
dogs, cats, birds, fish and horses. He is co-founder of Giffin & Crane. He spent
November 1997 in Vietnam while his uncles crash site was excavated. Lt. Col.
Fobairs remains were repatriated in 2001.
In Remembrance
by Bruce Giffin
The world changed the day my uncle Ross left in March of 1965.
I didnt know it then, but my age of innocence ended then. I
wasnt alone; it happens to everyone, that loss of innocence.
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ed energy and unspoken questions,
finality and anticipation filled up the
space in the room. It was time to go.
Outside at the curb along the park-
way, the Rambler was loaded and
my grandmother started the car up
as Uncle Rosss wing mates climbed
into the back seat. My mother came
out to hug her kid brother goodbye.
They embraced and thirty years of
shared history touched for a moment.
Thirty years of struggle and deliver-
ance, of losing Dad when they were
seven and two, of homesteading in
the Barstow desert with Mother, of
working their way through schools,
college, families, marriages, divorces
and careers. Thirty years summed up
in a touch. Then Ross got in the car
and we pulled away from the curb.
It seemed like a long drive out
from the San Fernando Valley to
George Air Force Base in the Mojave
Desert. It was quiet in the car, quiet
and sticky, as the plastic seat covers
didnt breathe.
Hugs All Around
We drove through the air base
and parked near their two Phantoms
out on the ramp. Flight bags were
stowed and pre-flight inspections
begun. My grandmother and I stood
and watched. As they finished, my
uncle climbed back down from the
ladder on the side of the cockpit and
came up and hugged me. He gave
my grandmother a big hug. The
other three pilots settled into their
seats. I looked back at her. Her eyes
were red and she was quietly cry-
ing. Uncle Ross murmured words
of reassurance. There was one last
moment and he hugged her again.
Looking over his shoulder back at
me, he said, Stick around for a few
minutes after we take off. With that,
he climbed into the back seat of the
lead fighter.
The engines were lit up and the
canopies came down. With a wave,
they taxied away. We watched them
as far as we could see until there
were only heat waves shimmering
off in the distance.
After what seemed like forever to
a nine year old, we heard the jets
spool up louder and louder. They
came screaming down the runway,
so loud it hurt our ears. I clamped
my hands over my ears and watched
the planes disappear into the sky.
All that was left was a thick smoky
trail of spent kerosene fuel which
we could taste as the roar of their
flight slowly faded away. Moments
seemed like minutes. They ticked by,
punctuated by the silence of an air
base on a Sunday morning.
Can we go now? I asked.
Spinning around, Grandmother
glared down at me. He said stick
around; were going to stick around!
I looked for a rock to kick. There
were none.
Then, away in the distance, we
could hear the low-pitched roar of
the fighters coming again. We turned
and there they were, two dark specks
streaming exhaust trails in the sky,
quickly changing into two very fast
and loud Phantoms flying a low pass
over the runway right in front of
us. And as they flew by, Uncle Ross
and his white helmeted wing mates
waggled their wings in farewell and
climbed up again, leaving another
smoky trail wafting into the warm
clear blue March desert sky.
We stood there and watched until
we could no longer see them. Then
we listened until we could no lon-
ger hear them. There was a space
of silence that got filled up with
the sounds of insects, a whiff of a
desert breeze and the buckling of
dry heat off the tarmac. My legs
were tired, but I said not a word.
Grandmother kept staring into the
distance for the longest time. Then
after a while, without looking at me,
she said, Okay, lets go. We got in
the car and neither one of us said
much on the long drive home to my
mothers.
Innocence Lost
Five months later, we got the
news. Ross had been shot down on
his last mission. His squadron came
home the next day, yet he was miss-
ing, missing in action, never to be
seen or heard from again. He was
the first they shot down with a mis-
sile, a brief milestone marker in the
chronicles of that war, a victory for
them and a loss for us. He would not
be the last.
The world changed the day my
uncle Ross left in March of 1965.
I didnt know it then, but my age
of innocence ended then. I wasnt
alone; it happens to everyone, that
loss of innocence.
Relentlessly, every day, especially
in the 1960s, that world of innocence
ended, day after day, day in and day
out. For many, it ended when they or
family or friends were shipped off to
Southeast Asia. For others, when JFK
was assassinated. Or when Bobby
Kennedy was shot. For others, when
Martin Luther King was killed. Race
riots, protests in the streets, Kent
State, sex, drugs, rock n roll, and
seeing children, black, white, brown
and yellow, living and dying in fire-
fights in Vietnam on TV in our living
rooms, all became defining moments
of our lives.
And so today, on those days when I
read about the sacrifices some young
person has made on behalf of our
country, or on those rare occasions
when I see a fighter jet flying low, I
think of that time a long, long time
ago when I was nine and my uncle
was thirty. MJ
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band MYNX headlined Womens
Rock Night at the world-famous
Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip
in Los Angeles last week. The Whisky
stage has hosted the whos who of the
rock world including The Doors, Led
Zeppelin, Cream, the Ramones, the
Police, Patti Smith, the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and Metallica... and now
MYNX.
Our local band of beauties features
Montecito residents Vivien Alexander
(vocals and rhythm guitar), Laurie
Deans (lead guitar and vocals) and
Stacey Fergusson (bass and vocals),
plus Dawn Sherry (keyboards and
vocals) and Donna Eveland (drums).
At the Whisky, MYNX played an
eclectic mix of rock covers from the
60s to contemporary from Blondie
and Aerosmith to modern rockers Jet,
Neon Trees and Band of Skulls.
Band manager David Hekhouse,
guitarist with long-time local favorite
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Famers) the Tearaways, has mentored
this all-girl group since its start a year
ago and set up the L.A. gig.
Recently in the local scene, MYNX
rocked out at SOhO, and was featured
at the Avocado Festival, and will be
playing the Wildcat on December 9.
Leslie Lauded for
Lifetime of Largesse
My friend, lovely Leslie (thats Ms.
Ridley-Tree to you), has been up to all
kinds of philanthropic-ness recently.
First she took on chaired and hosted
the Girls Inc. annual luncheon just
a month back, planning every detail,
and greeting each guest graciously at
her door to raise scholarship funds for
the girls.
Then, as previously noted in MJ,
Westmont named their Ridley-Tree
Museum of Art in honor of Leslies
multimillion-dollar donations and
French art collection.
But wait, theres more! Next week,
on Tuesday the 15th, she will be hon-
ored by the Association of Fundraising
Professionals. Other institutions
locally such as Cottage Hospital, the
Museum of Art, Music Academy, the
Symphony, SBCC, the Zoo, and the
Council on Alcoholism and Drug
Abuse have all basked in the warmth
of her profusely generous touch. And
now turnaround is fair play and
she will be honored with a Lifetime
Achievement Award for Philanthropy.
(The luncheon at the Biltmore
will also honor Jelinda DeVorzon as
Volunteer of the Year.) Brava!
Revenge
of the Real Housewives
of Santa Barbara
Last week, Richard Mineards col-
umn gave a scoop that Bravo TV is
planning to produce some kind of
Santa Barbara semi-scripted reality
show, along the lines of the nauseat-
ingly successful Real Housewives
of... series.
I hope the producer pulls a crash
course and reads one of my How To
Santa Barbara books before he com-
pletely misrepresents and blows off
the community.
Remember when they had a Santa
Barbara soap opera? Remember how
no self-respecting Santa Barbarian
would watch it because of course
it was not Santa Barbara at all? The
town and characters had nothing
whatsoever to do with SB and I dont
think you can even find three people
who even saw the series (other than to
watch the opening shot of the harbor).
However, confused people who
could not tell the difference between
reality and Hollywood (think D.C.),
would call up Mayor Sheila Lodge or
Police Chief Breza to complain about
how things were handled by the city
or police... in the pretend TV show!
I remember Chief Breza telling me
that he would try to explain, Well,
you see that only happened on the
TV show. Then the caller would self-
righteously declare, Yes, that is right!
I witnessed the whole thing with my
own eyes right there on TV.
As they say in Britain, Mind the
gap.
So to help out with this new
Hollywood endeavor, I am proposing
some reality shows that might actu-
ally exemplify our community:
Real Philanthropists of 93108
Here at a high falootin black tie
dinner, our local loaded luminaries do
not try to out-do one another, but are
pleasantly cooperative and collabora-
tive, much to the producers annoy-
ance. Each philanthropist invites other
high rollers to their pet charity (over
900 to choose from), and the others
return the favor with invitations of
their own for other events. Everybody
attends the usual chicken dinners with
gracious tolerance and just cheerfully
dumps money all over town, to the
benefit of the happy Santa Barbara
community. This series is soon can-
celled because it is too boring; there is
not sufficient snarky-ness and drama.
So we move on.
Real Housewives of the Parent-Teacher
Workshop
Helicopter mothers hovering
over their three- and four-year-olds
befriend and battle one another about
providing healthy snacks (gluten free,
no nuts, no dairy, no eggs), deter-
mining whether the others child is
making good choices, leaving con-
veniently early for an appointment
before their share of toys are cleaned
up, and throwing thematic birthday
parties with educational components
and activity centers.
Here we have it
Real Homeowners of the Santa Barbara
Planning Commission Hearing
Cat fights! Brawls! Hidden agendas!
This has the drama Hollywood looks
for. Will the 10 x 10 granny room
extension really alter the rural charac-
ter of the neighborhood into perpetu-
ity? Do two dozen 12-foot Eugenia
trees constitute a spite hedge just
because they are planted four feet
from the neighbors ocean view win-
dow? Throw in a PR campaign and
ballot measure, and this could be a
long-running series even outside of
Santa Barbara. MJ
Santa Barbaras MYNX at the Whisky features
Montecito residents Vivien Alexander (rhythm),
Laurie Deans (lead) and Stacey Fergusson (bass),
plus Dawn Sherry (keyboards) and Donna Eveland
(drums) (Photo: Kelly Combs)
O
pera Santa Barbara knows a
good thing when it fnds it. So
the company is bringing back
Rebecca Davis, the soaring soprano
who captured hearts all over town in
her Santa Barbara debut as the tragic
Violetta in Verdes La Traviata. This
weekend, Davis who is blessed with
a warm timbre as well as versatility,
stretch and range plays another
iconic role from a classic Italian opera:
the ill-fated lover Mimi in Puccinis
La Bohme, directed by Met/San
Francisco Opera veteran Brad Dalton
with Dean Williamson conducting.
Its a far cry from her days on the road
back in her college years as a backup
singer to her aunt, country superstar
Suzy Bogguss.
Q. Not a whole lot of people come to
opera through country. How did that
happen?
A. That was my major influence
in singing when I was younger. I
even played the guitar at one time,
although I havent touched it in ten
years. I also did lots of other things
in school, of course, like choir, and I
sang a lot of jazz in high school. But
the great thing was going on the road
with my aunt for six months. But I
wanted to be acting on stage, too, and
thats what made opera make sense. I
havent looked back since. Ive loved
every minute.
So is there some connection between
country music and opera?
They both tell really great sto-
ries, especially country music from
the eighties. Those artists had a lot
to say. My aunt sang a song called
Cinderella, which was about the
aging process for women from a posi-
tive point of view. There are a lot of
issues beyond the dogs and the trucks.
Opera is more historic, and you get
a broader spectrum of time. My dad
was a history major, and Ive always
loved it myself, so that appeals to me.
Country expresses it differently, and
they only have three minutes rather
than three hours, to tell the story.
Youve received praise not only for the
beauty of your voice, but also, as Opera
Santa Barbaras Jose Condemi says, its
inherent vulnerability. Can you talk about
the technique?
Thats been a comment Ive been
getting more recently. I think I just
have it naturally. Im pretty open as
a person, and I wear my heart on my
sleeve. So its easy to read my emo-
tions because of who I am. But Im
also drawn toward those kinds of
characters who are vulnerable. Mimi
is so shy and awkward at first, but she
does want to be around people, and
shes craving socialization, a world
Rodolfo opens up to her. I just really
click with her. Violetta was that way
too, but covered it up to play the
courtesan.
Do you see some similarities in the
roles? Theyre both beautiful but sick
women who fall in love, experience great
romance and passion, and die in their lov-
ers arms.
Vocally of course, theyre different.
Puccini has a lot of stretch to the line,
while Verdi has more of a dramatic
arc to the story. Mimis illness takes a
lot longer. Shes coughing the whole
time, except for a brief time in act two.
She knows shes sick, while Violetta
was in denial. But theyre both such
big, hearty characters, and thats fun
to play. The music is so beautiful in
both of the shows: I mean, its Puccini
and Verdi.
Whats the most fun and/or challenging
part of this role?
Okay, well, I love doing dramatic
scenes. The audience will love act two
because of the party, but my favorite
is in act three when I do a duet with
Marcello about looking for Rodolfo.
Its pour-your-heart-out beautiful
music. Shes jealous and it comes out.
Its such a dramatic climax, with tons
of high notes. Most of Mimis arias are
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Race to the Table
Dr. Willis and her hus-
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prize-winning amateur
winemakers
D
o you know where your wine
will be just after midnight on
November 17th? If you are
one of future owners of a bottle of
2011 French Beaujolais Nouveau, it
will be on its way from a little town
(or village) from that region to Paris,
from where it will be shipped abroad,
mainly to the United States, Japan,
and Germany.
Many producers race to deliver the
first of the vintage to celebrations
throughout France and the world. As
has been the case for almost 50 years,
at one minute past midnight on the
third Thursday of each November,
with release strictly regulated world-
wide by French Law, the bottle that
may end up on your Thanksgiving or
other holiday table begins its race to
beat the pack and be the first to arrive
to your wine retailer that same day.
Over 70 million bottles, about
half of the Beaujolais regions total
annual production, is made into the
Beaujolais Nouveau that is bottled,
sold, and often quaffed just weeks
after the wines grapes are harvested.
In France there is a saying,
Beaujolais Nouveau is to autumn
what the swallow is to spring. We
know itll come back every year on the
third Thursday of November but we
dont know what its plumage will be.
Tasting the Beaujolais Nouveau wines
can give some indication of what the
years vintage from France will taste
like, so when these wines arrive in the
United States, many enophiles will
visit wine shops to preview the 2011
vintage.
History and Traditions
The history of winemaking cele-
brates community and sharing. Just
as folks are invited now by some
wineries in the Santa Ynez Valley to
participate in grape picking, stomp-
ing, and bottling, such has long been
the custom in villages in Beaujolais
when villagers who helped with the
harvest returned in November with
their ceramic bottles that were filled
with the Beaujolais Nouveau wine just
fermented from that years grapes. In
the same informal pours from pitch-
ers filled with their new Beaujolais
Nouveau, the wines producers shared
samples of this wine at local bistros
and cafes in their villages.
Minimalist Winemaking and Easy
Drinking
Beaujolais Nouveau is a red wine
made from Gamay grapes grown in
the Beaujolais region of France. Unlike
most red wines that improve with age,
Beaujolais Nouveau, the ultimate in
hands-off wine, celebrates the fresh
characteristics of the grapes harvested
just weeks before. It is made to be
enjoyed without any bottle aging and
is at its best and most fruity when
enjoyed within a year of release and
served slightly chilled.
These wines reflect the concen-
trated fruit flavor of the grapes that
are fermented over a few weeks.
Fermentation is so short and the wine
is pressed early (after only about three
days), the astringent tannins, normal-
ly found in red wines, are quite light.
The wine is then bottled without time
in wooden barrels.
Because this process is quite simi-
lar to the production of some white
wines, Beaujolais Nouveau has been
acknowledged as a transitional wine
for those wanting to move from white
to red wines. Like most whites, it is
low in alcohol and tannins. Beaujolais
Nouveau is easy to drink with fruit
forward flavors such as raspberries
and cherries, and subtle contrasting
spice and pepper.
Food and the Beaujolais
Beaujolais Nouveau is a very popu-
lar wine for serving during the holi-
days due to its availability, low cost,
and its food-friendly versatility. The
ripe berry aromas and flavors are wel-
come accompaniments to a great vari-
ety of dishes including picnic foods
like salami, ham, cheese, cold roast
beef, chicken as well as to hearty veg-
etable soups and stews.
Thanksgiving may be the most sig-
nificant holiday meal in the year, par-
ticularly when you consider the loving
care and attention given to the turkey
and supporting delights prepared by
family and friends. By tradition, more
wine is sold for Thanksgiving Day
dinner than for any other meal of the
year and it is a big day for enjoying the
newly released Beaujolais Nouveau.
Pleasers for 10 for about $10
From the Beaujolais offerings last
year, several were considered top bang
for the buck at about $10 each. The
Labour-Roi Beaujolais was nota-
ble for fruity red berry aromas with
pepper and spice flavors balanced
with soft tannins. George Duboeuf
Beaujolais starts with floral aromas
followed by ripe cherry and spice.
Maison Joseph Drouhin offered ripe
berry aromas, red currant and cherry
flavors, and refreshing acidity.
With the bargain prices and charm-
ing history, it is a treat to include this
homage to community at your holiday
table.
Sip Tip: Join the fun at the Evening
in Tillys Kitchen theme Tasting Party
at Oreana Winery on Nov. 18 for a new
limited edition release of Tilly, a super
Tuscan red Sangiovese-Cabernet
blend. 100% of the sales of the wine
at the event will go to the California
Central Coast Alzheimers Association.
205 Anacapa Street, 805-962-5857,
www.oreanawinery.com MJ
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Dear Mr. Greenjeans,
A few months ago, I planted some
of those beautiful Mexican milkweed
plants in my garden to attract mon-
arch butterflies. I started with one-
gallon sized plants and initially they
did really well. But now they are
being totally grazed on by some sort
of stripy worms and theres some cot-
tony, fuzzy stuff all over whats left
of the plants. Also, I havent seen too
many monarchs. Whats going on do
you think?
Signed,
Concerned on Coast Village
Dear Concerned,
First of all take a few breaths.
Everything you describe is as it
should be and the good news is that
your monarchs are on the way or are
already here.
The stripy worms you describe that
are eating your plants are the cat-
erpillar or larvae stage of the mon-
arch butterfly. These black, yellow
and white squiggly guys need to feast
on the leaves of the Mexican milk-
weed (Asclepias curassavica) in order
to pupate and turn into an orange and
black monarch butterfly.
You may have also noticed the lit-
tle blue-green pupae or chrysalides
hanging like little lanterns around
your garden. Its a complicated, mind-
boggling process, but basically the
caterpillar is in there morphing into
a butterfly. Its not unlike the trans-
formation of a superhero. In this case,
the caterpillar is Clark Kent, the mon-
arch butterfly is Superman and the
chrysalis is the phone booth. Its very
similar indeed, as both fly away after
emerging.
The cottony, fuzzy stuff you
describe is also good news. If you
look closely at all that fuzz youll see
the seeds. These have been released
from the long, narrow seedpods that
have dried and split open at the ends
of the milkweed stems. Mexican milk-
weed readily reseeds in your garden
from these seeds virtually guarantee-
ing another crop of milkweed for the
next generation of monarchs.
I am reminded of the words of a
now departed and beloved Montecito
friend, Beatrix Oddy who used to gaze
into her garden, shake her head and
say to me, Aint nature grand?
Pained Plants
Dear Mr. Greenjeans,
This is probably a dumb question,
but Im going to ask you anyway. Some
of my houseplants especially the ones
that Ive had for a long time like say,
my peace lilies are looking really
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In the Garden
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Worm Worriment
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Randy Mr. Greenjeans
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address them to greenje-
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tired. The foliage is dull, limp and
the tips of the leaves appear brown or
burned. Im pretty good about water-
ing them and give each one a little bit
of water once a week. Do you have
any good ideas about how I can perk
them up? Although Ive become quite
attached to them, maybe its just time
to replace them with new, fresh ones.
What do you think?
Signed,
Lifeless on Ladera
Dear Lifeless,
Yours is a common problem. The
simple fact is that after a number of
years, most houseplants just get tired
of being in the same ol pot in the
same ol soil. In addition, some plant
like peace lilies (Spathyphyllum) are
very sensitive to the salts in our water
and eventually show tip burn.
If you continually add just a little
bit of water at a time to your plants,
the salts build up in the soil and will
even form white deposits on the out-
side of clay pots.
One thing that will help is to occasion-
ally take your plants to the sink or, if
theyre large, to the bathtub or outside
and thoroughly flush out the soil. By
this I mean, wash down the plant, soil
and the pot with a hand-held shower
or hose nozzle until lots of water comes
out the drainage hole. If you do this
every once in a while, it will help to
dissolve the salty buildup in the soil.
Ive found that after doing this even one
time my own plants looked noticeably
healthier and happier.
Keep in mind though, that if you
do take your plants outdoors to wash
and rehab them, make sure you dont
leave the plant in the sun for even a
few minutes. A plant grown indoors
is too tender to take direct sun and
will be toast in no time.
Another reason your plants may be
unhappy could be that theyve out-
grown their current containers. If your
plants seem to be too large for their
existing pots it could be time to repot
it. Unless your houseplants have gotten
exceptionally overgrown, only repot
into the next size container. This will
give them an inch or two of extra room
to grow into. Using a quality brand of
potting soil like Uni-Gro or Fox Farm
Ocean Forest will help too. MJ
made it worse. But it is only one fac-
tor. [In addition to the things above],
theres also not getting enough physi-
cal activity, or eating to promote men-
tal health.
On that subject, youve frequently
discussed anti-inflammatory foods and
medicines in relation to health in previous
books. The connection with the prevention
and treatment of depression doesnt seem
as obvious.
Its a really new theory and it sounds
right to me. I think it makes sense. Ive
been promoting the diet for general
health and longevity and now theres
some evidence that with depression,
too, theres increased inflammation in
the body. This whole idea of the role of
inflammation in undermining health
is very powerful and were going to
see more and more evidence of that.
OK, for lazy folks, whats the number
one most important thing we can do right
now to improve our health, particularly
mental or emotional?
Make sure youre getting exercise
every day. Stop eating manufactured
refined food. Take fish oil supple-
ments. Check your vitamin D levels.
Place limits on how much you let the
Internet into your life.
Yikes, thats five things already! Which
makes me wonder, what do you say to
people who look at the book and think Its
too much of a lifestyle change, especially
when Im depressed.
Thats why its broken into small
steps, and spread out over the eight-
week program, which seems to be the
right period to experience the effects
of change. If you do it at your own
pace, you begin to see the positive
outcomes and are motivated to do
more. You dont have to do it all at
once.
Can we clear up something else: Every
expert, especially in dietary fields, seems
to have their own take on natural med-
icine, with often contradictory advice.
How are we to figure out what to heed?
One of my functions is to sort
through the information and try to
guide people effectively. I really try
to document everything I write with
published scientific information.
So what do you do or eat every day for
optimal health and wellness?
I do some sitting meditation in the
morning, and the breathing exercises
I describe in the book. I eat an anti-
inflammatory diet, I take fish oil
and Vitamin D, and I make sure I
get enough good quality sleep. And
since writing the book, I make an
effort to express gratitude on a daily
basis, which I never knew about
before, at least the scientific evi-
dence. [From that alone], I definitely
became happier as a result of writing
this book.
When you look back over the last twenty
years, would you change anything from
your earlier books and advice?
I havent been wrong about too
much. I have a good intuitive sense
and a way of knowing where the
research is going. I often tell people
about things five years before theyre
generally accepted. I think thats been
helpful.
What will you do with your extra time
in Santa Barbara?
Ive got some friends to visit, Ill
certainly go to the beach, and Id like
to go to the farmers market.
Thats where Im headed when we hang
up.
Oh, good! I envy you.
(UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Dr.
Andrew Weils talk Spontaneous
Happiness and Why Our Health
Matters at 8pm Wednesday,
November 16, at the Arlington, 1317
State Street. Tickets are $38. Call
UCSB at 893-3535 or visit www.
ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or the
Arlington at 963-4408.) MJ
Dr. Andrew
Weil, author of
Spontaneous
Happiness, will speak
at the Arlington on
November 16
Emotional Sea Level
On Entertainment
by Steven Libowitz
M
ind-body expert and best-
selling author Dr. Andrew
Weil, a pioneer in the feld
of integrative medicine which
combines Western and Eastern
philosophies toward health, struck
a chord with a growing legion of
natural health-seekers with his
seminal book Spontaneous Healing
back in 1995. Sixteen years and eight
books later, Dr. Weil has applied those
same methods and approach to the
mental health crisis in his new book
Spontaneous Happiness, published last
Tuesday.
On the road to promote the new
work, Dr. Weil will speak at the
Arlington Theatre on Wednesday, just
in time to offer some tips to help
us through the approaching holiday
season. Dr. Weil discussed Happiness
and more over the telephone from
the airport in Phoenix last Saturday
morning.
Q. For those who arent familiar with
your work, can you briefly explain the
concept of Spontaneous Healing?
A. That book set out a lot of the the-
ory of the kind of medicine I practice,
which is to call attention to the fact
that in our bodies, the organism has
the capacity to self-diagnose, repair,
regenerate, and adapt to injury and
loss. To me, that healing mechanism
is the most interesting aspect of our
biology. Its very disappointing that
its not taught in medical school.
Why isnt it?
Medicine in the past century has
become so disconnected from nature.
Thats not served us very well. These
cures that we put in our bodies in
the form of drugs simply dont honor
the healing power of nature, which is
very great.
Your new book is on happiness, depres-
sion and whatever lies between. Youve
only recently revealed that you have bat-
tled depression in your own life. Why
now?
My own bouts were much earlier in
my life, and theyve receded as Ive
gotten older, mostly as a result of life-
style changes, as Ive explained in the
book. But I became very concerned
by the statistics on the depression
epidemic that were in the midst of.
The numbers of Americans, especially
kids, taking psychiatric drugs is just
shocking. Mental Health profession-
als are really limited with being so
obsessed with brain biochemistry and
the use of pharmaceuticals as the only
method of treating. Its really time to
take a look at why and to understand
all the things you can do to improve
your emotional well-being.
How did it get this bad? What hap-
pened? It wasnt that way, say, one hun-
dred years ago.
Well, some of it is manufactured by
the medical-pharmaceutical complex,
maybe even a third. But if you take
that away, theres still an awful lot of
depression. I dont think it has to do
with the state of the world, because
its actually been worse in the past.
I think its more the accumulation
of changes in modern living that are
really a mismatch from what are genes
are encrypted for. Were disconnected
from nature. Were increasingly social-
ly isolated. Our diet has impacted
our mental health for the worse. The
effects from media and information
overload are very great.
You write that just like our body was
designed to heal itself, so too are we
wired for emotional well-being. So,
what happened?
But were not meant to be happy all
the time. Its more important to work
toward contentment, and resilience
and balance what I call emotional
sea level. Our moods are supposed to
vary. There may even be some value
in experiencing mild to moderate
depression occasionally it may help
us solve problems and tap into cre-
ativity. So the first thing is to change
that cultural expectation of happiness,
which isnt very useful. And were
heading into the holiday season when
it becomes most intense and destruc-
tive.
Youve already mentioned nature a
couple of times. While I love the phrase
nature deficit disorder from the book,
is walking in the woods and breathing the
air really all we need?
Its a big factor. When you think
how many people in our country
dont have a chance to experience it at
all... it really does matter to our mental
health.
Maybe its not such a big problem here,
though, where we have the beach and
mountains right nearby. But you can
always be miserable in paradise, too.
Some of my worst times of depres-
sion were when I was in some very
beautiful places. The contrast between
what I thought I should be feeling and
what I was actually experiencing only
Steven Libowitz has
reported on the arts and
entertainment for more
than 30 years; he has
contributed to Montecito
Journal for over ten
years.
County Supervisor, Congressmen
Elton Gallegly, and Brett Matthews of
Montecito, who worked with the local
and national forest service staff and the
Association of Santa Barbara County
Fire Chiefs to craft a solution that
works for all of our citizens, he said.
For more information about defensi-
ble space and the Santa Barbara County
Fires Ready, Set, Go! program, visit
their website at www.sbcfire.com.
Mesa Studio Artists
Tour Mesa Artist Tour
This Saturday, November 12 and
Sunday, November 13, a free tour of
award-winning artists studios on the
Mesa will take place. This annual event
will take guests on a tour of twelve
open studios, whereupon the works of
the artists can be enjoyed.
The artists, including Karin Aggeler,
Cree Mann, Susan Belloni, Deborah
Breedon, Sarah Carr, Ron Freese,
Morgan Green, Margaret Nadeau,
Erin Williams, Paige Wilson, John
Williams, and Ellen Yeomans, will
present a spectrum of styles including
contemporary to traditional.
Deborah Breedon, an instructor at
SBCC, will present her Plein Air pas-
tels, while award-winning artist Sally
Hamilton will show off her landscape
and abstract paintings. Susan Belloni
is known for her beach, ranch and
lagoon paintings using oils and acryl-
ics. Karen Aggeler, who has had her
abstract paintings displayed in several
galleries around town, will display her
newest additions in her recently reno-
vated backyard.
The studios are a short drive from
each other and make for an easy and
enjoyable weekend activity. Follow the
signs and the red balloons!
For the map to the Mesa
Artists Studios, go to www.
SantaBarbaraMesaArtists.com. The
event takes place each day from noon
to 5 pm.
Omissions
& Corrections
The following was sent to us by Barbara
McDonald, who we mentioned in last
weeks issue (MJ #17/44).
I was pleased to read that the
Laguna Blanca Lower School received
a beautification award for their Secret
Garden. The dedication was a lovely
event and I was honored to participate.
My twin brother, Hugh Carpenter, and
I contributed a sundial to honor our
parents, Warwick and Peggy Carpenter,
who owned and ran The Howard
School for 27 years on the site that is
now Laguna Blanca Lower School. We
combined our fathers background in
math and our mothers love of garden-
ing in selecting the memorial for the
garden. I wanted to emphasize that our
parents were not merely teachers at the
school, but owned it. (Although our
father taught Math and English, and
our mother taught Kindergarten and
fourth grade Math, most of their efforts
went into managing the school.) The
Howard School was a school of about
85 day students with a boarding capac-
ity of 12, and our parents were totally
dedicated to it and the students and
staff. Hugh and I considered ourselves
permanent boarders and the school
was our home. MJ
A mans face is his autobiography; a womans face is her work of fiction Oscar Wilde
tion ballot to poll Montecito voters on
whether the board should move from a
three member board to a five member
board.
Montecito fire fighters attended
the meeting to tell the board about
Movember, their annual mustache-
growing contest. Well have a more in
depth story, with mid-month mustache
progress, in next weeks issue.
Highway construction guru Gregg
Hart reported that current construc-
tion near Milpas and Salinas Streets
is expected to be finished in April of
next year. California Highway Patrols
Rob Stuva reported that last month,
Montecito drivers were involved in 16
traffic collisions, received 6 stop sign
violations, and two violations for pass-
ing over the double yellow line on the
192.
Montecito Union School superinten-
dent Tammy Murphy said the student
body continues to increase, and that
many new families have moved to
Montecito specifically for the school
district. Cold Spring School super-
intendent Tricia Price announced
November 22 will be the schools first
annual Grandparents Day, from 10:30
am to 12:15 pm.
Land Use Latest
Land Use Chair Dave Kent reported
that a controversial development on
East Mountain Drive received a land
use permit from county staff after being
preliminarily approved by Montecito
Architectural Board of Review. The
project will require approximately
8,000 cubic yards of grading and the
construction of a 1,100-ft driveway
to access the property, which would
require two bridges to cross a drain-
age. It would require the removal of 18
oak trees, and significantly impact 21
others. Kent reported that two neigh-
bors intend on appealing the project to
the Montecito Planning Commission. If
that happens, the Land Use Committee
will send a letter to MPC in support of
the appeal.
Committee Reports
Beautification Chair Mindy Denson
thanked all those who helped set up,
clean up and serve lunch at this past
Saturdays Beautification Day. Dick
Thielscher, who was honored as
Citizen of the Year, thanked Mindy for
her hard work. She does such a huge
job, and its a big job! Thielscher said.
History Chair Elisa Atwill reported
the committee is seeking donations
to purchase a plaque honoring local
historian David Myrick, who passed
away in September. The plaque will be
mounted on one of three rocks outside
Montecito Hall; the other two have
plaques memorializing Maria Herold
and Maria Churchill.
Executive Director Victoria Greene
previewed for the board a new website
design, which will launch later this
month. The new website is completely
remodeled, and features pictures, com-
munity events, interests, meeting agen-
das and minutes, membership infor-
mation, pertinent links, MA bylaws,
and much more. Publicity Chair Tom
Schleck has been hard at work put-
ting the website together. Check out
www.montecitoassociation.org later
this month to see the new design.
The next Montecito Association
Board meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday, December 13.
Fire Tanker Base
Update
On the eve of the third anniver-
sary marking the Tea Fire in Montecito,
Los Padres National Forest and the
Association of Santa Barbara Fire
Chiefs announced earlier this week
new operational plans for the Santa
Maria Air Tanker Reload Base.
The U.S. Forest Service retardant
contract at Santa Maria will be modi-
fied so that the appropriate staff will be
on site throughout next years declared
fire season, something Montecito Fire
Chief Kevin Wallace has been working
diligently toward for the last two years
(see MJ #16/23).
In 2009, the tanker base, which ser-
vices Montecito and Santa Barbara
County, was downgraded to a call
when needed (CWN) status due to
budget shortfalls. This downgrade sig-
nificantly impacted the fire response
time in our area, as the nearest full
service base is located in Porterville.
Through hours of research, Wallace
found that keeping the base CWN was
actually more expensive than full ser-
vice status, because of the high number
of fire events in the county. He took
that information to his counterparts
in other parts of the county, as well as
state politicians. It just didnt make
any sense, Wallace says.
The new contract change ensures
a timely response to fire emergencies
occurring in the communities adjacent
to National Forest System lands. The
tanker base is already staffed, through
November 15, the end of the declared
fire season.
We are pleased that the forest service
has modified the Santa Maria contract
in order to return it to full service next
year, Chief Wallace told us. The abil-
ity to have a quick reload and return to
a fire in our front country is essential
to combating the spread of a wildland
fire that may endanger structures in
Montecito. Also, the full service con-
tract enables the forest service to stage
air tankers, during predicted high fire
threat, at Santa Maria to reduce the
initial attack response time.
Wallace was also quick to point out
the change in status comes after a lot of
hard work both locally and at the state
level. I really want to thank Willy
Chamberlin, former Santa Barbara
Montecito Fire Chief
Kevin Wallace is
pleased to report
the Santa Maria
Air Tanker Reload
Base will be fully
staffed during fire
season; the change
could signifi-
cantly improve fire
response times in
Montecito
Warwick
and Peggy
Carpenter
taken around
1977 in the
living room of
The Howard
School -
where Laguna
Blanca lower
school is now
VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Think Pink! What with all the
Portland bands performing in town in
recent months including a full nights
lineup during last weekends New
Noise Festival it might seem like weve
become a suburb of the Oregon city.
Especially now that the biggest band in
the landlocked town is heading our way
for another, almost annual appearance
at the Arlington. Pink Martini, the
ber-hip so-called little orchestra
which features a dozen musicians led
by pianist/chief songwriter Thomas
Lauderdale plays an irresistible mix
of heady and sophisticated cocktail
music for the modern ear seductive,
glamorous and infnitely intoxicating.
Former Rock Star: Supernova
contestant Storm Large steps in as
regular singer China Forbes recovers
from throat surgery, but dont expect
a reduction in extravagance from the
outsized redhead: she led a band called
The Balls in Portand for most of the last
decade. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Arlington
Theatre, 1317 State Street COST:
$38-$58 INFO: 893-3535 or www.
artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Veterans Day Montecitans John
and Hazel Blankenship and Marilyn
Gilbert and Nathan Rundlett once
again team up with the Pierre Claeyssens
Veterans Museum and Library to honor
veterans and service personnel for their
commitment and sacrifce with two days of
events. The Veterans Day Parade begins at
11am on State Street at Solo and ends up
in front of the Veterans Memorial Building
on Cabrillo Boulevard, and honors
veterans of all branches of the military in
the Santa Barbara area. A free outdoor
concert in the Courthouse Sunken Gardens
follows at 2pm. Saturday beginning at
5pm, its the 16th annual Military Ball,
a black-tie event held at the Fess Parker
Double Tree Resort that features a cocktail
hour, gourmet dinner, a keynote speaker,
and swing dancing. All branches of the
military are represented by both veterans
and active duty personnel. Keynote
speaker Louis Zamperini is the real
life hero of the current bestselling book
Unbroken. The Torrance native competed
in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
then became a bombardier on a B-24 in
the South Pacifc during World War II.
His plane crashed into the sea and only
he and two others survived, spending the
47 days foating on rafts with no food
or water before being rescued by the
Japanese who held them in POW camps
for two more years. The 94-year-old
Zamperini still tours as a speaker, with
many inspiring stories in his arsenal. INFO:
966-1660 or 969-7183 or visit www.
pierreclaeyssensveteransmuseum.com
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Poetry pairing Voracious devourers
of verse are verily vindicated by this
weekends offering of two separate
poetry events, linked by Paul Willis,
Santa Barbara Poet Laureate and
Professor of English at Westmont College.
Tonight, the Contemporary Arts Forum is
the venue for the Santa Barbara Poetry
Series, featuring words and song by
Arturo Tello, Jeff Afier, Dorothy
Barresi and Francis Pettey Davis
as well as Willis. Tomorrow, Willis and
his Coyote Road neighbor Gudrun
Bortman host Remembering the Tea
Fire: A Community Reading, featuring
local poets and residents reading
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara
area this week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In
order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday prior
to publication. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to news@montecitojournal.net and/or slibowitz@yahoo.com
by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Dans the man If hed never
done anything else, fatpicking guitar
innovator Dan Crary would deserve
a place in the folk music Hall of Fame
just for the terrifc album Jammed If I
Do (which might also be the greatest
title of an LP in any genre), which
featured the talents of fellow American
six-stringers Tony Rice, Doc Watson,
Norman Blake plus Italian maestro
Beppe Gambetta. But of course
Crarys been responsible for a whole
lot more in his half-century career,
including re-establishing fatpicking
guitar as a soloing instrument, in the
process helping to popularize bluegrass
in California. While hes completely
at home in band settings, its as a solo
performer that he truly shines, able to
showcase his witty and tasty style across several traditional genres. If youre only
going to make it to one Song Tree Concert Series show this year (which admittedly
isnt saying much, since theres only a couple left in 2011), make it to this one. Dans
the man! WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
820 N. Fairview, Goleta COST: $15; kids under 16 free INFO: 403-2639 or www.
songtree.org

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Get your Shearing check Three former members of the George Shearing
Quartet vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake, guitarist Ron Anthony and drummer
Colin Bailey are part of Sounds of Shearing, which came together originally
for a one-time gig in tribute to the jazz great who composed 300 songs and was
a legend as a bandleader and orchestrator from the 1960s-80s. Now an ongoing
quintet, the group rounded out by bassist Luther Hughes and pianist Terry
Trotter emulates Shearings sound with piano, vibes and guitar playing the
melody in unison. WHEN: 1-4pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street COST: $15
general, $7 musicians INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
their own works or those written by
others, to mark the occasion recalling
the devastating blaze. WHEN: 7-9pm
Saturday; 4-5pm Sunday WHERE:
Saturday: CAF, Upper level of Paseo
Nuevo Mall; Sunday: Hieronymus
Lounge, Kerrwood Hall, Westmont
College campus, 955 La Paz Road
COST: Tonight: $5 general, $3 students
suggested donation; Tomorrow: free
INFO: Saturday 966-1423; Tomorrow
565-7174
Progressive rock for progress
British producer-musician Alan Parsons
may have had his Eye in the Sky for
his biggest hit with Alan Parsons Project,
but his feet remain frmly on the ground
and his heart is in the right place for
tonights big beneft concert raising funds
for the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa
Barbara County. Parsons who started
out working in various engineering and
producer capacities for landmark British
rockers The Beatles, The Hollies and Pink
Floyd has called Santa Barbara home
for several years although he still tours the
world with the Alan Parsons Live Project,
the latest version of which features local
guitarist Alastair Greene. Opening
for the rock legend is David Pack, the
lead singer/songwriter of Ambrosia.
WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre,
33 W. Canon Perdido Street COST: $61
(VIP $101 includes reception and priority
seating) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.
com
Double Trouble marks decade
The Arts Fund celebrates the 10th
anniversary of its gallery with an
exhibition of eight Santa Barbara
area artists who are also partners as
couples. Double Trouble: Married to
Art and Each Other features artist
couples Mary Heebner and Macduff
Everton, Jane Callister and Philip
Argent, Kimberly Hahn and James
Van Arsdale, and Marie
Schoeff and Dane Goodman. Each
twosome will share one of the gallerys
walls and will oversee its layout. While
most of the artists are drawing from
new and existing inventories of work to
portray their domestic and aesthetic
relationships, Hahn and Van Arsdale
are designing a multimedia installation
marking their frst-ever collaboration.
WHEN: Opening reception with the
artists 5:30-7:30pm Saturday; exhibition
continues through January 14, 2012
(open 1-5pm Tuesday-Saturday) WHERE:
205C Santa Barbara Street (in the Funk
Zone) COST: free INFO: 965-7321 or
www.artsfundsb.org
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Tremeendous When Celeste Billeci
visited New Orleans for the frst time this
past spring, she brought back more than
just memories. The UCSB Arts & Lectures
head honcho also emerged with a fervent
desire to bring the sounds of the Crescent
City back home to the American Riviera.
Hence the birth of The Big Easy: Music of
New Orleans series, comprised of four
concerts capturing the sassy and sizzling
sounds of Nawlins. The second installment
tonight is dubbed A Night in Treme:
The Musical Majesty of New Orleans,
and naturally focuses on music from that
10 17 November 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41 Its not that the Irish are cynical; its rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody Brendan Behan

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Kinder music The
fellows at the Music
Academy of the
West, which wont
resume its season
for another seven
months, are relatively
young. The musicians
in the Santa Barbara
Youth Symphony,
for the most part,
are even younger.
Sixty 12-20 years
olds comprise the
ensemble, now under
the auspices of the Santa Barbara Symphony, which will perform three concerts at
the Lobero Theatre this season. The program for tonights winter event (albeit six
weeks early) conducted by Andy Radford, includes Ravels Tzigane Concert
Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra, plus Schuberts Unfnished Symphony No.8 in
B minor (allegro, moderato and adagio, con moto movements) and Shostakovichs
Symphony No.5, Op.47s fourth movement, the fnale. Katrina Schaefer, who
at age 11 was the youngest winner of the Santa Barbara Performing Arts Scholarship
Foundation Grand Prize in 2005, returns to town to solo in the Ravel. WHEN: 3pm
WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido Street COST: $15 general, $10
seniors, free for preschoolers INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Cave in the Underland The
Stephen Petronio Dance Company
is no stranger to Santa Barbara,
having performed here twice during
the winters of 2004 and 2007. But
its frst local appearance in nearly
four years might be the most highly-
anticipated as the popular and
critically-acclaimed troupe known for
combining modern music, visual art
and fashion with modern dance is
bringing Underland for its Santa
Barbara premiere. The multimedia
dance piece features music by the
darkly moody indie pop balladeer
Nick Cave, imagery by visual
designer Ken Tabachnick and video
artist Mike Daly, and costumes from
Tara Subkoff of the fashion label
Imitation of Christ. Commissioned by
the Sydney Dance Company back in
2003 (Cave is an Aussie), the work just premiered in New York last April, so were
getting it early. But its already a favorite in the Petronio catalogue: The dark beauty
of his music, its rawness, pain and redemption speak directly to my artistic motor,
the choreographer has said. Enter the dark and seductive underworld at your own
risk. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB Campbell Hall COST: $40 INFO: 893-3535 or
www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
neighborhood that has been a source of
African-American music especially the
brass band traditions for decades. The
legendary Rebirth Brass Band which
blends the traditional sound with hip hop-
infuenced funk, Latin-tinged beats and more
are the headliners, supported by fve
more performers who were also featured on
the popular HBO TV series and Grammy-
nominated soundtrack Treme: musical
director, alto saxophonist and Mardi
Gras Indian chief Donald Harrison,
Jr.; singer and percussionist Cyril
Neville (of the Neville Brothers); clarinetist
and historian Dr. Michael White;
trumpeter James Andrews (big brother
of Trombone Shorty, who kicked off
the Big Easy series in October); and
trombonist and singer Glen David
Andrews. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: UCSB
Campbell Hall COST: $38 (series tickets
discounted 20 percent) INFO: 893-3535 or
www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Rapper talks Hip hop artist, actor and
activist Common (previously known as
Common Sense) has won two Grammy
Awards and been nominated for nine others.
Hes also dabbled in acting, appearing in
Smokin Aces and several other movies and
TV series (plus a voice role in the upcoming
Happy Feet Two). But now hes on out the
road for a book tour, promoting his recently
released memoir entitled One Day Itll All
Make Sense. A Q&A session and book
signing follows, but dont expect a whole
lotta rhymes. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB
Campbell Hall COST: $29 in advance,
$35 at the door INFO: 893-2064 or www.
asprogramboard.com MJ
tame and well thought out, so this is
when she gets to really let it all out.
But I also love the great comedic break
you get in the middle of the opera. Its
not tragic the whole time. You get to
see these guys at play, the poets and
writers and teachers, just being guys.
Its a lot of fun.
(OSB presents La Bohme at
7:30pm Friday and 2:30pm Sunday
at the Granada Theatre. Tickets cost
$28-$128. Call 899-2222 or visit www.
granadasb.org.)
Come Fly Away
A mid-autumn Monday night
might be a precursor to the blues.
But instead, you can be swept away
to vibrant New York City in a swirl
of romantic dances and music, as the
Lobero Theatre hosts Come Fly Away.
The new musical boasts choreography
by Tony-winner Twyla Tharp and
music from the Frank Sinatra catalog
featuring a live, on-stage band playing
new arrangements behind the voice of
Ol Blue Eyes himself.
Dubbed a love letter to romance,
the story follows four couples as they
fall in and out of love during a single
song-and-dance filled evening at a
crowded nightclub, a total of 14 danc-
ers gliding and leaping to such clas-
sics as Fly Me to the Moon, My
Way, and Thats Life. We caught up
with John Selya, a Tony nominee who
was part of the original cast in Atlanta
and on Broadway, and now serves as
the resident director and twice-a-week
performer.
Q. Youve been dancing with Twyla
Tharp for more than a decade. What
attracts you to her choreography?
A. Its totally and always coming
from a physical place. I was a trained
ballet dancer, and sometimes ballet
can get kind of boring and a little pre-
tentious. What shes able to do is take
good basic technique and furnish you
with material thats much more hip
than Sleeping Beauty or even modern
ballet. She finds a great contemporary
context. The other reason why I keep
coming back to her stuff is that shes
unique in that she allows so much
freedom on stage with the material
shes given you.
You were a part of her two previous
big pop music Broadway shows: Moving
Out (with Billy Joel music), which
was a big hit, and The Times They
Are A-Changing (Bob Dylan), which
wasnt. Why did one do so well and the
other bomb?
My guess is that Moving Out was all
choreography and dancing through
the storytelling. The Dylan was not
so much dancing. You win some and
then you, ah, tie some.
Very diplomatic. So where does Come
Fly Away fall?
Its completely different. The narra-
tive is not as defined. Its more about
the relationship between the couples,
the four couples and their courtship.
Where Moving Out was a portrait of a
generation, this is more about arche-
types of love and couplings. Where
that spanned years, this takes place in
one evening.
Twyla Tharp has worked several times
in the past with Sinatra music. What
keeps her coming back, if you know? I
mean, what was left new to say?
Shes never explained why she
chooses it as a backdrop for choreog-
raphy, but part of working with her
is having questions, never answers.
You try to answer them yourself. Id
say that Sinatra music is so timeless,
romantic and classic it provokes a
number of different emotions. Each
song clearly defines an emotion. The
piece is all about love, and hes one
of the best at conveying that in a dif-
ferent way. And so is she. Thats why
they fit together.
Do the movements literally interpret
the songs?
No, not much. Sometimes its direct,
sometimes its abstract, or it may be a
slant or even irony. On Lets Fall in
Love, [Twyla] chose to literally have
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Fly Away on
Monday, a
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takes place
during one
New York City
night, with a
live on-stage
band playing
Sinatra hits
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Bella Vista $$$
1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)
Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella
Vistas ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor
Mediterranean courtyard. Executive Chef
Alessandro Cartumini has created an inno-
vative menu, featuring farm fresh, Italian-
inspired California cuisine. Open daily for
breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7 am
to 9 pm.
Cafe Del Sol $$
30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)
CAVA $$
1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500)
Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking
combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas
and margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella
and sangria to lobster tamales, Churrasco
ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunfower-
colored interior is accented by live Span-
ish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive
freplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor
people-wat ching front patio. Open Monday-
Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday
10 am to 10 pm.
China Palace $$
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
to 9:30 pm.
Giovannis $
Los Arroyos $
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 $$
Montecito Coffee Shop $
1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)
Pane Vino $$$
Peabodys $
$ (average per person under $15)
$$ (average per person $15 to $30)
$$$ (average per person $30 to $45)
$$$$ (average per person $45-plus)
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Plow & Angel $$$
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
Roasting Company coffee. Offerings are made
from fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farm-
ers 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 fat
bread made daily. Owner Jeff Rypysc and
staff deliver locally and cater offce 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
Whodidily Cupcakes
1150 Coast Village Rd (969-9808)

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 atmosphere. An extensive wine
list features over 110 bottles of local and inter-
national wines, which are also available in the
eatery's retail section.
Garden Market $
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, sal-
ads, pastas and more. Jacks offers an extensive
espresso and coffee bar menu, along with wine
and beer. They also offer full service catering,
and can accommodate wedding receptions to
corporate events. Open Monday through Fri-
day 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday
7 am to 3 pm.
Nugget $$
Padaro Beach Grill $
A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery
its charm and makes it a perfect place to
bring the whole family. Its new owners added
a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with
freplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill op-
tions, along with salads and seafood plates.
The Grill is open Monday through Sunday 11
am to 9 pm
Slys $$$
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 moun-
tains and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on
the newly renovated, award-winning patio,
while enjoying fresh seafood straight off the
boat. Dinner is served nightly from 5 pm, and
brunch is offered on Saturday and Sunday
from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations are
recommended.
El Paseo $$
813 Anacapa Street (962-6050)
Located in the heart of downtown Santa Bar-
bara in a Mexican plaza setting, El Paseo is the
place for authentic Mexican specialties, home-
made chips and salsa, and a cold margarita
while mariachis stroll through the historic
restaurant. The dcor refects its rich Spanish
heritage, with bougainvillea-draped balconies,
fountain courtyard dining and a festive bar.
Dinner specials are offered during the week,
with a brunch on Sundays. Open Tuesday
through Thursday 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday and
Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, and Sunday
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10:30 am to 9 pm.
Enterprise Fish Co. $$
225 State Street (962-3313)
Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise
Fish Company offers two-pound Maine
Lobsters served with clam chowder or salad,
and rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy
hour is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm.
Open Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10
pm and Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to
11 pm.
The Harbor Restaurant $$
210 Stearns Wharf (963-3311)
Enjoy ocean views at the historic Harbor
Restaurant on Stearns Wharf. Featuring prime
steaks and seafood, a wine list that has earned
Wine Spectator Magazines Award of Excel-
lence for the past six years and a full cocktail
bar. Lunch is served 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Monday-Friday, 11 am to 3 pm Saturday and
Sunday. Dinner is served 5:30 pm to 10 pm,
early dinner available Saturday and Sunday
starting at 3 pm.
Los Agaves $
600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)
Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, us-
ing only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and
friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner,
with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-
tures traditional dishes from central and south-
ern Mexico such as shrimp & fsh enchiladas,
shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade
mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to
9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.
Mir $$$$
8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa
(968-0100)
Mir is a refned refuge with stunning views,
featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-
rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that
accents fresh, organic, and native-grown in-
gredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open
Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm
to 10 pm.
Moby Dick Restaurant $$
220 Stearns Wharf (965-0549)
Sitting right on Stearns Wharf, Moby Dick of-
fers fsh, lobster, clam chowder, fsh and chips
and a plenty more. A great place to watch the
sun set over the ocean. Open 7 days a week
from 7 am to 9 pm.
Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$
Olio Pizzeria $
17 West Victoria Street (899-2699)
Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this
friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery
featuring Italian food of the highest order. Of-
ferings include eggplant souff, pappardelle
with quail, sausage and mushroom rag, and
fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator
Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private
dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also
available.
Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos
have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar
inspired by neighborhood pizzerie and
enoteche in Italy. Here the focus is on
artisanal pizzas and antipasti, with classic
toppings like fresh mozzarella, seafood, black
truffes, and sausage. Salads, innovative
appetizers and an assortment of salumi and
formaggi round out the menu at this casual,
fast-paced eatery. Private dining for up to 32
guests. Both the ristorante and the pizzeria
are open for lunch Monday thru Saturday
(11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a
week (from 5 pm).
Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro $
516 State Street (962-1455)
The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California
cuisine specializing in local products. Pair
your meal with wine from the Santa Barbara
Winery, Lafond Winery or one from the list
of wines from around the world. Happy
Hour Monday - Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The
1st Wednesday of each month is Passport to
the World of Wine. Grilled cheese night every
Thursday. Open for breakfast, lunch and din-
ner; catering available.
www.pierrelafond.com
Renauds $
3315 State Street (569-2400)
Located in Loreto Plaza, Renauds is a bakery
specializing in a wide selection of French
pastries. The breakfast and lunch menu is
composed of egg dishes, sandwiches and
salads and represents Renauds personal
favorites. Brewed coffees and teas are organic.
Open Monday-Saturday 7 am to 5 pm, Sunday
7 am to 3 pm.
Rodneys Steakhouse $$$
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 week-
ends.
Ojai
Maravilla $$$
905 Country Club Road in Ojai (646-1111)
Located at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, this
upscale eatery features prime steaks, chops
and fresh seafood. Local farmers provide fresh
produce right off the vine, while herbs are har-
vested from the 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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OPERA SANTA BARBARA PRESENTS
LOBERO LIVE PRESENTS
Twyla Tharp, Director
Featuring the music of Frank Sinatra
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
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people falling on the stage. But I think
the songs serve as a perfect catalyst to
the dances.
So what makes it different from the
other Sinatra pieces?
I think because this show revolves
around an anti-hero. Theres a char-
acter named Marty. Hes a barback,
just an underling, who is able to tran-
scend his mundane job and find love
in that place and evolve as a person
emotionally. As long as Ive known
Twyla, shes always been drawn to
the underdog prevailing. I think thats
where the idea came from and she
elaborated on it.
For all its success, the show did get
some criticism in New York for its length.
Its changed for the touring compa-
ny, which Twyla initiated. Its straight-
through eighty minutes with no inter-
mission now. A few songs were omit-
ted, and therere a few new ones. Its
a much sleeker, faster-paced show,
with more emphasis on dancing than
narrative. Its really improved. And
the dancers are great! Anybody in the
ensemble can do the leads. Were just
stacked with talent.
(Come Fly Away takes place at 8pm
Monday at the Lobero Theatre. Tickets
cost $53-$78 [patrons $128]. Call 963-
0761 or visit www.lobero.com.)
Whose Line Goes Live
When youve spent more than a
decade doing live improv comedy,
the spontaneity just comes with the
scenery.
Case in point: when I kidded Whose
Line Is It Anyway? veteran Chip Esten
that I was expecting to talk with Ryan
Stiles, he didnt miss a beat. Thats
all right, he offered. Im more forth-
coming about him than he would be.
Esten comes to the Granada Theatre
next Tuesday along with fellow Whose
Line alumni Stiles, Greg Proops and
Jeff Davis for a 90-minute onstage
version called Whose Live Anyway.
For the Groundlings graduate, its
a chance to revisit what he calls the
magic show of comedy.
Sometimes you feel like a Houdini
in a comedy straight jacket where
the constraints of the scene are the
locks. Its Okay, Ryan and Greg, you
work in a bakery, youre his son and,
oh yeah, its during the Renaissance.
Now, go! To watch them escape and
make it a very funny scene contains an
element of magic. You cant help but
think, Wow, how did they do that?
Every once in a while however, to
longtime fans at least, it might have
seemed like the escape route was a
little familiar, as one of the comedi-
ans resurrected a joke or two. But,
Esten took pains to explain why you
thought youd heard that line before.
Your tools are your palette, just
like a painter, he said. But where
they have paint and brushes, we have
ourselves: what strikes you as funny,
the way your body moves, your facial
expressions. So when they give you
the suggestions for the scene, youre
always going to put part of yourself
on the canvas. Theres always going
to be some of Chip Esten and whats
in his wheelhouse.
Which is why, Esten explained, the
performers crave new and unusual
suggestions from the audience, whose
shouted-out offerings form the bulk of
the scenes of each evenings games,
which include the old standbys
Sound Effects and Song Styles.
Were starving for something
weve never done before, he said.
I mean, yeah I can do Songs of the
Fireman again, and Ill try to be origi-
nal. But I am going to have to rhyme
something with hose and pole and
alarm. Now you give me Songs of
the Cellist and its great. Im terrified,
because I dont know anything about
it and I have no idea where to go, but
its also exciting and fresh.
Nowadays, with the show off the air
and the actors involved in other series
(hes on Enlightened, Stiles has Two and
a Half Men), the Whose Live gang
gets together only sporadically, Esten
said.
Were not road warriors always
hanging out. We just see each other for
these things and when we do were so
thrilled to be able to do it again. Its
like a party that can always go out of
control. I think we might have more
fun than the audience.
(UCSB A&L presents Whose Live
Anyway at 8pm Tuesday at the
Granada Theatre. Tickets cost $38-
$48. Call 899-2222 or visit www.
granadasb.org.) MJ
The crew of Whose
Line is it Anyway?
brings a magic
show of comedy
to the Granada on
Tuesday
EnTERTAInMEnT (Continued from page 41)
$5m and above
With 10% fewer homes on the mar-
ket than last year, this sector scored
a zero. Extraordinary opportunities
here and most sellers here are very
much willing to talk. MJ
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it Abbie Hoffman
Real Estate View
by Michael Phillips
Michael is the owner-
broker of Phillips Real
Estate, and is a Montecito
Planning Commissioner.
He can be reached at
969-4569 and info@
MichaelPhillipsRealEstate.
com
T
his year, the Montecito market
continues to be controlled by
buyers, and from most sellers
viewpoints, a few more would be
welcomed. There have actually been
more buyers stepping forward than
last year 13% more, in fact a strong
year over year increase compared to
nearly everywhere else. However,
should you be selling a property in
the higher end of our market, your
experience will be different and has
been for the last four years, more or
less.
This column answers the question
each month, How is the market
today? By examining the ratio of
present listings to those pending clo-
sure in five distinct price sectors, we
identify current demand. And since
the market fluctuates seasonally if
not monthly, we compare the present
heat to that of last year on this date.
The combined Heat score today
is 47. Last year, the score was 50
and the first Heat column published
May 31, 2007 reported 110. Two sec-
tors are less active today while three
are showing more activity than a
year ago. The weakest sectors are
the $3-4m and $5m and above both
scoring a zero. The big surprise is the
$4-5m sector scoring an extremely
strong 18. The results by sector are:
$1-2m
With the occasional sharing of top
Heat honors with the $2-3m group,
this sector has been in most demand
since mid 2007. Buyers want these
properties and they are purchasing
in spite of a real estate market the
likes of which reminds too many of
the post-1929 period. Today it posted
a 23, an increase of 92% over last
years score. Short sales (bank agrees
to accept less than loan amount)
and cash offers are prevalent here. A
2,600-sq-ft, four-bedroom ranch style
on East Valley is being looked at here
as a short sale at somewhere close to
a million less than its 2008 purchase
price.
$2-3m
This group constitutes our largest
sector and continues to be favored by
buyers. It scored a six outperforming
last years score of four. Inventory is
dropping here, however. There are a
third fewer homes for sale in this sec-
tor than a year ago. A 3,600-sq-ft, five-
bedroom 1960s ranch near Romero
Canyon on an acre is in contract in this
group. In 2005, it sold for $3.165m.
$3-4m
Twenty-seven estate homes in this
group and it scored a zero. Last year,
this sector scored a respectable 12.
$4-5m
With a posting of 18, this is a
big score for this sector, the least in
demand since the meltdown. And
it outperformed last years surpris-
ingly strong score of 14. There are
only 11 homes now in this sector. A
tri-level Miramar beach house and
a nice looking Tuscan-style Birnam
property are in contract.
Montecito Heat
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ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
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1925 Barker Pass Road 2-4pm $949,000 3bd/2ba Randy Freed 895-1799 Prudential
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1278 Spring Road 2-4pm $929,900 3bd Kathleen Marvin 450-4792 Coldwell
1335 Danielson Road #B 1-4pm $898,990 2bd/2ba Tony Suleiman 455-7001 Prudential
1220 Coast Village Road #311 1-4pm $749,950 3bd/2ba John Comin 689-3078 Prudential
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Telephone (805) 969-2701
Tatiana's Pilates
Look & Feel Great
Tel: 805.284.2840
www.tatianaspilates.com
BASI-certied Pilates instructor
Fully equipped Pilates studio downtown Carp
5320 Carpinteria Ave. Suite F. Carpinteria,Ca 93013
Walk-Up
Take Out
Delivery
Catering
late night, Asian infused, city food
425 State St. 805.705.0991
Thursday - Saturday 11:30pm-2:30am
Sun, nov 13 / 7 PM
uCSB CaMPBell Hall
New Orleans
horns, raw
and funky.
The New York Times
Generously supported by
Arlene & Barrie Bergman
Featuring
REBIRTH BRASS BAND
and Cyril Neville,
Donald Harrison Jr.,
Dr. Michael White,
James Andrews and
Glen David Andrews
Santa
Barbara
Debut
Andrew Weil
Spontaneous Happiness
and Why Our Health Matters
Wed, nov 16 / 8 PM
arlington tHeatre
Dr. Andrew Weil
is an extraordinary
phenomenon.
The Washington Post
Standup is fun,
improv is funnier. And these
guys are the worlds best!
The Portland Oregonian
tue, nov 15 / 8 PM
granada tHeatre
New
book
released
Nov 8
Back by
Popular
demand
tHu, nov 10 / 8 PM
arlington tHeatre
This is rich, hugely
approachable music,
utterly cosmopolitan yet
utterly unpretentious.
The Washington Post
Generously supported by
Patricia Gregory, for the Baker Foundation
2 new albums
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