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Village Beat That vaguely oily stench permeating Montecito isn’t coming off the ocean; it’s coming from Union Pacific’s old railroad ties, p. 12 Summerland by the Sea After ten years, Méditerranée to close, and after 35 years in Santa Barbara, owner Carolina Pierpont moves to Mexico, p. 28 On Entertainment It’s apparently a time for tyrants, as Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge turns unfinished Stalin film into stage production, p. 33 The Voice of the Village S SINCE 1995 S The best things in life are FREE 12 – 19 January 2012 Vol 18 Issue 2 COMMUNITY CALENDAR, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 32 • GUIDE TO MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 34 Another Montecito mega- wedding? Drew Barrymore (seen here in 50 First Dates) to marry Will Koppelman, perhaps here; Marvin Bauer flies to Minneapolis to watch Rose Bowl on TV with son, p. 6 MINEARDS’ MISCELLANY UP MUSSOLINI’S NOSE 93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY P.37 Montecito-based author- playwright Christina Allison’s “serious two-act comedy” about the 1926 attempted assassination of the Italian dictator premieres this weekend at Center Stage (story begins on p.18) ) Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated y on page 6)

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Page 1: Up Mussolini's Nose

Village BeatThat vaguely oily stench permeating Montecito

isn’t coming off the ocean; it’s coming from Union Pacific’s old railroad ties, p. 12

Summerland by the SeaAfter ten years, Méditerranée to close, and

after 35 years in Santa Barbara, owner Carolina Pierpont moves to Mexico, p. 28

On EntertainmentIt’s apparently a time for tyrants, as Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge turns unfinished Stalin

film into stage production, p. 33

The Voice of the Village S SINCE 1995 S

The best things in life are

FREE12 – 19 January 2012Vol 18 Issue 2

COMMUNITY CALENDAR, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 32 • GUIDE TO MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 34

Another Montecito mega-wedding? Drew Barrymore

(seen here in 50 First Dates) to marry Will Koppelman, perhaps

here; Marvin Bauer flies to Minneapolis to watch Rose Bowl

on TV with son, p. 6

MINEARDS’ MISCELLANY

UP MUSSOLINI’S NOSE

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY P.37

Montecito-based author-playwright Christina Allison’s

“serious two-act comedy” about the 1926 attempted assassination of the Italian

dictator premieres this weekend at Center Stage

(story begins on p.18)

– Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated (full story on page 6)

– Matt Middlebrook, Caruso Affiliated (full story on page 6)

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12 – 19 January 2012MONTECITO JOURNAL2 • The Voice of the Village •

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5 Editorial Rotary International’s successful polio eradication efforts; Carole Lieff to run against Salud

Carbajal; Veterans benefit at SOhO; BBQ fundraiser for firefighter Mike Moses6 Montecito Miscellany Marvin Bauer flies to Minnesota to watch Rose Bowl; Drew Barrymore engaged; Dasha

Zhukova and husband’s $5 million bash; OWN ratings rise; Kardashians’ possible magazine; A Night With Picasso sells out; Katy Perry speaks up; Sally Bedell Smith to speak at Country Club; Rick Caruso bids on Dodgers; sightings

8 Letters to the Editor An angry parker vents; Donata Lewandowski Guerra praises Ms Beresford; Corinna Gordon

has some advice; Penelope Bianchi and John Davidson applaud Ray Winn; Don Michel wants to know how you’re feeling

10 Community Calendar MERRAG meets; food drive at MUS; discussion group at Montecito Library; Ojai Peddler’s

Fair; annual rose pruning; Veterans benefit at SOhO; Pinot Noir tasting; science event and screenplay workshop at Montecito Library; Maritime Museum lecture; Montecito Trails Foundation annual meeting approaches; ongoing events

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach12 Village Beat Montecito Association annual meeting; Union Pacific performs train track maintenance;

ribbon cutting ceremony for MUS pathway; Xanadu reopens; overturned vehicle on East Valley Road; docents needed at Casa del Herrero; Music Academy masterclass

14 Seen Around Town Westmont’s “5x5: An Invitational” opening; AWC-SB annual holiday party at Canary Hotel;

NAWBO event at Birnam Wood18 Our Town Christina Allison debuts Up Mussolini’s Nose at Center Stage Theater19 Library Corner Let the library help with resolutions; January events20 Leaving It All Behind One night in Bangkok leads the Mazzas to ask, ‘What budget?’22 Your Westmont ‘Continua in Light’ exhibition; Sam Jaeger’s free talk; Brahms and Beethoven performance23 State Street Spin Teen Star Santa Barbara; Thyne family news; Tod Robles has bone to pick; Maiani brothers

post new Saints theme video26 Ernie’s World Ernie sets some attainable New Year’s resolutions28 Summerland by the Sea Carolina Pierpont sells Méditerranée to venture to Cabo San Lucas30 Sheriff’s Blotter Safe stolen from home; vehicles broken into in Summerland and Montecito32 Calendar of Events Candace Schermerhorn speaks at Screenwriters Association; Vince Neil rocks Chumash;

Camerata Pacifica concert; Mind and Supermind series; Sam Jaeger speaks; family art exhibition at Art From Scrap; Paul Cotton at SOhO; Amy Chua at UCSB; Blues Society presents Steve James; Hairspray live

33 On Entertainment National Theatre Live season launches with John Hodge’s play, Collaborators; Jacqueline

Schwab plays the Song Tree Concert Series; UCSB film series; pop act roundup34 Guide to Montecito Eateries The most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito

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

35 Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week37 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito38 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer

rentals to estate sales39 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they

need what those businesses offer

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Eradicating Polio in IndiaJust a short note here to congratulate Rotary International, whose polio

eradication efforts over the past decade have helped lead to the diminution of the problem throughout the world. And now, India has become officially “polio free,” as it hasn’t reported a new case of polio in the last twelve months. Congratulations to Rotary, and to the other international agencies involved, for their valiant and persistent efforts and for a job well done. And kudos also to Montecito Rotary, for its participation in a noble endeavor. Only three countries are left: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria.

Turning Over A New LieffErstwhile MJ columnist and

inveterate letter writer Carole Lieff has announced she will be filing papers soon in order to qualify as a candidate to run against Salud Carbajal as Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor. “My Campaign slogans,” says Ms Lieff, “are ‘Let’s Turn a New Lieff’ and ‘Lieff for the Leap Year.’

“The reason I am running,” she adds, “is to give my opponent an opportunity to explain himself. I have been stonewalled – and have written correspondence proving this – by [SB County CEO] Chandra Waller, [Auditor-Controller] Bob Geis, Das Williams, Eric Fried, Salud Carbajal, Lois Capps, Janet Wolf and others, for a year in my attempts to get access to detailed Public Records on County finances. I am often forwarded corrupt files from the County that one cannot open on a computer.

“If we don’t get new leadership,” Lieff continues, “Santa Barbara County heads towards financial Armageddon. Our County currently has a defi-cit of over two billion dollars in unfunded pensions alone.”

Here’s hoping Ms Lieff becomes a serious candidate, as there are many issues worth discussing – out-of-control public-union pensions, for example – that will probably never be addressed if Mr. Carbajal faces no competition between now and November.

Late Breaking Charity AlertA musical fundraiser benefit for Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Santa

Barbara Navy League has been scheduled to take place at SOhO (1221 State Street, upstairs) on Sunday, January 15. The event will be emceed by Chris Mitchum and will feature roots-blues music by the Stiff Pickle Orchestra, the lyric Stratocaster sounds of Monty Cole and EL34 and the rock-reggae rhythms of the Delta Martinis. Doors will open at 6:30 pm, music is scheduled to begin at 7 pm and will continue until at least 11 pm, probably later. Cost is only $20 at the door and we urge you to attend and to donate to an excellent cause. You can call 805-962-7776 for more information.

Mike Moses Charity Poker Event Beginning this week, anyone interested in helping firefighter Mike Moses, a

26-year vet and Rincon Hill resident of Carpinteria who has developed multiple myeloma, will be able to purchase $10 raffle tickets online. Bob Kendall, who is heading up this year’s fundraising effort advises us that they have already filled several tables for the $75 Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament featuring 50”, 40”, and a 32” LCD television sets as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes. “There are still sev-eral seats available, so it’s not too late” Bob says, adding that he’s “pretty sure” they’ll sell out, and says people shouldn’t wait too long to sign up.

There are also plenty of $25 food-and-drink tickets available. The event is scheduled for Sunday January 29 at the Carriage Museum, 129 Castillo Street. The BBQ begins at high noon; the poker tourney begins at 2 pm “sharp.” This year (last year was the first fundraiser held for Mike), prizes include an iPad2, a $600 gift card to Vegas.com, and a Specialized 29er Mountain Bike. You can sign up online at iaff525.org. •MJ

Editorial by James Buckley

Carole Lieff (right) seen here with Theresa Kerry during a 2004 Presidential Fundraiser in Montecito prepares to throw her headpiece into race for First District Supervisor

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12 – 19 January 2012MONTECITO JOURNAL6 • The Voice of the Village •

It was a family invitation Montecito’s Marvin Bauer couldn’t resist, although it was

a most circuitous route to watch a football game taking place just 100 miles away in Pasadena.

Marvin, a former California dep-uty attorney general, was offered a ticket to fly 2,015 miles to Minnesota to join his son Andrew, an analyst based in Minneapolis, and stepson, Tad Dahlke, a mortgage banker in Westlake, to watch the Rose Bowl.

“It was one of the most hotly contested bowl games ever,” says Marvin, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, which was playing the University of Oregon, where Andrew graduated.

It was also a victory for romance, as Andrew had just gotten engaged to Abby Dornbusch, a food analyst for the international conglomerate, Nestlé.

“It really was a total surprise,” says Marvin, 70, who, with his wife, Gray, likes nothing better than zooming off on their motorbike to international destinations so he can indulge in high-flying exploits like bungee jumping and parachuting.

“Andrew and Tad thought it would be a nice present, so we could watch it at the local sports tavern, Kierman’s, and root for the opposing teams. The place was absolutely packed with more than three hundred people.

“At the end of the first quarter it was 14-14 and at half time the score was still neck and neck 28-28, one of the closest Rose Bowl games ever, but the Oregon Ducks eventually got the edge winning 45-38, the highest score in the event’s one hundred and ten year history.

“Given Wisconsin’s team is known as the Badgers, you could say we got badgered to death! We also lost in the Rose Bowl last year to Texas Christian University’s Horned Frogs, which was also a very close game, with just two points between them.”

Marvin, who was back in our rar-efied enclave just 24 hours after the event, said it was all “very emotional” for him, particularly meeting his pro-spective daughter-in-law for the first time.

“Andrew gave her his grandmoth-er’s ring,” he explained.

A gem of a match, indeed...

Third Time’s the Charm?My congratulations to Drew

Barrymore, who is set to embark upon her third walk down the aisle after getting engaged to art consultant and society scion Will Kopelman.

The 36-year-old actress, who lives just a tiara’s toss or two from my cot-tage, said “Yes!” after Kopelman, the son of former Chanel honcho, Arie Kopelman, popped the question with a four carat diamond ring in Sun Valley, Idaho, over the holidays.

The Going The Distance star, who has been married twice before, first stepped out with her fiancé two years ago, but split before reuniting eleven months ago.

The former E.T. star, who bought her $5.7 million Montecito manse next to Law & Order mega producer, Dick Wolf – a five bedroom, six bathroom 6,000-square-foot 1937 colonial house on two-plus acres –, exactly a year ago, as I exclusively reported in this illustrious organ, has not had much luck in the marriage stakes thus far.

Drew married Welsh bar owner Jeremy Thomas in 1994, but split just a month later.

Her second marriage was similarly short-lived. After tying the knot with comic Tom Green in 2011, it was all over just five months later.

Some of her more recent squeezes include Justin Long and The Strokes

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

MISCELLANY Page 214

Marvin Bauer with his son Andrew and future daughter-in-law, Abby Dornbusch, watching the Rose Bowl game in Minneapolis

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Little Space Hogs

Enclosed you’ll find photos I took recently of two rather small vehicles whose owners

apparently feel not only self-satisfied that they are “saving the planet” by riding around in “sustainable” transport vehicles but also that because they have done the right thing, they apparently feel they deserve the privilege of extra space in exchange for their sacrifice. It’s not enough that some of the extra-large SUVs, pickup trucks, and Hummers make it almost impossible to park next to them that we now have to put up with this?

Please let your readers know that taking up two parking spots as a reward for one’s self-esteem boost is not only selfish, it is also inconsiderate and borders on degenerate.

An Angry ParkerMontecito(Editor’s note: We all got a good laugh

out of the photos of these tiny terrors taking up two parking spots. Our advice is to somehow squeeze into one of the spots, preferably on the driver’s side of the parked pygmy so that you’ll be able to get out and the owner of the midget motorcar will probably have to crawl in from the passenger side in order to depart. – J.B.)

Loved The Herter StoryI had the good fortune to pick up

your wonderful Journal while visit-ing my recently relocated daughter in Santa Barbara over the holidays.

Hattie Beresford’s intriguing and meticulously researched story of the Herter family incorporated regional history with international art histori-cal background that resonated with my own childhood.

Growing up in Wilmington, Delaware, it was always a pleasure to visit the Delaware Art Museum’s Pre-Raphaelite paintings based on the

collection of textile magnate Samuel Bancroft (senior to your Mary Miles Herter by 25 years). His passion began with the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and ended only with his own death in 1915, just two years after Mary passed away. His close ties with offspring of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood have me wondering if Mr. Bancroft ever met the Aesthetic movement’s Mrs. Herter or her renowned artist son Albert.

All these connections came full cir-cle for me while attending Midnight Mass at the Santa Barbara Mission and hearing its choir perform Christina Rossetti’s 1885 poem Love Came Down At Christmas.

I look forward to Part II of Ms. Beresford’s story of the Herters. Even better, I can read Montecito Journal online and follow you on Facebook.

Sincerely,Donata Lewandowski GuerraCary, North Carolina

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The larger question is, why is the Affordable Care Act important for our country? Since we are the only wealthy country without universal healthcare coverage, we are all at risk of becoming impoverished by a personal health crisis. By providing guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, this legisla-tion will reduce our risk of becoming poor due to illness. This is just one simple example of the many benefits this legislation will provide for indi-viduals and businesses.

Regards,John D. KelleySanta Barbara(Editor’s note: We fully agree that peo-

ple with pre-existing conditions need to be handled somehow without bankrupting them, but the so-called “Affordable” Care Act will simply bankrupt all taxpayers and eventually the nation if and when it is put into full effect. We are for finding workable free-market solutions. – J.B.)

Downton Abbey Game On!

For those of you who have become addicted to Masterpiece Theater ’s Downton Abbey on PBS, Season Two premiered last Sunday, 8 January.

For those who missed the first season, I suggest recording these episodes and going to PBS.org and buying the DVD of the British ver-sion of the first season to become acquainted with the background story and the characters from the very beginning.

Having told the creator-writer, my old friend Julian Fellowes, at a din-ner he gave at the Four Seasons LA before the Emmys that he didn’t stand a chance in hell of winning because not enough people watch PBS, he won four Emmys and swept away the competition, so I’m eat-ing humble pie and giving you all a head’s up not to miss this wonderful period drama.

Enjoy, and escape to another world for just a while,

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science principles. Be captivated by the principles of motion or gravity as they are explained in an interactive, entertaining way. Young scientists ages three and up will delight in this look at science. When: 4 pm to 4:45 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: www.wonderworldproductions.com

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

SATURDAY JANUARY 21

Screenplay WorkshopWrite a compelling script that’s impossible to stop reading, vividly cinematic, properly formatted, and realistically produce-able. This beginning screenwriting course will help guide you in creating characters, building plots, shaping scenes, sharpening dialogue, and, give you assistance with writing a winning treatment. Whether you seek to write big Hollywood movies or low-budget Indies, this course will show you what it takes to get in the screenplay game.When: 1 pm to 3 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-5063

ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS

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

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

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

Where: Across from the Santa Barbara MissionInfo: Bud Jones, 687-8486

Roses in January “Roses in January?” Yes, you should be thinking of roses in January if you want those beautiful blooms and rich perfumes next spring. Whether you have never grown roses before, or you want to spark up an established garden, this UCCE Master Gardener workshop is for you. Get tips on how to choose the right roses for your style and the right care for your roses’ good health. Roses don’t have to be difficult and they don’t have to be water wasters. This free workshop will give you all the details you need to start a new rose garden or revive your established one.When: 10 am to 11:30 amWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadInfo: 969-5063

SUNDAY JANUARY 15

Concert for a CauseEmceed by Christopher Mitchum, SOhO hosts a “Night of Guitars: Rock, Reggae & Jazz Extravaganza: Veterans Benefit.” The event features three bands – Stiff Pickle Orchestra, Delta Martinis, and Monty Cole and EL34 – and proceeds from the evening will be equally divided between Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Santa Barbara Navy League. When: 6:30 to 11 pmWhere: 1221 State StreetCost: $20Info: 637-4702, for optional dinner reservations call 962-7776

THURSDAY JANUARY 19

Silly Science at Montecito LibraryEngage in scientific discovery! Professor Wisenheimer and his Silly Science Show bring laughter to the learning of basic

THURSDAY JANUARY 12

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

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

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

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail [email protected] or call (805) 565-1860)

Community Calendarby Kelly Mahan

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Thurs, Jan 12 4:54 AM 1.9 10:52 AM 5.3 05:41 PM -0.3 Fri, Jan 13 12:20 AM 4.4 5:51 AM 1.9 11:40 AM 4.7 06:18 PM 0.1Sat, Jan 14 1:04 AM 4.6 7:03 AM 1.8 12:40 PM 3.9 06:59 PM 0.7Sun, Jan 15 1:55 AM 4.8 8:31 AM 1.6 02:02 PM 3.2 07:47 PM 1.2Mon, Jan 16 2:55 AM 5 10:08 AM 1.1 03:56 PM 2.8 08:50 PM 1.8Tues, Jan 17 3:59 AM 5.3 11:30 AM 0.4 05:47 PM 2.9 010:07 PM 2.1Wed, Jan 18 5:02 AM 5.6 12:32 PM -0.3 07:02 PM 3.2 011:23 PM 2.2Thurs, Jan 19 6:00 AM 6 01:22 PM -0.8 07:55 PM 3.5 Fri, Jan 20 12:28 AM 2.1 6:52 AM 6.3 02:06 PM -1.2 08:37 PM 3.8

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American Wine Society TastingThe local chapter of the American Wine Society will present the first of a series of events planned for 2012. “Exploring Picky Pinot Noir” will take place at Pierre Lafond Montecito Wine Bistro.America Wine Society is bringing a special guest for the occasion, Mike Sinor, the winemaker at Sinor-Lavallee and the founding member of the “World of Pinot Noir,” an annual event that takes place in Shell Beach. Participants will be able to sample up to six Pinot Noirs from a variety of Pinot Noir regions including Oregon, California, and New Zealand. Pierre Lafond’s chef will prepare an assortment of appetizers that bring out the nuances of the Pinot Noir grape.When: 6 pm to 8:30 pm Where: 516 San Ysidro Road Cost: $30 for members,

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UPCOMING EVENT

Montecito Trails Foundation Annual MeetingMembers and others interested in local trails and trail issues are invited to the annual meeting, which includes hearty appetizers and refreshments. The foundation will elect 2012 officers and update the public on Franklin Trail and Cold Spring Trail. When: Wednesday, January 25, 5 pm to 7 pmWhere: Hill/Carrillo Adobe, 15 East Carrillo Street

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SATURDAY JANUARY 14

Ojai Peddler’s FairThe 28th Annual Ojai Peddler’s Fair is held rain or shine, and is chockfull of quality antiques, collectibles, handcrafts and international crafts. This is a benefit for the Mira Monte PTO. Vendors are sought.When: 9 am to 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday, January 14 & 15Where: Chaparral Auditorium at 414 E. Ojai AvenueInfo: Pat, 964-8915

Annual Rose Pruning Every January there is a community-wide effort to prune the 1,600 rose bushes in the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden across from the Santa Barbara Mission in preparation for the new blooming season. Work begins around 8 am and members of the Santa Barbara Rose Society will be giving pruning demonstrations beginning at 9 am to help tutor inexperienced volunteers. This is a great way to learn how to prune the roses in your yard by practicing your skills at the rose garden, then going home to do the same. Bring tools if you have them.When: 8 am to 2 pm

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At the Montecito Association’s 64th annual meeting, president Dick Nordlund outlined some

of the Association’s accomplishments from 2011, including the launching of a community wide website and portal last month. The Association also hosted a homeowners’ group at San Ysidro Ranch in which 22 different local homeowners’ groups were represented; First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal and representatives from Montecito Planning Commission and Montecito Board of Architectural Review were also in attendance.

Nordlund said one of the Association’s goals last year was to increase membership; 60 new mem-bers joined in 2011. He reminded the board of MA’s successful annual events, including the Village Fourth parade and Beautification Day. “Our goal this year is to get on top of upcoming issues affecting Montecito. We are hoping to have a great 2012,” he said.

The annual meeting saw the appointment of two new board mem-bers: Dorinne Lee Johnson and Ted

Urschel. Two other board members, Lou Weider and Elisa Atwill, have retired. Weider was not in attendance at the meeting. Nordlund thanked Ms Atwill, pointing out she had been on the board since 2006, and will con-tinue to be on the history committee. “We are sorry to see you go,” he said. Incumbent board members who were re-elected include Tom Bollay, Tom Kern, Nordlund, and Monica Brock Peterson.

Hot Springs LatestDuring the monthly MA meeting,

audience member Woody Jackson asked the board to request that Montecito Water District not alter its current water rights to acreage con-tained in the Hot Springs Canyon property. The Santa Barbara Land Trust raised the money to purchase the 462-property late last year, with the intent to give the land to the Forest Service for maintenance. Montecito Water District holds the rights to water on the property, and until some easement issues are worked out, the Forest Service will not take over the

land. Mr. Jackson explained that if MWD relinquishes the water rights, any hope for using the natural hot springs for therapeutic purposes will be lost. Jackson said the hot springs water aids in arthritis treatment and has many health benefits.

Land Trust executive director Michael Feeney told us earlier that all parties involved – MWD, the Forest Service, and the Land Trust – are work-ing hard to come to a solution that is practical. Back in 1995, MWD entered into a contract with the owners of the property, which gave them access to a ground well and water rights. The Forest Service, according to Feeney, is supportive of acquiring the property in order to keep it undeveloped, but

per federal regulations will not agree to take the property with the current water contract in place. “We are trying to come up with an alternative easement with different terms that are acceptable to everyone,” he said. The well, which is not developed, would allow access to one half of one percent of Montecito’s water if MWD chose to lay the infra-structure to access the ground water.

Feeney says progress has been made on the negotiations; the Land Trust, Forest Service and MWD are currently in talks. The deadline to purchase the property is February 22, and Feeney says he is hopeful it will happen.

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reported Fire Station 3 is moving along. On Monday, the station, to be located on the east side of East Valley Road, was in front of MBAR for conceptual review. While there were no significant requested adjustments to architecture, MBAR did question the need for the eastern driveway to be directly across from the driveway belonging to the residence across the street. MBAR asked that MFPD look into the placement further, or provide a letter from Caltrans, which states why the driveway needs to be located there. A draft EIR on the project is out for review; public comments can be made at the next MFPD board meet-ing on January 17. The site of the new fire station is located at 2500 East Valley Road.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Kelly Moore reported that several men are in custody for a rash of recent vehicle break-ins in Summerland and Montecito.

Local SchoolsCold Spring School Superintendent

Tricia Price reported that she will meet with Supervisor Carbajal later this month to discuss how to make walking to the school safer for kids. In addition to a Safe Routes to School path that has yet to be built, there are several other danger areas, includ-ing the Barker Pass area, that need to

be addressed. Montecito Union Superintendent

Tammy Murphy reminded the board of the upcoming grand opening of the pathway on San Ysidro Road. “We hope our neighbors will understand how appreciative we are,” she said.

Land Use LatestLand Use Chair Dave Kent

reported on a proposed project on Hot Springs Road that the Land Use Committee will discuss at its February meeting. The project con-sists of a 9,000-sq-ft, two-story home with 6,600 sq ft of basement space, including a 6-car garage. The prop-erty is 3.13 acres, and the proposed home exceeds FAR (Floor Area Ratio) regulations. The owners hope to demolish the current home on the property, which is about half the size of the proposed project.

Board AppointmentsThe Board approved Tom Kern

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Westmont’s 5x5

Director of the Westmont Museum of Art Judy Larson with artist Tom Mielko at the popular opening of the 5x5 exhibit

The only art museum in Montecito is located on Westmont’s campus, and this

season has been the celebration of its grand opening. The first event at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art was the ChanSchatz show and the second was titled, “5x5: An Invitational.”

For months, director Judy Larson, Ph.D. and her team searched the nation for artists and personalities to invite. In the end an astonishing 425 artists from here and around the United States submitted 529 works. Each participant received a 5-inch by 5-inch square of paper and a return envelope. There were paint-ings, prints, photographs, sculptures and collages, all on sale as a mini fundraiser.

Some of the artists included Christo, Carol Burnett, Susan Tibbles, John Baldessari, Charles Arnoldi, Robert Mangold, and Lynn Aldrich. Local artists includ-ed T.C. Boyle, Tom Mielko, Laurie MacMillan, former Westmont grads and faculty, plus many more.

It was elbow-to-elbow pandemo-nium as we all tried to view the works. If you were interested in buy-ing one, you had to go to a computer and submit the minimum posted bid running from $15 to $50. Bidding went on for 15 days until the show closed.

As for future events at the muse-um, the new year will bring a video installation titled “Continuum,” fea-turing an original choreographed dance by Erlyne Whiteman of the Westmont Dance Department. Next will be two paired exhibitions – the first featuring Mexican prints from the 1920s through the 1960s from the

collection of Gil and Marti Garcia. The other is a retrospective of Rafael Perea de la Cabada, a Mexican-American artist whose works inter-pret Mexican culture and politics.

So check out this new cultural addi-tion to our fair village of Montecito. You can call director Judy Larson at 565-6161 for times and dates or email [email protected].

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Vice president of the SBF philanthropic services Jan Campbell, executive director of CASA Kim Davis and membership chair of WFNSBC Judy Markline at the “Brand New Year” event

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members and guests and everyone was asked to make a donation to the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County.

Past National President and local lady Patty DeDominic (founder of this chapter) installed the 2012 offi-cers: president Diana Bull, president-elect Judy Pirkowitsch, vice-president Suzanne McNeely, secretary Teri McDuffie, and treasurer Karen Mora.

Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards went to Catherine Lamberti of Exercise Technology Inc., Laura Knight of Pascucci Restaurant, Caroline McDougall of Teeccino Caffé, Patty DeDominic of DeDominic &

Associates, Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com and Barbara Tzur of Brylen Technologies.

Thanks went to outgoing president Maeda Palius. The new president com-plimented executive director Cathy Feldman, saying, “She is the glue of our organization. Cathy will be mov-ing on to chair of the board. This is the fastest growing chapter in the USA.” There are 125 women and eight good men and the group only began five years ago. They hold monthly meetings with informative programs for business people. If you’d like to become a mem-ber, call 855-629-2655. •MJ

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Chair of WFNSBC Jennifer Mills and board member LeeAnne French accepted the award for their group. Other VIPs attending were vice pres-ident of philanthropic services for the SBF Jan Campbell, executive director of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Kim Davis, WFNSBC membership chair Judy Markline, AWC co-president Dr. Lynn K. Jones, senior vice presi-dent of SBF Martha Harmon and

WFNSBC founding member Nancy K. Johnson. The corporate sponsor was lynda.com.

If you’d like to join AWC, visit www.awcsb.org or call 962-9190.

NAWBO Holiday PartyThe National Association of Women

Business Owners (NAWBO) held their annual holiday party and installa-tion of officers event at Birnam Wood Country Club. It’s always a treat to see their exceptional Christmas decora-tions, especially the tree in the lobby decorated in white and silver with “icicles” hanging everywhere. A frosty delight!

NAWBO promised networking, fin-ger foods, wine, door prizes, live music and good cheer and they did not dis-appoint. The network mixer was for

Chair of WFNSBC Jennifer Mills with Martha Harmon, senior vice presi-dent of the SBF, at the annual holiday party

NAWBO vice president Suzanne McNeely, treasurer Karen Mora, past president Maeda Palius, president Diana Bull, secretary Teri McDuffie and president elect Judy Pirkowitsch at the holiday party at Birnam Wood

Past National President of NAWBO Patty DeDominic, emcee Melanie Doctors and sponsor Lynda Weinman enjoying themselves at the annual bash

NAWBO sponsor Tim Buynak shar-ing a laugh with pro-gram direc-tor Mikki Reilly at the network mixer

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More On rayBravo! Ray Winn is, was, and con-

tinues to be a total hero as an animal “advocate.” The only humane thing to do with that coyote (Ray’s Ramblings, “Nuclear Coyotes” MJ # 17/51) was put her out of her misery. (What? Better to leave her to die of thirst and heat with her dead pup?) I hope I am “put out of my misery” should I find myself in that place.

I think it takes great bravery and commitment to do what he did. And even more to write about it... and to describe it so graphically. Ray did the right thing then, and again by writing about it as he did.

I believe that when people read this... if they find themselves in a situation where an animal is in dire straits, with no possibility of surviv-al, this article will help them to decide what should be done.

Mr. Winn is a very visible and involved supporter in our community of animal rescue, animal adoption, and pet welfare, such as Shirley Jensen’s DAWG, the County Animal Shelter, Paws, the cat groups, all the groups that volunteer to help and care for the enormous overpopulation of dogs and cats (which continues unabated). Applaud what he did and what he stands for.

Mrs. Carol M. K-R is wrong-hearted and directed at the wrong person.

Too bad. Keep publishing stuff that at least has a name attached (as you know; I do not support “anonymous” posts), but we can “agree to disagree.”

I love the Journal, and your heart is so in the right place. Bravo!

Bravo to Mr. Winn too.Penelope BianchiMontecito (Editor’s note: Sometimes, however,

anonymity is the only way people can let off steam (see “Little Space Hogs” above) without putting themselves in harm’s way – TLB)

Moved By ray’s ArticleThe article by Mr. Winn was indeed

a moving piece. I know I would nei-ther have had the courage to end the poor animal’s life, which was certainly doomed, nor the courage to bare my soul. I am a better person for reading the piece, and the world is better for hearing it. I also lived in that time peri-od, and understand that if it wasn’t for people like Mr. Winn and others who did the hard work, most of Europe, and perhaps we in the U.S., would be speaking Russian. Please solicit more from him. If this was just one article, Montecito received a gift; if there is more to come, then it is a blessing. What great writing and soul searching!

Kind regards,John D. Davidson,Moving soon to Montecito from

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Booster BluesHow can our County Health

Department now require that children over the age of eight who are not 4’ 9” tall use car seats or booster seats while our County fails to provide even the simplest seat belt for children riding to and from schools in school buses? Having seen my daughter descend from her elementary school bus with a black eye due to a school bus accident, I am disgusted by the hypocrisy.

Diane G. Armstrong, Ph.D.Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We’re with you on this

one. Perhaps some bright car manufactur-er will at least figure out how to include a “booster” seat in the construction of the back seat. – TLB)

BS Detector ActivatedRichard: You’re stating that Katy

Perry was married within her parents’ church (Montecito Miscellany MJ # 18/1)? I couldn’t find any evidence of

that. News to me.And then that her parents’ Protestant

church discourages divorce? Richard my dear man, Protestant

churches were born of divorce: i.e. Henry VIII’s.

Continuing... and Katy is so consid-erate of religion that she dare not be the one to file for divorce? Thus mak-ing Russell the uncouth monster who dared file?

Richard, this is sheer BS of the cheap kind. It won’t hold up in Montecito. Katy grew up in a really strict household and now she’s well on her way to becoming a garden hoe to make up for lost time.

Why else would she be doing risqué videos and hanging with Rihanna?

Matt McLaughlinSanta Barbara(Columnist’s note: They were married

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Feeling Better Now?How does it make you feel that the

guy you voted for as President now makes you the centerpiece of his war on class?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now

complains, daily, that you are not pay-ing your fair share of taxes?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now wants your money for his redistribu-tion scheme?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now identifies you as a major part of this country’s economic problems?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now takes us out of Bush’s ditch and propels us on a spending path to the center of the earth?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now singles you out, exclusively, for a tax increase in his “balanced approach” to our economic survival?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now acts like he is not part of your group?

How does it make you feel that the guy you voted for as President now blames you, Congress, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Fox News, the Japanese earthquake, European economic uncer-tainty, and of course, George W. Bush, for our country’s economic downturn?

How does it make you feel?I wouldn’t know, I didn’t vote for

the guy, and I’m not going to vote for him this time either.

Don MichelMontecito •MJ

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Christina Allison’s latest project, Up Mussolini’s Nose, is a serious two-act comedy, based on five

years of research with a lot of poetic license. It will launch on Sunday, January 15 at 2 pm at Center Stage Theater. “The inspiration that put me on the scent of this good story was the analogy made between Berlusconi’s many plastic surgeries and the fact that an Irishwoman shot Mussolini on the nose,” explains Christina. “I found this amusing and intriguing.”

History tells that Benito Mussolini, having just met with an international congress of surgeons, was shot by Violet Gibson – daughter of Ireland’s Baron Ashbourne – on April 7, 1926, as he was walking toward his black Lancia in the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome. Although he dismissed what had happened as «a mere trifle,» the incident and what happened to Violet has left much to the minds of con-spiracy theorists and other would-be historians.

Giving her own slant to the story, Christina quips, “...everyone con-nected with the case is just a little bit bonkers! While I usually turn every-thing into a comedy, there are still two questions left unanswered: One, while Violet was definitely mentally disturbed, was this condition used by anarchists or others hoping to bring down Mussolini and two, why did the British Government do everything they could so the Italians could not hold a trial? It's up to speculation.”

The cast of nine has Christina as both Violet and Lady Bolton to Charles de L’Arbre’s Mussolini. Charles doubles as Lord Ashbourne. Devin Scott directs and has a cameo as Lord Ashbourne II. The remaining roles are played by Leslie Gangl Howe, Rudy Willrich, Robert Lesser, Rich Hoag, David Brainard and Erwin Appel.

Passionate about getting people to read, Christina’s written works include Renaldo and The Early Bird Special, which debuted at Speaking of

Stories this past weekend, The Canary of Wild Irish Women, which was pre-sented here and in New York, and If Only, which won an Excellence in Writing award at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 2006.

Born in Brooklyn to Irish parents, both of whom played instruments and sang, Christina feels she inherited her talent. According to her mother, when Christina was born she came out sing-ing, “Let Me Entertain You!” Her career in acting started when she was eight years old, and she started singing at twelve. One of thirty high school stu-dents awarded the Rockefeller Grant to study opera abroad, she attend-ed the Munich Musik Hochschule for a year and then went to Italy on a further grant. She stayed in Europe for a 17-year opera career, performing mostly in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Her favorite roles were Madama Butterfly and Tosca. She was on a tour of America when she met her husband, “...a true Californian. We fell in love, married and I remained in the States singing and acting, and later we relocated to Montecito.” The rest, is her-story. •MJ

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As the New Year begins, we find ourselves looking at fresh starts and casting an eye to

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January EventsThis Saturday, January 14, from 10

am to 11:30 am, the University of California Master Gardeners are pre-senting information about rose care at the Montecito Library. This is the time of year to work on your roses in order to ensure beautiful blooms in the spring. Topics will include recom-mendations of the best types of roses for our climate, landscaping, planting and care of old roses. This will be lim-ited to the first 50 participants.

The following Saturday, January 21, we begin an eight week course in screenwriting. This is offered from 1 pm to 3 pm and pre-registration is suggested. Just call the branch at 969-5063. As with all of our library programs, there is no charge to partici-pate. Also on Saturday, January 21, the Junior League is hosting an Elephant and Piggie Party based on the beloved books by Mo Willems. There will be story reading and a photo booth from the Open Air Photobooth Company for children to have their pictures taken, along with crafts to do and take home afterward. Lots of fun for younger children!

Another activity for children this month is Silly Science, an event at the library on Thursday, January 19 at 4 pm. Engage in scientific discovery! Professor Wisenheimer and his Silly Science Show bring laughter to the learning of basic science principles. Be captivated by the principles of motion or gravity as they are explained in an interactive, entertaining way. Young scientists ages three and up will delight in this look at science.

Our twice-monthly Wednesday night book group will begin discuss-ing Codependent No More by Melody

Beattie. The book group meets the second and fourth Wednesdays at 7 pm. Our lively Thursday night New Yorker Magazine discussion continues this week at 7:30 pm. If you are a fan of the New Yorker Magazine, this is for you!

We have so much to be grateful for: beautiful sunny days in January, the Pacific Ocean at our feet and lots of good books to read. As Rainer Maria Rilke said, “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” Happy New Year and happy reading, everybody. •MJ

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie is this month’s selection for Montecito Library’s book group

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as an actor, director and writer dur-ing a conversation moderated by Westmont theater arts professor Mitchell Thomas on Friday, January 13, at 3:30 pm in Porter Theatre. The talk is free and open to the public.

In Parenthood, Jaeger plays Joel Graham, a stay-at-home father and loyal husband. Jaeger, a graduate of Otterbein University, a small, private, liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, also starred in ABC’s Eli Stone.

“I’m looking forward to hearing how his liberal arts education influ-enced his professional journey as an actor and film director,” Thomas says. “We have a growing number of Westmont students interested in pur-suing careers in film and television, and they’re highly interested in hear-ing from professionals who’ve been successful in a challenging industry.”

On the big screen, Jaeger was in the romantic comedy Catch and Release, which included Jennifer Garner and Kevin Smith. Jaeger’s other movie credits include The Riverman and Lucky Number Slevin with Bruce Willis and Josh Hartnett.

His feature directorial debut, Take Me Home, has been winning praise at more than a dozen international film festivals. Jaeger also wrote and stars in the romantic comedy alongside his wife, Amber, who won the Best Acting in a Narrative Film award at the Napa Valley Film Festival in November. Take Me Home was the Audience Award winner at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Boston Film Festival. In December, Monterey Media, based in Thousand Oaks, acquired the U.S. rights and plans to release the film to theaters this spring.

Mitchell Thomas, artist in resi-dence for the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara, recent-

ly starred in the Westmont College Festival Theatre/Lit Moon Theatre Company co-production of Peer Gynt. In November he produced Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has won many awards, including the 2008 Arlin G. Meyer Prize, awarded bien-nially to a full-time faculty mem-ber from a college or university in the Lilly Fellows Program National Network.

Musicians to Perform Beethoven, Brahms

American Double, a duo featuring violinist Philip Ficsor and pianist Constantine Finehouse, will per-form works by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven on Friday, January 13, at 8 pm in Westmont’s Deane Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public.

The first half of the perfor-mance features two sonatas in G, Beethoven’s “Sonata in G Major, Op. 96,” and Brahms’ “Sonata in G Major, Op. 78.” Ficsor says the second half of the concert offers a special treat. “We’re going to be collaborating with UCSB French horn professor Dr. Steven Gross,” Ficsor says. “He is an amazing horn player, having been in the Atlanta Symphony and National Symphony among others.”

The three musicians will perform Braham’s “Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn.”

The program’s three songs are the first installment of a complete recording of Brahms’ sonatas, which the musicians hope to release in 2016, and Beethoven’s sonatas, which they hope to release in 2020. The American Double and Gross are raising funds to commission American composer William Bolcom for a horn trio to be premiered in fall 2014.

Ficsor, in his sixth year as an assis-tant professor of violin at Westmont, recently released his third recording, “Summer Day,” featuring the com-plete works for violin and piano of Emma Lou Diemer, with the com-poser at the keyboard.

Finehouse, who has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad since receiving his master’s degree in piano performance from Yale University, is a champion of music by Bolcom, whose complete solo piano works he is currently record-ing for Naxos Records. He is an artist-in-residence at Westmont this year.

Gross, director of the winds, brass and percussion program at UC Santa Barbara, has international solo appear-ances with the Orchester der Stadt Vöcklabruck in Austria, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Moscow Conservatory and the L’Abri International Arts Festival. •MJ

Two Bay Area artists explore illumination and movement in a new video installation,

“Continua in Light,” at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art January 12 through February 18. Cheryl Calleri and Thekla Hammond will be at the free, public reception Thursday, January 12, from 4 to 6 pm, which includes an original dance performance. The site-specific dance is choreographed by associate professor Erlyne Whiteman and her students.

The installation, Hammond and Calleri’s second video collaboration, consists of two tandem video pro-jectors illuminating nine translucent suspended scrims. During the recep-tion, dancers will move between the scrims in a performance that inter-acts with the visual art. A recording of the performance will be on view throughout the run of the exhibition.

Primarily a painter, Hammond completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC Santa Barbara and has worked at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara City College and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art before mov-

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Calleri, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from San Jose State University, uses video and paintings in many media to explore the way things work and how science and technology reveal what is hidden from the naked eye. She exhibits actively throughout California and has work in several public and private collections.

Whiteman is one of the founders of the dance and theater arts program at Westmont, where she has been teaching since 1974. Whiteman holds a master’s and doctoral degrees from the USC.

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Deckers Outdoor Corporation stepped forward (still working the pun) to become the Producing Sponsor of Teen Star 2012 and has made it pos-sible for the Finale Showcase for the top ten semi-finalists to take place at the Granada Theatre.

This really is big news. Teen Star started off with a bang right from the get-go two years ago. The county-wide singing competition had more than 30 teen contestants and over 400 people jamming the auditorium at Dos Pueblos High school to see the finals. Last year there were twice as many contestants auditioning, and the finals had to move to Santa Barbara High School Auditorium, which could hold more than 800 (sold out again, two weeks in advance).

Producing the event at the Granada means double again the capacity, and of course the techno-wonders of the Granada will make the show spectacu-lar in terms of sound and lighting.

In addition to making the Granada a reality for the young performers, Angel Martinez, Chairman, President and CEO of Deckers, hosted a press conference and dinner at the Granada Founders Room for local media.

This dinner event was emceed by Lin Aubuchon, Director of Marketing & Promotions at KTYD Radio and co-host of their Morning Show (and will be producing the auditioning-judging aspects of Teen Star Santa Barbara).

Joe Lambert, founder and Executive Producer of Teen Star praised the media for their support and for help in launching Teen Star and making it a success. Teen Star, which is a not-for-profit organization, donates the proceeds from the event to area high school performing arts programs. The program has attracted a strong sup-port team of volunteers, some of who were in attendance with many local media.

Allison Lewis and Bear Redell –

2010 and 2011 finalists – performed, followed by rock star J.R. Richards, lead singer of Dishwalla, who grew up in Montecito. He served as celebrity judge last year.

Teen Star is open to all Santa Barbara county teenagers from 7th to 12th grade. For more information, check out Teen Star Santa Barbara on Facebook.

From Fiancé to Frère to Film

I was catching up with local real estate mogul John Thyne (of Goodwin & Thyne) who is getting married this weekend to Olesya Dracheva. He met his fiancée four years ago in St. Petersburg while traveling through Russia with a buddy. So there will be a Russian contingency here all month long (you don’t think they would turn around and go home next week when we have weather like this, now do you?). Don’t know what exotic place they’ll head to for their honeymoon, but the international pair will wait for February to take off. Besides entertain-ing her Russian compadres, and his own family crowd from Boston, they will all be ready with popcorn for the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

That’s because John’s brother, TJ Thyne, is in the independent film, Shuffle, which was selected as a fea-ture for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

TJ Thyne is best known for his regu-lar role as Dr. Jack Hodgins on Fox’s hit series Bones, currently in its 7th season. TJ has also appeared in gobs of other television shows, feature films (Erin Brockovich, Something’s Gotta Give, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and in many commercials (including singing “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” in the back of a Chevy Colorado).

As for TJ’s movie, he shot it with accomplished director-composer Kurt Kuenne, a college buddy from their USC days. Shuffle is an independent film made through the efforts of many friends and family on an ultra low bud-get. It is the tale of a man who begins

experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s terrified and wants it to stop until he notices a pattern in his experience, and works to uncover why this is happening to him, and what or who is behind it. Part Twilight Zone-style mystery, part Frank Capra fantasy... I can’t wait to check it out. And here’s why.

TJ and Kurt had previously col-laborated on a film short, Validation, which went viral – 6.2 million hits – on YouTube. Validation is just 15 minutes long and it is an absolute little gem – funny, sad, poignant. Wow... so watch it and then you’ll know why you’d be interested in seeing Shuffle.

It’s Your Pronunciation, Shh-tupid

A local teacher is starting a move-ment to put “ST” back in the English language. Rod Robles – who also hap-pens to be a popular local musician for

the last zillion years here – is saying something that will be music to many teachers’ ears.

The last straw for Rod – and the impetus for his campaign – was watching the recent ESPN commenta-tors wrapping up on the Broncos and speaking like they were missing part of their dentures...

Rod says, “ESPN commentators, miscellaneous sports announcers are the worst, but also celebrities, talk show hosts… Why is it so difficult to pronounce words that begin with “ST” correctly? “

“The word is strength, not ‘shht-rength.’ The word is strong, not ‘shht-rong.’ The word is straight, not ‘shhtr-aight.’ You are getting paid the big bucks... learn how to speak correctly. Avoid sounding like Gabby Hayes.”

Will the Saints Go Marching into a New Tune?

If you are a Saints fan looking toward the Super Bowl, you might be interested to know our very own local Patrik “Piano” Maiani and brother Rick Maiani composed the “Saints Champions Theme” back in 2000. Patrik put a new video out with their theme music. Go to YouTube and check it out. •MJ

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Train Track Maintenance

By the end of this week, crews hired by Union Pacific Railroad are expect-ed to dispose of piles of wood railroad ties that have lined the railroad tracks along the central coast, including in Montecito. The piles are being used to replace worn railroad ties as part of Union Pacific’s tie replacement pro-gram, according to Director of Public Affairs, Lupe Valdez. “You’ll see two different types of piles out there,” she explained earlier this week. “The nice and neat piles are the replacements and the haphazard piles of wood are the ones that were replaced.” The extra ties as well as the old ties are expected to be removed from Montecito by next week, she said.

Valdez said a “national tie gang” is hired by Union Pacific to replace the ties, which require regular replace-ment to maintain the train track. Sixty miles of the rail line that runs from Santa Barbara to Camarillo is currently being worked on, which includes the installment of 63,000 ties. The work, which began on January 3, is expected to be completed mid-February. Crews work in sections and are currently in Santa Barbara; other maintenance includes renewing the surfaces at 72 road crossings and spreading about 38,700 tons of rock ballast to help provide a more stable roadbed. “Union Pacific Railroad will continue improving the transporta-tion infrastructure in California,” said Aaron Hunt, Director of Corporate Relations.

The removal of the piles comes before any winter rains, as creosote, the chemical the wood is presumed to be coated in, is a known toxin to humans and animals. “The use of this mate-rial is no longer okay. Other countries use alternatives; it’s time we do too,”

writes MJ reader Jeremy Norris, who brought the tie piles to our attention. He voiced concern over runoff from winter rains going into local creeks and the ocean. Valdez explained that creosote is used to preserve the wood ties to improve resistance to insect infestation as well as rotting, however she was not sure that these particular ties are coated in the chemical. When we questioned Mr. Hunt about the creosote, he was also unclear whether these ties contain the toxin.

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New Path for the New Year

Montecito Union students, parents, teachers and administrators, as well as members of the Montecito community, donned blue wristbands Wednesday morning to signify their commitment in using alternate forms of transporta-tion, including the newly constructed pathway along San Ysidro Road.

Superintendent Tammy Murphy thanked those involved in bringing the pathway to fruition, including former superintendent Dick Douglas, who was in attendance at the early morning gathering, held on the steps of MUS. The federal grant that funded the pathway was applied for in 2008, with the help of COAST (Coalition

for Sustainable Transportation), Santa Barbara County Public Works, First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal’s office, the Montecito Association, and MUS parents.

In attendance at the gathering were over a dozen notable commu-nity members who were thanked by Supervisor Carbajal, who him-self walked along the pathway with students before the ceremony. They included PTA president Jodi Fishman, Vicky Harbison, Tracey Willfong with Safe Routes to School, Cindy

Feinberg, past MA president J’Amy Brown, Dan Eidelson, MA executive director Victoria Greene and presi-dent Dick Nordlund, Montecito Trails Foundation’s John Venable, COAST’s Eva Dunbar and Abe Powell, Chris Sneddon and James Pearson with Public Works, landscape architect Susan Van Atta, and MUS school board members, among others.

“Even those who had concerns about the project early on helped make it better,” Supervisor Carbajal said. He noted that Montecito Union sixth graders had written letters of thanks to all the residents that were impact-ed by construction along San Ysidro Road. “Whenever we can make our kids safer, it’s a good thing,” he said.

The decomposed granite pathway, which cost close to $400,000 to con-struct, was finished in December.

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Discarded railroad ties in Montecito; Union Pacific reps say the extra wood will be cleared by the end of this week

Students help cut the ribbon to commemorate the opening of the pathway

First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, MUS PTA president Jodi Fishman, superinten-dent Tammy Murphy and Montecito Association president Dick Nordlund on the steps of MUS to celebrate the official opening of the San Ysidro Road pathway

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The only OWN show to rate higher was the premiere of Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, which garnered 1.2 million viewers.

OWN’s win was all the more impressive since the interview, which spanned Tyler’s drug use to his views on monogamy, aired against NBC’s hotly anticipated NFL matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants.

Stay tuned, as Oprah might say...

Possible PublicationAfter her controversial and over-

ly publicized Montecito wedding in August and forthcoming divorce, there would appear to be no end to Kim Kardashian and her family’s ambitions.

The New York Post’s British gossip, Emily Smith, is reporting the real-ity TV attention-grabbers, perhaps because of the negative vibes gener-ated after Kim’s ill fated 72-day mar-riage to sports hunk, Kris Humphries, now want to lead their own cover-age and are close to landing a deal with American Media, the Boca Raton, Florida, publishing giant that owns Star and The National Enquirer, to launch a glossy totally dedicated to the family.

“This is a Kardashian idea,” says one mole. “They have been reaching out to several media outlets.”

Kim and her sisters reportedly want to be heavily involved editorially, with clan matriarch, Kris Jenner, pulling a number of strings in readiness for the magazine’s launch, which could be this spring.

“Now the Kardashians can spin their own stories in print,” a competi-tor snipes.

Others say the proposed publica-tion will be more of a fanzine devot-ed to the Kardashians, who In Touch

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A Crowd-Pleasing AffairA Night With Picasso at the Lapin

Agile was an unqualified hit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, when more than 30 would-be attendees had to be turned away, even after the seat-ing capacity had been expanded to 80 people.

The reading of excepts from come-dian Steve Martin’s successful 1993 comic play, when the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meet in 1904 at the Nimble Rabbit bar in Montmartre, Paris, just a brushstroke or two from the Basilica du Sacré Coeur, coincided with the closing of the museum’s successful Picasso and Braque exhibit, which opened last September.

“We were enormously pleased with the response,” gushes museum pub-licist, Katrina Carl. “We scheduled it for the first Thursday of the month since we felt we could attract those art and culture lovers who would already be out and about looking for interest-ing programming.”

Museum director Larry Feinberg, who watched the hour-long show that featured local actors from vari-ous theatre companies, including Lit Moon, BoxTales, Genesis West and theater faculty and recent alumni from Westmont College and the UCSB act-ing program, enthused, “It was the perfect complement to our exhibition. It was very funny and astute!”

The play, which was directed in our Baghdad by the Beach by award-winning actor and director, Mitchell Thomas, chair of Westmont College’s theater arts department, had its first reading at Martin’s Beverly Hills home, with Tom Hanks reading Picasso’s role and Chris Sarandon playing Einstein, whose theory of rela-tivity was published in 1905.

Sam Martin as the Spanish artist and Andrew Fromer as the German-born theoretical physicist carried the show, while Vicki Finlayson as the countess emoted gloriously and Jeff Mills as the visitor, quite clearly Elvis Presley, had us all shook up.

It was a performance that left the audience feeling anything but blue...Katy Chimes In

After keeping a dignified silence

since it emerged that her 14-month marriage to British comedian, Russell Brand, was over, Santa Barbara war-bler Katy Perry has been speaking up.

The singer, it appears, has been somewhat forced to make an official statement over her impending divorce since speculation as to why she and Brand, 36, split had gone into over-drive.

The 27-year-old songstress made it crystal clear she speaks for herself and also took an obvious swipe at her parents, pastors Keith and Mary Hudson, who had publicly given their opinion of their daughter’s troubles, suggesting it was a gift from God to help them fill churches.

Concerning the gossip, Katy Twittered, “I want to be clear that no one speaks for me. Not a log, maga-zine, close sources, or my family.”

It has also emerged that she will stay in the couple’s $6.5 million Hollywood Hills mansion and Brand will move out.

The Queen’s FearsA new biography of Queen

Elizabeth reveals for the first time her despair over the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

In Elizabeth the Queen, former New York Times reporter, Sally Bedell Smith, says the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, recalls the

moment the British monarch finally confronted the myriad problems of the Prince of Wales’ marriage.

He reveals the monarch, who cele-brates her Diamond Jubilee this year, was terrified history was about to repeat itself – that Charles would give up his place in line of succes-sion for Camilla Parker-Bowles, just as King Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 to marry his maitresse en titre, American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

“There was a moment when we were talking candidly about divorce. I remember her sighing and saying, ‘History is repeating itself.’ I saw despair. What she was talking about was the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

“She was concerned that if they divorced, Charles would marry Camilla. She thought Charles was in danger of throwing everything out the window by rejecting Diana and forg-ing another relationship.”

The intimate Random House biog-raphy, out this week, is based on 200 interviews with relatives, friends, courtiers and politicians. An excerpt is also running in this month’s Vanity Fair magazine.

Sally, who wrote the controver-sial 1999 bestseller, Diana: In Search of Herself, in which she speculated

MISCELLANY (Continued from page 21)

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Seems like I’ve been making New Year’s resolutions forever. The first time I made a comprehensive

list, I used a “Davy Crockett” souvenir pencil and wrote it on the inside of a “Draw this and qualify for correspondence art school” matchbook. First item on the list was: “Get a new matchbook ‘Picasso’ you wrote all over the address to send your drawing to.”

I think making resolutions is a great idea but the odds of success are slim-to-nil. Most people make the same res-olutions year after year because they keep failing to maintain them. I know this stick-to-it-ness thing has kept me from achieving my goals of becoming a brain surgeon, a trapeze artist or a porno star. It’s also kept me thinking about resolutions I might actually be able to keep. But it seems like 2012 might finally be the year I’ve come up with maintainable ones.

Just in time, too. According to the Mayan calendar, the world ends this coming December so it may be my last chance. Of course if someone discovers there are still a few Mayans kicking it somewhere in the cannabis fields of inner Mexico and these discoverers bring up the whole end of the world thing, the Mayans might suddenly realize that: “Holy crap! We’re not ready to go yet. We, ah, meant to say December 21, 3012.”

Still, even if I will have more chances in the future, I am determined to suc-ceed this year, and I’ve set what I think are some achievable world-altering goals.

For instance, this year I plan on eat-ing more potatoes. Not only will it help the economic recovery of our country by employing more people from Idaho, it could also be a boon to the manufac-turers of those spud guns that shoot potatoes with enough force to dent a car, which will be a blessing for the auto repair business. Therefore when asked at the finer restaurants of the Central Coast if I want garlic mashed, twice-baked or scalloped potatoes with my lumberjack steak dinner, I will simply say: “Yes.” I also promise to

consume more hash browns and to super-size all my French fry orders.

For my second resolution I plan to go to the gym less often. This will be tough because I just purchased a brand new one-piece spandex out-fit that makes me look fitter than a deflated tractor tire, and because of all those great televisions with every ESPN channel known to mankind. Still it will ease traffic on upper State Street by one car every other Tuesday, which will help save our infrastructure by making roads last longer and will cut down on my personal consumption of gasoline used during the three-mile bi-weekly round trip.

This will give me more time to work on my third goal: Write less. Yes, this year I will try to pare down my words to a bare minimum and I’ll try my best not to get anything published. This will cut down on computer time, which will save beaucoup kilowatts and save all the trees it takes to publish the books I produce once every ten years or so. I’m also going to ask my edi-tor if I can change my humor column into an occasional humor tweet, which will prevent eyestrain for my readers and save thousands the cost of Lasik surgery, which will reduce healthcare costs.

I’m also going to try to achieve less at my job this year. This will make everyone else at the company feel bet-ter about themselves and want to take yoga classes and read Zen books. It might even result in a raise for them, and they can thank me by buying some of those books I mentioned earlier. This will free up space in the garage, where I can put my car, which will mean I won’t ever have to wash it again which will save enough water to irrigate the Mojave Desert. It will also save the old hole-ly t-shirts I use to dry my car, which I can share with people at work, which will cut down on the need for air-conditioning.

Finally, this year to help save oxygen I plan on moving around less on week-ends and taking more naps. I think I’ll start this last resolution right now. •MJ

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This thrilling play by John Hodge (Trainspotting) embarks on a journey into the fevered imagination of a playwright whose commission to write a play about Stalin yields a lethal game of cat and mouse.

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An Afternoon with Amy ChuaBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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Race to the BaseWhile L.A. developer Rick Caruso

would appear not to have the funds at present to pursue his long stand-ing dream of redeveloping the fester-ing Miramar hotel site, he apparently does have the money to be a future co-owner of a major baseball team.

Joe Torre, former manager of the New York Yankees and the Dodgers,

has joined Caruso in a bid to buy the L.A. Dodgers, the Big Orange’s beloved baseball team, jockeying for position with the likes of for-mer hoops star Magic Johnson, ex-baseball great Orel Hershiser, Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, and billionaires Steven Cohen, Ron Burkle and Tom Golisano.

“I have great confidence in Rick Caruso’s unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid,” Torre said in a statement.

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Sightings: Former Good Morning America gossip Rona Barrett checking out the scene at the California Pizza Kitchen in the Paseo Nuevo... Don Johnson and his family noshing away at Olio e Limone... National radio host Simone Bienne staying at the San Ysidro Ranch

Pip! Pip! for now

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

MISCELLANY (Continued from page 25)

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It’s been a decade of hard-working, successful and even fun-filled years for antiques, art, garden and

treasures dealer Carolina Pierpont (who loves to throw a good party) at her showroom Méditerranée in Summerland, but the vivacious businesswoman has recently decided to call it quits.

“I have too much inventory,” reports Pierpont, adding, “I am selling every-thing at really good prices, so now is the time to come and get the things you have been wanting for a long time. Make me an offer I can’t refuse.”

The sale, with prices reduced from 30%-50%, will run through the end of the month. It may be wise to get in early for the best deals, but with addi-tional inventory in storage, new items will be added as space allows.

Carolina, who is originally from El Salvador (“Love and marriage brought me to Santa Barbara,” she admits), has been in her new beautiful space on Lillie Avenue just two years and is cur-rently fielding offers from several par-

ties interested in buying her business.Since she has listed the business for

sale, she admits that she needs to reduce the size of her extensive inventory in order to make the business affordable to a prospective buyer. Those inter-ested can contact agent Larry Martin, of Sotheby’s International Realty, at (805) 895-6872.

Garden fountains, architectural ele-

ments, indoor and outdoor furniture, paintings, antiques, and smalls are all reduced.

I spotted a dainty pair of 19th cen-tury side chairs with original petit point upholstery marked down from $1,200 to $550. I also admired many South American and European carved saints and Madonnas reduced 30% or more; architectural element are half off, such as wooden capitals now $195 (originally $395). Carolina has a pano-ply of original paintings and draw-ings, marked down 25% and more.

Oil pastels of the gardens of the Music Academy of the West by Santa Barbara artist Bjorn Rye are marked down 25%. In the garden, small French limestone fountains are 50% off; large fountains are reduced 25% and all iron garden furniture and Turkish pots (regularly $200-$4,000) are 40% off.

So what’s next? With her daughter Nicole living in Baja (another daughter Anna moved to Austin, Texas, while son John remains in Santa Barbara), Carolina has decided to move south of the border, down Mexico way, after more than 35 years in Santa Barbara.

“Nicole is working in Cabo San Lucas and I have the opportunity to open a business there. I am even con-sidering building a home in Baja,” she notes.

No grass grows under this lively businesswoman’s huaraches, as they say, and we will miss her upbeat energy, not to mention the lively par-ties she has hosted at her Summerland showroom. I am secretly hoping she has plenty of room for company in her new digs. Best of luck and vaya con Dios, mi amiga!

Mediterranee is located at 2500 Lillie Avenue in Summerland, (805) 695-0910. Store hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 4 pm or by appointment (805) 637-2842. Her website is www.mediterra neeantiques.com. •MJ

After 35 years in Santa Barbara and a decade dealing fine art, antiques and garden items, Carolina Pierpont is selling Méditerranée and moving south of the border

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degli Etruschi, the Italian family resort on the Tuscan Coast that was so fun, so non-touristy, so darn Italian, that it was worth each and every extra dime. Oh, and the great bottle of sparkly pink wine we savored in the afternoon sun on the Canal Grande in celebration of finding Kate after we’d lost her in Venice earlier that morn-ing. The quick flight from Istanbul to central Turkey and back to experience the wonder that is Cappadocia. (That reminds me, there was a truly fantas-tic dinner with some great California friends in an Istanbul fish market that involved delicious Turkish grub and a considerable amount of top-shelf Turkish Raki… definitely not in the budget.) The oceanfront places on Vic Bay and J-Bay in South Africa, ensur-ing quick beach and surf access. Too much Chenin Blanc at Spier Winery in Franshhoek and the consequent “Cheetah Experience” that probably endangered the lives of our children.

The list goes on and on. None of these things have been

extravagant, mind you, just comfort-able and a lot of fun. We would do it all again, just as we have this time around… even despite the fact that our trip is surely a bit shorter than it would have been had we stuck to the numbers and eaten only butter – oh, excuse me, beurre – and jam on baguettes the entire time we were in France. But, hey, what fun is that? (And it turns out that Lily loves ril-lettes and Wendi hates andouillette sau-sages… who’d have known but for a few trial and error sessions in decent French cafés?)

Wendi and I have both known of our excesses for some time now and recently firmly agreed to curb them in favor of a more disciplined approach. “We’re adults, for crying out loud,” we said, convinced of our resolve, “we can impose and stick to some reasonable limits. We can control our sometimes childlike impulsive behavior.” We even shook on it.

But a few nights ago in Bangkok…well, oops, we did it again.

We couldn’t help it. We’d just come

off a week in Laos (which was great, truly, but had its challenges) and had one night in the Thai capital in the middle of a two-leg flight to Indonesia. We thought we’d spend a whirlwind afternoon and night exploring a city that we’ve heard quite a bit about. But when we got to the JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok (the “J-dub” to us), all of our plans flew straight out the view win-dow in our sixteenth floor suite.

We stretched out on the luxurious bed (Wendi and I had it to ourselves!); we each showered for hours with an endless supply of hot water; we ordered room service (lots of it); we lounged by the pool. Wendi and I both worked out and took long sau-nas and steams and cleaned up in the locker room. (Wendi actually felt like “a girl again,” she said, grateful for the chance to clean up and pamper herself.) We watched CNN on a flat screen television. We slept late.

We never left. We didn’t see a damned thing in Bangkok.

But we’ll never forget our night at the J-dub… even if it didn’t exactly pencil out in the budget.

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

The girls playing in the sand outside the Dreamland guesthouse in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa

Kate and Wendi enjoying the Tuscan sun in Montecastelli

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Theft from residence on East Valley roadMonday, 2 January, 2:15 pm – Deputy Johnson was dispatched to the Sheriff’s

Department in Carpinteria where a victim came to report a theft from his home. The victim stated that someone entered his room while he was at work on January 1 from 10:30 am to 8 pm. The theft included a safe containing $70 cash, a debit card, dorm key, several gift cards, three checks written to the vic-tim, iPod Touch, medical cards, and copies of his social security card and birth certificate. The victim also noted that several family members and two foreign exchange students live in the same residence. The family locks all the doors when leaving the home; however, the victim does not lock his bedroom door. A report was taken.

Burglary from Auto on Lillie Avenue in Summerland

Wednesday, 4 January, 7:20 am – While patrolling the Summerland area, Valadez observed another burglarized vehicle. The deputy contacted the vehi-cle owner who said he parked and locked his vehicle at 6 am in front of a fitness center on Lillie Avenue. Around 7:20 am, several people told the victim that his vehicle’s front passenger side window was broken; he immediately noticed that his iPhone 4, valued at $200, was missing from the center console. Valadez could not search for fingerprints because the victim had searched the vehicle prior to the deputy’s arrival. A report was taken.

Vehicle Theft on Miramar AvenueWednesday, 4 January, 11:47 am – Deputy Valadez was dispatched to Miramar

Avenue based on reports of an auto burglary. Valadez contacted the victim. He told the deputy that he parked and locked his vehicle in the area at 6 pm on January 3; the victim returned to his vehicle at 6:30 am on January 4 and found his front passenger side window was broken. Several items were taken from the vehicle: a surfboard valued at $700, another surfboard valued at $400, a camera bag valued at $100, a Canon 50D camera valued at $1800, a Canon 70-200 ml lens valued at $2300, a Canon 50-85 ml lens valued at $180, and an iPod touch valued at $450. A report was taken. •MJ

behind rows and rows of freshly baked pastries, cookies, cakes, and other sweet treats. Customers were happy too, congratulating Mashhoon on her revamped storefront.

The bakery, located across from Vons in the shopping center, is open seven days a week from 5:30 am to 7:30 pm. The breakfast and lunch menu remains the same, as the prior chef and baker have returned.

Overturned VehicleA young woman in her early twen-

ties was involved in a single car acci-dent on East Valley Road on Monday, January 9, at 3 pm. Montecito Fire Protection District responded to the call, in which the woman’s vehicle had overturned near Live Oaks Road. The woman, who was driving a two-door sedan, admitted she was texting on her cell phone and lost control of the vehicle.

The accident blocked both directions of East Valley Road for half an hour. With the help of staff from J&S East

Valley Garage, the woman was able to exit the vehicle. She was treated at Cottage Hospital with minor injuries.

Montecito Fire’s Geri Ventura sent us over some statistics about distract-ed driving: according to the CDC, every day more than 15 people are killed and more than 1,200 people are injured in crashes involving a distracted driver, such as using a cell phone when driving. The state Office of Traffic Safety survey indicates that cell phone use by drivers ranked No. 2 in the biggest safety problems on California’s highways.

Docents NeededVolunteers with an interest in

antiques and history are wanted to lead walking tours of Casa del Herrero (House of the Blacksmith), a National Historic Landmark on East Valley Road. Coordinators of the estate tell us the docent training begins next week.

Designed by noted architect George Washington Smith and completed in 1925, it is considered one of the

finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the country. The house is filled with art, antiques, and furniture collected by the original owners, and surrounded by extensive gardens. Docents are trained to lead 90-minute walking tours including the home, gardens and owner George Fox Steedman’s workshop, all preserved in circa 1930s condition. Our own MJ columnist Lynda Milner is a longtime volunteer and docent at the Casa.

Docent Training begins on Thursday, January 19 and continues weekly through March 22 on Thursday morn-

ings from 9:30 to 11:30 am. Classes are led by local designers and historians as well as Casa volunteers.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the work of a noted architect, antiques, landscape design, Spanish history and design, and the Steedman family who lived here for over sixty years,” notes the Casa’s visitor and volunteer coordina-tor Susannah Gordon.

For more information about this volunteer opportunity, call Susannah at 565-5653 or e-mail [email protected].

VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 24)A CHP officer and Montecito Fire per-sonnel survey the damage during a roll-over accident on East Valley Road (photo courtesy Urban Hikers of Edhat)

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Colorado Symphony Principal vio-list Basil Vendryes and cellist Andrew Smith will lead a free public mas-terclass featuring accomplished local students at the Music Academy of the West on Thursday, January 19. Performers will include a harp trio, a string quartet, and a soloist.

Co-presented by the Music Academy and Santa Barbara Strings, the event will take place at 6:30 pm in Weinman Hall, which is located in the Academy’s new Luria Education Center.

Masterclass participants will include musicians enrolled in both the Music Academy’s MERIT (Music Education Reinforces Intellect and Talent) Extended chamber music training pro-gram for area instrumentalists ages 10 to 18, and Santa Barbara Strings, a comprehensive instructional program for string instrumentalists ages 4 to 18. Flutist Elizabeth Van Renerghem (Santa Barbara), violinist Sophie Collins (Ojai), and harpist Kristina Martell (Santa Maria) will perform Handel’s Sonata in F Major and Jacques Ibert’s Deux Interludes No. 1; violinists Sage Williams (Buellton) and Junia Work (Santa Barbara), vio-list Liam Burrows (Solvang), and cel-list Madeline Matthys (Santa Barbara) will perform Haydn’s Quartet in G Major, op. 77; and Mr. Burrows will perform the first movement of Bach’s Concerto in C Minor. The latter four instrumentalists are co-enrolled in MERIT Extended and Santa Barbara Strings.

For more information on the January 19 public masterclass, call 877-398-4599. Free parking is available on the Music Academy campus, at 1070 Fairway Road.

According to Music Academy rep Tim Dougherty, MERIT Extended students, who are selected upon audi-tioning for the program, participate in chamber ensembles, receive coach-ing twice a month, and take part in masterclasses and performances at the Music Academy throughout the school

year. This year’s program serves 13 young classical musicians from Santa Barbara and surrounding communi-ties. Under a temporary partnership, violinist Mary Beth Woodruff, who serves as artistic director and con-ductor for Santa Barbara Strings, is leading one of four MERIT Extended chamber ensembles. The others are led by Santa Barbara Symphony Principal Trombonist Andy Malloy, harpist and Music Academy alumna Marcia Dickstein, and flutist Linda Holland, who directs the Music Academy’s MERIT Program.

Inaugurated in 1998, MERIT Extended provides promising local students with

an opportunity to expand their cham-ber music education. Supported by Bel Air Investment Advisors, the Henry E. and Lola Monroe Foundation, the Cheeryble Foundation, the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation, Connie Frank and Evan Thompson, Michelle and Michael O’Brien, Patricia and Larry Durham, and Goldman Sachs, the program also operates as an inten-sive two-week immersion in the Music Academy’s annual Summer School and Festival, including mentoring from Academy Fellows. This version of the program, known simply as MERIT, requires a separate application process. All MERIT participants receive schol-

arships covering program expenses.Applications for the 2012 Summer

MERIT Program will be available in February. For more information, con-tact Ms Holland at 687-6875.

The Music Academy of the West presents more than 200 public events annually, including performances by faculty, visiting artists, and Fellows; masterclasses; orchestra and cham-ber music concerts; and fully staged opera. The Music Academy began broadcasting live simulcasts by the world-renowned Metropolitan Opera at Hahn Hall in October 2008. For more information, visit www.musi cacademy.org. •MJ

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12

Santa Barbara is Candy-land – Local film enthusiasts are familiar with Candace Schermerhorn as the former longtime programming director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, a position she held for two different stints. But Schermerhorn isn’t just adept at picking movies to screen across a wide range of genres and subjects, she’s also an accomplished filmmaker in her own right. She directed, with Bestor Cram, the independent award-winning documentary You Don’t Know Dick, an intimate film about female-to-male transsexuals, and wrote, produced and directed The Naked Option: A last resort, which celebrates the grassroots mobilization of women in the Niger Delta and their struggle against the multinational oil corporations. Her other credits include work for Children’s Television Workshop, the National Park Service, Massachusetts Council for the Humanities, Harcourt Brace Publishers, American Masters, and Turner Broadcasting. Schermerhorn, who has taught documentary filmmaking at Santa Barbara City College for years, is currently in preproduction of her third independent feature documentary, “The Last Utopia,” about the ancient seafaring Lapita Navigators and their migration due to sea level rise. The well-rounded cinephile is the special guest speaker at the first monthly meeting in the new year

of the Screenwriters Association of Santa Barbara. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Brooks Institute, 27 East Cota Street COST: free INFO: 617-4503 or www.screenwriterssb.blogspot.com

Rockin’ out in the New Year – The Chumash Casino digs for heavy metal in its first rock concert of 2012 as Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil brings his solo act to Santa Ynez. The blonde bad boy front man, now 50, boasts hard rocking, hard partying, much mayhem and more than a few legal skirmishes over his 30-year career in which he’s drifted in and out of Crue. But you’re still sure to hear such hits as “Girls, Girls, Girls,” “Wild Side,” “Same Ol’ Situation,” “Looks that Kill” and many more. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 3400 East Hwy. 246 COST: $15-$35 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13

Classical connivers – Just as they are every fall, Camerata Pacifica is the first classical music organization out of the gate for the New Year. Given the enticing program, you might have to start considering Friday the 13th a sign of good fortune. In another of founder/artistic director Adrian Spence’s creative endeavors, the chamber music ensemble is turning things upside down at Hahn Hall tonight, performing Bach’s famous “Goldberg Variations” not on piano,

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

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13

All in the family – “Gene Pool,” the new exhibition opening tonight at the Art From Scrap Gallery, takes a look two generations of a single family of artists: Alf Ramirez, Colleen Kelly and their daughter Isabella Kelly-Ramirez. Dad’s work includes highly crafted, intricate mixed media assemblage with some of the pieces including carving and casting on a small scale; mom’s genres also includes assemblage plus printmaking and bronze-casting, mostly revolving around themes of housing and architecture as well as social, political and environmental issues. Daughter Kelly-Ramirez’s artwork is usually figure-based with combined surreal and expressionistic qualities that are inspired by her early involvement in theater, parade

and masquerade. Leave it to Isabella to sum up the show: “I grew up with artists in a house that was and still is one big studio. My artistic style is a hybrid from both parents. The color, pattern and whimsy come from my mom. The gesture, line, and dark irony comes from my dad.” All three will be on hand for the opening tonight. WHEN: Opening reception 5-7pm Friday; exhibition on view 10am-3pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10am-6pm Thursdays, through February 25 WHERE: 302 East Cota St. COST: free INFO: 884-0459 ext. 13 or www.artfromscrap.org

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

Un poco de Poco – Alabama-bred singer-songwriter Paul Cotton has a Montecito nexus: he replaced Jim Messina in Poco back before the legendary folk-rocker moved to the village (and later Santa Ynez). But Cotton’s legacy is nothing to sneeze at. After touring and recording with ‘50s and ‘60s bands the Capitols, Mus-twangs, Gentrys and Rovin’ Kind, he formed The Illinois Speed Press, which made two albums for Columbia before Cotton left for Poco,

where he spent nearly 40 years as the country-rock band’s primary songwriter, lead vocalist and lead guitarist. Messina may have penned the band’s biggest hit, “Kind Woman,” but Cotton contributed “Heart of The Night,” “Bad Weather,” “Indian Summer,” and “Barbados” among others to the lexicon of the genre. Now that the 68-year-old Cotton has departed from Poco, he’s devoting more time to his solo career, including a tour stop tonight at our dominant music club SOhO. WHEN: 9pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 general ($25 includes priority seating and VIP meet & greet) INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

but with a string trio (featuring all three principals: violinist Catherine Leonard, violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill, and cellist Ani Aznavoorian, back from maternity for her first concert of the season) in an arrangement by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Only afterward does pianist Adam Neiman step in, joining the other musicians for Chausson’s “Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30.” And this is one concert you’ll want to attend in the evening, as the Bach won’t be played in the matinee (unless, of course, Mr. Spence has some new tricks up his sleeve). WHEN: 1 & 7:30pm WHERE: Hahn Hall on the campus of the Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $22 at 1pm, $45 at 7:30pm INFO: 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org

New year, new consciousness – Montecito resident Barbara Marx-Hubbard is the guest speaker at the exceedingly popular Mind and Supermind series through SBCC’s Adult Ed tonight. The prolific author, lecturer, educator and filmmaker, now in her ninth decade on the planet, is regarded as the philosophical heir to Buckminster Fuller, who called Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Because of ongoing budget cutbacks, Hubbard – who is the founder of the locally-based Foundation for Conscious Evolution – will be this quarter’s only Mind and Supermind guest. She’ll lecture on the subject “Are You Ready for Conscious Evolution?” WHEN: 7:30-9:30pm WHERE: Auditorium at the Wake Center, 300 North Turnpike Rd. COST: free INFO: 687-0812

Jaeger meister on acting – There’s no reason to leave Montecito today as Hollywood comes to our own hills in the person of Sam Jaeger, who currently stars in NBC’s Parenthood. Jaeger, who plays stay-at-home father and loyal husband Joel Graham on the popular sitcom, discusses his life as an actor, director and writer during a conversation moderated by Westmont theater arts professor Mitchell Thomas, who has been active himself all over town in recent weeks. Jaeger – who also appeared in the feature films Catch and Release, The Riverman and Lucky Number Slevin – earned his degree from Otterbein University, a small, private, liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, not unlike Westmont, so the local matriculants should be especially interested in how he made the move to Hollywood. And SBIFF-lovers might view the talk as a preview for this year’s fest, as Jaeger recently made the move to writer-director with Take Me Home, in which he stars with his wife Amber; the romantic comedy has been playing the festival circuit, and won Audience Awards at both the Rhode Island and Boston film festivals. WHEN: 3:30pm WHERE: Porter Theatre, Westmont Campus COST: free INFO: www.westmont.edu

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

James-town in SB – The 60-year-old acoustic blues guitarist-singer-songwriter Steve James is just tonight making his first appearance in town, but the veteran stringman is well known among devotees of contemporary acoustic folk and blues.

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They say you should write what you know. So was British screenwriter John Hodge

(Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) merely expanding on his own unhappy experiences in Hollywood when he turned his unfinished film script about Joseph Stalin into a stage play about the famed dictator and the beleaguered Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov (Master and Margarita), a true life man-vs-monster tale of artistic compromise in the face of real danger?

Hard to say, but you can make up your own mind when the work, Collaborators, directed by the huge-ly popular Brit Nicholas Hytner – which has earned Hodge his best reviews since Trainspotting – kicks off the 2012 National Theatre Live series of HD screenings. Now at the Lobero Theater downtown, the UCSB-sponsored series includes Nicholas Wright’s Travelling Light, also directed by Hytner, on March 7, and Oliver Goldsmith’s classic She Stoops to Conquer, directed by Jamie Lloyd, on April 19. Series tickets cost $42 general, $21 for students; individual screenings are $18 and $10. Call 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Meanwhile, Hodge filled us in on his motivation and method in a tele-phone interview from his home in England earlier this week.

Q. What got you interested in writing this play? I understand it grew out of

a screenplay you were having difficulty with.

A. Yeah, that’s pretty much right. It was a screenplay about Stalin’s youth, when he was moving in underground revolutionary Georgia in the 19th cen-tury. The allure of the Marxist revolu-tion was a long way off from being tarnished. He was part of the glamor-ous avant-garde movement; he wrote poetry, seduced woman. It was all good. But that didn’t quite fit into the two-hour play format, so I had to change the theme a bit.

But why Stalin in first place?He’s a fascinating man, the clas-

sic outsider who becomes the estab-lishment and re-forms it in his own image. His life and achievements, if you look back to period when he rises to become a great czar and control a huge empire, it wasn’t an accident. He wasn’t a good orator, but he had charisma, intelligence and a lot of charm. It’s said Hitler was boring and charmless. But Stalin was the oppo-

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

Chua the fat with controversial author – Whether you think Amy Chua – the author of the memoir-guide to extreme child-rearing Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – is a courageous role model or completely off her old-school rocker, there’s no denying the influence of her monumentally successful book. The runaway bestseller has just come out in paperback, so now the Yale law professor’s theories and stories will have even greater reach among the masses. Even those who disagree with her priorities and approach have enjoyed the witty, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny account about the rewards and costs of raising her two children the strict “Chinese” way, including bans on sleepovers, play dates or other leisurely staples of American childhood in favor of a relentless focus on schoolwork and

practicing musical instruments. Alternately hailed as an admirable force against the culture of stupidity and reviled as “the worst mother ever,” Chua is no stranger to tackling tough topics: her first two books were titled World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability and Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall. What a way for UCSB to kick off its 2012 lecture series. WHEN: 3pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $15 ($10 for UCSB students and youths 18 & under) INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

Hairspray on the Big Stage – The new co-production between Big Stage and Santa Barbara Dance Arts takes a giant leap forward – or backward to the ‘60s to be more precise – with this weekend’s presentation of Hairspray. Although the popular Broadway musical about corpulent teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream to dance on a local Baltimore TV show that turns into a vehicle for social change has been seen around town in touring and resident company performances recently, the timing is also fortunate with the show falling on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. On the other hand, while the show contains some poignant social commentary about the era during which Dr. King was most effective, it’s also a rockin’ song-and-dance musical spectacular, that should both give the young performers – who are ages 9-26 and

have been rehearsing rigorously since September – a chance to shine and delight the audience with its infectious energy. The production features original choreography by Steven Lovelace, Alana Tillim and Mikie Cabrera, and a live orchestra conducted by John Douglas. WHEN: 2pm & 7pm Saturday and Sunday WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido Street COST: $28 general, $18 students/seniors for evening performances, $25 and $15 matinees ($50 patron tickets for all shows include priority seating) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

James not only plays everything from regular six-string guitar to slide guitar, mandolin and guitar-banjo, he also has created articles, instruction books and videos for nearly all of them. His music has been heard on “A Prairie Home Companion” and he’s played alongside such artists as Ruthie Foster, Bob Brozman, Bad Livers, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Gary Primich, all of whom have played in Santa Barbara before, while his own songs have been variously covered by artists from new-folk phenom Ana Egge to folk/blues godfather Dave Van Ronk. Dirty Linen raved, “Flawless fingerpicking and slide guitar paired with an idiosyncratic style

and an exuberant performance persona make James come on like a full band.” So even though tonight’s concert is officially the Santa Barbara Blues Society’s annual member appreciation show – which means SBBS members and one guest are admitted free – you’ll likely be the ones doing most of the appreciating. The events also feature the usual complimentary appetizers, a dance floor, and a special live and silent auction with supporting the Blues Society, the oldest continuous such organization in the U.S. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Warren Hall at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real COST: free to members (membership available at the door) INFO: 722-8155 or www.sbblues.org •MJ

The Mighty Pen and Mightier Sword

On Entertainmentby Steven Libowitz

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

A scene from screen-writer John Hodge’s play, Collaborators, which will be shown at the Lobero to start the 2012 National Theatre Live series of HD screenings, spon-sored by UCSB

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

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

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

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

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

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

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

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

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

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

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

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

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

In Summerland / Carpinteria

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

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

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

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

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

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

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

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

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

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

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

Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ojai

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

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site, like a Bill Clinton in America. He was able to demand a close knit, very loyal following that could stride him into power. He had girlfriends, and was a top student. But he hasn’t been well-served with drama – mostly you see him on the balcony as a despicable human. So that’s a challenging char-acter for a dramatist to illustrate as someone you want to see.

There isn’t a lot of documentation of Stalin’s personality. How did you deal with that?

Someone said to me early on, the director actually, that we just have to make him up. We have no idea what he was like. I knew that already objec-tively, but it was liberating to hear. All we had to do was be sure it fit with the facts. So it was making up a human being rather than rigidly conform to some historical stereotype. Nowadays we do know what people are like, with the video and all the records. It’s more difficult with historical fig-ures. So you have that license to just imagine.

How did you find the balance between those who are students of the era or his-torians, and those who have no idea who Stalin or Mikhail Bulgakov were but just want to see an entertaining play?

It’s no single judgment. As you go along you have to decide if it’s too much story or not enough. It’s a fine line of how much reading to do before I can decide I can get this piece of exposition over in a more economic way. You have something you’re aim-ing for, and you try it out on other people and eventually settle on what you hope is a reasonable midpoint where it’s not off-putting but you would still enjoy it more if you read something before or afterwards. Even in Shakespeare it really pays to know a couple of pages before you go in so you’re not worried about the plot and can just enjoy the language. It’s pos-sible with Collaborators to know noth-ing, but you’ll enjoy it more if you at least read the program.

Collaborators is your first stage play. How different is it for you writing for the live theater versus film?

The great thing about theater is you can be anywhere effortlessly, and it doesn’t cost you anything. You can get the audience to suspend disbelief without worrying about the budget. There’s that physical freedom and validity that belies the fact you’re stuck in a dark auditorium. It’s very liberating. And I was also interested in the challenge of doing something new. And of course, writing for the stage you see a much closer represen-tation of your work in the end than you do on screen. I had the experience all writers get at some point that you write a lot more scripts than end up

getting made as movies.

Which of course brings up the question: is there some parallel with the hero of your play, who is forced to work with Stalin, and your own Hollywood story? Not that you’ve so much been bullied by power but certainly have had to make compromises.

Well, a little bit. One has to be cau-tious in complaining too much about the writers lot, at least nowadays. It’s a business, but it’s very reward-ing. There’s lots of money involved and the people who are investing it want to have a say. You just have to live with the interference or don’t do it. This play shows a relation-ship between Stalin as the ultimate producer, with the power of life and death, not just editorial. [But on the other hand], that relationship with the scribe doesn’t change anywhere anytime. It happens with any studio all over the world.

Right. The worst they can say is “You’ll never eat lunch in this town again.”

As opposed to Stalin saying, “You’ll never eat lunch again.”

Are you that brave or courageous as your hero, or at least how you’d like to be in your best moments?

No, no. I’d be on the other side. I’d be with the large gang of people who originally signed up with the party order and caved in right away. He was pretty exceptional in that he was pre-pared to protest even after being fired and banned, he just didn’t seem able to give in and write what he was told. That’s what makes him stand out, and I think why he was chosen to do this particular job, because it meant more. As far as what I would do, I’d like to think you never know. But I know.

So now we’re seeing your play here in America, but it’s back up on the movie screen, in two dimensions, albeit in HD.

Yeah, but it’s live (or recorded live). I had to keep reminding myself when I watched it that unlike regular movies, something could always go wrong. Thank God it didn’t.

Piano with Passion and Playfulness

It’s easy to see why famed documen-tarian Ken Burns wanted Jacqueline Schwab to play on the soundtracks to his period films. And we’re not just talking about her music.

Schwab got her first smart cell phone on the day before our inter-view earlier this week so she could finally get reception at her home on Cape Cod, but “I’m still learning how to use it, so you should try my home phone first,” she wrote, adding “tech-nophobe” after her name in the sig-nature.

That kind of vintage thinking would

probably be music to Burns’ ears. What we do know for sure is that Schwab’s approach to the piano truly was music to his ears. The direc-tor/producer bought the first CD Burns made with her old-time music-contradance band Bare Necessities fresh out of college at New England Conservatory, and soon hired her to play on his Grammy award-winning Civil War soundtrack, and has so far used her on a dozen other recordings for his films including Baseball, The War and National Parks.

But if Schwab – who makes her Santa Barbara debut in a Song Tree Concert Series show on Saturday night – has found a musical sponsor in the documentarian, he’s also served as her muse.

“Ken gets into my soul, it seems,” she said. “He works very fast and immediate. It draws very emotional performances out of me that way, these off-the-cuff responses that come from deep inside.”

Besides serving as a “big vote of confidence,” working with Burns has fine-tuned the approach Schwab already had, she said. “It’s a much sparer sound, sometimes just one fin-ger and melody only, with no orna-ments. He really helped develop this side of me that hadn’t come to the surface before.”

But Schwab developed the foun-dation on her own in her years at NEC, where she was part of the then “Third String” program now known as “Contemporary Improvisation.”

“The idea was to take the folk music you love and make it yours,” she explained. “It was about developing our ears, and carving out your own niche.”

Parlor songs, traditional and popu-lar dance tunes, vintage American “heart songs” from Stephen Foster and others, airs, hymns, spirituals, ragtime, blues, tango and Latin waltz-es all find a home in a Schwab concert.

“You’ll hear songs you know in a dif-ferent way, and hopefully some more obscure songs too,” she explained. “The playing comes out of a folk scene where everyone is welcome – you just go to the pub and play. That’s the feel-ing I’m trying to create. It’s part of our country’s heritage, in our collective memories one way or another... And

I love playing all those old pieces. I take them and put into them what I’ve heard through being on the folk scene, in dance camps where people play all night, fiddling till the sun comes up. There are so many musicians and approaches and I try to put that onto the piano in my own way, sort of to say, ‘This music is alive and well in our day.’ Even in the smartphone era, this music is alive and well.”

Jacqueline Schwab performs on Saturday at 7:30pm at the Live Oak Universalist Unitarian Church in Goleta. Tickets are $15 at the door or online. Call 403-2639 or visit www.SongTree.org.

Focus on Film In a new and unprecedented collab-

orative venture with the almost new Carsey-Wolf Center and the newly-named Art, Design & Architecture Museum on campus, UCSB’s Arts & Lecture is presenting an ambitious film series dubbed, simply, “Art | Architecture on Film.” The series encompasses six Sunday afternoon double-feature documentaries on art-ists, designers and architects, the vast majority of which have never screened before in Santa Barbara. The films span genres, approaches and decades and could easily take its cue from famed graffiti artist Keith Haring – the subject of the first film being screened this Sunday – whose mantra was “Art is for everyone.”

Christina Clausen’s 2008 portrait film The Universe of Keith Haring delves behind the scenes – literally, as Clausen is fond of zooming in on her interview subjects’ eyes – of the downtown NYC art scene of the six-ties, as does Tamra Davis’ 2010 doc Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, a chronicling of the nova-like career of the cult artist of the same era.

Here’s the rest of the schedule: Jan. 22: Urbanized and Objectified,

director Gary Hustwit’s follow-ups to his successful font doc Helvetica.

Feb. 12: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? and Malls R Us

Feb. 19: Alice Neel and Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

March 4: Eames: The Architect and the Painter (with filmmaker Bill Jersey in attendance) and Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (narrated by Dustin Hoffman)

March 11: In a Dream, Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui and The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne

The films will all screen at Carsey-Wolf’s Pollock Theater, a state-of-the-art 300-seat facility that’s been up and running for less than two years and rarely offers events open to the public. A complimentary wine recep-tion will be held between screenings every Sunday, but unfortunately, save for the one event March 4, neither the

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filmmakers nor any of the subjects will be available to talk about the works.

“I’ve always wanted to do a real festival with the filmmakers and architects coming to campus with the films,” explained Arts & Lecture asso-ciate director Roman Baratiak, who has been compiling a list of films on the subject for years. “But we always have so many events going on at A&L it’s just not possible for us to do it.

With this collaboration the series at least has some consistency to it. The films are all fantastic.”

Admission is $10 per day, which includes both films and the recep-tion. Call 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

SBIFF opens two weeks from this issue’s publication date, and with the addition of the half-dozen actors being honored with the Virtuoso

Awards, the likely Oscar nomination tally just keeps going up, as usual. Rooney Mara is a lock at best actress for her role as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Oscar pundits are pre-dicting a nod for Shailene Woodley, who played George Clooney’s older daughter in The Descendants. With previously announced tributees Viola Davis a certain supporting actress nominee for The Help, and Christopher Plummer as the odds-on favorite to take home the statue for his role as a man in his sixties who comes out as gay after his wife dies in Beginners, expect the red carpets to be packed with fans and paparazzi, once again, as always. Get your passes now.

Pop NotesThe touring acts in the club scene

get going again in earnest this week, beginning with an acoustic evening with eclectic songwriter-producer Clarence Greenwood, better known as Citizen Cope. The blues-soul-funk-folk-rocker, a road dog and veter-an recording artist, does his thing at SOhO in a Club Mercy-sponsored concert on Thursday. That’s also the same night that No Use for a Name hit Velvet Jones in a New Noise/Numbskull co-promote, which also brings Roach Gigz and Nima Fadavi to the same venue on Saturday. In between, on Friday the 13th, Club Mercy hosts Hawaiian-Samoan reg-gae singer J Boog at SOhO.

In the jazz genre, the Santa Barbara Jazz Society kicks off 2012 with Santa Barbara’s own Latin jazz great Luis Munoz. The Costa Rican percus-sionist-composer boasts 35 years of

terrific music including writing for documentaries, animated films, dance and theater and has worked as a music producer, arranger or percus-sionist for an impressive list of artists from Airto Moreira and Flora Purím to Etta James and former Montecito resident Jim Messina. Munoz – who will play drums, melodica and flute – will be joined in the traditional second Sunday afternoon concert at SOhO by Jonathan Dane on trumpet, flugelhorn and cornet; Tom Etchart on acoustic and electric bass; George Friedenthal on piano; and Narciso Sotomayor on acoustic and electric guitar. •MJ

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SUNDAY JANUARY 15ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY919 Park Lane 2-4pm $7,950,000 5bd/7ba Marsha Kotlyar 565-4014 Prudential California Realty189 East Mountain Drive By Appt. $4,950,000 3bd/5ba Frank Abatemarco 450-7477 Sotheby's722 Via Manana 1-4pm $2,950,000 4bd/3.5ba Jo Ann Mermis 895-5650 Prudential California Realty650 Randall Road 1-3pm $2,100,000 3bd Edna Sizlo 455-4567 Coldwell2150 East Valley Road 2-5pm $2,060,000 4bd/3ba SiBelle Israel 896-4218 Prudential California Realty110 Tiburon Bay Lane 1-4pm $1,695,000 4bd/3.5ba Lori Ebner 729-4861 Prudential California Realty548 B San Ysidro Road 12-3pm $975,000 2bd Elisa Atwill 705-9075 Coldwell1925 Barker Pass Road 1-4pm $949,000 3bd/2ba John Comin 689-3078 Prudential1319 Danielson Road 1-4pm $949,000 3bd Jeff Farrell 895-5151 Coldwell1346 Virginia Road 12-4pm $899,980 2bd Tom Hussey 452-0528 Coldwell14 West Mountain Drive 2-4pm $650,000 Lot Ingrid A. Smith 689-2396 Coldwell

Costa Rican Luis Munoz brings his jazz sounds to SOhO to kick off the Santa Barbara Jazz Society’s new year

The Universe of Keith Haring will be the first film shown at UCSB’s Arts & Lecture film series

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Affordable Bookkeeping Start-up, small business, QuickBooks on line for easy data access. 15yrs experience. Nicole 259-6495 [email protected]

PERSONAL/SPECIAL SERVICES Give your home, office or garage a tune-up! Let me help you simplify and reorder any space that needs attention. Together we’ll create practical, personalized solutions to your organizing challenges! Adjustable rates. Will consider barter. Call David toll free at (855) 771-4858 or write [email protected]. “A passion for organizing.”

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Evening Live-in Position Wanted:Experienced, responsible companion to elderly. Continue living in your home with peace of mind. I am organized, clean and a happy mature professional looking for a Live-in position in exchange for accommodations. Sun. through Thurs., 7:00p to 7:45a. (Fri. & Sat. nights off). Excellent work history & reference letters available. By day, I work as an Activity Director of an upscale Senior Living Home. If interested, please email: [email protected] or call 1-530-848-6031.

SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL

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

Montecito creek side studio/guesthouse. Fireplace, kitchenette, walk-in closet, large bath & shower. Skylights , small patio. Maid service weekly. Available January 1, $1600/mo + first, last & security deposit Utilities included. Peaceful, quiet. N/S, No dogs. 698-4318

Charming elegant sophisticated Montecito home located in foothills with beautifully landscaped gardens in a very private tranquil setting. 3 bedrooms/3 baths , large well equipped kitchen with fireplace, wonderful views available furnished minimum of 6 months. $7000.00 monthly please call 969-1309

Rametto Road, 3 Bedroom Home For Lease. Broad ocean & island views; spacious Mediterranean home on .86 acre. Quiet country lane, generous-sized rooms, great flow, courtyard entry, southern exposure and views. $5250/mth. Kathleen Marvin Coldwell Banker 805-450-4792 [email protected]

CLASSIC CARS

Help wanted in finding an old 1929-70 Ford, Buick, VW, Packard, MBZ, Cadillac, RR or Porsche. Thank you. R.A. Fox 805-845-2113.

SPECIALTY ITEM FOR SALE

Carousel Horse - Circa 1915. Marcus Illions Studio, Coney Island style from Willow Grove Park, PA. Number 66 of 66 horses on that carousel. Lead horse set world record when it sold at auction for $82,500. Asking $18,000. Call: 969-1520

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Oak firewood, split, seasoned and cured, includes delivery and stacked $260 for ½ cord / $140 for ¼ of a cord. Enrique 452-7645.

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New Year, New Body! I will work with you to tone up,lose weight and feel amazing!$60/hour session ACSM CPTFacebook:Lauren’s Fitness [email protected](805)451-2017

HEALTH SERVICES

Take a break from concerns about guests and gifts... treat yourself to a soothing deep Swedish massage in the comfort of your own home. Experienced professional creates a safe, healing, spiritual environment with music and organic oils. Ask about Gift Certificates and packages, too!Call Scott Hunter, Licensed Massage Therapist: 805-455-4791

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING(You can place a classified ad by filling in the coupon at the bottom of this section and mailing it to us: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108. You can also FAX your ad to us at: (805) 969-6654. We will figure out how much you owe and either call or FAX you back with the amount. You can also e-mail your ad: [email protected] and we will do the same as your FAX).

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

can provide transportation, housekeeping, personal assistance and much more. Senior Helpers: 966-7100

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

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It’s Simple. Charge is $2 per line, and any portion of a line. Multiply the number of lines used (example 4 lines x 2 =$8) Add 10 cents per Bold and/or Upper case character and send your check to: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108. Deadline for inclusion in the next issue is Thursday prior to publication date. $8 minimum. Email: [email protected] Yes, run my ad __________ times. Enclosed is my check for $__________

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7200 Casitas Pass Road $3,250,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Carpinteria. 4br/4ba, 14 acres, ocean & mountain views. www.MontecitoProperties.com

917 Park Lane $5,500,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Montecito. 240± Ocean vu acres with building site. www.MontecitoProperties.com

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580 Toro Canyon Road $14,950,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Montecito. Refined & subtle elegance. Designed & built to exacting standards, features main house, sep office & state of the art barn w/ kit & bath. Ocean & Mtn views. 2BR/6BA www.MontecitoProperties.com