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A meditation on germs, kissing the Blarney Stone The Voice of the Village NOW WEEKLY! and Irish green, p. 14
COMMUNITY CALENDAR, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 32 • GUIDE TO MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 34 THE $500,000 Challenge Lee Luria’s looking to raise half a million dollars to buy Sansum two new mammogram machines and is putting up $250,000 for the cause; she hopes her friends will raise the other half (story on page 17)
93108 OPEN HOUSE directory p.36
Village Beat The Way It Was Montecito Diary Rick Caruso displays his celebrated good nature as Summers in Sandyland really were idyllic, at least It’s that time of year again; Crane Country Fair MPC approves revised Miramar plans; “I feel like we for those lucky enough to have owned property is back, complete with dunk tanks, cake walks, bonded,” he jokes, p. 12 along its storied shoreline, p. 18 climbing wall, and stroller races, p. 21 tboub!cbscbsb K?<9 J8EK898I98I8+#.,'#''' J8EK898I98I8*#.0,#''' )+-?`^_nXp+/(( ()-'M`X9i`^`kk\ 5SVFDPOOPJTTFVSµTFTUBUFBU5VSOFS7JOFZBSE°BQQSPYJNBUFMZBDSFTPGBXBSE 'BCVMPVTOFXDVTUPNFTUBUFXJUIPDFBO NPVOUBJOWJFXTJOFYDMVTJWFHBUFE XJOOJOHWJOFZBSET"EKBDFOUBQQSPYJNBUFMZBDSFQBSDFMBWBJMBCMFGPS -B3PNBOB&TUBUFTJO4BOUB#BSCBSBGPPUIJMMT1SJDFECFMPXSFQMBDFNFOUWBMVF J8EK898I98I8*#-0,#''' J8EK898I98I8(#*0,#''' .*+M`XDXeXeX 0(':Xd`efM`\af .POUFDJUP(PMEFO2VBESBOHMF/FBSMZBDSFFTUBUFOFTUMFEJOBODJFOUPBLT 1SJNF.POUFDJUPMPU"QQSPYJNBUFMZBDSFTXJUINPVOUBJOWJFXT"QQSPWFE CFESPPNT CBUITUPUBMMZSFEPOF.BHOJGJDFOUNPVOUBJOWJFXT QMBOTGPSHSBOE4QBOJTI3FWJWBMTUZMFSFTJEFODFXJUIQPPM 8E;I@8B8?D8EEs/',%-/'%/(-) ;FEBFA@D8#9IFBC<>IFLG%:FDs0+0%-+'%*-'+ ©2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. 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INSIDE THIS ISSUE p.10 p.17 p.21 p.31 5 Editorial Tim advises all – including government entities – to cut expenses and vote NO on new spending 6 Letters to the Editor Lanny Ebenstein pitches for Measure H; Richard Solomon says Lincoln was an “agitator” too; Noelle Burg finds nothing to like about Sarah Palin; Bud Stuart wonders when smearing the candidate replaced weighing the issues; a sign-removal problem voiced anonymously 10 Community Calendar – SOLD! – MUS Jog-a-Thon, Halloween craft activities at Montecito Library, theatrical artist from Macedonia at Westmont, and Crane Country Fair top this fortnight’s bill Montecito Mediterranean Estate Tide Chart Attention surfers (walkers, hikers, swimmers too) assigned Dawn Patrol duties: look here before Offered at $2,850,000 venturing out onto the cold wet sand! 12 Village Beat MPC finally approves Miramar plans; Montecito Association director nominees announced; Montecito fire chief Wallace warns of dangerous weather until rains come; Channelkeeper makes presentation; Safe Routes to School receives $400,000 federal grant; Channel Drive “Representing Your Best Interests” “sidewalk” discussed; Beautification Committee presses ahead; Highway 101 update 14 Seen Around the World Three hundred years before the Vikings and nearly nine hundred years before Columbus, Irish monks “discovered” America; at least that’s what they say in Ireland 17 Coming and Going Lee Luria throws down $250,000 challenge for mammogram machines; Cate School tenth- graders Carly Biedul and Brennan Cusack appear on “Wheel Of Fortune”; re-opening of Coral WWW. MERMIS- STCLAIR. COM Casino was grand; 18 The Way it Was Deeming the land unfit for agriculture, early owner of some forty acres of dunes at Sandyland sold the parcel to John Bailard in exchange for a horse, saddle, and bridle 21 Montecito Diary Instead of staying home climbing walls alone as the stock market gyrates, take the kids to Crane Country Day School’s annual Fair and climb their wall with the entire family! shelter + nature 22 Book Talk Annie Proulx is among the best contemporary writers to describe how and when the West was, if not “won,” at least a little “wonderful” 23 n.o.t.e.s. from downtown Jim Alexander would have drove his Chevy to the Getty but the Getty was dry 24 Real Estate View Inventory is piling up, particularly in the upper reaches of Montecito’s real estate market 27 Sheriff’s Blotter One man’s home is, well, another woman’s home, at least that’s what she thought until Sheriff’s deputies arrested her 29 On Music Jewelry Trunk Show Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester bring 1930’s era music back to life through love of the music and dedication to the original October 18th 10am-5pm 30 Classical Connection porch Santa Barbara Music Club’s Faulkner Gallery series’ first concert opens with pianist Betty Oberacker performing Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat major and closes with her backing baritone Andre Shillo on a selection of romantic arias 31 On Song Texas-born Carrie Rodriguez kicks off Sings Like Hell’s 24th season Saturday night, accompanied by fellow Texans, The South Austin Jug Band 32 Calendar of Events Best Bet this weekend is Gaelic Storm, the Irish pub band gone international that made such an impression on Rose in “Titanic”; they’ll be playing their bag pipes, fiddles, and other instruments and will probably initiate a few good-hearted and maybe even raucous sing-a-longs while they’re at it. Friday night at the Lobero, 7:30 pm! 33 Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, every week 34 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 36 93108 Open House Directory Looking to move to Montecito? A great way to begin that search is by attending some 93108- area Open Houses; meet the brokers; talk to neighbors; scope out the schools 38 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer 5065 Carpinteria Ave Carpinteria CA rentals to estate sales 39 Local Business Directory 805.684.0300 www.porchsb.com Smart business owners place business cards here so you’ll know where to look when you need what they offer 4 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 Editorial by Timothy Lennon Buckley Measure A: The Tax That Won’t Die easure A2008, if approved, will extend the existing ½-cent sales tax authorization for 30 years beginning April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2040. The Measure A2008 ordinance includes a transportation expenditure Mplan (Investment Plan) identifying various transportation projects and programs to be funded by the sales tax revenues. Approximately 60% of revenues to the County of Santa Barbara and the cities within the county as “Local Street and Transportation Improvement” funding to be expended on projects selected by city councils and the Board of Supervisors. The Authority may not spend more than 1% of sales tax funds for salaries and benefits (§ 29). Funds must be held in a separate account with interest spent only for the purposes allo- cated. A maximum annual appropriations limit of $200,000,000 is established beginning in 2010-2011. The ½-cent sales tax is estimated to generate $1,050,000,000 over 30 years. As much as we love our slurry seal, we would rather see the billion dollars stay in the pockets of Santa Barbarans. The argument here is that we reap the benefits from tourists that use the area. Last time I checked, I had to pay the sales tax year- round on everything I purchased. If policy makers were serious about only taxing “tourists,” they would exempt items those “tourists” are unlikely to purchase, like food, bills, cars, etc., but of course that would never cross their minds. Measure A money will be collected and used on ordinary upkeep so that the fat salaries, vacations, holidays, sick days, “personal days,” family leaves, maternity leaves, pensions, gold-plated medical, and other benefits being paid to government union employees can continue to expand. Let’s take a tax break for ourselves and vote a big “NO” on Measure A2008. Measure G, The Santa Barbara Telecommunications and Video Users’ Tax Reduction and Modernization Ordinance The new ordinance would reduce the rate of the UUT on these services from 6% to 5.75%. The modernized technical definitions in the Measure G ordinance would apply to all types of telecommunication regardless of whether the communication is intrastate, interstate, or international and regardless of the technology used to provide such communications. New telecommunication services would include paging, text messaging, and private communica- tion services (T-1 line). The new ordinance would not apply to charges for internet services, including digital downloads like music, games, and ring tones. Measure G would continue the existing City ordinance’s provisions for low income exemptions from the UUT. Measure G would not amend the City’s UUT on gas, electricity, water, waste water, or trash services. Here is another typically deceptive Measure proposed by the City. It claims a tax reduction of .25 percent (5.75 percent down from 6 percent), which is true. But what they don’t elaborate on is that this tax will be applicable to more recent technolo- gies like mobile technologies. So your tax rate will decrease but the overall amount you will pay in taxes will increase. How does the city respond to this claim? “If we don’t pass Measure G things like gang prevention, potholes, police protection and other services will be greatly impacted.” So, again, essentially threatening us that if we don’t pass this, Santa Barbara will be a dirtier, more dangerous, more fire-prone city to live in. Vote NO on Measure G. Voting “NO” on Measure H This measure, if approved by two-thirds (2/3) of the voters within the Santa Barbara High School District (the “District”) will authorize the District to levy a parcel tax of $23 per year against each parcel of land that lies wholly or partially within District boundaries. The parcel tax is to be levied for four (4) fiscal years, without increase, beginning in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2009 and ending in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012. Supplementing math, science and technology education; Supplementing music, arts and theater programs at the junior high level; Supplementing foreign language at the secondary level; Restoring ninth-grade math class sizes; Providing a citizens oversight committee; and providing independent financial audits. Meredith Brooks Abbott Fall Show Any owner, that is 65 years of age or older, of a parcel used solely for owner-occupied, single-family residential purposes may receive an exemption from the parcel tax by annu- ally submitting an application by June 15 of each year to the Board in accordance with the October 11 through 31, 2008 Board’s adopted rules and regulations. Cleared Hill - Rincon, 12 inches by 16 inches, oil We couldn’t help notice what opponents said about this measure regarding the salaries of current administrative positions. Like our Superintendent, who in 2000 Gallery Hours: made $126,796 and by this year was pulling in a whopping $200,566, an increase Tuesday through Sunday of $73,770, yet our schools continually need more money for education? According Noon to 5pm to the opponents, a position as Deputy Superintendent was created at $186,000 per 1187 Coast Village Rd. Montecito, year. Ca. 93108 These guys are basically asking property owners to indirectly pitch in to increase 805.969.9215 their salaries. Our kids’ arts, music, and theater programs are being pulled so the [email protected] school superintendent can reap the benefits. Vote “NO” on Measure H. •MJ 16 – 23 October 2008 If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed – Mark Twain MONTECITO JOURNAL 5 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to some- thing you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1122 Coast Village Circle, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to [email protected]) Yes on Measure H sure are that the parcel tax would be limited to $23 per parcel irrespec- here are several issues facing tive of assessed valuation (no parcel the Santa Barbara High School would pay more than $23), and that District on the November ballot the measure is limited to 4 years. The thatT are of importance to Montecito time limitation of the measure is the voters. The first is Measure H, the $23 strongest guarantee that funds will per parcel tax proposed for the next be spent as intended. In addition, any four years in the high school district. senior citizen may opt out of paying The second is the race for the Santa the parcel tax, and an independent remember when… Barbara School Board. oversight committee will be estab- With respect to Measure H, it is lished to monitor expenditures and endorsed by many Montecito resi- conduct an annual audit. dents, including Larry Crandell, With respect to the School Board race, Montecito Union Superintendent Dick three candidates stand out: Ed Heron, Douglas, and former Santa Barbara Charlotte Ware, and Jacqueline Inda. School Board member Fred Rifkin. Ed Heron is an experienced business Measure H is a specifically targeted leader who has emerged in recent parcel tax that would provide funds years as a champion of public educa- for additional foreign language elec- tion locally. 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Lincoln turned out to be pret- self-righteous commentary in favor for Santa Barbara School Board. This ty good for the country, I would hum- of the quite insulting Sarah Palin. You is the best course for the Santa Barbara bly suggest. Some even called him have yet to come close to being con- Rotary Club High School District. a troublemaker when he spoke out vincing, only sounding juvenile and Sincerely, publicly against the Supreme Court’s abusing your power, just like your lat- of Montecito Lanny Ebenstein Dred Scott opinion. est crush. Being an educated and suc- ttt Former Member One can certainly prefer the cessful mother, wife, and most impor- Chris DeVries Santa Barbara Board of Education Republican candidate, but, for heav- tantly here, a woman, I find Mrs. Palin (Editor’s note: Although you make a en’s sake, please base your decision repulsive. I see clearly that she has Recognized for nice pitch, Measure H is still more spend- on some meaningful criteria and not the verve, and even looks that seem Outstanding ing on continuing educational programs nonsense. to be appealing to men...the “naughty and we are opposed to piling yet another Richard C. Solomon librarian.” But she does nothing for Community Service expense onto one class of citizens: prop- Santa Barbara me. Sexist? You bet. Reality? Seems so. erty owners; for the School Board, we are (Publisher’s Note: We agree that the Her lack of respect for facts, animals, most familiar with Charlotte Ware and experience argument is ridiculous on both the environment, scientific research, endorse her candidacy; we’ll examine your ends. It wasn’t too long ago that the and especially women, doesn’t suit support for Mr. Heron and Ms Inda before Democrats backing Hillary said Obama any forward thinking and forward the election- TLB) was too inexperienced to run the coun- moving woman or man. try but now the same group is attacking If Governor Palin had her way, we Lincoln Was an Sarah Palin’s experience. As far as we would be teaching our children that are concerned, it would be nice to see humans and dinosaurs walked the Agitator Too! a candidate with absolutely no political earth together only 6,000 years ago, Reader Byron Ishkanian in last experience, maybe he or she might actually our foreign policy would be meted week’s issue writes that Obama “has bring something to the table that wasn’t out in terms of “good guys” and “bad absolutely no experience except as so typical and predictable. It’s good that guys,” we’d think we were quali- a street agitator and troublemaker.” you mention Abraham Lincoln, America’s fied to be astronauts because we can Well, in fact, Obama has virtually the first Republican president. ~TLB) see the moon at night, polar bears same experience that Abe Lincoln had would be extinct, we’d all be referred he Rotary Club of Montecito’s President Richard Douglas announced when he ran for President: both served Nothing to Like About to as “guys” and “gals” ala Alaska last week that Christine DeVries is eight years in the Illinois General style, and we’d live in a world where the club’s Rotarian of the Month for Assembly (Lincoln) or its successor, Sarah Palin women’s rights were no longer valid. October.T the State Senate (Obama). Obama has What’s not to like about Sarah You may think this is all good, but DeVries is a Senior Vice President for Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, served as a U.S. Senator for almost Palin?! OK Tim, I’ve had enough. For most Americans disagree. Ms Alaska’s located on East Valley Road, in four years; Lincoln served one year as several weeks I’ve picked up my local become the butt of late night talk Montecito. She has been a member of a Representative to the U.S. Congress news journal to find your right-sided, show jokes for good reason. Now, as the world’s largest and most respected for you? I suggest you get some good service organization since joining in 2004. therapy and find out why it is you “Chris serves as a great example need to pontificate so through our of what Rotary stands for – a global journal. You have a legacy I believe network of community volunteers you’re obligated to live up to and – business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service, honor. I never heard your father speak encourage high ethical standards, and this way. Leave it to the editorial sec- help build goodwill and peace,” said tion for honest opinions like mine and Douglas. “Her qualities of leadership, ethics, and expertise while serving at keep your spin out of the reporting her banking job and at the Rotary Club and everything else, for that matter! of Montecito are widely applauded and Sincerely, greatly appreciated.,” added Douglas. Noelle Burg “It has been an extreme pleasure to have Chris as a colleague at the bank Montecito and to work with her over the years,” (Publisher’s Note: Political opinions said Club Service Director John in Montecito Journal, are only found Brinker, who is the Chief Investment on the editorial or letters page, unless of Officer at Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. “She is admired by everyone in the course, the column is “Purely Political” company and even more so by our or something of that nature. Unlike most customers,” added Brinker. major media, we never have inserted opin- Her high-energy leadership is ion into news and never will. I can see contagious. She spearheads the club’s many local projects as the Community how you completely disagree with my Service Director. She also serves on approval of Sarah Palin, but repulsive? the Board of Directors, and makes “a world where women’s rights were no significant financial contributions as longer valid?” “qualified to be astronauts a Paul Harris Fellow and Foundation Sustaining Fellow. because we can see the moon at night?” “My life is very full, busy and Where do you come up with these? Again, sometimes hectic,” said DeVries. if I were to choose a president and/or “Serving as a Rotarian allows me to give back in whatever way works vice president it would have been nei- with my life at the time. Sometimes I ther McCain or Palin and certainly not can do a little more, other times all I Obama or Biden. I do feel, however, that can manage is to show up for lunch and a “moderate” McCain presidency would write a check. Either way, I know I am helping to make someone’s life a little be a lesser evil than the sharp left turn an better.” Obama administration is likely to take. Either way, when people look back on this Rotary Club of Montecito • P.O. Box 40218 Santa Barbara 93140 • (805) 643-3160 election, even academics will come around [email protected] and accept the fact that Sarah Palin didn’t Meets Tuesdays at noon Montecito Country Club get a fair shake from the beginning. She is a strong-willed and an effective governor 8 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 of the largest state in the union. Obama 205 E. Carrillo St., Suite 100 | Santa Barbara, CA tel: 805.965.5500 | fax: 805.965.5300 has never had to deal with the scrutiny she It’s My Sign www.radiusgroup.com has had to put up with. ~TLB) on My Property Weigh the Issues A couple of weeks ago, we put up a Medical Office - For Lease sign supporting a presidential candi- After reading this week’s Letters date outside our gate on Hot Springs column (#14/39), the last letter, Road. Three days ago, it was ripped a short one, brought a smile to my down at night. I subsequently noticed face. The writer, obviously a Santa that several other signs supporting the Barbara McCain supporter, was same candidate were also removed “shocked” at the attitude of those peo- from other nearby properties the same ple (read left-leaning, socialistic, liber- night. Clearly this was a systemat- als) who had the gall to point out the ic effort on the part of some group possible lack of capability of Sarah opposed to the candidate involved, Palin to fill the number-two spot and not just a casual act of vandalism by a quite possibly the number-one office single individual. in the course of time. The inference I’m sorry, but this is conduct beyond was that this was a very unpatriotic the pale. This is a free country, where thing to do. we, and everyone else, have the right However, what caused me to smile under the Constitution to express our at his observations was that the same views, political or otherwise, in any group of letters also contained one from reasonable way we wish. If I choose a McCain supporter in Montecito. This to erect a sign expressing my political particular letter writer proceeded with preferences, no one, but no one, can vigor to call Obama a street agitator, remove it from my property without Rarely available Class A Medical office building troublemaker and weak elitist with abso- my permission. Certainly, had an offi- located directly across from Cottage Hospital. lutely no experience, who also, along cial body wished me to remove it for with Biden, is an “America Hater.” some legal reason, they would have So much for any reasoned discussion contacted me first. Steve Brown, Principal/Broker of our nation’s many major problems Have the people who did this for- and who might best be the leader to try gotten that we live in a democracy? Do Austin Herlihy, Agent directing how to correct them. It sure I have to put up security cameras and 805.965.5500 Ext. 133 is a lot more fun and less mental strain lights to protect my right to express [email protected] for this type of person to just scream myself as a citizen when posting imprecations and insults than to apply signs? Everyone, whether Democrat, any intelligence to the choice of can- Republican, or Independent should didates. When did “weigh the issues” condemn this stupidity. get replaced by “smear the candidate” One asks a final question. Are those as the basis of American political dis- who felt it necessary to organize an Montecito Family YMCA cussion and debate? Maybe I’ve just effort to rip down these election signs been a “dead ass golfer” too long to aware just how fragile democracy is? Golf & Tennis Tournament ® understand. Their stupid, unthinking act smacks of Bud Stuart intolerance, ideological blinkers, inse- Thursday, October 30, 2008 Santa Barbara curity, and, yes, potential fascism. 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Bring Hall, Westmont College food to share. Info: 565-6051 When: 4:30 to 6:30 pm (If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please contact us at (805) 565-1860, fax Where: La Casa de Maria, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 (805) 969-6654 or e-mail: [email protected]) 800 El Bosque Road TUESDAYS local candidates for office Info: 969-5031 Cold Spring School Foundation Meeting When: 6:30 pm When: 7 am Mindfulness Meditation Where: auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 Where: auditorium, A weekly opportunity to meditate in Info: 969-3249 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road community with Radhule Weininger; MBAR Meeting Info: 969-2678 Under consideration for preliminary based on Insight Meditation techniques 2008 Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival approval are additions on Santo Tomas taught by Jack Kornfield in the Theravadan Spearheaded by John Blondell, Halloween Crafts at the Library and Butterfly Lanes, a new dwelling and tradition. All levels welcome. Westmont professor and Lit Moon The Montecito Library offers its annual structures totaling approx. 8,100 square When: 6 to 7 pm Theater Company artistic director, Halloween craft workshop for children feet on 1.9 acres requiring cut and fill on Where: La Casa de Maria, theater artists from across the globe ages 3 and up to make cards, collages, and Ashley Road, and demolition of 3,000 sq. 800 El Bosque Road present 6 unique visions of Shakespearian candy buckets using a vast assortment of ft. of structures replaced by 6,000 sq. ft. Info: 969-5031 plays from October 16 to 25. Tonight, ghosts, cats, pumpkins, bats and harvest requiring cut and fill on .4 acres on Cota the adventurous Bulgarian director, moons Lane. WEDNESDAYS THRU Lilia Abadjieva, directs Westmont When: 3 to 4:35 pm When: 3 pm SATURDAYS actors and professionals from Bulgaria Where: 1469 East Valley Road Where: Country Engineering Building, and Macedonia in an all-male fusion of Info: 969-5063 Live Entertainment at Cava Planning Commission Hearing Room, Othello and Measure for Measure. Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road 123 E. Anapamu Show times: Tonight at 7 pm; Sunday, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 When: 7 pm to 10 pm October 19 at 2 pm; Thursday, October 23 Info: 969-8500 Grief Recovery Workshop Montecito/Hope Ranch Republican at 9 pm; Saturday, October 25 at 7 pm. The fifth workshop of the 8-week series Women’s Club Meeting Where: Center State Theater, Paseo Nuevo THURSDAYS covers the topic “Our Faith and Grief” A description of propositions on the Cost: $22; $17 students and seniors When: 7 to 9 pm November 4 ballot will be followed by a Info: Tickets available through Lobero box Story Time at the Library Where: El Montecito Presbyterian Church discussion led by Carol Anderson at the office, 963-0761; for complete festival Montecito Library holds pre-school story library, 1455 East Valley Road monthly luncheon meeting. details or online tickets go to www.litmoon. time Info: Carol Bussell, 969-5041 ext. 241 or When: 1130 am com. When: 10:30 to 11 am Nancy Warda, 682-4337 Where: Montecito Country Club Where: Montecito Library, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 Cost: $30 1469 East Valley Road TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Reservations and info: Dottie Manzo, Info: 969-5063 MUS Jog-a-Thon 569-2038 Cold Spring School Parent Club Meeting The annual event raises money for the PTA FRIDAYS When: 8:30 am When: 1 pm Annual Blood Drive Where: library, Where: Montecito Union School, Montecito Union School’s annual blood Farmers’ Market enlivens Coast Village 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road 385 San Ysidro Road drive benefits the Santa Barbara Blood Bank Road with a mélange of color, aroma, and Info: 969-2678 Info: 969-3249 and is open to the community; signups sound while featuring fresh vegetables, preferred fruits and flowers Cold Spring School Site Council Meeting Casa de Maria Work Weekend When: 9 am to 1 pm When: 8 am to 11:15 am When: 3:15 pm Come together to cook, play, pray and Where: Montecito Union School, Where: South side of Coast Village Road Where: library, work along side the La Casa staff in 385 San Ysidro Road 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road projects like tending the orchard, organic Info: 969-3249 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 Info: 969-2678 market garden, and landscaping, as well as gathering and chopping wood, mending Fire Prevention and Preparedness Meeting MUS K-3 Sings MUS Board Meeting screen doors or pillows, etc. Help prepare For owners and residents of Carpinteria When: Group 1, 9:30 am; When: 6 pm La Casa’s sacred grounds for winter’s rest. and Summerland, a meeting about current Group 2, 10:30 am Where: Montecito Union School Families, singles, all are welcome. fire safety conditions in the area and a Where: Montecito Union School, auditorium, When: Friday, 8 pm to Sunday, 1 pm discussion on the unique issues facing 385 San Ysidro Road 385 San Ysidro Road Where: La Casa de Maria, residents of Toro Canyon, Vista Linda, Info: 969-3249 Info: 969-3249 800 El Bosque Road Ladera, and Hidden Valley Candidates Forum Cost: $50 residential When: 7 pm Homeless Veterans Where: Pacifica Graduate Institute, Montecito Union School hosts a forum on Info: 969-5031 Dwight Radcliffe, president and CEO of 801 Ladera Lane Info: Dennis McGowan, 565-4846 Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey Trio Montecito Tide Chart Performance Celebrated for its nuanced and compelling Day Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt performances, the group will perform Thurs, Oct 16 4:!4 AM 1.7 10:33 AM 6.6 05:36 PM -0.6 Beethoven’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Fri, Oct 17 12:01 AM 4 4:47 AM 2.2 11:12 AM 6.5 06:32 PM -0.5 op.70, No. 2, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio Sat, Oct 18 1:10 AM 3.6 5:23 AM 2.6 11:58 AM 6.3 07:38 PM -0.3 in D Minor Sun, Oct 19 2:43 AM 3.3 6:11 AM 3 12:55 PM 5.8 08:56 PM -0.1 When: 7:30 pm Mon, Oct20 4:38 AM 3.5 7:39 AM 3.4 02:13 PM 5.4 010:18 PM 0 Where: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West Tues, Oct21 5:55 AM 3.9 9:59 AM 3.4 03:51 PM 5 011:29 PM 0.1 Tickets: $35 and $40 Wed, Oct 22 6:39 AM 4.3 11:42 AM 2.9 05:21 PM 4.9 Info: 969-8787 •MJ 10 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 ANOTHER FINE PROPERTY REPRESENTED BY DANIEL ENCELL WHILE OTHERS ARE CUTTING THEIR ADVERTISING BUDGETS, I CONTINUE TO INCREASE MINE. 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Featuring an oversized 3-car garage, hand-tooled beamed ceilings in nearly every room, travertine and hickory floors, and 8 fireplaces, no expense was spared in the creation of this extraordinary estate. Newly Offered at $8,750,000 16 – 23 October 2008 MONTECITO JOURNAL 11 Building Village Beat by Kelly Mahan Peace of MPC Approves Miramar Mind n a 4-1 vote last week, Montecito Mind Planning Commission approved Rick Caruso’s $300 million MiramarI renovation project. The MPC’s fourth and final meeting on the project brought details of its day- to-day operations under scrutiny, with the commissioners focusing on issues such as beach club membership, parking, and events. An appeal of the project is likely, although nothing has been filed yet; the deadline for appeal is close of busi- Rick Caruso spent another eight-hour day “bond- ness Monday, October 20. ing” with the MPC; by the end of the hearing his project was approved 4-1 In August, the commission granted conceptual approval of the project and ect, including a handful of new condi- decided not to require an SEIR on tions to tack onto the 80+ conditions water supply, which was a reversal of which were previously in place. The a decision made at its August 6 meet- new conditions include working with ing. New information, including mul- MBAR to ensure the “cottage-style” tiple statements from Montecito Water architecture required by the Montecito Visit Our Website District GM Tom Mosby, and a new Community Plan and the requirement GIFFIN & CRANE www.GiffinAndCrane.com water ordinance and rate structure that Caruso make the current struc- GENERAL CONTRACTORS, INC Phone (805) 966-6401 License 611341 recently passed in Montecito, gave the tures on the site available to the public MPC reason to not require the addi- for rehabilitation purposes. A ward W inning B uilders S ince 198 6 tional environmental review. Several members of the public spoke Included in the conceptual approv- to urge the MPC not to approve the al were significant changes made by project. Resident Jean Harfenist, Caruso’s team. They included mov- speaking on behalf of a representative gcr1402_MontecitoJournalCampaign_FNL.indd 17 7/25/08 3:58:27 PM ing all the buildings near All Saints of Union Pacific Railroad, brought Church 15 feet from the property up issues of hydrology relating to the line, moving several buildings out track that runs through the Miramar amherst of the South Jameson setback, low- property. Ron Pulice urged the com- ering the height of the main build- mission to require more analysis on ing, and eliminating the tennis court traffic impacts. “We should know the 1031 lighting. Possibly most significant was impact of thousands, or even hun- the removal of the second floor of dreds of people coming in and out the building adjacent to the church of a new hotel! A wonderful hotel. I The most trusted and dividing it into two cottage-style want it built, but we need to know resource for tax deferred buildings; this proved to decrease the what we’re up against,” he said. Bill number of guest rooms from 204 to Palladini, speaking on behalf of the exchanges since 1988 192 and reduced the square footage of Montecito Association, summarized the project by 6,655 sq ft. a letter sent by the MA’s land use 100% Protection At last week’s hearing, county staff, committee regarding property main- for exchange funds led by project manager Errin Briggs, tenance, number of events, and proj- presented the commission with the ect architecture. “We recommend to findings necessary to approve the proj- you to remain involved in some man- Highest interest paid Help Me Montecito Water District Amanda Grijalva, Vice President Stop Rate Hikes “I have scores of accommodators from which to choose, CHANGE but I far prefer the way Amherst works. 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Caruso asked his supporters to Overall who seemed to take issue forego their podium time and instead mainly with traffic impacts. Chair Bob stand to show the commission their Bierig stated at the close of the hear- support. ing, “That was a monumental task, The public has 10 calendar days, and I’m glad we put it behind us.” not business days, to file an appeal, Caruso thanked the commission for its Briggs told us. He said he has fielded time and confidence and joked, “I feel a couple of phone calls asking what like we bonded; I’m happy to come the process is, but an official appeal back anytime you want, to just sit here has yet to be filed. Naomi Kovacs, and keep you company.” Executive Director of the Citizens Planning Association, said she needs Montecito Association to bring the issue of an appeal to the CPA’s Board of Directors before In more Miramar news, the board deciding to move forward. 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I have never seen the Over, Tricks for Looking, Contact the offi ce for your complimentary LASIK screening. shadeI of green that exists on the “The Thinner, Younger, Emerald Isle.” And seven million cows and More Confident – Dr. Stuart Winthrop also provides comprehensive ophthalmic care do live there along with three and one Instantly!” If you have an ranging from routine eye exams, to more involved medical exams or half million people in the surrounding event that belongs in this surgical treatment. column, you are invited to towns and villages. With 60 inches of call Lynda at 969-6164. rain a year, the grass is sweet. We had flown into Shannon and driven to Killarney. I loved the vil- Christopher Columbus, the Irish claim www.seewinthrop.com • 805.730.9111 lages along the way with each of the that St. Brendan discovered America business buildings painted a different in 558 A.D. Much to Don’s chagrin bright color. In Dublin, the Georgian there is supposed to be evidence in homes had all their wide front doors his home state of West Virginia of Irish painted a myriad of colors. The doors monks in caves long before “Chris” were wide to accommodate the ladies’ arrived. Tim Sevren chronicles it in bustles of an earlier era. I wondered The Brendan Voyage. if neighbors ever argued over what We arrived at Hotel Dunloe Castle color to use. just outside Killarney. I was in heaven They have a Tidy Town contest which as we drove up to the entrance sur- Killarney recently won. According to rounded by cows and palomino hors- our guide, “The birds are so tidy es grazing in the spectacular green they fly upside down when flying meadows. That was our view for three over!” There was practically no litter days. There are also the remains of anywhere we went in Ireland and the Dunloe Castle on the grounds. The bar majority of homes and gardens were was cozy and so were the two restau- immaculate. The signs were all in rants. It was a trip highlight for me. two languages—Gaelic and English. One morning we boarded a horse Though Gaelic is only spoken by two and cart called a jaunting car for a per cent of the country it is required two-mile ride to Muckross House (a in school and you’re tested on it for Victorian mansion), gardens and farm college entrance exams. We were told outside of Killarney. It once belonged to there are two religions in Ireland— Maud Bourn and her husband Arthur Catholic and rugby. Vincent Rose. Her parents Agnes Although my husband Don loves and William Bowers Bourn II had Flowers spill from win- dow boxes throughout the small villages in Ireland 14 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 Riding in the jaunting Blarney is known as “the biggest little ney is flattery laid on with a trowel. car toward village in Ireland” and totally pic- Blarney is flattery laid on with lips. Muckross House near turesque. The Blarney Stone is a tri- That’s why you have to kiss a stone to Killarney angular stone atop a falling down get it.” The natives say they don’t do castle—120 steps up. Up we went and it, only the tourists. If that’s true there waited in a line for the attendant to were a lot of tourists that day. Oh, help. Don lay on his back while the well, it’s a fun tradition. fellow held his arms and Don’s head Dublin seems to be all about hung down as he kissed it. Uck! Do Guinness stout and Jameson whis- you know how long germs last? I took key. John Jameson was a Scot who his picture instead. Kissing the stone gave Ireland its most famous whis- is supposed to endow you with the gift of eloquence. We heard that “balo- SEEN Page 164 built Filoli, an estate and gardens just south of San Francisco near Woodside, which is now open to the public. The Executive Director of Casa del Herrero in Montecito, Molly Barker, worked indulge your senses... at Filoli 17 years before coming to Santa Barbara last year. Bourn had made a fortune in gold mining so he and his wife gave Muckross, which dates from 1843, to their daughter as a wedding gift. Maud had 22 servants and the children’s toys are still in their rooms. You can also see the specially prepared bedroom on the first floor where Queen Victoria slept during her one night visit in 1861. She was afraid of fire, having been burned as a child, and wouldn’t stay on the second floor where the more proper rooms were. After Maud died taxes were prohibi- Blarney Castle with its Blarney Stone at the top tive and the property became part of a National Park. there. She had sailed on the SS Nevada The town of Cobh (pronounced arriving 12 days later after traveling Cove) was where about 2.5 mil- in steerage. There is a similar statue lion emigrants boarded ships to flee of Annie at Ellis Island. Speaking of Ireland because of the potato blight ships the current joke about the Irish that destroyed the island’s main crop navy is “they have only two small ,5.#( s (!009 (/52 s $)..%2 s 35.$!9 "25.#( and led to wide-spread famine. Four ships and it’s the only navy that comes million more left from other ports in home for lunch!” a few short years. Henry Ford’s father was one, leaving in 1847. Kissing the Blarney Ellis Island opened January l, 1892 and there is a statue in Cobh of Annie Stone %AST !NAPAMU 3TREET s Moore and her two brothers who were What would a trip to Ireland be WWWELEMENTSRESTAURANTANDBARCOM the first emigrants to be processed without kissing the Blarney Stone? 16 – 23 October 2008 MONTECITO JOURNAL 15 SEEN (Continued from page 15) The old- est pub in St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a Protestant Ireland with church so Don attended mass at Don, myself and the good Whitefriar Street Church famous for ole Montecito having the remains of St. Valentine. A Journal Carmelite, John Spratt who built the church so impressed Pope Gregory XVI by his preaching in Rome in 1836 that he was given custody of the relics of St. Valentine. In ancient Rome February 14 was celebrated as a holiday to honor Juno, goddess of women and marriage. The root of our St. Valentine Day cards comes from the fertility rites and customs of this ancient time. Girls’ names were placed in jars and a girl would become festival-time partner of the young man who drew her name. Sometimes they would fall in love The 230-year-old The statue of Annie Moore and her two brothers and later marry. Emperor Claudius II Merry Ploughboy getting ready to leave Ireland at Cobh—she look- was our last stop (Claudius the Cruel) had a problem ing back at Ireland and her brother pointing to for Irish music and raising an army, and, assuming it was America. They were among the first immigrants dancing because men didn’t want to leave their to go through Ellis Island. families, he forbade marriage and for- key in 1780. We took a tour of the bade Christianity. The Christian priest distillery, which ended with a good Valentine ministered to Christians and shot of Jameson’s. I don’t even like blessed marriages anyway. For this he whiskey, but learned to love Irish cof- was beaten with clubs and beheaded. fee. We didn’t have time to see how Martyrdom came on February 14 in Guinness is made but we sampled it either 269 pr 270 AD. Another legend in one of the many pubs. It’s so thick is that while in prison he restored the and creamy without bubbles that I sight of the jailer’s daughter. When preferred Murphy’s, which seemed she opened his last note, it was signed more like beer. But it seemed like every “from your Valentine.” Irish person drank Guinness. They A perfect way to spend our last eve- say, “Guinness makes you see double ning was at the Merry Ploughboy Pub, and feel single!” Of course we ate pub first licensed in the 1780s. Recently grub as often as possible. restored, the well-known Dublin There is culture in Dublin as well. musicians, The Merry Ploughboys, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and Shaw are entertain with traditional Irish music native sons. George Bernard Shaw still and folk dancing. has residuals going from Pygmalion As we were sightseeing the Ring of (My Fair Lady) to the National Gallery. Kerry (a scenic drive around Ireland’s Supposedly he wrote to Winston most southerly peninsula), we saw Churchill inviting him to opening Santa Barbara’s sister town Dingle Have you been to the Wine Cask lately? night. Churchill replied, “No, I’ll come across Dingle Bay. The late Robert We welcome your visit… to the second night if you have one.” Mitchum (who lived in Montecito) Shaw responded, “Fine. 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Note the development at Sandyland Dunes, today’s Santa Claus area (photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum). ummertime, and the livin’ was upper reaches of the tidal lagoons easy for those lucky enough to at Sandyland. If the tide is out, the own property on a sandy spit flats are fairly a-crawl and a clat- Sof land backed by wetlands teaming ter with Shorebirds of six or seven with bird life and fronted by gently varieties – Western Sandpipers, Least breaking waves of the blue Pacific. Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers ... Those summer days at Sandyland and most certainly a scattering com- were for lazing on the beach playing pany of Long-billed Dowitches.” backgammon with friends and taking to the surf with air mattresses. Others Ms Beresford is a retired trotted out long wooden surfboards English and American his- tory teacher of 30 years in and played at imitating Duke the Santa Barbara School Kahanamoku. The sounds of beach District. She is author of parties and picnics mingled with the two Noticias, “El Mirasol: crashing of waves and whistling of From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara birds all summer long. Grocers,” for the Santa Behind the primrose and verbena Barbara Historical Society. covered dunes, the many meander- ing channels of the salt marsh invit- ed paddlers to a natural aviary. The During the 1910s, Dawson could be ornithologist and zoologist William found trudging through the muck of Leon Dawson, who published the the slough, his heavy camera equip- four-volume Birds of California in 1921, ment strung about his neck as he wrote, “My most regal hours with snapped photos of Sandyland’s abun- Shorebirds have been spent on the dant birdlife. 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Nothing came of their idea, and by Mrs. Stewart Edward White (Betty) takes aim dur- 1897 only Frances Packard, Antonio ing a shooting contest at Sandyland beach circa Schiappapietra, and Jules E. Goux still 1910. The White cottage sits behind the dunes and American flags decorate the plank holding owned the land. That year the claim with Canon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens was partitioned into six tracts with cartridges and guns (photo courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum). Packard owning four. • New 15.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor and In 1906, Stewart Edward White, dunes. 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White which already had a smattering of • 3.0-inch Clear View LCD (920,000 dots/VGA) with multiple coatings had become entranced with the idea cottages and a wharf by 1910. for improved viewing and smudge- of owning a beach retreat, and the Around 1915, White started selling resistant protection. • Enhanced Live View Function includes beach between the slough and the large plots of his Sandyland hold- Face Detection Live mode ocean seemed an ideal spot, for it was ings at $4 a foot. He sold to people remote and private. Not only that, he knew and whom he wanted for White, an avid outdoorsman, loved to neighbors. These plots were later ALL CANON ADVERTISED MERCHANDISE INCLUDES CANON USA 1 YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY REGISTRATION CARD canoe, so the many-channeled marsh divided and more houses were built. was ideal. He and Fithian became the Stewart Edward White, seeking great- INTEREST FOR 6 MONTHS! first in Santa Barbara to ride the wild er privacy, deserted Santa Barbara for PAYMENTS MIN. PURCHASE $199. SEE STORE FOR DETAILS. surf on long redwood boards. They Hillsborough in 1916 and sold all his FREE NO built a simple beach cottage, basically property in Santa Barbara. George CAMERA just a bathhouse with a living room, Owen Knapp and Frederick Forrest behind the low dunes, and White and Peabody acquired Sandyland lots and CLASS www.samys.com his wife and Joel Fithian and friends started to develop the area. Initially, with any digital MONDAY - FRIDAY spent many summer days at the idyl- the cottages were unpretentious; some camera purchase. 614 CHAPALA ST. RENTALS 8am-6pm lic retreat. were little more than cabanas and $39 VALUE! BETWEEN COTA & ORTEGA CAMERA SALES 9am-6pm In 1914, the sand spit east of Santa some lots stayed empty, used by the SATURDAY 9:30am-6pm Monica Creek was purchased by Joel owners for picnics and family outings. (805) 963-7269 SUNDAY 10am-5pm Remington Fithian and Peter Cooper Exclusivity had been built into the Prices good through October 21, 2008. STATE ST. Bryce who sold off lots. To the west area, however, and prospective own- Not responsible for typographical errors. WANTED! Limited to stock on hand. First come, CHAPALASamy’s ST. W. CARILLO E. COTA ST. USED CAMERAS of Sandyland, lay Sandyland Dunes ers were vetted by those who already first served. No rainchecks and no holds. DE LA VINA ST. Prices subject to change without notice. W. HALEY ST. WE BUY OR TRADE which was the least desirable of the owned property. *R=Refurbished, D=Demo, 101 FWY. properties for it was aptly named O=Open Box 35mm, Medium & Large Format and consisted of nothing but sand THE way it was Page 204 16 – 23 October 2008 MONTECITO JOURNAL 19 WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 19) Concerned about your Heyday loved one’s safety? C. K. G. Billings, a famous horse breeder whose fortune came from the development of Union Carbide, acquired a lot in Sandyland and built a substantial house, as did his partner at Union Carbide and owner of Arcady, George Owen Knapp. The race was on, and simple cottages were replaced by elegant homes complete with ten- Helen Davidson brought her camera to record nis courts and other amenities. Betty Strong and Lee preparing to take an air mat- In 1927, the race was won by a fur- tress to the sea at Sandyland in September 1927 (photo courtesy of Montecito History Committee) lough when Albert Isham, dissolute playboy and heir to a fortune, pur- The Strong family owned a cottage chased 7 acres at the western end of at Sandyland. Katherine Converse Sandyland and commissioned George Strong, widow of Benjamin Strong Washington Smith to design a Moorish of New York, came to Santa Barbara personal care services help with: Castle. Called Casa Blanca, it was inex- in 1916 and eventually owned one plicably painted bright yellow at first. of the first homes on Las Tunas on In addition to “Castelo Amarillo,” the Mission Ridge. Her daughter, Betty, UÊ`i«i`iViÊ>ÌÊ iÊ estate boasted a Moorish style pool attended Stanford University with UÊ,iVÛiÀÞÊvÀÊ>ÊÕÀÞÊÀÊiÃà house complete with kitchen, dining Helena Lansing Davidson, daughter of UÊÃÃÃÌ>ViÊÜÌ Ê`>ÞÊ>VÌÛÌià room dressing rooms, shower, and William Davidson. Davidson and his UÊ «>à « steam room. Also on the property were wife had come to Santa Barbara in 1904 a Breton-styled cottage, a tennis court, and purchased the oceanfront property Ê dog runs and a multitude of courtyards later known as the Hammond Estate. *i>ÃiÊV>ÊvÀÊ>ÊvÀiiÊ iÊ>ÃÃiÃÃiÌÊ and ornamental pools and fountains. Around 1914 they moved to 308 Hot Èä°ÈÓäÓ During Prohibition, bootleggers Springs Road, the southwest corner of supposedly landed at Sandyland Middle Road and Hot Springs and built and plied their product door-to-door. Darroch Lodge designed by Curletti. Isham certainly was not an abstainer Helen Davidson and Betty Strong and is reported to have entertained were good friends and spent many the Hollywood set lavishly, having a summer hours at the Strong Cottage at ÜÜÜ°Û VÃL°À}ÊUÊÃiÊ >L>Êië> fully-stocked bar behind a secret door Sandyland. Helen, a camera buff, pho- in his billiard room. Carrie Nation be tographed their days riding the waves damned, he managed to drink himself on air mattresses, playing tennis, sail- to death by 1931. ing, and just enjoying the beach and Other recognizable names that were the company of friends from 1927 to The WINEHOUND approved for ownership included 1933. From their bobbed hair to their The Hunt for Remarkable Wines Made Easy! McCormick, Peabody, Clinton B. Hale, striped-topped bathing suits with George Kaime, Sheppard, Batchelder, demure short skirts, they were roaring Starbuck, Levy, Spaulding, Chase, through life in true flapper style. Betty At THE WINEHOUND, the search Harleigh White, Donald Myrick and married attorney and later rancher for exceptional wines crosses the Sykes. In 1922, a short-lived auto camp Kenneth W. Watters, Jr. Helen, sadly, globe, spans the seas, and sometimes was erected just west of Sandyland died in 1934 at the age of 24. She has forces us to wander to the back ware- Dunes, but for the most part the colo- left us her photo album to remember a house to see what’s laying around. ny continued to develop as an exclu- time in history that was full of prom- sive resort area. ise and a life that was all too short. •MJ We promise to show you only our chosen favorites, the good stuff: Teachers, Community Absolutely no mutts, just the pick Bob Wesley, former Lazy Acres and Education of the litter! wine guy Leaders Support Ed Heron for School Board Winehound Pick of the Week “The key to strong schools in California today is strong leadership. 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In addition to all the old ago, the favorites like the lollipop toss, dunk climbing wall 9edjWYj:edIY^W\[h tank, cake walk, and giant climbing has quickly .&+$.//$(&()F^ed[ wall, several new events have been become a challenging .&+$*+($.(.)9[bb added: a stroller race and a duck pond, attraction for plus substantial new raffle prizes. children of .,,$/&+$-.-& You may have seen this home in Birnam Wood last year when it was offered for $4,750m; today, you can make the switch to resort living for just $2,750m large five-bedroom contemporary as is a 1929, William McCay-designed close to the ocean as one can be with six-bedroom, six-bath for your con- an infinity pool and deck to sip wine sideration. Formal and beautifully while the sun goes down. Yours for redone, it is offered for $12,398m. $29,950,000. On East Valley past San Ysidro going On Park Lane before Mariposa, a East and just beyond Periwinkle Lane vine-draped, neo- Spanish colonial on the left is a redone 1919, 1.7-acre ALL MAJOR TIRE BRANDS built in 2001 leads the under-$20m estate property with five bedrooms group at $15,990,000. A wonderful and two guest houses, two swimming master suite plus four bedrooms and pools, and long-developed gardens for a private guest house, for which you $11,900m. will want to leave everyone you love Take a look at a Tuscan style, Giffin and move into, shares twenty acres and Crane-built four-bedroom, six- and is just the right distance from the bath on Sycamore Canyon Road ocean that the infinity pool becomes below Cold Spring School offered at irresistible. $7,375m. On mid, lower Hot Springs near Should your focus be under $5m, three new homes have just come on the market. On Villa Mañana, a private cul- de-sac off Park Lane, is a single-level, bright, sun-filled four-bdrm, 3.5-bath on an acre with dramatic oaks and strong mountain views for $3,695,000. In the Birnam Wood community, there is a great opportunity to enjoy privacy and guests as well. The main house, with fairway and mountain views and a lake, has just one bed- room, yet with his and her baths and closets. And when guests come, they get their own house and everyone can meet in the spacious game room or at the tennis court. You may have seen this last year when it was offered for $4,750m. Resort living for $2,750m. And just listed is a charming, six- teen-hundred-square-foot two-bed- room, two-bath mid ‘50s adobe with tiled floors, open beamed ceilings and a small guest house. It includes a clas- sic East Mountain ocean view and a long front veranda to sit and enjoy Montecito in the Fall for $1,795m. •MJ 24 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 coming & going (Continued from page 17) LaLa Purisima Purisima Ranch Ranch WineW Country C near Buellton B 4,000 acres , (40 parcels) ( $19 million) | 160 | acres from $995,000 , 80 acres from 795,000 , | 40 acres | from $495,000 , Frank AbatemarcoF | A 805.450.7477 | .. | www.FrankAbatemarco.com | .F A . Sotheby’s International Sotheby’sRealty, Inc. International is owned Realty, and Inc. operated is owned by and NRT operated LLC. by Sotheby’s NRT LLC. Sotheby’s InternationalRealty® International Realty® is a is registered a registered trademark.trademark. Sansum Clinic Director of Philanthropy Lorna Berger (on right, with back towards camera) thanks the nearly forty women who responded so quickly to Vicki and Kandy’s call for volunteers in pink outside The Peppers Estate Pierre Lafond in the upper village donate $250,000 and challenged the “The beauty of it is that we are get- Montecito’s Elder Care community to come up with an equal ting the latest and the greatest when 430 Hot Springs Rd. Montecito, Ca 93108 amount. Each mammogram machine we change machines,” Kandy adds. RCFE 425801439 costs in the vicinity of a quarter of a “By getting the latest model, our Fine elder care in the heart of Montecito. million dollars. detection rate will be higher. We actu- Within an expansive garden environment, the Peppers “I thought a challenge grant was ally can save more lives because of the the way to do it,” she explains. “I new machines.” Estate possesses the finest staffing and care, exemplifying thought if I made this grant that other Vicki concurs: “Now, it’s up to us to the Montecito lifestyle. women would stand up and say, ‘Yes, meet Lee’s challenge,” she says. I’ll help.’” For every dollar donated by other – Call for a free tour. Her instincts have proven right, as individuals, groups, or organizations David Sullins, illustrated by the number of women toward women’s imaging equip- Keeping Your Loved Ones Administrator that showed up at short notice for our ment before December 31, Mrs. Luria Close to the Home and Heart ( 805 ) 451-2222 cover photo. Most of the women are will match it dollar for dollar up to cancer survivors and all have contrib- $250,000. uted something to try and match Mrs. “There is an urgency to this,” Luria’s $250,000 challenge. explained Ransohoff. “First, to meet PAM ANDERSON SKIN CARE SPECIALIST “It’s almost a no-choice situation,” Mrs. Luria’s gifting deadline. But even says Kandy. “We desperately need more important, the sooner the new to raise money for mammogram digital mammography equipment is machines. What people don’t real- in place, the better advantage we have MICRO – DERMABRASION ize,” she says, “is that mammogram in the early detection of breast can- machines have a lifetime and because cers.” FACIALS • WAXING • LASH & BROW TINTING Sansum does so many for Santa Sansum Clinic is an independent, Barbara women, the machines are not-for-profit, multi-specialty clinic overworked and [nearing their useful lifespan].” COMING & going Page 284 GIFT Japanese Antiques Show/Sale CERTIFICATES • 2476 Lillie Avenue Summerland, CA • (805) 895–9190 • Imported Directly from Japan Tansus, Scrolls, Screens, Pottery, etc. Come see your personal stylist a new or all : Yazmin, Kim, Trent, Two Days ONLY Oct 24 Fri. 11:00 – 8 :00 Thuy, Maryelle, Leslie, Oct 25 Sat. 9:00 – 3:00 Irma, Heather, Donna, Don & Constance Veterans’ Memorial Building 112 West Cabrillo Blvd 805.969.3195 Santa Barbara (near the Pier) 1470 E. 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Valley Rd., Montecito 1046 Coast Village Rd., Montecito 26 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13) If we had listened to them, or the plan- pathway on the ocean side of Channel alone,” said board member Ted ning commission listened to them, we Drive where the sidewalk ends. The Tedesco. Dallas Clark, former presi- wouldn’t have the product that we original $60,000 proposal several years dent of the Butterfly Beach Association, have now,” defended board member ago was very minimal: it consisted of a added, “There are a number of issues Darlene Bierig. Hazard responded simple asphalt sidewalk with no land- there that, I would say, it’s better left by saying, “I am very proud of the scaping. At the time community feed- alone. I would guess that the neigh- Montecito Association and the job you back was not positive, Dobberteen bors would not give consensus on it.” did.” explained. The community asked She also suggested doing something In a report from the Board for a nicer surface, a safety rail, and to slow down the cyclists that “fly” Nominating Committee, the names of landscaping, and now the cost has down that hill. the candidates for six open seats on the increased to $225,000. Dobberteen clarified the reason for Board of Directors were announced: Regarding the proposed pathway, the presentation of the project to the current board members Elisa Atwill, board member David Kent asked MA was to gain input on whether the Bill Palladini, Monica Brock Peterson about coastal erosion and whether pathway is even necessary. “This is and Louis Welder have agreed to run that would affect the project. “I tend government driven in response to con- again, along with new candidates Tom to agree on leaving it alone,” he said. cerns we’ve heard for decades about Bollay and Richard Nordlund. Bierig brought up the Montecito this area,” he said. “We don’t want to During the public comment period, Community Plan and the sidewalk build a project in search of a problem,” Doug Morgan, Director of Montecito issues in Montecito. “Sometimes it’s Water Board introduced himself to the almost better to leave well enough VILLAGE BEAT Page 394 board and announced his candidacy for short-term Water District Director. He also reported that water use in August and September was down SHERIFF’S from last year in Montecito. Fire Chief Kevin Wallace warned BLOTTER of significant fire danger due to the compiled by Amber Brown from information supplied by Santa Barbara County dry weather, and Lieutenant Eric Sheriff’s Department, Carpinteria Division Koopmans reported low crime in the area with the exception of thefts at Westmont College. He explained that Stalking on Mira Monte two male suspects went into unlocked dorm rooms and stole 5 or 6 laptops. Friday, October 10, 11:28 am − Senior Deputy Neel contacted a man who Presumably unrelated, two golf carts claimed that a woman had been stalking his family and vandalizing his home. were stolen from Westmont around the The victim reported that the woman lived at the Mira Monte residence five same time; both were later returned. years ago and had to sell the house because of financial problems. The suspect Ben Pitterle, Watershed Programs believed the house was still hers and that she has the legal right to be there. The Director at Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, owner of the house reported that she has been vandalizing the mailbox, making made a presentation to the Board con- threatening gestures, and writing eviction notices to the neighbors. The victim cerning the services the non-profit reported that he had filed three crime reports with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s offers. Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Department for the vandalism, trespassing, and thefts. He also tried to obtain promotes advocacy, monitoring, edu- a restraining order against the woman, but he was told the situations did not cation and restoration, and is involved warrant one. While finishing up the complaint over the phone he asked that his with projects that may affect water home be patrolled in an attempt to locate the suspect. quality. Pitterle described some of the The next day, Deputy Smith drove to the victim’s residence to make a security non-profits’ achievements, including check. While he was there he noticed a car parked at the far end of the driveway securing a 40% increase in money for facing him. He approached the car and asked the woman inside what she was Santa Barbara County urban runoff doing on the property, she stated, “I live here.” When he told her she did not prevention, and its involvement with live there she replied, “I’m here to get my mail.” Shortly after, Senior Deputy the city of Santa Barbara to enact Neel was dispatched to the scene. While waiting for assistance he noticed van- sewer inspection and repair ordinanc- dalism on the mailbox in blue pen. Sergeant Moore also arrived on scene to es. Channelkeeper’s role is to raise assist. Based on the history of the suspect and her actions the officers concurred public awareness and encourage pub- that she was in violation of stalking. They arrested the suspect and brought lic participation; they have a volunteer her to Santa Barbara County Jail where she was booked. During the inventory group that collects water samples to search they found pens that matched the writing on the mailbox. An Emergency monitor water quality and identify Protective Order was granted for the victim and his family •MJ pollution sources. Marine education at the junior high and high school level and a partnership with Ty Warner Sea Center are just two examples of TRY community outreach; harbor clean- US! ups, beach and creek cleanups and invasive kelp removal are ways the club restores clean water. A yearly Professional Dry Cleaning and Laundry Service fundraiser, called the Blue Water Ball, “SINCE 1933” Leather & Suede • Reweaving • Fine Alterations • Draperies is held each spring. In House Cleaning • Wedding Gown Preservation Jeremy Tittle from Salud Carbajal’s Do Not Kid Around When Looking For A Tailor. Let Us Help You! office announced that Safe Routes to School had received a grant for full NEW Loreto Plaza HOURS Montecito federal funding for a project along San 3323 State Street 1187 Coast Village Rd. Ysidro Road. The grant was for just FREE PICK-UP under $400,000 he said. 687-8113 & DELIVERY * 969-3736 Mon-Fri 7-7 Sat 9-5 Mon-Fri 8-6 Sat 9-4 Matt Dobberteen with County * Must be a charge account Public Works presented a proposed 16 – 23 October 2008 Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys – P.J. O’Rourke MONTECITO JOURNAL 27 coming & going (Continued from page 25) offering a broad range of healthcare On the day of the show, “We had Among those attend- and outpatient treatment options to to show up at six o’clock in the morn- ing Coral Casino’s grand more than 120,000 residents of the ing,” Brennan recalls, “and we had to reopening party were (from left) Brad Hall, Santa Barbara region each year. To join fill out paperwork with our parents, Hillary Hauser, Dennis Mrs. Luria as a donor in the Clinic’s practice spinning the wheel, took pic- Miller, and Julia Louis- campaign for new digital mammogra- tures, recorded videos of us talking Dreyfus phy equipment, contact Lorna Berger, together, and then we split up into Director of Philanthropy at (805) 681- groups of six; each group had three 7726 or [email protected]. pairs. There were six shows that they do in one day. We were the last ones Wheel Of Fortune and we got done about six o’clock [in the evening].” For Two Cate Students “We got up about 4:30am because Carly Biedul and Brennan Cusack we spent the night in L.A.,” Carly are lifelong friends, having met before recalls. entering kindergarten. Both girls As to how the girls illustrated their A Grand Re-Opening attended Crane School from kinder- level of enthusiasm in order to be cho- Owner Ty Warner and Four Seasons garten through the eighth grade and sen as contestants: “Whenever they Biltmore celebrated the official reopen- are now sophomores at Cate School in said our name, we would jump up ing of Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Carpinteria. and start screaming,” Carly explains. Club on September 25, following the So, after Carly applied online “When we got the puzzle, we hugged completion of a three-year, $65-million (wheeloffortune.com) to become a each other and clapped a lot. You have restoration. contestant on “Wheel Of Fortune,” to clap a lot. We were really happy,” They did so in style, with a full-on and received an e-mail from the show she adds, “so it wasn’t too hard to act fashion show featuring live models to come down to Los Angeles for an happy.” parading along the temporary run- interview, she naturally chose Brennan Another reason they thought they ways constructed upon the larger- The runway, orchestral platform, special lighting, as her partner. might have been chosen: “We were than-Olympic-sized Coral Casino pool projection screens, and water fountains were con- The two girls went to Los Angeles kind of thinking,” Carly admits, “that wearing outfits from the 2008/’09 structed for the Coral Casino reopening celebra- and became one pair of about 35 other two redheads would look kind of cute Louis Vuitton Cruise Collection. tion; all had been completely removed by 7 am pairs of contestants, and after they on the show.” Following the fashion show, Dita Von the following morning left, Carly says they both felt they had The shows were videotaped in July, Teese protégée Ava Garner performed done well enough to get on the show. but Carly and Brennan’s appearance a special fan dance on the runway that, Dennis Miller, Carol Burnett, Cole “We kind of guessed that we might is scheduled to be aired Wednesday if nothing else, certainly captured the Hauser, Jake Weber, Salud Carbajal, be chosen,” Carly says, “because we evening, October 22, beginning at 7:30 attention of the men in the audience. Leslie Ridley-Tree, Josh Odell (grand- did pretty good, but when we got the pm, on Channel Six (NBC). Additional notable attractions son of Coral Casino’s original owner), call, we really were excited.” included water cannons and special Michael Towbes, Hillary Hauser, Tom lighting that lavished the pool with and Mary Belle Snow, the dazzling, Extraordinarily special effects, a sugary replica of popular, and newly married Erinn the pool and chocolate diving board Lynch, Brooks Firestone, Andrew and Nuanced and designed by Pastry Chef Don Hall, Ivana Firestone and her actress friend Compelling and two custom ice sculptures, one Moon Bloodgood, Christopher Lloyd, featuring a fish and the other a wave Andy and Dolly Granatelli, Janet and with the Coral Casino logo inside. John Wilczak, Dallas and Peter Clark, Ice cream was made on the spot at Adam Bianchi, Michael Cooney, and... the dessert station using liquid nitro- Party coordinator Jeffrey Best, gen, and all the food served had a inspired by the historic photo in the Mediterranean flavor, in keeping with Coral Casino lobby of the 1956 Town the theme of Tydes, the new second- and Country show, mimicked the ori- floor oceanfront restaurant. The food entation of the solid wood runway at the seafood station, for example, used then with the Plexiglass runway was actually flown in fresh from the that had been installed for the fash- Mediterranean, including “branzi- ion show. Instead of black curtains no” (seabass), rouget, “gamberoni” framing the runway (as in 1956), Best (shrimp) and mussels. Upstairs, used film screens instead and project- the flambée station served crepe ed Hal Boucher’s great old photos of suzette with homemade olive oil ice Hollywood celebrities who’d visited Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey cream. The cheese station featured Coral Casino on them. PIANO TRIO cheeses from all over Europe and DJ Mike Smith, brother of C Magazine paired wines. There were also caviar publisher Jennifer Smith Hale (and Giora Schmidt violin 7:30 pm, Thursday and crab stations. son of the late owner of KEY-TV Bob Zuill Bailey cello Upon arrival, guests were greeted Smith), spent hours rehearsing with October 23 with signature cocktails, either the the “floating symphony” musicians to Navah Perlman piano coral-colored Casino Royale served in synch the digitized tune with the live Hahn Hall a Martini glass, or an aqua-blue La orchestral music for the LV fashion BEETHOVEN Music Academy of the West Pacifica served in a Hurricane glass show. Piano Trio in E-flat Major, 1070 Fairway Road and containing blue Curacao. Later, A portion of the proceeds from the op. 70, No. 2 in Tydes (upstairs), Morganne sang event will benefit Heal the Ocean, French (Mediterranean?) classics as a local non-profit organization that MENDELSSOHN guests munched on crab and shrimp, focuses on minimizing ocean pollu- Piano Trio in D Minor drank vintage Champagnes, or sipped tion through the testing and study of TICKETS: 969.8787 fine cognac. wastewater infrastructures and storm- A short list of the nearly 400 attend- water contamination and the elimina- Co-presented by the Music Academy of the West and the Santa Barbara Symphony ees includes Julia Louis Dreyfus, Brad tion of ocean dumping and coastal Hall, Jacqueline Buckley (née Cox), landfills. •MJ 28 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 How do you choose? What are the quali- Little Dream” from The Mamas & The On Music ties you look for? Papas – but we play it in style from by Steven Libowitz It’s like going into a restaurant. 1931, and it’s so charming it’s hard to There’s the menu, you look it over explain. But it brings back that feeling and immediately you know what you from that period when it was written. Lost & Found in the 1930s want. It’s the same with the music. You op into a Max Raabe and Palast very fast and very funny, and it was either fall completely in love immedi- That sounds a lot like nostalgia. Is that Orchester concert and you might totally crazy instrumentation at the ately or you just aren’t interested. We what you’re trying to evoke? think you’ve stepped into a time time. In a way, though, it was also a sad only take the pieces that we really No, no, no. I don’t want to have warpP in Germany circa 1930. atmosphere. It touched me, the way the want to play. It depends on the tempo nostalgia on stage. That’s the furthest With slicked-back hair and sharp saxophone and trumpet were playing. and the character, or if the lyrics are from my mind. That word means for tuxedo, the singer leads the 12-piece And since then I’ve just been lost in it. great, or if they don’t matter because me that everything was better in the band through songs straight out of the past. But that’s not what we want to end of the Weimar Republic, the peri- say. It’s not that it was the good old od depicted in “Cabaret,” replete with If you play a symphony by Strauss or Beethoven, you play it as days. It’s that the music is timeless…. foxtrots, rumbas, tangos and ballads. If you play a symphony by Strauss or But Raabe is no throwback. As the they wrote it and how they had the idea. That’s not nostalgia. Beethoven, you play it as they wrote recent double-CD recorded live at it and how they had the idea. That’s Carnegie Hall indicates, this is an excit- not nostalgia. You can also handle it ing band that offers a modern-day So it’s just the sound that drew you? the composition is so beautiful. All in a modern way, different rhythm energy on classic songs from 80 years No, it’s also funny situations. if these things are working together, section or faster or put a beat under a ago, sung with elegance and beauty by They’re speaking about love lost or that’s the best. Schubert piece. But the real power of Raabe, who possesses a flexible bari- found, but the way it’s handled, the the song comes from the original way tone and an unerring taste for style. way they talk about the situations Why are you so partial to the original to handle it….. As far as the images, Raabe, who has kept his orchestra is very special. It’s a very elegant arrangements? the tuxedos and evening gowns, we’re together for more than 20 years lead- and sophisticated way to handle the You have to play it in the same way just trying to be elegant. If you see us ing up to the current U.S. tour that problem. It’s a huge difference from it was originally played because that on stage, you get the answer much makes a stop at the Marjorie Luke contemporary pop music, which lives offers the real and curious charm of more easily. It’s hard to explain. Theatre on Friday (via UCSB’s A&L), without irony. That’s one of the big- the song. We’ve found a lot of arrange- talked about the music from his bus gest contrasts for me. ments in book stores, or flea markets. Do audiences catch on right away? on the road. And it’s those opposites that appeal Or we get them from old 78 records, Yes. It’s so clear, everybody under- to me. The arrangements are so wild, when the arrangements were just bril- stands immediately. Maybe in the first Q. Why play music from that era now? or they’re very elegant. liant. I think audiences find us inter- five minutes, there is some confusion, A. Since I was a little kid, I always esting because the songs and instru- but I like that. And eventually, they loved this music. There was one record Much of your repertoire is German, but ments are familiar, but we play an see how we think about the music, my parents had, an instrumental piece, you have several American standards. older style. Everyone knows “Dream a and what the power is. •MJ “Lang the magician is slowly transforming himself into Lang the musician . . . there will be no stopping this nonchalant dervish of the keyboard . . . his playing was so raptly beautiful that one was afraid to breathe for fear of missing anything.” Chicago Tribune LANG LANG PIANO “The hottest artist on the classical music planet” (The New York Times ), 26-year old Lang Lang is the first Chinese PROGRAM pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and all the top American orchestras. Embodying Schubert a rare combination of exceptional skill and natural charisma, Piano Sonata No. 20 In A, D. 959 Lang Lang is a genuine musical legend in the making. Bartók Piano Sonata BB 88 Sz. 80 Generously supported by Marsha & William Wayne. Debussy TUE, OCT 28 / 8 PM Selections from Debussy Preludes Chopin THE GRANADA Polonaise Op. 53 A flat major TICKETS & INFO: 893.3535 OR WWW.ARTSANDLECTURES.UCSB.EDU 16 – 23 October 2008 MONTECITO JOURNAL 29 Classical Connection by Steven Libowitz Santa Barbara Music Club’s New Season sizeable and enthusiastic “And we also have wonderful ama- crowd turned out for a concert teurs, who for one reason or another, at SBCC from the Santa Barbara their life has taken a left turn and AMusic Club featuring four-hand piano they’re not working as professional pieces from Zeynep Ucbasaran and musicians. But they’re not happy just Sergio Gallo that benefited the club’s playing in their back room. We give scholarship program. them that outlet and an audience.” But the club’s main series gets under- Last Saturday’s concert raised near- way this weekend at the organiza- ly $2,000 for SBMC’s scholarship fund, tion’s unofficial home at the Faulkner which gets added to an already estab- Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public lished kitty for doling out at the end Library. Pianist Betty Oberacker, of the season to young musicians to UCSB professor emeritus and an further their training. The awards – in-demand musician, will perform which Rundlett said range from $100 Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat major to open to $1,000 per student, and sometimes the show and close out the concert even higher – are available exclusively backing baritone Andre Shillo on a to residents of Santa Barbara County. selection of romantic arias. In between, “It boosts our own teachers and keeps flutist Mary Jo Hartle, violinist Elaine the money at home,” he explained. Schott and pianist Allen Bishop will Last year, SBMC gave out $12,000 play Andriessen’s Pastorale, Cui’s in scholarships, raising the total since Last year, SBMC gave out $12,000 in scholarships, raising the total since the group was founded in the 1980s to more than $140,000 Now featuring Five Pieces and Ibert’s Deux inter- the group was founded in the 1980s to ludes followed by violinist Camille more than $140,000. Wii Fitness for kids! Miller’s performance of Wieniawski’s Highlights of the new season Romance (from Concerto in D minor) beyond Saturday’s concert include Group classes using the Wii Fitness to and Elgar’s La Capricieuse. the sixth annual Beethovenfest on It’s a typical SBMC concert, one December 8 and a special tribute to teach fitness and posture. that indicates how the club fills a very Felix Mendelssohn on February 21 in special niche on the classical music honor of the bicentennial of his birth. scene in Santa Barbara, said Nathan For up-to-date schedule informa- Rundlett, a 15-year member who took tion, details are available on the club’s Teach your kids to be Healthy while play- over as president this summer. website, www.sbmusicclub.org. “My predecessors have always talk- ••• ing their favorite video games! ed about it being a way of provid- CAMA’s Masterseries also gets ing music for free for the public,” underway this week, with a recital said Rundlett, the longtime Montecito by 2002 Gilmore Artist Award-winner Classes starting at $20 per person (6 max) resident who co-founded Opera Santa Piotr Anderszewski. The pianist – Barbara with his wife, Marilyn Gilbert. who has appeared with the Berlin “But the other side is that there are a Philharmonic and the Boston, Chicago lot of people who love to play – and and London Symphony Orchestras in Individualized Goals: who play very well – who need to be recent seasons – will play a program Before designing your individual program, your OLYMPIA STUDIO coach able to perform in public. The club is a of Bach’s Keyboard Partitas Nos. 1 and or trainer will conduct a thorough evaluation, assess your condition, learn collusion between those groups.” 2, Mozart’s Sonata in C minor, K. 457, your goals, and discuss all findings with you. Throughout your program, our Virtually all the music club’s twice- and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31, Op. expert staff will communicate with all those involved-you, your doctor, and other health care professionals to keep everyone current on your progress. monthly concerts are presented free of 110. Tickets for the 8 pm concert on Since you are an integral part of reaching your goals, it is important to us charge, a service Rundlett feels is vital Thursday are $35 & $45. that you feel informed. If you ever have any questions during or after your to the community. visit to OLYMPIA STUDIO, please be sure to ask. We never want a ques- “There are so many people who Santa Barbara’s chamber music tion to leave our studio unanswered. love classical music who often can’t ensemble, Camerata Pacifica, contin- Since 1998, OLYMPIA STUDIO has been serving Santa Barbara communi- afford (ticket prices at) the Granada or ues its season with concerts at 1 & 7:30 ty, providing excellent, progressive care, and continually demonstrating our Lobero,” he said. “And then there are pm at Hahn Hall that again feature commitment to wellness, sports, education and community. We appreciate those who wander in from the library. both founder-artistic director Adrian the opportunity to serve you and your fitness or rehabilitative needs. They hear the music and stop in to Spence and violinist Catherine see what it’s about. They get a dose Leonard – along with John Steinmetz, of classical music by accident, and it’s bassoon, Steve Becknell, horn and wonderful to expose them.” Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano – for a varied VICTOR CHAKARIAN, Ph.D. But the musicians benefit equally program including Saint-Saens’ Sonata from being able to perform in public, for Bassoon, Gaubert’s Flute Sonata in Rundlett says. A Major, Harbison’s Twilight Music, (805) 560-8555 “There are plenty of professionals Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilerias No. 4.JMQBT4U#t4BOUB#BSCBSB $" who want to play programs before 6 and Brahms’ Horn Trio in E Flat they take it on the road,” he suggests. Major. •MJ 30 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 On Song by Steven Libowitz WHO’S HELPING YOU REALIZE YOUR Alone, and Almost Happy FINANCIAL GOALS AND DREAMS? f Sings Like Hell wanted to choose a spokesperson, it could do a lot worse than Carrie Rodriguez. TheI Texas-born musician has grown up much the same way (and with the same time frame) during which the series has matured, moving from The trusted professionals at a timid accompanist to a singing Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf and Mission Wealth Management, and songwriting partner of pop Santa Barbara’s leading accounting and independent legend Chip Taylor to a full-fledged wealth management firms, are dedicated to helping you artist whose latest album, “She Ain’t Me,” makes a strong statement of achieve the freedom and peace of mind you need to independence akin to early Lucinda focus on what matters most to you - your family, Williams’ or Emmy Lou Harris’s your community, your dreams. work. Rodriguez discussed her career over the telephone from her Texas home Carrie Rodriguez, who has gone from classical violinist to full-time fiddler over the past couple before heading out on the road for a of years, kicks off Sings Like Hell’s 24th season at tour that includes kicking off SLH’s the Lobero Season 24 Saturday night accompa- nied by fellow Texans The South imagine going backwards again. Austin Jug Band. Your first solo album still had Chip’s work all over it, like it was a baby’s first Q. You started out as classical violinist. steps. Now it’s like you’ve learned to walk What stopped you for pursuing that as a on your own. Your Goals. Our Mission. career? Or like I’ve leapt off the cliff. It was A. My first year away from home at a very difficult process for me. In the Oberlin, I found that instead of spend- beginning, just the idea of stepping ing time in a practice room working away from the comfort zone of writing on Mendelssohn, I was in the dorm and performing with Chip was pretty listening and playing along to Hank scary. The first few songs I wrote with- Williams. I figured that was a sign out his help, it was hard not to second- something was wrong. Then I got to guess myself constantly. I was so used see Lyle Lovett, and sit in with his to having him there to bounce ideas band, and I just decided watching off because he is a wealth of experi- his fiddle player, that it looked like ence. It was hard, but I think the only so much more fun than playing in a way I would grow and move forward symphony. I love classical music but was to step away and try writing with if it’s not in your heart one-hundred others and even some on my own. percent, there’s no way you can dedi- That allowed me to find more of what cate yourself enough to get through is my own personal sound. And the the work. songs are much more autobiographi- But I have to say switching over to cal than anything I’ve presented to the fiddle music wasn’t easier at first. I outside world. It’s been scary but good, was so bad at just finding a groove, and the right time to do that in my life. it took me years. Classical music is And the sound is a little more rock, lyrical and all about the melody. They edgy, and not as folk-y or Americana. don’t teach you how to jam. It was I even had trouble finding places to fit quite a struggle. the fiddle in the songs I was writing. And I didn’t’ want to just slop it on Even then, though, you really never there just to have it. 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I finally got over that, and now it’s But I’m working on it, because I’ve a huge part of my musical life. I can’t chosen this path. •MJ 16 – 23 October 2008 Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at theMWM_Mont_Journal_half_pg.indd expense of everybody else – Frederic 1Bastiat MONTECITO JOURNAL6/25/08 11:38:3031 AM CALENDAR OF EVENTS In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon the Wednesday prior to publication; please send all news releases and digital artwork to [email protected] by Steven Libowitz Ending this week tours, lectures by renowned scholars, and spirituality and celebration. Members Monica) that used the appearance in the Shue business – “The Nerd,” an uproarious several crossover events all around town. include the granddaughter of a rabbi and blockbuster to catapult from weekly gigs take on promises you wish you hadn’t made Get a schedule and details online at www. a cantor, a former Las Vegas musical- at a local bar to international fame as a from actor-playwright Larry Shue (“The sboffaxis.org. theater professional, and a 20-year Wall touring act. The band’s seventh album, Foreigner,” arrives at the Ojai Art Center Street veteran, but the songs – traditional “What’s the Rumpus?,” hit No. 1 on both Theater this weekend. The play centers UCSB Music – The school’s music spirituals, Hebrew prayers, original songs, the Billboard and iTunes World Album around what happens when a Vietnam department’s concerts get going in earnest old favorites and even a little Bob Marley charts, but it’s their live appearances, full veteran who vows to do anything for the this week with a recital on Friday from – focus on the Jewish tradition of “Tikkun of bagpipes, fiddles and joyous sing-along nerdy guy who saved his life (but who he’s guest flutist Christina Jennings, who joins Olam,” which translates to “repairing the numbers, that keeps them popular. The never met) suddenly has to make good fellow University of Colorado at Boulder world.” Whatever the message, the music Lobero is a bit of a staid place for such a on his words during a birthday party. faculty member and pianist Margaret makes people clap their hands, stomp their rowdy concert, but it’ll be hard to keep WHEN: 8pm Fridays & Saturdays, 7pm McDonald (who also teaches at Music feet, and lift their voices to sing along. the audiences from dancing in the aisles Sundays, through Oct. 19 WHERE: 113 Academy of the West) for a program WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Santa Barbara tonight. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Lobero Montgomery St., Ojai COST: $18 general, featuring works by Poulenc, Schoenfield, Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido St. COST: $15 students, seniors INFO: 640-8797 or Gieseking and Mower (8pm, Lotte Vista COST: free INFO: 893-2317 or $33 & $43 INFO: 963-0761 or www. www.OjaiACT.org Lehmann Concert Hall, free)….Visiting www.soulaviv.com lobero.com associate professor Margo Halstead gives Last at-bat – Ensemble’s production of the first of planned quarterly recitals on “Take Me Out” is nearing the bottom of the 61-bell, five-octave carillon located the ninth. But there’s still the weekend at the top of Storke Tower on campus on Saturday, October 18 to catch Richard Greenberg’s literate Sunday afternoon. The program includes Lemon Festival – For years, it’s been the meditation on baseball and society. transcriptions of familiar music written biggest festival in Goleta Valley (with the The star center fielder of the New York for other instruments, arrangements of possible exception of July 4th fireworks); it “Empires” has come out of the closet, and songs by the Beatles, Duke Ellington and being the 17th annual Lemon fest. This year, the announcement wreaks havoc on his Hoagy Charmichael and UCSB Music organizers celebrate the more than 100-year teammates, who can no longer shower Composition Professor Emerita Emma Lou history of delicious citrus fruit in the valley, together without feeling self-conscious, and Diemer’s site-specific 1990 composition dating back to the 1890s when Sherman Stow others in the world of baseball and the city “Reflections from the Tower.” A video – who built the historic Stow House – planted as a whole. Santa Barbara-bred Michael feed will allow listeners to see how the more than 600 acres of lemon trees. Lemon Polak stars at Kippy, the gay player’s best carillon is played (3pm, free)…. Guest groves eventually gave way to housing tracts, friend and narrator. WHEN: 8pm nightly artists Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders but there are still plenty of activities devoted through Saturday, Oct. 18 WHERE: Nilsson of Sweden, play a free concert of to the fruit at today’s festival, everything 914 Santa Barbara St.. COST: $25–$37 improvised electronic music Thursday, Oct. from non-stop music to lemon pie eating (discounts for students, seniors and groups) 23 (Lehmann), following a free lecture at and recipe contests to pony rides, bouncers, dance performances, and much, much, INFO: 962–8606 or www.ensembletheatre. 5pm in the Music Building. Get complete more, including the Goleta Fall Classic Car, Motorcycle & Street Rod Show. More com info online at www.music.ucsb.edu or call information, including an entertainment schedule, is available on the fest’s website, 893-7001. www.lemonfestival.com. WHEN: 10am-6pm today, 10am-5pm tomorrow WHERE: Ongoing Girsh Park, Storke & Phelps Roads, Goleta COST: free Thursday, October 16 OFF AXIS 2008 – Events featured in this broad-based collaboration between civic Jewish soul music – SoulAviv is a Santa Heal thyself – Santa Barbara Songwriter Saturday, October 18 organizations, individuals, nonprofits and Barbara-based vocal group that blends Showcase founder-producer Christina commercial galleries include art exhibitions, high-energy soul, gospel and world- Grimm has booked one of her favorite Beer fest – The fields at Elings Park will public openings, artists’ interventions, VIP music grooves with Jewish heritage, artists for this month’s concert at Jensen’s be transformed into a traditional beer Mainstage: herself. Grimm, who recently festival featuring the best microbrews from relocated to Montecito, is celebrating the the Central Coast and beyond, including Thursday, October 16 release of her debut solo CD, a years-in- Hollister Brewing, the Brewhouse, Killians, the-making recording called “No Time to Anacapa Brewing and dozens more. Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival – The biennial Be Blue” that – although the subject matter Admission includes a keepsake glass for an festival created by Montecito resident and Westmont is more personal relationships than money afternoon of unlimited beer tasting; music theater professor John Blondell returns to town with – could serve as an elixir for the nation’s from the Harlequins, the Brewery Boys a cornucopia of events and new productions of the financial woes. Grimm will be backed by and One Year Yesterday, and food and Bard’s works. For Lit Moon, all of Santa Barbara is producer and ex-Santa Barbara resident other vendors. Enjoy, but remember not a stage, as the festival will present shows in venues Jack Lee and Hal Maynard, a soon-to-be- to drink and drive. WHEN: 12noon-4pm from Westmont’s Porter Theatre to UCSB’s Hatlen local singer-songwriter, who will open the WHERE: Las Positas Rd at Jerry Harwin Theater, with a primary focus at the Center Stage and show. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: 2905 De La Parkway COST: $30 advance, $35 at the Lobero downtown. Of particular interest are the world Vina St. COST: $10 general, $5 under 21 door INFO: 569-5611 premiere of “Othello/Measure for Measure” from INFO: 563-3200 provocative Bulgarian director Lilia Abadjieva, who World Fest ’08 – Earl Warren fuses the two masterpieces together via an all-male Showgrounds marks its 50th anniversary cast, and Blondell’s companion piece, an all-female Friday, October 17 with a two-day cultural event and take on “Julius Caesar.” The UCSB Theater Dept. also presents a new production community celebration featuring music, of “A Winter’s Tale” directed by Irwin Appel, and the university also sponsors the Storm warning – Remember the scene in dance, food and traditions of cultures from Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre’s version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Titanic” where Jack took Rose below decks around the world plus a carnival and games. presented in Georgian. Get a complete schedule online at www.litmoon.com, or call for an after-hours steerage party featuring a Musical entertainment runs the gamut from the Lobero at 963-0761 for tickets and information. raucous Irish band? The group was Gaelic acoustic soul (Jill Marie) to African dance Storm, an Irish pub band (based in Santa (Jambo) to country rock (Stephen Styles) 32 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 Sunday, October 19 Slings and arrows – Oh, wait. Sorry. The MOVIE GUIDE new album by Randy Newman – his first studio recording in nine years – is actually called “Harps & Angels.” But when you’re dealing with a singer-songwriter-composer as wry and devilishly witty as Newman, the heavenly artifacts are sure to come with Metropolitan Theatres sharp edges. The Los Angeles Times put it Information Listed For Showtimes / Tickets and NO PASSES OR COUPONS � perfectly when it said Newman “bridges the Plays Friday, Oct. 17 Information - 963-9503 - or - ACCEPTED ON thru Thursday, Oct. 23 www.metrotheatres.com SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS gap between the classic American Songbook craftsman ... and the more personalized FAIRVIEW FIESTA 5 ARLINGTON singer-songwriter style.” None of his Features Stadium Seating Features Stadium Seating 1317 State Street - 963-4408 peers have traversed that fine line between 225 N. Fairview - Goleta 916 State Street - S.B. A DIGITAL Presentation � populist composer (he wrote the songs and � W. (PG-13) SEX DRIVE (R) soundtracks to “Toy Story,” “Monsters, 2:00 4:50 7:45 Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 6:45 9:10 Mon-Thur - 2:40 5:20 7:45 � Inc.,” etc., plus such songs as “You Can (PG-13) THE EXPRESS (PG) W. Leave Your Hat On” and “I Think It’s 2:10 7:15 Walt Disney Pictures (PG) 2:00 5:00 8:00 Going to Rain Today”) and viciously clever BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA BURN AFTER READING (R) Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:00 5:30 8:00 satirist (“I Love L.A.,” “Political Science” A Digitally Filmed Live Concert 2:30 7:30 Mon-Thur - 2:30 4:50 7:15 and the new “A Few Words in Defense Paul QUEEN + Rodgers of Our Country”). Newman – who holds five Grammys, two Emmys and an AN AMERICAN CAROL BURN AFTER READING (R) LET THE COSMOS ROCK Academy Award – plays a rare solo show tonight. Any thinking man or woman 5:00 (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:00 4:30 7:00 9:20 Mon-Thur - 2:00 5:00 7:40 November 6 - 7:30 pm with an ear for music would be a fool to miss him. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Lobero NIGHTS IN RODANTHE Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido St. COST: $50 & $60 INFO: 963-0761 or www. 5:10 (PG-13) NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST (PG-13) PASEO NUEVO lobero.com Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 6:30 8:50 Now Serving..... PLAZA - Carpinteria Mon-Thur - 2:20 5:10 7:30 Specialty Coffee & Dessert Bar 4916 Carpinteria Ave. 8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B. to traditional Hawaiian (Kaleo Naea appointed prime minister of the Tibetan THE EXPRESS (PG) � MORNING LIGHT (PG) BODY OF LIES (R) band), with dance interludes featuring government in exile by the Dalai Lama, Fri-Sun - 12:40 5:50 Fri-Sun - 1:10 3:50 6:30 9:00 Fri & Mon-Thur - 5:00 7:50 Mon-Thur - 4:40 Mon-Thur - 2:10 4:50 7:30 tango, hip hop, flamenco, Spanish and discusses the future of his country nearly Sat/Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:50 more. Exotic food from various cultures 50 years after he fled Tibet. A Q&A with CITY OF EMBER (PG) BODY OF LIES (R) will be available and you can peruse the audience follows the talk from Tenzin, CAMINO REAL Fri-Sun - 3:30 8:40 Fri-Sun - 12:45 3:40 6:40 9:30 Mon-Thur - 2:20 5:10 8:00 booths filled with arts and crafts from who is a scholar, philosopher, and fully Features Stadium Seating Mon-Thur - 2:10 7:30 CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE around the world (a little early Christmas ordained Buddhist monk. WHEN: 7:30pm Hollister & Storke - GOLETA RELIGULOUS (R) RIVIERA Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:50 9:15 shopping perhaps?) The first 2,000 people WHERE: Victoria Hall, 33 W. Victoria � MAX PAYNE (PG-13) Dolby Digital Sound Mon-Thur - 2:40 5:20 7:45 Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:20 7:00 9:30 trough the gates will receive a free Water St. COST: $5 INFO: 893-3535 or www. 2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B. Dragon steeping cup from Dragon Pearl artsandlectures.ucsb.edu Mon-Thur - 2:40 5:30 8:00 THE DUCHESS (PG-13) � THE SECRET LIFE Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:45 7:30 Tea. WHEN: 11am-10pm today and � QUARANTINE (R) OF BEES (PG-13) Mon-Thur - 2:30 5:00 7:30 tomorrow WHERE: Las Positas and Calle Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:40 7:10 9:40 Mon-Thur - 2:45 5:30 7:50 Fri & Mon-Thur - 5:00 7:40 Real COST: $5 general, $3 children 6-12 Wednesday, October 22 Sat/Sun - 2:15 5:00 7:40 METRO 4 and seniors, free for children 5 and under Walt Disney Pictures (PG) Features Stadium Seating INFO: 687-8711 or www.worldfest08.com SBOFF – At only five years old, the BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA PLAZA DE ORO 618 State Street - S.B. Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:00 5:30 8:00 Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival hasn’t 371 Hitchcock Way - S.B. � MAX PAYNE (PG-13) Mon-Thur - 2:30 4:50 7:15 Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:30 achieved the cachet and glamour of its NIGHTS IN RODANTHE (PG-13) Beatles precursor – Before they went on Mon-Thur - 2:20 5:20 8:00 to make history in the Beatles, both John older cousin SBIFF, but on the other EAGLE EYE (PG-13) Fri & Mon-Thur - 5:00 Fri-Sun - 12:40 3:50 6.30 9:20 Sat/Sun - 2:30 5:00 Lennon & Paul McCartney played in a hand it isn’t all wet either. Or maybe it � QUARANTINE (R) Mon-Thur - 2:15 5:00 7:40 Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:30 6:50 9:30 local Liverpool skiffle band called The is. The festival, which began as a locals- VICKY CRISTINA Mon-Thur - 2:30 5:10 7:50 Quarrymen. Now, 50 years later, some of only event encompassing the talented BODY OF LIES (R) BARCELONA (PG-13) Fri & Mon-Thur - 7:45 ocean filmmakers in the Santa Barbara Fri-Sun - 12:50 3:40 6:40 9:30 APPALOOSA (R) the other original members of that group Mon-Thur - 2:20 5:10 8:00 Sat/Sun - 2:15 7:45 Fri-Sun - 1:00 3:45 6:30 9:10 are touring the states to play their version area, now focuses on the earth’s seas via Mon-Thur - 2:10 5:00 7:40 of the British equivalent of rockabilly screenings of award-winning ocean films NICK AND NORAH’S FIREPROOF (PG) Daily - 7:30 INFINITE PLAYLIST (PG-13) EAGLE EYE (PG-13) and tell a few stories about Lennon & from around the world. Opening night Fri-Sun - 1:10 4:10 6:50 9:10 GHOST TOWN (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:10 4:00 6:40 9:20 McCartney, including a stop at SOhO as a spotlights “Sharkman,” Joe Kennedy’s take Mon-Thur - 2:35 5:20 7:30 Daily - 5:15 Mon-Thur - 2:00 4:50 7:30 10-day late celebration of the late Lennon’s on Michael Rutzen’s mission to forever Assisted Listening Systems are Available at All Metropolitan Theatres Locations birthday. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: 1221 remove the ‘man eater’ label from sharks State St., upstairs in Victoria Court COST: and stop their global population decline. $23 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com The doc about the “dinosaurs of the seas” DIVORCE won the fest’s “Best Ocean Adrenalin Thinking about divorce? Want a Viva El Arte – The fourth annual co- Film” award. “Best Natural History” award fair resolution without conflict? production between the Marjorie Luke winner “The Original Whale Riders,” Tired of the legal hassle?... Theatre and UCSB A&L kicks off the first one of tomorrow’s program highlights, of five events with Quetzal, the Mexican- studies the precious parasites on marine I can help! I can work with you or American band that superstars Los Lobos mammals. And a special third night of both of you to get it done pronounced “ready to carry the torch for LA’s screenings back over at the Maritime quickly... at a fraction of the cost. 0OFPGBLJOE'SPNTJMMZUPTVCMJNF© Chicano community.” WHEN: 7-8:30pm Museum boasts four more hours of award- I am a retired Family Law Judge WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre at SB Jr. Hi, winners. Raffles, speeches, and other pro-tem and a Family Law Attorney events are part of the weekend. WHEN: with over 30 years experience. 7JOUBHF 721 E. Cota St. COST: free INFO: 893-3535 $PTUVNFT 7:30-10pm tonight & tomorrow, 5-10pm Mediation or Representation "DDFTTPSJFT Friday WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre Monday, October 20 at SB Jr. Hi, 721 E. Cota St. (Maritime RICHARD DOLWIG /FX-PDBUJPO Museum Friday) COST: $10 per night, Attorney at Law 4UBUF4USFFU Tibet or not Tibet – Lobsang Tenzin, children 12 and under free INFO: 963- for brochure call: 637-7993 WJDUPSJBOWPHVFDPN the fifth Samdhong Rinpoche, who was 0761 or www.ocean.com •MJ 16 – 23 October 2008 I don’t make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will RogersMetropolitan TheatresMONTECITO JOURNAL 33 Information Listed For Showtimes / Tickets and NO PASSES OR COUPONS Plays Fri., Sept. 12 Information - 963-9503 - or - ACCEPTED ON � thru Thur., Sept. 18 www.metrotheatres.com SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS FAIRVIEW FIESTA 5 ARLINGTON Features Stadium Seating Features Stadium Seating 1317 State Street - 963-4408 225 N. Fairview - Goleta 916 State Street - S.B. A Digital Presentation! � THE WOMEN (PG-13) � THE WOMEN (PG-13) � 2:15 5:00 7:45 Fri-Sun - 1:00 3:45 6:30 9:10 BURN AFTER Mon-Thur - 2:20 5:00 7:40 READING (R) VICKY CRISTINA Fri-Sun - � PROUD AMERICAN (PG) BARCELONA (PG-13) 1:40 4:15 7:00 9:30 2:30 5:10 7:30 Fri-Sun - 1:10 4:00 6:30 9:00 Mon-Thur - 2:15 4:45 7:30 Mon-Thur - BABYLON A. D. (PG-13) 5:30 2:30 5:00 7:30 � TYLER PERRY’S (PG-13) PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (R) THE FAMILY THAT PREYS TICKETSNOWONSALE! 2:40 8:00 Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 6:45 9:20 Mon-Thur - 2:30 5:00 7:35 The Metropolitan Opera Opening Night Gala � I SERVED THE KING RIVIERA Broadcast in HD LIVE Dolby Digital Sound OF ENGLAND (R) Fri-Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:45 Monday. September 22 - 6:00 2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B. Mon-Thur - 2:30 5:10 7:45 Adults - $24.00 (R) ELEGY THE HOUSE BUNNY (PG-13) Fri & Mon-Thur - 5:00 7:40 Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:30 RENT - Digital Filmed LIVE on BROADWAY Sat/Sun - 2:15 5:00 7:40 Mon-Wed - 2:25 4:50 7:30 Thur 9/18 - 2:25 4:50 4 Days - One Showing Per Day CAMINO REAL September 24 & 25 - 7:30 pm Features Stadium Seating PASEO NUEVO September 27 & 28 - Noon CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE Now Serving.....Just Added! Hollister & Storke - GOLETA Specialty Coffee & Dessert Bar PLAZA - Carpinteria George Clooney.....Brad Pitt 8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B. 4916 Carpinteria Ave. � BURN AFTER READING (R) THE DARK KNIGHT (PG-13) � (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 6:40 9:10 1:30 4:40 8:00 THE WOMEN Mon-Thur - 2:30 5:10 7:40 Fri & Mon-Thur - 5:00 7:45 MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) Sat/Sun - 2:15 5:00 7:45 Robert De Niro.....Al Pacino 1:45 4:50 7:30 � RIGHTEOUS KILL (R) VICKY CRISTINA METRO 4 Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:35 Features Stadium Seating Mon-Thur - 2:40 5:20 8:00 BARCELONA (PG-13) 2:00 5:00 7:40 618 State Street - S.B. Heath Ledger....Christian Bale Robert De Niro...... Al Pacino TRAITOR (PG-13) � RIGHTEOUS KILL (R) THE DARK KNIGHT (PG-13) 2:15 5:10 7:50 Fri-Sun - 1:00 4:20 7:45 Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:30 Mon-Thur - 2:30 5:00 7:30 Mon-Thur - 4:00 7:15 PLAZA DE ORO Ben Stiller...... Jack Black TRAITOR (PG-13) 371 Hitchcock Way - S.B. TROPIC THUNDER (R) Fri-Sun - 1:10 3:50 6:30 9:15 FROZEN RIVER (R) Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 Mon-Thur - 2:15 5:00 7:30 Fri & Mon-Thur - 5:00 7:30 Mon-Thur - 2:45 5:20 8:00 Sat/Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:30 TROPIC THUNDER (R) BANGKOK DANGEROUS (R) Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:50 9:25 TELL NO ONE (NR) Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:30 6:50 9:10 Mon-Thur - 2:45 5:30 8:00 Fri & Mon-Thur - 7:45 Mon-Thur - 2:50 5:30 7:50 Sat/Sun - 2:15 7:45 BANGKOK DANGEROUS (R) TRANSSIBERIAN (R) Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:30 7:10 9:30 MAN ON WIRE (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:40 Mon-Thur - 2:20 5:30 7:50 Daily - 5:15 Mon-Thur - 2:40 5:10 7:40 Assisted Listening Systems are Available at All Metropolitan Theatres Locations MONTECITO EATERIES . . . A Guide $ (average per person under $15) Lucky’s(brunch) $$(dinner) $$$$ lounge with full bar service and separate din- its specialty, “The Piadina” a homemade flat $$ (average per person $15 to $30) 1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540) ing room with crackling fireplace and creek- bread made daily. Owner Jeff Rypysc and $$$ (average per person $30 to $45) Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak- side views. Owner Ty Warner’s personal art staff deliver locally and cater office parties, $$$$ (average per person $45-plus) house in the heart of America’s biggest little collection adorns the stone walls. One can luncheons or movie shoots. Also serving village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails, and also dine under the stars on the ocean-view breakfast (7am – 11 am). Cafe Del Sol $$ an enormous wine list are featured, sur- deck; a wood-burning fireplace and heated 30 Los Patos Way (969-0448) rounded by rich mahogany, white table- stone flooring provide year-round comfort. Panino cloths, fine crystal and vintage photos from Chef John Trotta’s regional cuisine is pre- 1014 “C” Coast Village Road (565-0137) CAVA $$ the 20th century. The bar (separate from pared with a palate of herbs and vegetables 1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500) dining room) features large flat-screen TV. harvested from the on-site chef’s garden. The Pierre Lafond Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday extensive wine list includes 16 unique wines 516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502) combine to create Latin cuisine with a great & Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm. by the glass housed in a copper-faced cru- vibe – from tapas and margaritas, mojitos, Valet Parking. vinet. Open for dinner from 6-10pm daily. Village Cheese & Wine seafood paella and sangria to lobster tama- Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. 1485 East Valley Road (969-3815) les, Churrasco ribeye steak and seared Ahi Montecito Café $$ tuna. Sunflower-colored interior is accented 1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392) Trattoria Mollie $$$ Xanadu Bakery by live Spanish guitarist playing next to 1250 Coast Village Road (565-9381) 1028 Coast Village Road (969-3550) cozy beehive fireplace nightly. Lively year- Montecito Coffee Shop $ round outdoor people-watching front patio. 1498 East Valley Road (969-6250) Tre Lune $$/$$$ In Summerland / Carpinteria Open daily 11 am to 11 pm. Saturday and 1151 Coast Village Road (969-2646) Sunday brunch from 8 am to 1 pm. Pane é Vino $$$ A real Italian boite, complete with small but 1482 East Valley Road (969-9274) fully licensed bar, big list of Italian wines, Beach Grill at Padaro $ China Pavilion $$ large comfortable tables and chairs, lots of 3765 Santa Claus Lane 566-3900 1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380) Peabody’s $ mahogany, soft lighting, large b&w vintage Montecito’s only Chinese restaurant is 1198 Coast Village Road (969-0834) photos of mostly famous Italians from the Café Luna $ known for generous portions, clean and Open daily from 7 am to midnight, with 1950s and ‘60s, and a menu that features 2354 Lillie Avenue 695-8780, modern décor and prompt take-out service, breakfast served all day, and daily specials both comfort food like mama used to make as well as elegant surroundings. (Montecito featuring fresh fish, pastas, a large variety of and more adventurous Italian fare. Open Cantwell’s Summerland Market $ Journal staff is especially fond of the salads and burgers. Peabody’s specialty are for lunch from 11:30 am to “2:30 or so,” 2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5894) Cashew Chicken!) China Pavilion also has its unique fish tacos. Cozy fireplace, full bar, dinner from 5:30 pm. Also open from 7:30 Deli sandwiches, picnic fare, beer, wine, an outdoor patio. Open Monday through and two HD flatscreens to catch the latest am to 11:30 am daily, serving basically the goodies; open Mon-Fri 6:30 am to 8 pm; Sat Saturday 11:30 am to 3 pm for lunch, and news or sporting event. Happy hour from same breakfast menu as D’Angelo Bakery 7 am to 8 pm; Sun 7 am to 7 pm seven nights for dinner 5 pm to 9:30 pm. 3 – 6 pm. downtown. Garden Market $ Four Seasons Biltmore Piatti Ristorante $$$ Tsunami $$/$$$ 3811 Santa Claus Lane (745-5505) Bella Vista $$$ 516 San Ysidro Road (969-7520) 1014 Coast Village Road (969-7565) 1260 Channel Drive (565-8237) Nugget $$ Offers guests a view of the ocean from Plow & Angel $$$ Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria $$ 2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135) both the restaurant and the dining terraces. San Ysidro Ranch 1483 East Valley Road (565-9393) Updated features and enhanced décor 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Stacky’s Seaside $ include two double-sided sculptured stone Enjoy a comfortable, convivial atmosphere Delis, bakeries, juice bars 2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908) fireplaces, a garden fountain, custom wood- in this locals’ favorite. Famous for its en wine wall, gas lanterns and Italian stone mac ‘n cheese and melt-in-your-mouth Summerland Beach Café $ flooring. The floor of the restaurant and ribs. The cozy ambiance is enhanced with Blenders in the Grass 2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019) outdoor terraces is heated by a hydronic original artwork, including stained glass 1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611) heating system, enabling guests to dine windows and an homage to its name- Tinkers $ comfortably in any weather. Featuring a sake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the Here’s The Scoop 2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970) glass retractable roof, Bella Vista’s ambiance fireplace. Dinner is served from 5-10pm 1187 Coast Village Road (lower level) (969- is that of an elegant outdoor Mediterranean daily with bar service extending until 11pm 7020) Chamomile Café $$ courtyard. Executive Chef Martin Frost weekdays and until midnight on Friday/ Gelato and Sorbet are made on the prem- 915 Linden Avenue Carp (566-5954) has created an innovative menu, featuring Saturday. ises. Open seven days a week from 11 am Comfort foods with an emphasis on organic California cuisine inspired by the fresh local to 9 pm, 10:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, and a purists dedication to “made-from- bounty and regional produce. Open for Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$ and now open at 8:30 am Monday through scratch.” Vegan dinner five nights a week breakfast Monday-Saturday, 7 am to 11:30 1046 Coast Village Road (565-2014) Friday serving a full coffee menu featuring offering new twists on old favorites. Open am; Sunday from 10 am to 1:30 pm. Lunch Santa Barbara Roasting Company coffee for breakfast and lunch on weekends serv- is served Monday through Saturday, 11:30 Stella Mare’s $$/$$$ and pastries, breads, and scones from Santa ing a traditional menu with some vegan am to 5 pm; Sunday from 1:30 pm to 5 pm. 50 Los Patos Way (969-6705) Barbara Bakery. Also serve lunch items options. Bakery features many vegan items Dinner every day from 5 pm to 10 pm. including sandwiches, salads and soups. as well as those made with free range eggs. Sesto Senso $$ Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Giovanni’s $ 1026 Coast Village Road (565-1956) Jeannine’s 1187 Coast Village Road (969-1277) Monday through Saturday 5pm to 1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878) Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row midnight Los Arroyos $ Montecito Deli Coast $$$$ 1280 Coast Village Road (969-9059) Stonehouse $$$$ 1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717) 31 West Carrillo Street at Hotel Canary San Ysidro Ranch Open six days a week from 7am to 3pm. (884-0300) Little Alex's $ 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) (Closed Sunday) “We Proudly Brew” Peet’s 1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297) Located in what is a 19th-century citrus pack- Coffee and Tea. This eatery serves home- Andersen’s Danish Bakery & inghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and Gourmet Restaurant $ 34 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 MONTECITO EATERIES . . . A Guide 1106 State State Street (962-5085) Harbor recently introduced David Cecchini bakery specializing in a wide selection of Stateside Restaurant & Lounge $$ Established 1976, the best in Danish & as Executive Chef, who has created new wholesome French pastries. The breakfast 1114 State Street (564-1000) European cuisine in Santa Barbara serv- menus for lunch and dinner. Enjoy prime and lunch menu is composed of egg dishes, Located in the heart of downtown State ing breakfast, lunch & dinner. Authentic steaks and seafood, a wine list that has sandwiches and salads and represents Street area in La Arcada Court. (Formerly Danishes, Apple Strudels, Marzipans, des- earned Wine Spectator Magazine’s Award Renaud’s personal favorites. Our brewed Acapulco) Offering lunch, dinner, a night- serts & much more. Experience Andersen’s of Excellence for the past six years and a coffees and teas are proudly 100% Organic. life bar and lounge. The menu exhibits Gourmet Food Parade with a European full cocktail bar, all while overlooking the California and Asian cuisine. Perfect for interior or dine on the sidewalk patio. Pacific. Breakfast is served 8 am to 12pm Rodney’s Steakhouse $$$ private parties, corporate events, weddings (Sat and Sun). Lunch is served 11:30 am to 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554) or just a nice night out. Every Tuesday is Bay Café $$ 2:20 pm and Dinner is served 5pm to 10 pm. Deep in the heart of… well, deep in the comedy night! www.state8sidesb.com 131 Anacapa St. (963-2215) heart of Fess Parker’s Doubletree Inn on Miró $$$$ The Bistro $$/$$$ Open 7 days/wk 11am- on. LIVE MUSIC East Beach in Santa Barbara. This handsome 8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort ON Fri/Sat 6:30pm. V/MC/Amex. 8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa eatery sells and serves only Prime Grade (968-0100) A locals’ favorite since 1985. Come see what (968-0100) beef, lamb, veal, halibut, salmon, lobster Ocean vistas set the stage for The Bistro’s everybody’s talking about. SB’s best kept Miró is a refined refuge with stunning and other high-end victuals. Full bar, plenty Mediterranean atmosphere. Fresh, simple secret. Enjoy a fun relaxing atmosphere for views, featuring two genuine Miro sculp- of California wines, pleasant service, elegant meals served al fresco with an ocean breeze. a quick lunch or romantic warm ambiance tures, a top-rated chef offering a sophisti- surroundings, across from the ocean. Open “A little loose, a little luxurious, a lot to look for dinner. Fresh Fish selections from our cated menu that accents fresh, organic, and for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 forward to,” is what they tell us. Breakfast, Fish Market & Live Tank with lobster & native-grown ingredients, and a world- pm. Reservations suggested on weekends. lunch and dinner daily from 7am to 10pm. abalone. Happy Hour M-Th 4-6pm. Full Bar class wine cellar. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 6pm to 10pm. Quantum $$ & Variety of Wine selection. Private banquet Wine Cask $$$$ facilities for up to 30; beautiful heated patios 201 West Carrillo Street (884-0885) 813 Anacapa Street (966-9463) Moby Dick Restaurant $$ Quantum is a sleek and modern, quiet and w/2 fireplaces. www.sbbaycafe.com Wine Cask offers seasonal menus, refined 220 Stearns Wharf (965-0549) comfortable restaurant that offers, just to service, elegantly designed spaces, and a Bistro Eleven Eleven $$ Sitting right on Stearns Wharf, Moby Dick’s mention a few, gourmet burgers, steaks, wide range of wines. A few steps away offers fish, lobster, clam chowder, fish and fresh fish along with a full bar. Unique 1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard from Wine Cask Restaurant, just across the chips and a plenty more. A great place to (730-1111) to Quantum are its spiked milkshakes. courtyard, is Intermezzo Café, Wine Bar Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the watch the sun set over the ocean. Open 7 Quantum offers boxed lunches (fine food and Bar. Intermezzo is open daily until late bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring days a week from 7 am to 8:30 pm. to go) for quick pick-up and also have a full and offers traditional wine bar fare; food, all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of catering service. Open for lunch Monday cocktails, and wines, with over forty wines Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$ traditional favorites and coastal cuisine. thru Friday 11 am to 3 pm and dinner by the glass. Monday through Friday 11:30 The lounge advancement to the restaurant 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699) Tuesday thru Thursday 5 pm to 10 pm and 144-00632am to 2:30 final pm forside Lunch, 1.pdf Monday 7/27/07 through 5:08:56 PM 144-00632 final side 1.pdf 7/27/07 5:08:56 PM features a big screen TV for daily sporting Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this Friday and Saturday 5 pm to 11 pm. Sunday 5:30 to 9 pm for dinner. •MJ events and happy hour. friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery featuring Italian food of the highest Ruth’s Chris Steak House $$$$ C Café Buenos Aires $$ order. The dining room sports some of the 3815 State Street (963-5674) C ]ff[ _fd\ M best acoustics in town, enhancing the din- Open for dinner: Monday thru Friday 5 1316 State Street (963-0242) M ]ff[ _fd\ Y ing experience by making8;M SATURDAY OCTOBER 18 If you have a 93108 open house scheduled, please send us your free directory listing to [email protected] ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY 1373 School House Road 1-4pm $4,950,000 5bd/4ba Kamal & Rhonda Madi 722-7794 Prudential California Realty 360 Calle Elegante 2-5pm $3,125,000 3bd Francoise Morel 252-4752 Coldwell Banker 165 Coronada Circle 1-4pm $2,245,000 2ba Patricia Owens 680-4005 Coldwell Banker 64 Olive Mill Road 1-3pm $1,749,000 3bd/2.5ba Ken Switzer 680-4622 Prudential California Realty SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY 1631 Posilipo Lane 1-4pm $15,500,000 5bd/5ba Tim Dahl 886-2211 Prudential California Realty 1130 Garden Lane 1-4pm $8,750,000 5bd/7ba Lori Ebner 729-4861 Prudential California Realty 2480 Bella Vista Drive By Appt. $5,850,000 Land Brian Felix 455-3669 Sotheby’s 830 Romero Canyon Road 3-5pm $4,995,000 4bd/4.5ba Lynn Rollins 453-6553 Village Properties 1373 School House Road 1-4pm $4,950,000 5bd/4ba Kamal & Rhonda Madi 722-7793 Prudential California Realty 2490 Bella Vista Drive By Appt. $4,600,000 Land Brian Felix 455-3669 Sotheby’s 975 Mariposa Lane 2-4pm $3,600,000 3bd/3ba Don Hunt 895-3833 Village Properties 2230 Camino Del Rosario 1-4pm $3,200,000 5bd/4ba Kamal & Rhonda Madi 722-7794 Prudential California Realty 300 Sheffield Road 2-4pm $3,195,000 4bd/5ba Brian Campbell 294-2890 Village Properties 360 Calle Elegante 1:30-4pm $3,125,000 3bd Kathleen Marvin 450-4792 Coldwell Banker 395 Woodley Road 2-4pm $2,895,000 4bd/3ba Elaine Abercrombie 450-0086 Village Properties 1123 Camino Viejo 2-4pm $2,535,000 3bd Patricia Owens 680-4005 Coldwell Banker 165 Coronada Circle 1-4pm $2,245,000 3bd Sally Clyne 450-0852 Coldwell Banker 945 Aleeda lane 1-3pm $1,975,000 3bd/3ba Ruth Carter Kosh 969-1566 Village Properties 277 East Moutain Drive 2-4pm $1,795,000 2bd Sally Hanseth 637-4455 Coldwell Banker 64 Olive Mill Road 2-4pm $1,749,000 3bd/2.5ba Kimberly Rockwell 698-8848 Prudential California Realty 601 Alston Road 2-4pm $1,697,000 3bd/3ba Susan Noble 637-0559 Prudential California Realty 412 Lemon Grove Lane 2-5pm $1,649,000 3bd/3.5ba Mary Jane Ingalls 570-7158 Prudential California Realty 419 Seaview Road 12-2pm $1,495,000 4bd/4ba Lynn Rollins 453-6553 Village Properties 1333 Danielson Road, #B 2-4pm $1,495,000 3bd/3ba Angelina Knothe 452-8331 Prudential California Realty 130 Santa Isabel Lane 1-4pm $1,425,000 3bd/3ba Jan Dinmore 455-1194 Prudential California Realty Office Space for Rent Conveniently located on Coast Village Circle 2 room suite with private entrance 450 square feet Off-Street Parking, Private Bathroom Electric and water included 5885 Carpinteria Ave. Call for more Information: Carpinteria, CA (805)565-1860 566-9948 Ask for Tim 36 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 16 – 23 October 2008 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37 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, 1122 Coast Village Circle, Montecito , CA 93108. 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I also buy [email protected] BONDED – FULLY INSURED Scrap Gold, Dental Gold, and Silver. MONTECITO LOCAL OFFICE SPACE Bill’s Coins. 4939B Carpinteria, Ave. State License #707833 (805) 886-3372 Carpinteria CA TEL 805 566 0455 Downtown comfortably furnished office 38 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 October 2008 VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 27) he added, “we want to build a project children will be displayed there and about Santa Barbara Channelkeeper preparation for the new southbound that the community wants that helps in the hardware store. This year, kids visit www.sbck.org. hook off-ramp. people.” from YMCA will draw artwork of his- At Sycamore Creek, crews will con- toric Montecito. Denson added that Highway Construction tinue forming the foundations for the Beautification Four Seasons Biltmore will be hosting new bridge. Between Milpas Street breakfast, and the firefighters have Update and Los Patos Way, crews will contin- Moves On committed to taking the spiciness in On Wednesday October 15 and ue excavation on the Hwy 101 shoul- Board member and Beautification their famous chili down a notch. Thursday October 16 the Hwy 101 der to improve drainage culverts and committee chair Mindy Denson told Finally, Palladini reported that the slow lane between the southbound prepare for the new third southbound the board that Beautification prepara- Montecito Community Foundation paid off-ramp at Milpas Street and the lane. The southbound 101 off-ramp tions are in full swing. “We are getting $10,000 to the county to build “a beauti- southbound on-ramp at Milpas Street at Los Patos Way (by the bird refuge) some wonderful support from the ful piece of wood rail fencing” which will be closed between 6:30 pm and will remain closed for up to a year. community,” she said. David Myrick, completes the section near the YMCA 10:30 pm. One southbound lane will During this temporary closure, drivers who is being honored as citizen of and runs to East Valley Road. “We really remain open during this time, and can use the southbound Hwy 101 off- the year, will have his collection of respect them for doing this,” he said. drivers should anticipate a potential ramp at Hot Springs Road to access books on display at Tecolote Books The next meeting of the Montecito delay of 20 minutes in the southbound business and services on Los Patos for the week before Beautification. Association is scheduled for Tuesday, direction. The closure is due to the Way. For more information visit www. Per tradition, art from local school- November 11. 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