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State Street SpinSanta Claus Lane’s former Santa still looks out on Highway 101, but has new role as

patron saint of Nyeland Acres, p. 34

Leaving It All BehindMazza family learns to pick, hunt for,

prepare, cook, and eat classic Thai dishes, Martha Stewart style, p. 25

Village BeatHoliday Haulers pick up more than five tons of donated food for Foodbank; on lookout for yet more donations, p. 20

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

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Alicia St. John’s Piglet Willy debuts at Biltmore, guest

speaker Fannie Flagg surprised at Girls Inc. of Santa Barbara’s

10th annual luncheon, p. 6

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A History of timeEd Lister’s 56-ft-long Panorama of Time in the Courthouse

Tower opens for public viewing (story on page 44)

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5 Guest Editorial Ward Connerly contemplates the upcoming election6 Montecito Miscellany Piglet Willy premieres at Biltmore; Fannie Flagg’s surprise guest; Marilee Gordon’s children’s

book debut; Ensemble Theatre presents Lion in Winter; Boston Symphony Orchestra’s return; Breast Cancer Resource Center fashion show; Sarah House annual fundraiser; Santa Barbara Festival Ballet’s Nutcracker; Opera Santa Barbara holiday production; Santa Barbara Beautiful bash; first ever Winter Wine Classic; Richard Rintoul passes

8 Letters to the Editor Kellam de Forest reminds residents to speak up; Garvan Kuskey recalls morbid memory;

Leslie Nelson wagers lunch; Richard Yee responds to Bill Dalziel; Page Roos articulates on wealth

10 Community Calendar Bacara hosts Tea & Trunk Show; Laird McLain pours at Grotto; MUS winter concert;

Panzumo at MAW; Christmas Cantata; Tim Donnelly speaks; Santa at Boys & Girls Club; David Krieger signs book; Marsha Red Adams unveils studio; Bella Duran Holiday Open House; First United Methodist Church presents annual Nativity scene

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach11 Village Beat Montecito Association meets; Hot Springs purchase delayed; upcoming closures on Ortega

Hill Road; Holiday Haulers back again; Toys for Tots at Montecito Fire; Sara Anna Fenu of Santa Barbara Hustle

14 Seen Around Town Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s “Remember the Magic” Christmas event; Angel Flight

West reception at airport; Casa del Herrero annual gala20 Sheriff’s Blotter Vehicle incident on Highway 101; marijuana found on individuals at Cold Spring

Trailhead21 Ernie’s World Ernie takes his delighted taste buds for a spin during Christmas party season 24 Coming & Going This year could possibly mark final year for Krebs’ Christmas party and impressive decorations;

Ed Lister paints mural inside S.B. County Courthouse 25 Leaving It All Behind The Mazzas take a day-long Thai cooking class at a farm outside of Chiang Mai26 Your Westmont Four alumnae join college’s board of trustees; public viewing of stars features Giant Red Spot

on Jupiter28 On Entertainment Celtic Spring plays the contra dance at Carrillo Recreation Center; Jason Reitman speaks

on his fourth film, Young Adult; Santa Barbara Christmas Revels take on early 19th century Bavaria

32 Our Town Lunar eclipse; winners of 26th annual Parade of Lights; Shelter Dogs Rule; MUS student raises

money to help protect Channel Islands Fox34 State Street Spin Jody Nelson documenting Santa’s whereabouts; Angels Bearing Gifts holiday event; Eduardo

Villa’s Freddy Krueger moment; Des O’Neill’s 30th year performing in Nutcracker; Jazz Society Christmas Jam; Alison Riede wins cupcake war

36 Trail Talk Jeff Jones brings sweeping Arctic landscapes to Museum of Natural History38 In The Garden Randy’s gardening gift-giving guide for the holidays40 Calendar of Events Ongoing seasonal events; Moscow Ballet presents Nutcracker; Jewish Community Center’s

Comedy Club; Dreamtime Continuum; State Street Ballet’s version of Nutcracker; David Krieger signs new book; fifth annual Vodka Latke Chanukah Party; Venice plays SOhO; West Coast Ballet at Center Stage; Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour; Met: Live in HD at Hahn Hall

42 Guide to Montecito Eateries The most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito

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

43 Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer

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Ward Connerly is President of the American Civil Rights Coalition and author of “Lessons from my Uncle James: Beyond Skin Color to the Content of our Character”

Thoughts on the Presidential Race

The national economy is a mess and, according to the national polls, President Obama is getting a lot of the blame. This is somewhat unfair, because presidents don’t create jobs, the private sector does. On the

other hand, chief executives sure can prevent jobs (which are the centerpiece of the economy) from being created, based on their policies; and I believe the policies of our president – health care insurance (“Obamacare”) and financial regulatory “reform,” to mention just two – have had a very negative effect on job creation. President Obama’s bashing of the business sector hasn’t helped either. The president sometimes acts as if he loves employees but hates employers. It is also fair to say that during the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised certain things, as do most candidates for the office, and it is reasonable to now hold him accountable for his promises. Unfortunately for the nation, his delivery has been considerably less than his promises. It is largely for that reason that Barack Obama is likely to be a one-term president.

Paying One’s “Fair Share”Many politicians on the left, including our president, are fond of saying that

“millionaires and billionaires” should be taxed more as a means of getting the “rich” to pay their “fair share” and solving the nation’s debt and fiscal prob-lems. A lot of this rhetoric is disingenuous, bordering on demagoguery, and part of this is nothing more than a not-so-thinly-veiled attempt to justify a general tax increase.

Speaking of tax increases, there is a group known as “Patriotic Millionaires” asking for the taxes of “millionaires” to be increased. Obama often mentions Warren Buffett, the well-known billionaire and Obama ally, as one who believes his taxes are too low. My answer to Buffett and others is to voluntarily send in checks to the government for as much as they want, and lay off raising taxes on others. And stop lumping millionaires in with billionaires. A typical household with an annual gross income of a million dollars in California, depending on where they live and other factors, cannot reasonably be compared to Warren Buffett.

There wouldn’t be such pressure to increase taxes if more Americans paid at least a minimum of taxes. With over 40% of the American people paying no federal income taxes, it is no wonder that America is in fiscal trouble. Not only do these individuals pay no taxes, many receive a tax refund at the end of the year as a result of the “earned income tax credit.” This is a problem also for the State of California and many local governments. A significant number of individuals are part of the underground economy – they pay no taxes, receive subsidized housing and tax refunds at the end of the year – and add to the tax burden for the rest of us.

While I agree there needs to be an overhaul of our revenue code, there also needs to be an aggressive effort put forth to identify those who work and pay no income taxes because they are paid in cash.

Race-Ethnic PreferencesIn 1996, by a margin of 55-45, the voters of California approved a consti-

tutional amendment – Proposition 209 – that requires equal treatment for everyone in public education, public employment and public contracting. For several years since then, various members of the California Legislative Latino Caucus – Fabian Nunez, the late Marco Firebaugh, and Ed Hernandez – have introduced legislation aimed at circumventing Proposition 209. In each instance, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed their bills, surmis-ing that they were unconstitutional based upon the legality of Prop 209. Now, Senator Hernandez is making another run at this. It is widely speculated that Governor Brown will sign the measure if it passes.

It is obvious that concepts such as the “rule of law” and the “will of the people” are not widely embraced by several members of this caucus. Even more significant is the fact that many members of the caucus believe that as Latinos more heavily dominate California, the desire to reinstate preferences will increase and the new majority will vote in accordance with that objective. If Latinos are destined to be the new ethnic majority in California, I pray their political leadership learns that in America we don’t conduct ourselves as if we are a third-world country in which the ethnic majority muscles its way around, notwithstanding what the people vote for or against and in violation of the laws. •MJ

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A star is born!Piglet Willy, a pulchritudi-

nous porcine personality cre-ated by Montecito author and illustra-tor Alicia St. John – who goes under the magical name of Miss Wilhelmina Whitewitch –, debuted at a “world pre-miere” at the Biltmore, which doubled as a fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club of America and the Montecito Union School district PTA.

It has taken ten years for Alicia’s initial idea for her colorful character to come to fruition.

“It came from a dear little boy that I knew, and it has been written to allow children to have values, without being lectured at,” she says. “Piglet Willy is a boy, a wonderful child, but one who eats in his bed and never cleans his room.

“The illustrations and rhymes have come together over the last decade. I never thought I’d be a children’s book author. It was more of a lark.”

Alicia wrote her first tome Isolet, a novel for women based on the medi-eval romantic legend of Tristan and Isolde, in 2001, but was prompted to put her Piglet Willy idea on an official footing by a friend, famed author Ray Bradbury.

“The making of Piglet Willy is really about the importance of mentorship and belief in the power within all of us, to shape our dreams into reality,” says Alicia, who moved to our rarefied enclave from Los Angeles five years ago. “I was blessed with a great men-tor in Ray and that mentorship has brought me to this moment.

“The beauty of art and writing is that we can share joy and laughter through the medium... illuminate through the simplicity of the fairytale. Miss Wilhelmina Whitewitch is a fan-ciful guide who inspires the magic of literacy and a love of reading. She advises children that ‘Adventure begins, when you read a book! Read, Learn, Grow and Imagine!’

“Fairytales are teaching tales. They guide us through the imaginary and into the world around us. Stories teach, heal and inspire. Children need to be challenged, to stretch their minds.”

Alicia, for whom I read the role of “Lionheart,” a Golden Retriever who looks like a lion, at the Montecito studio of Harry Rabin for the Braille Institute of Los Angeles in the spring, credits her inspiration to Roald Dahl and his characters, like Dr. Seuss.

The launch bash for the beautiful-ly illustrated and amusingly written tome was equally fairytale, featur-ing white rabbits, a miniature horse decorated with butterflies and topiary characters of elephants, teddy bears, deer and dolphins, while featuring the Queen’s Gourmet High Tea, pre-pared by Biltmore executive chef, Alessandro Cartumini, and readings from Anne Towbes, musician Peter Clark and his wife, Dallas.

Others turning out to celebrate the book’s debut, included Jean von Wittenburg, Jane Burkemper,

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Always Be Civil

In response to Mr. Saxon’s letter to the editor (“Ugly Is As Ugly Does,” MJ # 17/48), I wish to

remind Montecito residents and others to be aware of and comment on proposed projects that will impact on the fabric of Montecito as soon as proposed. I commend the Journal in keeping us readers informed and aware of such projects and of upcoming meetings and hearings. Join the Montecito Association. Attend the meetings and voice your objections as soon as a project is announced. Of course, as always be civil. Do not attack the motives of the persons and organizations involved but stick to the issues at hand. One’s views might not prevail, but more often than not a project can be mitigated to something more acceptable. The San Ysidro pathway is a good example.

Kellam de ForestMontecito(Editor’s note: For those who haven’t

followed the issue, we reiterate that with-out the suggestions put forward by oppo-

nents of the federally financed “Safe Route To School,” the San Ysidro pathway could have looked a whole lot more intrusive than it does – TLB)

BEST of… the BEST!What a delight and surprise to

learn that your readers voted Tom Mielko among the best artists in Santa Barbara: Montecito’s favorite artist (MJ#17/48). Our heart filled thanks to them and to you for creating the BEST of series; we so enjoyed it.

Many thanks!Eileen MielkoMontecito (Editor’s note: We were pleased to dis-

cover Tom’s large local fan base too, as he has been a favorite of ours for many years – J.B.)

Thankful & DelightedI cannot tell you how thankful, and

delighted I am to be published in the Montecito Journal (“More of the BEST

of Montecito” MJ # 17/47). It was such a surprise and I feel honored. My busi-nesses are so important to me, and the publicity of being voted “BEST” will only help The Perfect Fit, Montecito, in the future. The article was articulate and the photos were an added bonus. To see my face on the cover was such a surprise! Together, with long-standing businesses such as ours, we can go far. The Montecito Journal is a needed publication in our city, and I feel it covers the news and events quite well. Keep up the good work, and thank you, again.

Sincerely,Patricia MooOwnerThe Perfect Fit(Editor’s note: We thank you for your

kind note – TLB)

Losing The BluffJust read Lynn Kirst’s excellent arti-

cle on the Santa Barbara Cemetery (MJ Glossy Edition Winter-Spring 2011/12). It brought back a memory of an event that happened when I was in high school, which would have put it between 1947 and 1951.

There was a huge winter storm out of the southeast and word went around school that the cemetery bluff had collapsed, with bodies and cas-kets lying on the beach.

After school, several of us raced down to take a look. There was no sign of bodies or caskets on the beach – no doubt collected that morning – but there were several caskets sticking out of the face of the bluff up near the top.

When I was in kindergarten we lived in a cottage on the Biltmore grounds where the tennis courts are now locat-ed. I remember my mother taking me on walks along Channel Drive up to the edge of the cemetery, right where Channel Drive bends north. On the seaward side there were at least 50 or more feet of bluff top than there is now, and I recall walking out there under the bougainvillea-laden trellises. This would imply that at least

the same amount of the cemetery bluff has been lost.

Garvan KuskeySanta Barbara(Editor’s note: Our understanding is

that geologists expect those cliffs and others in Isla Vista and elsewhere along the California coast to be lost at the rate of one foot a year, so that by, say, 2060, another 50 feet will have been eaten up by the Pacific Ocean’s relentless pounding. We understand too, however, that Santa Barbara Cemetery has taken that prog-nostication into account and has prepared contingency plans. – TLB)

Can Kickers ConniveA prominent UK businessman,

Simon Wolfson, has offered a $400,000 Prize for the best orderly Eurozone exit plan. A disorderly collapse would be a worldwide disaster. This is the second largest academic award next to the Nobel Prize. The deadline is January 31, 2012.

My submission is for Germany to entirely withdraw from the euro, shore up its own banking system and watch the rest of the Eurozone coun-tries – led by the Socialistic Sarkozy – get the Titanic (1912) treatment from the largest Deflationary Depression the world has ever seen. The Tarp ($787 billion) was peanuts, as it was newly revealed that $7.7 trillion was lent to the global banking system, only postponing the inevitable. The so-called “Great Recovery” was an illu-sion designed to restrain the gullible masses.

Wolfgang Schauble, the Defense Minister of Germany, wheelchair-bound ever since an assassination attempt two decades ago, is the true power behind Chancellor Angela Merkel. He would never allow Germany to continue to be Europe’s “Sugar Daddy” to the southern countries, particularly Italy and the Greeks who have openly stated: “The world owes it to us for having created democracy in the first place.”

Hasn’t the world become better acquainted with the nature of the German people, who would rather drop a neutron bomb on Athens than raise their own retirement from 65 to 67, so that those Greeks and their lav-ish pensions for doing next-to-nothing work can retire at 50?

The entire purpose of a united Eurozone in the first place was to yoke Germany to the rest of the European countries in order to prevent it from generational attacks on its neighbors.

No more kicking the can down the road. The end game has finally arrived.

Leslie NelsonSanta BarbaraP.S. MJ’s editor has stated his doubts

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Concerning the letter to the editor from Bill Dalziel “Peace Be With Us” (MJ # 17/46). So sad to see he uses such a broad paintbrush to categorize all law enforcement officers in such a bad light and feels “all citizens have become suspected of being an enemy of the peace officer.” I recently retired from a local law enforcement agency after thirty years. My last year I took a substantial pay cut that was negotiated for me by the association I belonged to. I did work some extra overtime to make up for the salary cut prior to my retirement. My beef is with any media or persons that continue to spread the urban legend that public employees can “pad their retirements” by working extra over-time. I will not say “all media” does this because I would be guilty of using that same broad paintbrush.

Please check your facts and con-firm with CALPERS retirement that overtime is not used to calculate retire-ment benefits. I can confirm that I am not benefiting from any of the overtime I worked my last year except that which I earned fairly and have already spent. If you do find a way to “pad” my last year’s salary to increase my retirement salary, please make me the first one you tell because I haven’t found any truth to the urban legend your paper is promoting.

Richard YeeSanta Barbara(Editor’s note: It is our understand-

ing that overtime pay is included in the pension calculations of law enforcement retirees as to their “last year’s” total sal-ary; we’ll follow up to confirm that that is so – TLB)

Eating The RichPresident Obama says that million-

aires and billionaires aren’t paying their “fair share.” However, these

people pay the majority of all taxes and hire people, creating the jobs that increase the tax base. For the economy to recover it needs to grow to increase revenues and government needs to stop overspending.

Yet, politicians don’t want to take responsibility for their overspending. As in our litigious society, they want to blame someone else and profit from it. They need a scapegoat, and who better to blame than millionaires and billion-aires who have so much? Implying a conspiracy of the wealthy stealing from the poor, a Democratic Congresswoman said on television that those Tea Party millionaires and billionaires want to take benefits away from poor people and “we’ve got to stop them.” But, the heart of the Tea Party isn’t million-aires or billionaires. It’s working people, taxpayers, who are tired of politicians squandering their tax dollars.

The President and Democrats recently started using the term “social justice” when talking about million-aires and billionaires not paying their “fair share.” “Social justice” harkens back to the great Depression. “Social Justice” was the name of a news-paper and radio show of a certain Father Coughlin, a Catholic priest from Michigan who railed against Wall Street and Jewish bankers as the cause of the Great Depression. In 1934, he formed a political orga-nization called “Nation’s Union for Social Justice” whose articles includ-ed “work and income guarantees,” nationalizing “necessary” industry, wealth redistribution through taxa-tion of the wealthy, federal protection of worker’s unions, and decreasing property rights in favor of the govern-ment controlling the country’s assets for “public good.” Many people sup-ported Coughlin’s views. Are these the voters that Obama is pandering to now? Is this the direction Democrats want to take our country?

Now that times are tough, wealthy people are again the villains. While a billionaire is hugely wealthy, a person worth a million dollars is not rich. But,

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Holiday Open HouseBella Duran salon and spa invites all to a Holiday Open House with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.When: 4 pm to lateWhere: 1102 Coast Village CircleInfo: 845-5950

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21

21st Annual Living NativityFor 21 years the congregation of the First United Methodist Church has staged a re-creation of the Holy Night for three nights just before Christmas. Under a redwood tree and adjacent to the church, a grassy area is transformed into a humble wooden stable, complete with Mary, Joseph and tiny baby Jesus asleep in the manger. Three majestic kings stand by with their gifts to the Holy Child, attentive angels appear nearby, and lowly shepherds tend to their flocks. Camels, sheep, a donkey and occasional chickens surround the manger taking in the wonder of it all. The Living Nativity will be held for 3 nights: December 21, 22 and 23rd from 5:30 pm to 7:30 p.m. Warm cider and goodies will be served and free tours of the historic Sanctuary will also be available. The two-story Sanctuary, built in 1927, is open and decorated in seasonal finery with a 10-foot Christmas tree, bright red poinsettias and Christmas music softly playing.When: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pmWhere: First United Methodist Church is located at the corner of Garden and Anapamu Streets, one block from the SB Courthouse. Parking is available behind the church with the parking entrance off Garden Street. Info: 963-3579 or visit the website www.fumcsb.org •MJ

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Lecture and Luncheon The Dream Act and the effort to repeal it will be discussed by California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly at the Montecito Hope Ranch Republican Women’s Club monthly luncheon at the Montecito Country Club. “Roadblocks Facing the Republican Minority in the California Legislature - Hopes for the Future,” is the topic of the talk by Assemblyman Donnelly, who represents the 59th District in San Bernardino County. He is the author of the current petition to rescind AB131 (the Dream Act) which allows students who are in the U.S. illegally to pay in-state tuition and receive financial aid from the state. The luncheon features a special Christmas musical revue by MJ columnist Erin Graffy.When: Registration begins at 10:30 am, with the general meeting and installation of officers at 11 am and the luncheon at 11:45 am Costs: $30 pre-paid or $35 at the doorInfo: [email protected]

SATURDAY DECEMBER 17

Breakfast with SantaSanta visits the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara; members are invited with their families to have breakfast, meet Santa, do arts and crafts, make ornaments and presents and choose a gift provided by the Unity Shoppe. Volunteers from the Club’s Women’s Auxiliary will be

THURSDAY DECEMBER 15

Tea & Trunk ShowBacara Resort & Spa hosts its first annual Tea & Trunk Show event, where guests can listen to live music in the festive Bacara lobby and indulge in a Bacara-style “tea tasting.”The tasting will include three flights of teas from all across the globe, moderated by Bacara’s Tea Master. Each tea poured will be paired with a gourmet food tasting course, inspired by the various teas, to complement the unique characteristics of each tea, prepared by Executive Chef David Reardon.The event will also feature a trunk show by jewelry designer, Janet Heller, and an informal fashion show. After tea, guests can take advantage of Bacara’s 30–70% off one-day-only sale upstairs in the Rotunda, offering sale pricing on highly-edited fashion finds and designer brands like Rozae Nichols, Diane von Furstenberg, Alice + Olivia, Vince, J Brand Jeans, Twill Twenty Two, Robert Graham and Kooba handbags from the Luxury Boutique, as well as the Spa Boutique. When: 2 pm to 4 pm Tea, sale from 2 pm to 6 pmWhere: 8301 Hollister Avenue

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Panzumo at MAWAfrican dance beats liven up Music Academy of the West as Panzumo performs song and dance. Gourmet vegan cuisine is available, and special guests will surprise the audience. When: 7 pm to 10 pmWhere: 1070 Fairway RoadCost: $15-$50Info: 966-4604

SATURDAY DECEMBER 17

Art Exhibit Marsha Red Adams, CSU Professor Emeritus, is an exhibiting artist with work in numerous collections and in over a dozen publications. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Germany and Mexico, with work in almost 100 exhibitions, including over 20 solo exhibitions. Ms Adams opens her new studio to the public this weekend. Come meet the artist and see her large-scale artwork in the context of her working studio in Carpinteria. When: Saturday, 5 pm to 9 pm, and Sunday 11 am to 4 pmWhere: Palm Loft Art Studio Complex, 410 Palm Avenue, Studio A15 in Carpinteria

Cost: Tea Tastings are $35 per person; no cost for shopping onlyInfo: 968-0100

Wine TastingLaird McLain makes his debut at the Liquor & Wine Grotto, pouring a selection of wines including Kessler-Haak chardonnay and pinot noir, as well as De Paola zinfandel and Riverbench pinot noir When: 4:30 pm to 7 pmWhere: 1271 Coast Village RoadCost: $1

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Winter SingStudents, teachers and parents at Montecito Union School spread holiday cheer When: 9:30 am, 10:45 am and 12:45 pmWhere: MUS Auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road

The First NoelUnity Church of Santa Barbara presents the Annual Christmas Cantata: “The First Noel” with the Unity Singers, Noreen Brokke, and special guests. A love offering is welcome to benefit the Unity Shop. Refreshments will be served.


At their final meeting of 2011, the Montecito Association board of directors announced

the launch of their new website, which went live last week. The website, www.montecitoassociation.org, features “spotlights,” community issues, agendas for Montecito Architectural Board of Review, Montecito Planning Commission and Montecito Association board meetings, photos, links, a calendar and much more. The website, headed up by publicity chair Tom Schleck, is completely updated with a new format and new features to assist community members in obtaining information about all things Montecito.

During community reports, Montecito Union School superinten-dent Tammy Murphy reported that enrollment at the school continues to increase, with admission currently at 460. More children are expected to begin attending the school after the winter break. Ms Murphy also noted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new-ly-finished pathway on San Ysidro Road will take place on Wednesday, January 11, at 8:30 am. Kids at the school are in the process of making handmade thank you notes for neigh-bors impacted by the construction on the path; neighbors will be personally invited to the ribbon cutting ceremo-ny. “There are a whole lotta kids using that pathway,” she said.

Lieutenant Kelly Moore with Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department said, “’Tis the season to steal from unlocked cars.” He reported more “smash and grabs” at trailheads and beach access points, along with thefts from unlocked cars.

Montecito Fire Protection District’s Terry McElwee thanked the commu-nity for supporting Movember, the mustache-growing fundraising event which the district participated in last month.

Dana Newquist reported that a new community tree, to replace the decayed tree that was removed from the cor-ner of San Ysidro Road and North Jameson, will be planted later this week. Because of right of way issues, the tree will be planted in Manning Park, between the tennis courts and San Ysidro Road. It will be planted in honor of Helen and Don Hathaway, who started the tradition of decorat-ing the tree during the holidays over 60 years ago. Don Hathaway, a former MFPD chief, passed away in July. An official commemoration will take place on Wednesday, December 21.

Newquist also reported that he has been in communication with the

attorneys and family involved with David Myrick’s trust. Mr. Myrick, who passed away in September, has donated his massive archive of manu-scripts, microfilms, photographs, per-sonal notes and other items to the History Archive. He also bequeathed $15,000 to the Archive, on the con-dition that it breaks away from the Montecito Association and form a 501-C3 non-profit.

Newquist said there are a couple of options on where to move the History Archive in order to accommodate the influx of Myrick’s belongings. One of those options is at Casa Dorinda; executive director and president Ron Schaefer, who was in attendance at the meeting and formally introduced himself, said he is supportive of mov-ing the Archive to Casa.

The board voted to send a letter to the Montecito Planning Commission regarding an approved project on East Mountain Drive. The controver-sial project requires approximately 8,000 cubic yards of grading and the construction of a 1,100-ft driveway to access the property, which would require two bridges to cross a drain-age. It would require the removal of 18 oak trees, and significantly impact 21 others, and neighbors have appealed the land use permit. The board voted to show support of the appellants; the appeal will be seen at Montecito Planning Commission early next year.

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mail from president Dick Nordlund with updates and Association news. The Association office will be closed from December 26 until January 2.

The MA annual meeting is sched-uled for Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 4 pm.

Hot Springs LatestLand Trust of Santa Barbara exec-

utive director Michael Feeney tells us the purchase of the 462-care Hot Springs property has been pushed back to mid-February, amid easement and title issues that have arisen. “We have negotiated an extension on the close of escrow until then so we may work out some legal issues,” he told us earlier this week.

Earlier this year, Feeney announced his organization’s aspiration to acquire the Hot Springs Canyon prop-erty, with the intent to hand it over to the Los Padres National Forest for maintenance. The Land Trust, a non-profit organization which works to conserve open space and habitat res-toration, entered into an option to buy the historic property for $8.7 million from the property’s owners, Mark McCaslin and his siblings. The Land Trust launched a campaign to raise the funds by December 15; as of press time they are only $20,000 short of the goal, which was also slightly reduced

by the owners. “The people of Montecito have real-

ly stepped up to save this property,” Feeney said. “Congratulations are in order for the community, who saw the importance of saving this property. Money is no longer an issue; now we have to work out the legal issues.”

Feeney says the Land Trust is not in the position to maintain the property, so to ensure that the Forest Service will take it over, some issues need to be worked out between the Forest Service, Montecito Water District, and an adjacent neighbor to the property. “Our goal is to ensure this land will be permanently dedicated as natural open space for people to experience and enjoy,” Feeney said.

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round waiting to be ridden, with a silent auction ready to be bid on. Further out into the tented courtyard, kept warm by heaters and fire pits, were the dinner tables beautifully lit with candles.

There was not only a cocktail bar, but also a candy bar (pun intended). There you could pick up a small take-out carton and fill it with whatever delighted your taste buds. The foun-tain was lit and the dance floor laid out with a band ready to play.

The best part was after dinner, when Father Christmas and entou-rage entered to squeals of joy from the

kids. This was the old-fashioned party where little girls dressed up in their finest velvet and Mary Janes and boys wore jackets and ties. Really! There were no jeans to be seen. There were ballerinas that danced while snow showered down upon them.

The Honorary Chair of all this fes-tivity was president of the board, Eleanor Van Cott. Executive director David Bisol, who usually dons the Father Christmas costume, was ill so there was a secret substitute. Some of the patrons were Eleanor, Astrid and Lawrence Hammett, and John Woodward. Others attendees were Peter Hilf, three generations of the Fuhrer family – Annelise, Benjamin, Don, Jonathan, Lisa, Matthew and Susan – Marlene and Warren Miller, and Bill Burtness. Bridlewood Estate Winery provided the fine wines.

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Barbara Redmond and husband Richard on either side of the SBHM board president and honorary chair Eleanor Van Cott in front of the candy bar

Snow flakes falling on the sugar plum fairies at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum winter wonder-land

Part of the Merry Wreath Consort singing in front of the museum at the “Remember the Magic” event


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Angels in FlightThe holidays are a good time to

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According to the chair of AFW Santa Barbara Community Support Council, Martin Bell, “The group was formed in 1984 and flew fifteen missions. Since then, they have flown forty-

six thousand mercy flights. There are sixteen hundred pilots in the thirteen states.” On average, an Angel Flight mission takes off somewhere every daylight hour. Do angels have wings? These do and they are “heaven sent.”

The local group held a “Flights of Hope” reception at Atlantic Aviation on the ocean side of the airport (where Oprah parks her plane). Thanks went to Atlantic Aviation not only for the use of their facility, but also for host-ing the event. Santa Barbara support-ers had bountiful munchies to eat and wine to sip while meeting pilots and hearing patient stories. Some of the AFW group attending were Alan Dias, the executive director who

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Guest speaker was W. Mitchell, who, after suffering burns on over 65% of his body and ending up in a wheelchair for life, now motivates audiences across the globe to soar to the top. He has been to the White House for five different Presidents.

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Christmas, Candlelight, and Cocktails

The board of Casa del Herrero invit-ed everyone to their annual gala, “Casa Blanca, An evening of Christmas, Candlelight & Cocktails.” There were shades of Casablanca, Morocco in the décor with brass star shaped lanterns hanging from the tree branches and lighting the driveway. These led to a tented courtyard in front of the house with the tiled pond in the center and more lanterns. Red peonies set in bur-lap all around were rustic yet elegant. The cloths covering the cocktail tables looked Moroccan in design.

Executive Director Molly Barker’s creative brother-in-law, David Steele, designed the unique bar to resemble George Steedman’s workshop (the home’s original builder and owner). They were serving, what else, but screwdrivers with jokes going around about being “hammered.” The bits and bites were delicious, especially the scallops.

Erudite Frank Goss from Sullivan Goss Art Gallery was the auctioneer. Obviously a very good one, because a fountain sold twice for $12,500 each time. The artist is Laurence Hodges, who is the sister-in-law of the gala chair, Sharon Bradford. The in-laws were busy. The fountain is a mosaic made from the Casa “tile morgue.” A one-of-a-kind John Hall reproduction of a beautiful 17th century Spanish colonial table from the Casa went for $8,500. After every sale, Goss struck Mr. Steedman’s signature anvil from the workshop; it was better than a gavel. The sold out crowd netted over $100,000 for the Casa.

Sharon’s gala committee was her husband David, Joanna and Marc Appleton, Marcia and Jamie Constance, Julie and Bill Esrey, Anne and John Gilchrist, Cindy and John Hall, Susan and Palmer Jackson, Valerie and AJ Rice, Phyllis and Philip Smith, Suzanne Tucker and Tim Marks, and Joanie and Gerhard Zacher. Kudos for a stellar event.

Casa del Herrero is a historic eleven-acre estate in the heart of Montecito built in the 1920s. It will be open for tours through December 17, decked out in all its holiday finery, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. Cider and cookies will be available, too. Call 565-5653 for reservations. •MJ

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Casa del Herrero committee member Suzanne Tucker with Steedman’s great granddaughter Pharibe Wise, event chair Sharon Bradford, executive director Molly Barker, and great granddaughter Douglas Wise-Stuart at the historic eleven-acre estate

Steedman grand-son Albert Hinkley, Phyllis and Philip Smith, and board president of Casa del Herrero Charlie Knight partaking in the evening of “Christmas, Candlelight & Cocktails”

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in the foothills; it would be managed for wildlife habitat protection and rec-reational use for the public. If sold privately, the property, which encom-passes Montecito Peak and the former Hot Springs Spa and Hotel that oper-ated in the early 1900s, could poten-tially be developed. It is zoned to allow six residential sites and possibly a day spa per Montecito Community Plan Guidelines.

The Land Trust is expected to be in front of the Montecito Water District Board at an upcoming meeting to dis-cuss water access on the property.

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On December 15, 16 and 19, Ortega Hill Road between Sheffield Drive and Ortega Ridge will be closed between 8:30 am and 4 pm for tree trimming and removal. During these periods the road will be closed to vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists; motorists will be directed to use detours.

Inclement weather could prompt the County to reschedule this work if necessary. For more information, call Public Works representative Udy Loza at 455-3323.

Holiday HaulersOnce again the “Holiday Haulers”

of Montecito are donating their time, equipment and manpower to help the Santa Barbara Foodbank during its annual food drive. Led by Montecito Journal columnist Lisa Cullen, the Foodbank Holiday Haulers are a group of local business owners who have helped the Foodbank since the fall of 2009.

Conceived and organized by Cullen, who with her husband Chris own Montecito Landscape, the Holiday Haulers came into being when Lisa asked the Foodbank a few years ago what was needed to ensure their Holiday Food Drive was a success.

“Organizations and individuals donate food, but the Foodbank doesn’t have the resources to pick it up,” says

Ms Cullen. “That’s where we come in. We pick up and deliver the food that is donated to the Foodbank during the Holiday Food Drive.”

“The exciting thing is that people have heard about what we are doing and want to help,” explains Lisa. “We have more Holiday Haulers than ever this year and we are ready to hit the road.” The haulers transport about 10,000 pounds of food each holiday season.

This year “The Haulers” include Chris and Lisa Cullen and Leana Finley from Montecito Landscape, Bob Kingston with All Around Landscape Supply, Derrick Yee with Abe Nursery, Tom Dolan with Emilio’s Restaurant, Ken Olsen with McCormix, Duke McPherson with McPherson Consulting Arborist, John Gettman with Partners Imaging, George Schnakenberg with Agri-Turf, Jose Perez with Perez Landscapes, Jeff Fernandez with Aqua-Flo Santa Barbara and Mike Alonzo with Aqua-Flo Goleta.

“The Santa Barbara County Foodbank is a vital part of our com-munity, distributing good, nutritious food to those in need, most of whom are seniors and children,” Cullen informed us. “The Holiday Haulers are made up of businesses who have been in our area for a very long time; this project gives us a chance to give back to our community.”

To have a Holiday Hauler pick up your food donation this holiday sea-son, please contact Diane Hadighi at the Foodbank, 967-5741 x 112 or call Lisa Cullen of Montecito Landscape at 969-3984.

Toys for TotsMontecito Fire Protection District

is partnering with Unity Shoppe and Toys for Tots to collect toys for the less fortunate this holiday season. A new, unwrapped toy for a child or teen can be dropped off at either fire station in Montecito (595 San Ysidro Road and 2300 Sycamore Canyon Road).

Unity Shoppe has indicated that all toys collected will stay within our local communities. The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation is now in its 65th year, and is a non-profit organization that pro-


Foodbank Holiday Haulers, left to right: Duke McPherson, Bob Kingston Matt Taylor, Foodbank Warehouse Manager, Lisa Cullen, Diane Hadighi, Foodbank Community Manager, Leana Finley and Chris Cullen

vides fundraising and other necessary support for the annual U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program.

For more information visit www.toysfortots.org or www.unityshoppe.org. The collection bins at MFPD will be available until December 23.

In Business by Flora Kontilis

During the Holiday season, we anticipate the nights spent giving

gifts and dining with family and friends. What we don’t look for-ward to are the multitasking days required for shopping and planning. Sara Anna Fenu, owner of Santa Barbara Hustle, is a personal assis-tant that can save a possible holiday nightmare, because sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in a day. “The Holidays are my busiest time of year,” says Fenu, who has oper-

compiled by Flora Kontilis from information supplied by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, Carpinteria Division

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Injury Collision on Highway 101Friday, 2 December, 10:50 pm – California Highway Patrol (CHP) responded to

a single vehicle incident on southbound US 101. A Carpinteria male in his mid 40s was driving his vehicle through a right curve in the road when he veered into the center divider. The vehicle then moved across both lanes and went off the right shoulder; the vehicle stopped in a tree field after passing through a wire fence. CHP suspects alcohol was a factor in the collision; the driver was arrested for driving under the influence, and then released to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to be treated for his injuries. A report was taken.

Possession of Marijuana at Cold Spring Trailhead

Friday, 9 December, 10 pm – Deputy Scherbarth was on patrol near the Cold Spring Trailhead when a vehicle was spotted parked in the area. Scherbarth noticed that the vehicle’s windows were fogged; the deputy investigated for suspicious activity. Scherbarth could not see inside the vehicle when the win-dows were illuminated. Upon approaching the vehicle, Scherbarth found four individuals inside the vehicle, three males and one female. None of the subjects had a California driver’s license. Scherbarth proceeded to pat down and search the subjects individually; one of the male subjects had a small bag of mari-juana in his pants’ front pocket. After all the vehicle’s occupants were searched, Scherbarth looked through the vehicle; the deputy found a small glass smoking pipe, which is commonly used for smoking crack cocaine, and a glass bong. The male subject who possessed the marijuana claimed the glass pipe was his.

Scherbarth issued the driver with a citation for not having a driver’s license and for his vehicle’s holding the bong. The deputy also issued a citation for the other male subject for having marijuana. All four individuals were released and picked up by a friend. The vehicle was towed from the scene. A report was taken. •MJ


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It wasn’t too bad but it was a bit dry as paper products go, so I washed it down with a large swig of...

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“Hot cactus prickly pear cider,” my wife said. “Says it’s from an old family recipe.”

“You mean an odd family recipe.”I’m not sure if it’s just because

we live in Southern California or whether it’s a national movement to create the most unusual finger foods for the holidays. One party we went to had pickled chilies stuffed with cous-cous. Another offered fish balls with tiny fins made from brussel sprouts. Still another had Spam Fingers with a shallot drizzle. Sometimes I think actual fingers would be better.

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fingers.The first year I moved here from

New Hampshire, I was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner that included a tofu turkey. I don’t know where you’d even hunt tofu turkeys or what kind of bullet you’d have to shoot it with to keep it in one piece like that. Do they make tofu shot that they keep on the shelf next to the buck shop and birdshot? Is there a mating call whistle? Tofu! Tofu! Tofu! It was easy to slice, I suppose. And the hemp gravy wasn’t bad. But the mashed cauliflower faux potatoes left a bit to be desired.

“Here. Maybe you can get this down without all those embarrass-ing sound effects.”

My wife handed me what appeared to be a normal slice of pizza.

Hah! I’ve made that mistake before. Party pizza now has to be made with cheese from some ani-mal other than the original. No wonder California cows are happy cows. Instead of hours in the barn they now get to hang around the farm and watch the anguished looks on the goat’s faces as the giant

empty silver trucks pull in. I’m waiting for the trend to go to yak cheese or alpaca cheese. I guess if you spilled alpaca cheese on your alpaca sweater at the party, no one would really notice.

“You’ve got something green and white on your shirt,” my wife said.

“Grilled parsnip and zucchini dip. I swear when I stuck my gluten-free cracker in it the thing yelped.”

Drinking used to be safe. Beer or wine. Maybe some gin drinks. Now, everyone wants to have eggnog, but they don’t want to buy eggnog in those little cardboard containers, they want to make their own.

“Egg white nog?”“Egg Beaters nog?”“Ostrich eggnog? You know one

egg makes two gallons?”To be safe, eggnog must now

be lactose free, so they use the milk of soy or rice or almonds or some kind of seed. Soon we’ll be enjoying medicinal cannabis milk in California, which will help the eggnog immensely, though it will probably increase the calcium levels in adults ten-fold.

Sangria has made a comeback. It was big during the 60s and 70s, mainly because the bottles made cool candle holders. Now it offers hosts the chance to get rid of their unused Mogen David wine and any old fruit they didn’t want to throw away.

I like it when the party is catered and they have servers bringing tray after tray of little things with tooth-picks in them.

“Wow, that’s interesting. What is it?”

“The liver of some kind of water fowl.”

“Yum. Can I just have the pars-ley?”

“That’s not parsley. It’s baby car-rot tops.”

Poor carrots. There is an entire generation that will never get to raise their babies, because everyone wants baby carrots in their salads. Adult carrots end up mainly in...

“Holiday vegetable cake?” my wife asked. “It’s got hydrogenated cottonseed oil frosting?”

“I think I’m going to slip out to the car for a minute. I’ve got half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich left over from lunch and a bottle of Dr. Pepper.”

“What kind of jelly?” my wife asked as we slipped out the door. •MJ

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Wealthy people, accused of being unpatriotic, have gone to Congress saying “tax me more, I’m patriotic.” Warren Buffett says tax people like him more. But, how many people are there like Buffett? Buffett and Gates could give most of their wealth away and it would have no effect on their lifestyle. Yet, they would begrudge families who have accumulated mod-est wealth from passing it on to their children without the government tak-ing half of it. They are just grand-standing for their own public image. The tax increase would only be sym-bolic and would not affect the deficit. It would take the class card away from Democrats, but hurt our consumer-driven economy.

Instead of uniting us, President

Obama is dividing us by playing the class card. If we just tax those greedy millionaires and billionaires more, we can keep giving benefits to those who need them. But the truth is we can’t keep spending even if we tax people more. Government can’t give everyone everything they need. Life isn’t fair and government can’t make it so. Does government do more for people than private charities? Do inefficient gov-ernment bureaucracies do anything better than the private sector? How is the U.S. Postal Service doing? It’s in debt, but FedEx and UPS are doing fine. Why was it said the government is best which governs least? Who said our system of democracy will work until the politicians realize that people will vote for whoever promises to give them the most? But there won’t be any-thing left to give them, if we, like the 1971 rock song, “I’d Love to Change the World” says: “Tax the rich, feed the poor, ‘til there are no rich no more.” Then who will we tax? This class war isn’t about eliminating poverty. It’s about vilifying wealth and redistribut-ing it to get reelected.

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Before we left, it had become pretty normal for me to take Lily or Kate on searches for the

perfect components – a particular type of basil or a hard-to-find Mexican chocolate, for example – to really make a dish come together. These were fun days, sort of like scavenger hunts, and I’d buy the girls little cupcakes and let them pick a bottle of wine and we’d talk about our favorite foods and just hang out. In the beginning, neither wanted to come shopping with Dad; by the end, it was a fight over whose turn it was and whether we might go to Whole Foods or Lazy Acres

(or both). Then they’d help in the kitchen (for a few minutes, anyway) and get a chance to see how their work in the market translated into what they would ultimately see on the table. Good times, for sure.

And so it shouldn’t have been such a surprise that we all loved a Thai cooking class we took last week on a farm outside of Chiang Mai. But it was indeed surprisingly fun, something each of us enjoyed tremendously, although perhaps for different reasons.

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emeritus. She is the mother of Tim ’97, who graduated from Westmont with a degree in psychology. “At Westmont, I always felt the closeness of com-munity,” she says. “While you didn’t know every student on campus, you had this feeling of real community. I love that. Everyone was friendly.”

White, who has had four children attend Westmont within a 12-year span, was frequently in Santa Barbara to watch her children compete with the Westmont men’s and women’s polo teams. She herself attend-ed Westmont because she wanted to have her education influenced by Christian doctrine. White says,

“Westmont changed my life by pro-viding me with instruction and tools in an academic environment with a Christian world view; this has helped me engage my faith in community around me. The campus is strongly evangelical, and also religiously ecu-menical, which is a very special and important feature of this college.”

Jupiter Takes Over the Skies During Viewing

The gas giant Jupiter will be the focus of attention for stargazers at a free, public viewing with the power-ful Keck Telescope Friday, December 16. The viewing, which begins at about 7 pm, lasts several hours. The observatory opens its doors to the public every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes

to Westmont for the public to gaze through. In case of inclement weath-er, please call the Telescope Viewing Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check the Westmont website to see if the viewing has been canceled.

Westmont physics instructor Thomas Whittemore says Jupiter will be high in the sky with its Great Red Spot in view. “If condi-tions are good, we may be able to get a glimpse of this cloud storm on Jupiter’s surface,” he says.

Other celestial objects that may be featured include several cra-ters on the moon and open clus-ters in the Milky Way. “Within the sunlit section of the moon will be the wonderful triplet of cra-ters: Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel,” Whittemore explains. “If the weather cooperates, we may be able to see some details in the basins of these ancient craters.”

Whittemore says some open clus-ters, groups of several thousand stars, form interesting patterns. “NGC 457 looks like an owl and is known as the Owl Cluster,” he says. “NGC 663 looks like an S. Could it be that some distant civilization, lying seventy-two hundred light-years away, is trying to communi-cate with us? Probably not, but it is fun to think about.” •MJ

The Westmont Board of Trustees, which oversees the operations of the college, has welcomed

four new members. Denise Jackson ’78, a director of human resources in Pasadena, Sharon Rose ’89, an attorney in Washington, D.C., Lynne Tahmisian ’67, vice president of La Arcada Investment Corporation in

Santa Barbara, and Celeste White ’76, president of Vintage Ranch Properties in Napa, are all alumnae of Westmont.

Jackson, who works at Career Education Corporation, serves the Westmont Alumni Advisory Committee and the Wallace Emerson Society. “My goal, responsibility and focus is to make sure alumni issues, concerns and interests get brought to the board,” she says. “I am a big proponent of connectivity. When I look at my own life, my relation-ships and my closest friends, they all come from Westmont, whether I knew them here or have met them along the way. I want people to

remain connected with the college over a long period of time.”

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collected from our apartment and whisked to a huge open-air market in the back of an old pick-up truck. (That alone was fun for the kids and got us off on the right foot.) Then we spent an hour or so learning all about key Thai ingredients and gen-erally wandering the rows and rows of fresh produce, meat, fish, rice, grain and on and on. The place was jammed full of cool stuff to discover. The kids loved watching the live fish and ogling the deep-fried (gigantic)

bugs and (enormous) larvae – yeah, you read that right – that were dis-played as snack food in one corner shop; I found it fascinating to see a whole pig broken down into each of its constituent parts (turns out there is a lot going on with the hog); Wendi loved the dazzling display of vibrant fruits and vegetables and herbs and spices (she secretly liked looking at the bugs, too). We nibbled

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We like to think of Celtic Spring as our little Irish band from Ojai, but in reality the family band – the six Wood siblings joined by their parents – now belongs to the world. What began as a way to introduce the kids to Irish tra-ditions, turned into an international sensation after the band played and step-danced its way to the finals of America’s Got Talent back in 2007 (they competed when the youngest brother, Aidan, was just five years old). Now, however, with the two oldest chil-dren – Elizabeth (24) and Deirdre (22) away at college – the band is back to a more limited touring schedule, which thankfully includes periodic appearances at the local Santa Barbara contra dance, where the six fiddlers (two also play other instruments) offer their lively tunes to which others can dance.

Elizabeth talked about the genesis of Celtic Spring and recent develop-ments in a telephone interview from graduate school in Denver.

Q. All of the kids in your family are part of the band. Was this what your parents always wanted?

A. It was never something that we planned at all. Music and dancing and performing have become a big part of my family’s life for as long as I can remember. But it’s been a gradual and organic development. Our par-ents never had a plan to have a pro-fessional band. They just wanted to give us the gift of the music and Irish culture. The rest of it developed natu-rally over time.

So there wasn’t a feeling of being forced in any way, like going into the family business?

No, not at all. To be honest, it’s been more of myself and my siblings over the years wanting to do more and that they had to contain us. It’s never

been any kind of push from them. The opportunity to travel, meet people and see things you’d never do without the band was amazing. Our family really loves doing it together.

Every kid felt the same way? Yeah, sure. When my sister Alex

was three, she wanted to do exactly what I was doing. So she got a little fiddle and started practicing. Then Deirdre and Cole wanted to play. Kids always want to imitate parents or older siblings, the people they look up to. You naturally absorb your sur-roundings and culture... I remember that my little brother was surprised to find out that not every child plays the violin. It was so much of our real-ity. And if it’s fun and enjoyable, you want to keep doing it.

For us, it’s like going to school. You don’t ask about it. It’s just what you do. Music and dance was part of our sub-culture. It’s a lot of work and the kids may not appreciate as much, but as teenagers it really became our own thing. Over the years my parents have been the backbone behind it, bringing us to lessons and music camps, mak-ing sure practices happen, but artis-tically it’s always been my siblings leading it, creatively, to where we wanted to go. The directions we want to take musically come from us.

Lots of families have friction even with-out working together. How do you avoid it or deal with it as professionals?

We’re a really normal family, so of course things do come up. There are times we’re not thrilled to be together but when we do the show, whatever is going on prior to sound check, it dis-appears once we start playing. Music is a real gift in that way; we leave everything else behind and are just so happy to play together. It’s brought us closer over the years. So when we smile on stage, it’s very genuine.

Okay, can you please clear up some-thing else: explain the difference between jigs, reels, hornpipes, and the various styles of Celtic music you play?

The main difference is the time sig-nature. A reel is always 4/4 upbeat dance music. A jig is 6/8 and a bit more bouncy. Waltz is in 3/4. Then there’s the speed you play them at. We do music from Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton, which we’ve learned from music camps around the coun-try and Europe and from fiddlers who would show us things. In more recent years, we’ve moved into a bit of jazz. My brother Sean is a super crazy creative musician who’s always bringing new things to the band. And we’ve also all been classically trained, so you’ll hear that influence as well, mostly in the technical precision.

Tell me about the whole experience of competing on the television show.

We had no idea what to expect. We knew we were pretty good, but when we saw the other acts and realized there were some talented people, we were very surprised when we moved on to the finals. It was exciting to be sharing our culture with main-stream America, a huge gift to us. Having twelve million viewers was just amazing; so many people see-ing and hearing our band perform. For them to see a big family doing something together, even the little siblings up there and part of it, I think people loved it. I think that’s what connected, the combination of our talent and the family. And we were ourselves through the whole thing; it didn’t change us. But it was a little window into Hollywood and that whole lifestyle.

With all that success, was there a thought of not going back to college?

Education always has priority and performing has gone along side of it. So I never thought of not going back. While the band has been a huge part of my family’s life, becoming a whole person is just as important. We talked about long-term goals and how big we wanted to make it. Over the years it’s worked out well to fit it in alongside education for everyone. We never dreamed we’d do what we did, as kids on into our adult years. So we’re taking it as it comes and loving it while we have it.

You’re off at grad school now. How will Celtic Spring continue indefinitely?

I know we’re always going to play music together, whether it’s on big stages or just in our houses. It’s a huge part of all of our lives, and we’ll always do it on some level. Right now, there’s a plan to continue for the immediate future. And we’ll see what happens down the road. We’ll always have Christmas and family weddings. And that broadens the family, too. Deirdre married a guy who is a great Irish flautist and he has come and played a show with us already, and joined the contra dances, including the next one.

But you don’t get to dance yourselves at the contra performances.

It’s a very different setting. But we love doing it because we get to be on stage and pay attention only to the music, the sound itself, and not have to worry about dancing or what we look like. It’s a fun jam session with the band and we get to watch you dance. We work off your energy and it lifts us up. That’s why it’s one of our favorite venues – with the interac-tion with the dancers on the floor, the energy builds throughout the night.

Celtic Spring plays for the regular Sunday night contra dance at the Carrillo Recreation Center from 6:30-9:30pm on December 18. Admission is possibly free if you just want to watch (ask at the door). Call 682-5523 or visit www.sbcds.org.

Reitman’s Ugly MirrorMontecito-connected filmmaker

Jason Reitman is receiving strong reviews for his fourth film, Young Adult, which opened in a limited run last Friday and arrives in town this weekend. But unlike Juno, the previous comic-drama collaboration between Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, there’s nothing remote-ly uplifting in this story about a mid-30s former high school beauty, played brilliantly by Charlize Theron, revis-iting her hometown in a misguided attempt to re-start her life by re-cap-turing her old boyfriend, who is hap-pily married with a new baby.

The movie “bumps along with nasty swerve... toward an ending blessedly free of anything warm, fuzzy, or opti-mistic,” wrote the Los Angeles Times, while the New York Times lauds the movie’s “brilliant, brave and breath-takingly cynical heart” while applaud-ing that it “challenges the dreary con-ventional wisdom that a movie pro-tagonist must be likable.”

“I like unlikeable characters,” Reitman told the audience at a pre-view screening for Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Cinema Society earlier this month. “I love the challenge of trying to make them human beings. I find that much more

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

Family band Celtic Spring hails from Ojai, and has gained international attention after reaching the finals of America’s Got Talent in 2007


interesting. Nice people are kind of boring... I wanted to examine charac-ters that don’t change. In [most] mov-ies you see people make these one hundred and eighty degree turns, but that doesn’t happen often in real life. We have moments of realization, we learn things, but we don’t change.”

Cody’s mentality, if not her exact words, rang true for Reitman, he said, noting that when he told his therapist he was afraid that if the sessions were successful he would lose his ability to write. “Don’t worry,” he was told. “You’ll only change five percent at most.”

Theron’s character creates several cringe-inducing moments, when you know a train wreck is coming and also know no one is getting out of the way. It’s almost too painful to watch. That was the point, the director said.

“A great movie acts as a mirror,” Reitman stated. “You should look up on the screen and see yourself. No matter how vile you think she’s being, you look up into the mirror and think perhaps I’m two percent like her. It becomes an ugly mirror. That’s what we were after.”

Not everybody left the theater rav-ing about Young Adult, however, and that’s perfectly fine with Reitman.

“We didn’t make this movie to make people feel good. I wanted this movie to hurt, to be uncomfortable... I want to watch complicated people, people with issues. I want to see my personal inner struggles reflected on screen and know that I’m not alone. I think that if I like them, the audience will like them too. And if I don’t lose some of them along the way, maybe I’m not doing my job.”

Revel in the HolidaysNow in it’s fourth year, Santa

Barbara Christmas Revels may not have quite become the annual tradi-tion of The Nutcracker, but for some performers and attendees, there’s nothing like the community-based revelry of these shows, a throwback to an earlier era where the audience actually gets to be involved.

After visiting the Renaissance and

Victorian eras in previous editions, the Santa Barbara company now takes on early 19th century Bavaria in this lat-est version of a national Revels script, complete with colorful costumes, live-ly dancing, glorious choral and instru-mental music, and engaging storytell-ing of that time and place. The large choruses of adult and child singers are complemented by a full range of musicians, from brass to alpenhorns to accordions, with dances including the polka, a graceful Laendler and an energetic Schuhplattler.

Returning performers include Boxtales Theatre Company veteran Matt Tavianini as Knecht Ruprecht, local favorite Diane Stevenett as Frau Hölle, the Pacific Sword Company and many more.

We spoke with Susan Keller, the Montecito-based founder and tireless promoter of Santa Barbara Revels, earlier this week.

Q. This year the show takes place in Bavaria in early 1800s. That’s quite a change from previous years.

A. We try to do a new show every year. It’s a nice follow up to the Victorian because there’s a lot of great Christmas traditions that originated in Bavaria, everything from St. Nick to the whole notion of a Christmas tree. Those are all early German traditions. They also celebrate solstice and the shortest day of the year, so it wasn’t hard to make it non-religious. It’s set in a beer hall, which was a social gath-ering spot in those days.

St. Nick isn’t quite the jolly old fellow we portray him as today, though, right?

No, he’s not. On Feast Day in honor of Sankt Nikolaus on December sixth, he goes from house to house and quizzes the children and expects them to entertain him. He keeps a list of everyone and whether they’ve done good or bad deeds. If they’ve been bad, his servant and sidekick Knecht Ruprecht has a switch to use on them or a lump of coal to put in their stock-ing. The really bad children get car-ried off in his sack. So it’s definitely not the sugarcoated version, but there are always happy endings.

Nikolaus is played by UCSB’s theater chair Simon Williams, his first time with the show. How’d that come about?

We recruited him because he’s not only a gifted theater person but he’s also a German scholar and an opera expert. He’s a great addition to the team. And that lets Ken Ryals now become our music director, which is what he always wanted to do. But he had such charisma we made him be a performer all the other years. He’s a great conductor; the singers really love working with him.

What else is new this year? The music is completely differ-

ent, from Beethoven to Mozart to Schumann. And we have a truly wonderful group of singers, some of the top vocalists from around town, including alumni from the Opera Santa Barbara chorus, Master Chorale and Quire of Voyces. So the vocal quality is absolutely excellent. They’re veterans of concert perfor-mances enjoying a different experi-ence on stage as singers, really loving the chance to be in character, act, and move around the stage. And we’ve got them dancing; everyone’s doing the polka this year.

At the same time you have to main-tain some traditions: things like “Twelve Days of Christmas” and a few other numbers come back every year.

“Twelve Days” is our signature piece, so we do it every year. And the national Revels keeps “Lord of the Dance” in every show; that’s the one that gets the entire audience up and dancing in and out of the theater. Also Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, which is one thousand years old; is just haunting in its pagan ritual elements. It’s my favorite part of the show every year. All the Revels

companies do it. And we also all end with The Sussex Mummers’ Carol, which is basically a blessing on the master and mistress of the house and all assembled. Some of these [pieces] are quite anachronistic, we realize, but the audience has come to expect and look forward to these elements because they participate in them. We can’t fight tradition.

You’ve also done quite a bit of commu-nity outreach this year.

Yes, indeed. On Friday night there will be a community preview, with an invited audience made up of social service groups, including the Boys & Girls Clubs, CALM and CASA. Everyone – even those who can’t afford to pay for tickets – should be able to see the show.

You spend a lot of time on Revels year-round. Why is it so important?

There are very few community events like this anymore. I grew up with community concerts, chances to get together and sing as a group. These kinds of community-building events are just disappearing. I make an effort to recruit children in partic-ular from the Title 1 schools (includ-ing Harding and Franklin). When we have these kids in the chorus, their parents – who may have never been inside the Lobero before – come to see their children perform. That’s a way to bring the community together and do things that last beyond the season.

The Christmas Revels in Celebration of the Winter Solstice performs 2:30 & 7:30 pm on Saturday, December 17 and 1 & 5pm on Sunday, December 18, at the Lobero Theatre. Tickets cost $12-$65. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com; for information visit www.santabarbara-revels.org. •MJ

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Jason Reitman spoke to the Cinema Society audience about his fourth film, Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron (Photo: screencrave.com)

Last year, the Santa Barbara Christmas Revels took on the Victorian era, and this year it will highlight early 19th century Bavaria in its audience participatory perfor-mances celebrating the Winter Solstice (Photo: David Bazemore)


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Fannie’s FriendAuthor Fannie Flagg got quite a

surprise when she was guest speak-er at the Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara’s 10th annual celebration lunch at Fess Parker’s Doubletree.

Before becoming a best selling writ-er, with such gems as her 1988 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Alabama-born Fannie was a success-

ful comedienne and a frequent guest on NBC’s Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

One of her producers in New York, where the show was taped before it moved to Burbank, was Ginny Beauregard, a good friend of Anne Towbes, given they were both stu-dents at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

“Anne invited me to come out and attend the lunch,” says Ginny, from her home in Bloomfield Hills. “I had not seen Fannie since the early seven-ties, so it was a great time to fly out from Michigan and spend time with Anne and reunite with Fannie.

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books. By her reaction, I think Fannie was truly surprised to see me, and although, due to the nature of the event, we only had a few minutes to catch up, it was great fun to re-connect.”

Ginny, whose daughter, Katharine, attended UCSB, is a frequent visitor to Los Angeles and says she is look-ing forward to catching up more with Fannie in due course...

Moosey Music Grandchildren are a major inspira-

tion for Marilee Gordon, who shuttles between her homes in Montecito and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

“My four-year-old granddaughter, Scarlett, told me this story about two young moose who appeared in their backyard, not far from our home in Wyoming,” says Marilee, a psycho-therapist.

“The moose got into their fall gar-den and ate the peas, as well as dig-ging up the carrots and even picking up her slide and lifting it up on their antlers!”

From that event came Marilee’s first children’s book The Moosey Ate My Peas, which she launched at a bijou bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the Upper Village.

She also wrote a children’s song “The Moosey in the Garden Blues,” that is on a CD in the back of the book.

“I have been singing and play-ing guitar since I was twelve,” says Marilee. “I have written many songs, but I think this may be one of my bet-ter ones.

“I arranged, played and sang the ‘Western Lullaby,’ which is an award-winning children’s song and book written by a friend, Lynn Friess, who is also from Jackson Hole. She was my original inspiration to pursue this book.

“Gail Kearns and Penny Paine from Santa Barbara’s ‘The Book Sherpa’ helped me put the tome together, and I had a wonderful illustrator, retired

high school art teacher Carl Wenzel.”Now there are other Moosey books

in the works.“Scarlett told me two other stories

which have given me ideas,” adds Marilee, who moved to our Baghdad by the Beach 15 years ago...

The Lion’s DenAs husband and wife tiffs go, the lit-

eral battle royal between King Henry II and his duplicitous queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, makes for great drama as the Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter amply exemplifies.

Stephanie Zimbalist, who I last saw at the Alhecama Theatre in Tea at Five, based on the life of actress Katharine Hepburn – who, by coinci-dence, played the 12th century royal in the 1968 film with Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and future James Bond Timothy Dalton – is perfect for the role, playing the part to the regal hilt, while her long suffering and libidinous husband, superbly acted by Hollywood veteran Eric Pierpoint, gives as good as he gets as they trade barbs and insults at his French castle of Chinon in 1183, surrounded by their three sons, played equally well by Daniel David Stewart, Ross Hellwig and Rick Cosnett, all conniving to be the next man on the British throne.

Paul David Story as the youthful

King Philip II of France and Thea Brooks as Henry’s long suffering mis-tress, complete the wonderful cast, directed by Jenny Sullivan, along with impressive scenery by Neil Prince, costume design by Pamela Shaw and effective lighting by J. Kent Inasy.

This is a witty mane attraction of plot and counterplot that absolutely roars!

It runs through December 24...

The Symphony Strikes AgainIt has been 58 years since the

world-renowned 131-year-old Boston Symphony Orchestra last appeared in Santa Barbara, but it was certainly worth the wait as the Granada perfor-mance, part of CAMA’s International Series, pushed the wow factor to new heights.

Under conductor Ludovic Morlot, music director of the Seattle Symphony – who is filling in after Boston’s director, James Levine, resigned in September –, the talented musicians played an eclectic mix of of Mozart, Wagner, Bartok and Berlioz, whose eight minute “Roman Carnival” over-ture reflected part of the program from the orchestra’s last performance in our tony town nearly six decades ago.

New York pianist Richard Goode, whose current tours include the

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the L.A. Phil, as well as innumerable recitals in Europe, played with his usual finesse in Mozart’s “Concerto No.25 in C,” while Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and Bartok’s frenzied Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, the third and last of his major compositions for the theater, completed the entertaining program...

Fundraising FashionThe Ladies Who Lunch were out in

force at the Biltmore when the Breast Cancer Resource Center held its fourth annual fund-raising fashion show, fea-turing clothes from Coldwater Creek being modeled by breast cancer sur-vivors.

More than 220 guests, dining chic to chic at the sold-out bash co-chaired

Writer Marilee Gordon launches first children’s book

MERRY CHRISTMASThe Heavenly Father sent his only begotten son Jesus, Our Redeemer

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Let us all be Christi like and reach out for all of Christ’s people and all people by giving to charities that continue the Love of The Holy One.

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moon in darkness. This eclipsing was done from the top of the moon down to the bottom, versus across like usual. By 5:45 am, the “red” glow of reflected light from the earth onto the moon was evident. NASA sci-entists use the hue of red to assess global warming. Atmospheric scien-tist Richard Keen of the University of Colorado explains, “The scattering action of dust in the stratosphere casts a red light into Earth’s shadow. Lots of dust yields a deep red eclipse, while less dust produces a bright coppery hue. The stratosphere affects climate, a clear stratosphere lets the sunshine in to warm the Earth. Over the past

decade, the lunar eclipse record indi-cates a clear stratosphere that con-tributed about 0.2 degrees to recent warming.” At 6:00 am, the moon changed to a transparent looking tur-quoise blue and white and the sun began to rise in the opposite sky. The change to blue color occurs when light passes through the upper stratosphere absorbing the red light. The next total lunar eclipse is scheduled for 2014.

26th Annual Parade of Lights

This past Sunday, the annual Parade of Lights took over Santa Barbara Harbor.

Christopher and Ann Conway, owners of Conway Family Wines, hosted the judges’ party at their Deep Sea Wine Tasting Room on Stearns Wharf. The new wine tasting room has been elegantly remodeled since the last owners. It was warm and invit-ing with goodies to munch on and wine to taste. Judges this year were Santa Barbara Yacht Club Commodore Jack Byers, commercial fisherman Mike McCorkle, Publisher/Founder

On Saturday, from exactly 4:45 am until 6:15 am, we were graced with a holiday present

from nature, a total lunar eclipse in our beautiful clear western sky, low to the horizon. Our location on the planet granted us prime viewing rights of the moon being eclipsed in totality while the sun was rising in the

east, a rare phenomenon called the “selenelion” or “selenehelion.” The website, www.space.com, explains, “During a lunar eclipse, the sun and moon are exactly 180 degrees apart in the sky. Atmospheric refraction causes astronomical objects to appear higher in the sky than they are in reality. For example: when you see the sun sitting on the horizon, it is not there really. It’s actually below the edge of

the horizon, but our atmosphere acts like a lens and bends the sun’s image just above the horizon, allowing us to see it.” I did see it on Saturday and according to this reporter, we were spectacularly blessed.

I had the location scouted the day prior and found the perfect western horizon line at approximately 9/10

mile up Gibraltar Road at a rock filled switch-back. Arriving there at 4:30 am, the full moon was giving off light along with Orion’s Belt, the Little Dipper and Venus. There happened to also be a Cold Spring School parent and her daughter at the same location waiting for the eclipse, taking in the surroundings.

At 4:45 am, the eclipse began its hour-long process to “cover” the

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Ms Graffy is author of “Society Lady’s Guide on How to Santa Barbara,” is a longtime Santa Barbara resident and a regular attendee at many society affairs and events; she can be reached at 687-6733

The new Santa Claus Story

State Street Spin by Erin Graffy de Garcia

Raise your hand if you remember Santa Claus... who lived on Santa Claus Lane.

Remember how big ol’ St. Nick held court over the Reindeer Room, Santa’s Kitchen and the miniature train? When the very kitschy Santa Claus Lane disintegrated into nostal-gic memory, we local baby boomers were dismayed to see Santa banished ignominiously to Oxnard to oversee the scene on 101. And that was the end of that.

Sort of.It turns out Santa has a new lease

on life, and therein lies a story. Santa has been repurposed and is serving the Nyeland Acres community, which surrounds him. My friend and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jody Nelson, is capturing it all digi-tally. I could tell you more... but you will just have to wait for the film to come out!

Jody is finishing up the project, but is still interested in any juicy or unusual photos or film footage before 1978. Any memorabilia out there? How about some Santa Claus Lane stories from people who worked or visited that year-round holiday lane? (Jody has a non-profit affiliation if you are interested in helping fund the film, which you just know will be headed toward film festivals.)

Now if y’all want to see Santa in all his current glory, get thee down to Ventura county this Saturday,

December 17 from 10 am till noon for the big toy giveaway for the Nyeland Acres Community (Entertainment! Food! Santa!).

Also! Anybody out there know the whereabouts of the miniature train that used to be there? (Hearsay so far says it was purchased by a woman in Ojai.) And whaddabout the old carou-sel that used to be there? Who knows where it went... Do tell! And you can tell Jody by email at [email protected] or phone at 403-0602. And while I am at it: www.nelsonfilms.com.

Angels Bearing Gifts: Another Christmas story...

In 2000, Evelynn Smith and her daughter Michelle, a person with a developmental disability, thought to deliver holiday gifts to nine devel-opmentally disabled adults. Evelyn had noted that they had no one to remember them during the holidays – a time when being alone can feel most painful. With that, they started Angels Bearing Gifts.

The concept of this Kris Kringle kindness caught on almost immedi-ately. Angels Bearing Gifts has grown over the years, and this December, “angels” will provide gifts to 200 men and women with disabilities who are without family during the holidays (and also their birthdays, Valentine’s, etc.). This generous, valuable, and sweet program has been carried out because people support the mission through their donations and enthusi-asm... volunteers make it all happen, with a small part-time staff.

You can just imagine the pure joy and unabashed appreciation these special people exhibit when unwrap-ping their own gift. In fact, this might be a project to do with your children by helping with the gift-wrapping. Why not consider participating this Saturday, December 17 from 10 am - 1 pm at Tri-county Regional Center, 505 East Montecito Street.

If you want to help out, or to get more info email [email protected] or call 884-7222.

The Case of the Terrifying Tenor

Eduardo Villa, the great Met tenor who grew up in Goleta (hmmm almost sounds like an oxymoron there...), was describing his recent performance of Pagliacci. He was already in the zone, with the best part all evening coming at the end (I am speaking artistically, here, not morally). You know the scene: as Canio, he stabs Nedda, who cries out “Help Silvio!” while she dies. So he dispatches Silvio with a second swift stab and then remains standing dramatically over the two dead bodies.

Next, Eduardo sauntered to the front – center of stage – leaned menac-ingly over the ledge, and growled at the audience jabbing his knife right at them declaring “La Commedia è finita!” (“The play is over!”)

With that remark, about six to seven people literally jumped back quivering

into their seats, Eduardo laughingly confessed, “I felt like Freddy Krueger!”

(And I hear his “Vesti la Giubba” was a huge hit with prolonged applause and bravos.)

nutty about nutcracker

Of course you are, it is just such the Santa Barbara tradition, especially the Santa Barbara Festival Ballet pro-duction with a live orchestra at the Arlington. Instead of just focusing on the amazing talent in toe shoes, let’s give a hats off to our favorite fea-tured flat-footed fellow. This year was the 30th anniversary of Des O’Neill’s appearance in the show. A recovering attorney, he thankfully never retired his annual stage career. Instead, he has a lot of fun in the role of Mother Ginger as well as Herr Drosselmeyer. Des originally began in the party scenes when his twin daughters were with the Hanlin School of Ballet (predecessor to SBFT). Since then he has gone on to the more challenging roles: the mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer and the dexterous Mother Ginger (who literally has all those children underfoot...).

Occupy Your Own Backyard

Only in Santa Barbara... would you find a sign in front of an Upper Eastside home – worth nearly two million, mind you – that says “I am the 99%.”

Santa Barbara is Buzzing about

The Jazz Society Christmas Jam at that new Butler Event Center. The fea-tured core group included that multi-talented musician Jeff Elliot (he’s the guy who plays flugelhorn and piano – simultaneously – how dey do dat?), Brendon Staten smoking on bass, Mike Rosen on drums, Daryl Darden and Howard Miller trading on guitar, and George Friedenthal on keyboard. All kinds of singers and jazzmen came in to toot their horns, bang the keys, and scat, including Peter Clark, Al Reese, Bob Taylor, and Larry Duff. Vocalists included my favorites James Arnold and Sandy Cummins, also Kim Ford and Danny Mendoza.

...Local Santa Barbara baker and art-ist, Alison Riede and her Sugar Cat Studios won the $10,000 top prize on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars.

The viewing party for the Cupcake Wars, which aired last Sunday, was at Oreana Winery. Some 75 people were invited to have cupcakes, sip wine and be on hand to witness the vic-tory. The crowd went wild when they announced her the winner and she received a standing ovation when they announced she “took the cake”... •MJ

Mug Shot? Documentary film maker Jody Nelson had a mugging years ago on Santa Claus Lane, evidenced by this coffee catcher, shown here standing at the scene of the crime (since renamed Padaro Beach Village).

Santa in his glory days at Santa Claus Lane, the strip off Padaro Lane before Carpinteria. People used to take their Christmas cards there to be mailed in December, so they would receive a “Santa Claus” stamp cancel-lation.

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on some of the best slow-roasted chicken and pork dishes we’ve ever tried from a few little food stalls. And it was only 9 am.

Then we were back in the truck and headed for the farm, where

we spent another hour on a tour of the organic garden getting a hands-on lesson in fresh Thai herbs and spices and peppers before we hit the kitchen classroom to start com-bining everything we’d bought and

harvested into (hopefully) delicious Thai food. We hand-pounded our own curry pastes using all sorts of wonderful things from the gar-den, and then spent the rest of day putting together a series of mouth-watering Thai dishes – Tom Kaa Gai, Pad Thai, Somtam, Poh Piah and many more – from soup through dessert. Everything was done by hand, from scratch, with fresh ingredients. Wow.

We spent the whole day cooking, eating, laughing and having fun in and around the kitchen, the garden and the farm. I guess the surprising thing was that the kids never got bored and really enjoyed the chop-ping and wok-cooking and steaming and everything else. It was a fantas-tic way to spend a day together as a family, and we were really glad to have made the time.

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cious. Really delicious. We ate (way) more than we should have and left with uncomfortably full bellies and ear-to-ear grins. And as I looked at my smiling wife and kids in the back of that pick-up truck on the way back to the apartment, I was reminded that my favorite thing about a truly great meal with people you love is the feeling you have after it’s all over. You just can’t get that happy, satisfied feeling any other way.

Maybe Martha would say it best: A day spent cooking and eating Thai food on a farm in rural Thailand… it’s a good thing.

We thought some of you might be interested in spending a day in your own kitchen cooking a few of the dishes we prepared at the Chiang Mai Thai Farm Cooking School, so we posted a few recipes on our site (www.towhead travel.com) and invite you to check them out. •MJ

LEAVInG (Continued from page 27)

Kate handling a mortar and pestle to pound a green curry paste from scratch, using ingredients col-lected from the farm

The first course of the day

We hand-pounded our own curry pastes using all sorts of wonderful

things from the garden, and then spent the rest of day putting together

a series of mouth-watering Thai dishes


flora found in some of the landscapes, his pictures seem eerily devoid of life, especially fauna. But Jones would be the first to say that his photographic specialty is panoramic images, and at those he is indeed successful.

Jones has been visiting ANWR since 1990, and his photographs encom-pass all five of the ecozones that are found within the Refuge: coast, tun-dra, mountains, taiga and boreal for-est. The works are indeed compel-ling enough to inspire others to visit this largest of all of America’s wilder-ness areas, comprising over 19 mil-lion acres within northeastern Alaska. But a quick visit to ANWR’s website and the section “Planning Your Visit” quickly reveals why so few people make the trek north to experience this magnificent wildland. Within the first paragraph are the warnings that make most folks turn back before they even lace up their hiking boots:

“Here, where the wild has not been taken out of the wilderness, there are risks. Preparation, experience, and self-reliance are necessary. We provide no packaged trip plans or trail maps pointing the way. Rather, an experi-ence in the Arctic Refuge is one you

must search out for yourself.”Hmmm. Well, maybe a trip to our

local natural history museum is a lot more realistic, where Jones’ large-format photos provide a sense of the immensity of this American region that most U.S. citizens will never see.

An added bonus to the arctic pho-tographs is the opportunity to stand within a foot of an actual polar bear, which is stationed in the middle of the gallery. Even though it is a taxidermy specimen, its enormous paws, sharp claws and massively muscled neck convey the raw power lurking under the cream-colored fur.

A holiday-season visit to see this ursus maritimus, surrounded by pho-tos that include the snowy peaks of the Brooks Range, gives another meaning to “white Christmas.”

Mark Your CalendarSunday, January 8, 2012Last day to view exhibition“Arctic Sanctuary: Images of theArctic National Wildlife Refuge”Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History2559 Puesta del Sol Roadwww.sbnature.org •MJ

grizzly bears, musk ox, dall sheep, wolves, wolverines, snow geese, per-egrine falcons, other migratory birds, dolly varden, and grayling,” not a single creature can be found in Jeff Jones’ photographs. Other than the

“Amazing... beautiful... gorgeous... incredible colors... lovely... majestic... serene... splendid...

wow!”Those aren’t my words – rather,

they are reactions I overheard from other museum-goers the day I visited “Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” currently on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The adjective-inspir-ing images were made by Jeff Jones, a local photographer specializing in wilderness landscapes. The exhibit’s didactic panels were written by his wife, Laurie Hoyle, who co-authored the accompanying book. Jones, fairly well known locally, is gaining a wider audience through this exhibition, which is traveling nationally.

Curiously, considering that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) was established, in part, “to conserve caribou herds, polar bears,

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Brilliant turquoise color imbues Jeff Jones’ photo called “Aufeis Pool.” Aufeis is a German word mean-ing “ice on top,” and refers to the phenomenon of layers of ice formed by the upwelling of river water behind ice dams.

A salmon-colored sky permeates Jeff Jones’ photo with a descriptive title: “River Mirrors Morning: Hulahula Valley, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Looking northward at 3 am in early August.”

“Confluence of Two Southside Rivers.” Several photographs that Jeff Jones made of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have a painterly quality; the blue mountains in the distance are reminiscent of the backgrounds paint-ed by early northern Italian masters of the Renaissance period.

The Arctic Wilderness of Jeff Jones

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photographs by Jeff Jones, courtesy of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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MISCELLAnY (Continued from page 31)by Rose Hodge and Rae Ann Bird, helped raise around $30,000 for the 14-year-old non-profit under execu-tive director Silvana Kelly.

Among those turning out for the cause were board president Angela Torin, Judy Blanco, Louise Henderson, Aylene Hizon, Anne Towbes, Dianne Buzerak and Santa Barbara Foundation president, Ron Gallo...

French FêteRockwood Woman’s Club suffered

major social gridlock worthy of the Moulin Rouge with “A Night In Gay Paris,” the 20th annual fundraiser for Sarah House, the eight-bedroom Santa Barbara hospice.

Would-be Napoleon Bonapartes, golden epaulets shining in the lights, accompanied by their Josephines, gathered with more contemporary French idols, including some very creative folk wearing various imag-es of the 122-year-old Eiffel Tower, including canine artist co-chair Alana Guinn, donning suitably lofty mil-linery and a flashing silhouette of the 1,063-foot Paris landmark on her evening gown.

The popular event, chaired by Kerrie Kilpatrick-Weinberg, with fel-low co-chairs Karen Borick and Patsy Tisch, featured fire dancers, can-can performers, meter maids, mime artists and a fashion show. Attracting 350 guests, it was expected to raise around $100,000.

Auction prizes included stays at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, the Amangani resort in Jackson Hole, and a rustic retreat in Santa Ynez.

Among those checking out the City of Light soirée were Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Corinna Gordon, Arlene Montesano, Sandi Nicholson and Merryl Brown...

Nutcracker at the ArlingtonTchaikovsky’s Nutcracker is the

perfect entertainment for the holi-day season and the Santa Barbara Festival Ballet’s version, complete with a live symphony orchestra under conductor Elise Unruh, is hard to beat.

This year at the Arlington marked the 37th annual show, featuring guest artists Michele Wiles from New York’s Ballet Next and Carlos Molina, a former principal dancer with the Boston Ballet.

Guest soloists Chelsea Cambron, Kyle Castillo, Alex Forck, Aly Romano, Katherine Stewart and Sarah

Stolz all did a splendid job under artistic director, Denise Rinaldi, while Desmond O’Neill, who has been in the production since 1982, deserves honorable mention, having played Mother Ginger for the past 20 years, and Drosselmeyer for the last seven.

All in all, a colorful and splendid production...

Opera’s OfferingsTo celebrate the festive season,

Opera Santa Barbara hosted “A Winter Offering,” featuring mezzo-soprano Diana Tash and Grammy-nominated pianist Armen Guzelimian, at Casa Covarrubias at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

The varied program featured works from the likes of Handel, Bach, Poulenc and Clara Schumann, ably played by Guzelimian, who has part-nered such artists as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa – who sang at the wedding of Prince Charles in London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1981 –, Lucia Popp and Thomas Hampson.

Afterwards, guests enjoyed mulled wine and cookies made by the com-pany’s executive director, Steven Sharpe.

Move over Nigella Lawson...

Here Comes SantaSanta Barbara Beautiful held its

annual Christmas bash at the down-town offices of Casa magazine, host-ed by owners Mark Whitehurst and

Kerry Methner.Local attorney Harold Kono, fetch-

ingly attired in bright red shorts trimmed in white faux fur, played Santa on the piano, while guests, including mayor Helene Schneider, former mayor Marty Blum, Legal Aid Foundation director Ellen Goodstein, and former state assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson, checked out the Yuletide fare...

Winter WinesDon Fritzen, organizer of Santa

Barbara’s popular three-day California Wine Festival each July, is certainly spreading his wings.

For the first time, he threw a Winter Wine Classic, featuring 30 winer-ies and ten eateries, at Fess Parker’s Doubletree.

“Santa Barbara is very wine savvy and we thought it might be nice to re-visit the city at another time of year,” says Don, who also launched the Orange County Wine Festival last year.

“We had 500 people buying tickets and have attracted some of the more prestigious wineries in the state. Next year we might extend the event from one day to two.”

I’ll drink to that...

Rest in PeaceOn a personal note, I mourn the

death of Richard Rintoul at the age

of 56.Richard, who studied with the late

Leonard Bernstein at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute in the 80s and a number of other orchestral lumi-naries, including Michael Tilson Thomas, was conductor of UCSB’s symphony orchestra for a number of years.

He was also a professional violist, performing with the L.A. Mozart Orchestra, the L.A. Phil, Camerata Pacifica and the Hollywood Symphony.

Richard began playing on TV and film recordings in 1987 and played his last session only a week before his death for the upcoming film, John Carter on Mars.

Earlier this year Richard moved to Westmont College where he was on the adjunct faculty as a viola instruc-tor and member of the faculty string quartet.

A charming and supremely talented individual, gone all too soon...

Sightings: Actor Steven Seagal checking out the bustling crowd at Ca'Dario... Michael Keaton buttering his bagel at Pierre Lafond... Kenny Loggins noshing at opal

Pip! Pip! for now

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

Co-chair Alana Guinn, fetchingly attired in Eiffel Tower chic, with Corinna Gordon (Photo: Priscilla)

Richard Mineards looking appropri-ately orna-mental with the Festival Ballet cast of Nutcracker (Photo: Priscilla)

Richard Rintoul, former conductor of the UCSB Symphony (Photo: Dean Alari)


I’m actually not a big holiday consumer, gift-giving kind of guy. Instead of buying blenders,

scarves, ties, flat screens and other appliances, I’m more likely to go into a locally-owned bookstore and pick out a gift or two for someone and probably for myself. I have nothing against technology but no, I don’t yet have a Kindle, Nook or other eReading device. I’m not saying I won’t someday get one, but I’m just not there yet. Plus, I like the way bookstores smell. It’s as if the air in there smells smarter or something.

I admit that eReaders are great for reading novels, taking to the beach or on an airplane, and are compact and lightweight to stow in your luggage, but honestly can you really read a garden book on one? Where would you stash your extra seeds, labels and the pressed leaves that you’re trying to identify? This holiday season I still think that gardening books are a good choice for giving. “How-to” garden-ing books, design gardening books, and gardening reference books are always the way to go.

And don’t forget gardening books for kids. What better way to get your children or someone else’s off to a green start than by turning them on to gardening books?

There are some excellent choices out there and one in particular is by local author-horticulturist Joan Calder, in collaboration with artist Cathy Quiel. Their whimsical book, Airplanes In The Garden: Monarch Butterflies Take Flight tells the story of a little girl named Bonnie who finds two caterpillars in her garden. She names them Sergio and Stanley and along with her imagi-

nation, accompanies them on their life changing odyssey from tiny worms, on through the pupa stage and final-ly emerging as brilliant, orange and black monarch butterflies.

The story by Ms Calder is a nature lesson that subtly teaches kids to respect, appreciate and even celebrate all living creatures under the guise of a fun, colorful and easy-to-read book, while at the same time encouraging kids to use their imaginations.

Cathy Quiel’s illustrations are won-derful and are probably botanically and zoologically (insectologically?) cor-rect, and there are stripey things with big eyes and strange-shaped antennae and proboscises on many enchanting, Grinch-like bugs that are sitting on and tucked in and under other bugs.

Mary Sheldon, owner of Tecolote Book Shop, carries this fanciful new kid’s book as well as other great holi-day gift book ideas.

Also for children, Lana Haskett over at Chaucer’s Books recommends the warmly illustrated, And The Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson, Tina Davis’ Sow And Grow: A Gardening Book for Children, and A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long.

For plant-loving adults, I’ve asked a few of my gardener pals to help me out and tell me what books their gar-dens can’t live without.

Garden goddess Diane Siegel didn’t take two seconds to think before tell-ing me, “Pat Welsh’s ‘bible’ hands down. I love it, carry it with me, follow all her advice slavishly with consistent success.” The Pat Welsh “bible” she is referring to is Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening book. It’s my “bible” also, as it recommends what and when to plant, prune, feed, and divide month-by-month, and includes absolutely everything else you need to know about your Southern California garden. There are also many special sidebars and boxes with valu-able “how-to” tidbits. The Organic edi-tion is new and improved but the older version is almost as good. Her website

(www.patwelsh.com) has a lot going on so if you click on it, prepare to spend the evening with it.

I find the Pat Welsh book to be the perfect compliment to the old standby, Sunset Western Garden Book. Everyone who gardens has at least one of these somewhere on a bookshelf, in the kitch-en, or in the garden shed. The folks at Sunset update it every few years and it always makes a welcome gift. I peren-nially need a new one as mine tends to compost with all the mulch, fertilizer and leaves that collect in it.

Eric Love, who shelves the garden-ing books at Chaucer’s, also recom-mends the Pat Welsh book as the most helpful garden book for our area. “A splurge item,” Eric adds, “would be Robert C. Perry’s Landscape Plants for California Gardens.”

For the ambitious gardener on your holiday gift list, local garden designer, Pat Brodie, recommends her two new favorites: Reimagining The California Lawn by Carol Bornstein, David Fross and Bart O’Brien and Plants And Landscapes For Summer-Dry Climates of the San Francisco Bay Region by the East Bay Municipal Utility District. For inspiration, Pat enjoys Designing The New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager by Jennifer R. Bartley.

I’m happy to report that today when I went to the bookstore for a gift cer-tificate, there were five other custom-ers in line ahead of me – other like-minded folks who also enjoy the way bookstores smell and are still buying books, the kind that are made out of paper and glue. •MJ

Airplanes In The Garden: Monarch Butterflies Take Flight, a children’s story by local author Joan Calder with illustrations by Cathy Quiel, makes a great gift for a little one

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a more pleasing way. She also con-tacted Lynne about the idea. Lynne told Janine she wanted to launch the project at the Santa Barbara shelter.

“Instead of trying to get people to come and see the dogs at the shelter, the project brings the shelter dogs to the public,” Lynne explains. “I loved the idea, and it took off from there. I pitched it to Michael Pennon and Jan Glick. They loved it too. It has taken about four months to get to this point, where all the photos will be in stores in the next week or two. Amanda has designed the bio cards, prints, and poster. She is supplying us at no charge with all the prints. The shelter volunteers are pitching in to pay for framing and printing of the bio cards. So there is no cost to the shelter per se.”

There are a few such projects around the U.S., commencing in 2007 with Teresa Berg of Dallas, Texas, a professional pet photographer who specializes in glamour shots for shel-ter dogs. She believes that thousands of dogs are euthanized every year simply because the photos posted on adoption sites show them in a cage. She encourages other professional photographers to donate their ser-vices and teaches shelter employees to

take more appealing pet photos. Her efforts yield a 100% increase in shelter adoption rates.

While the goal is the same – that is, to take beautiful pet portraits of the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter dogs to increase the adoption rate – Janine states that she has added the element of community involvement to the project by displaying the framed 8x10 portraits in local businesses in Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, Santa Barbara and Goleta. There are also 4x6 promo cards for each dog with their stats and preferences and a large poster with headshots of all the dogs displayed. The local busi-ness promotion began November and will end January 31, 2012. So far the word from the businesses is positive. Montecito stores helping the cause include Wendy Foster, Angel, Tecolote Book Shop, Wells Fargo Bank, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, Peabody’s, the Pharmacy, Dadiana, Lana Marmé, and Montecito Frame Shop.

The photography of the shelter’s 58 dogs was all done in one day. Volunteers walked, fed and groomed each dog for its photo shoot. One of the dogs was adopted that day by Richard Renck who was driving by and saw the dog being walked by

shelter volunteers to the photo shoot. Richard loved the project so much, he also donated money for fencing for the shelter. So far, 12 dogs have been adopted since the project started.

Michael shares that he has been an animal person since childhood, rescuing dogs in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas. Majoring in busi-ness administration, he worked in Animal Control in Dallas before being recruited for his position here in Santa Barbara in 2006. The S.B. Shelter has a no-kill policy and dogs are cared for by volunteers. Michael lets the dogs hang out with him in his office as well. “ Our goal is to find forever homes for our dogs,” he states,

411: contact Santa Barbara Animal Services 805 681-4369 and check for their upcoming website: shelterdog srule.net

Island Fox Program Visit

Third grade Montecito Union School student Hannah Hitchner is also crazy about animals. She brought her passion to raise money to help protect and restore the population of the Channel Islands Fox. She recently made a display for her classroom and presented the idea to all of her third-grade classmates. The kids raised $200 for the cause.

On Wednesday, November 30, Pat Meyer, Director of the Island

Fox Program, and Keri Dearborn, Education Director from the Island Fox Program, visited Hannah’s class for a presentation about the Channel Island foxes and happily accepted the kids’ donations. The money will be used to buy a radio collar for one fox and the collar will have ‘MUS’ inscribed on it, a first for the organiza-tion to do so. The collar helps track the fox and alerts the team if the fox is still alive. The kids learned about fox habitats, the food chain on the islands that support foxes, and played games with the team. Keri had a ball of yarn and asked the students a question about what the fox eats or drinks. The ball of yarn got tossed to the student who answered the question correctly and that student wound a piece of the yarn around their wrist. Thus after 10 questions the students were “yarned” together to symbolize the web of the ecosystem. There was then a slide show about the various foxes on the islands presented by Pat.

“I love all animals because they are loyal and pure hearted,” Hannah states. “For example, take my four dogs… they are all like family to me. The Channel Island Fox is spe-cial because the population is going down and I think we should save it. I would like to save any species whose population is declining. I just started with the fox.”

411: Channel Islands Park Foundation, www.islandfox.org •MJ

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A true softy for animals, Santa Barbara Supervisor of Animal Services Michael L. Pennon, in his office with shelter dog “Chirzo,” a two-year-old Corgi and Chihuahua mix

Founders of the Dogs Rule Project, Janine Milne with “Todd” and Lynne Shaw with “Gabe

MUS student Hannah Hitchner presents the donation check for $200 to Pat Meyer, Director and Keri Dearborn, Education Director, of the Island Fox Program.

Keri Dearborn with MUS kids who created the fox food chain with the question and answer yarn toss


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Ongoing seasonal events – The South Coast Railroad Museum’s festive miniature railroad turns into the Candy Cane Train in December, a tradition that dates back nearly 20 years. Following the train ride, be sure to visit the Toy Trains and Teddy Bears exhibit inside the museum. WHEN: 1-3:45pm weekends, 2-3:45pm weekdays, through Saturday, Dec. 24 WHERE: 300 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. COST: $4 INFO: 964-3540... Ojai Center for the Arts’ faithful adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic film It’s a Wonderful Life is performed as a 1940’s radio broadcast with live onstage sound effects. WHEN: 7:30pm Fridays and Saturdays, through Dec. 17 WHERE: 113 S. Montgomery Street COST: $10-$20 INFO: 640-8797… Trinity’s 28th annual Advent Organ Series concludes with a final free concert from 3:30-4:30pm Sunday, Dec. 18 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street INFO: 965-7419... The popular Trolley of Lights – in which the Santa Barbara Trolley normally driven by tourist destinations in the daytime instead offers a nighttime trek through a myriad of Santa Barbara neighborhoods, which offer the most luminous and pervasive holiday displays – continues its 12th annual nightly run of 90-minute tours. WHEN: 6:30pm nightly through Dec. 23 WHERE: Departs from Wheel Fun Rentals, 22 State St. COST: $14-$23 INFO: 965-0353 or sbtrolley.com… If four-wheelin’ it is more your thing,

DeeTours Jeep Limo’s Holiday Lights Tour offers a similar nightly trek around town seeking the best Christmas displays for the second consecutive year. WHEN: 5:45 & 7:15 nightly, through Dec. 23 WHERE: Departs from foot of Stearns Wharf, Cabrillo Blvd. and State St. COST: $10-$20 INFO: 448-8425

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15

Moscow and the ‘Mash – There sure are a lot of performances of The Nutcracker this time of year, and who’s to say which one is the best? But at the very least, the Moscow Ballet has one thing going for it: they somehow managed to secure the domain name of www.nutcracker.com! Oh, and being from Moscow, they also have a pretty good feel for the music (by Russian composer Tchaikovsky) and a pretty long history of performing the piece, seeing as it was commissioned by the director of Moscow’s Imperial Theatres back in 1891. (The ballet didn’t arrive in the United States until 1944.) The composer made a selection of eight of the more popular pieces before the ballet’s December 1892 premiere, forming what is currently known as the Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, as is heard in Moscow Ballet productions. There are a few other differences in Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker: the girl is named Masha not Clara, and in the second act they arrive not in the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy, but in the “Land of Peace and Harmony” where all creatures

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17

‘Nutcracker,’ SB-style – State Street Ballet no longer offers its Hollywood-themed take on E.T.A. Hoffman’s classic Christmas-time fantasy famously set to music by Tchaikovsky, opting instead for a more traditional presentation of the perennial favorite. As befits the well-known work by the Russian composer, the sets come direct from Moscow, while the cast includes the students of Gustafson Dance performing with State Street Ballet’s professional dancers. Veteran State Street Ballet dancers Jack Stewart and Ryan Camou play the role of the Nutcracker Prince on alternative days, newcomer Season Winquest, who just joined the company this year, dances the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Clara will be performed by students of Gustafson Dance. Staging and choreography for the production come from State Street’s founder and artistic director Rodney

Gustafson and choreographer and ballet master Gary McKenzie, with costume design by A. Christina Giannini and Anaya Cullen. The annual Sugar Plum Party follows the Sunday matinee in the Founder’s Room of the Granada Theatre and is free with admission. WHEN: 2 & 7:30pm Saturday, 2pm Sunday WHERE: Granada, 1214 State St. COST: $28-$53 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.orgt

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18

Christmas in Venice – No, we’re not advocating a trip to Italy for the holidays. Rather, Venice is coming to us – the band, that is. Comprised of two sets of brothers, Michael and Mark Lennon, and Pat and Kipp Lennon – who are also all cousins – who were born and raised in Venice Beach as part of the family that in an earlier generation produced the Lennon Sisters. A staple on the California club scene for more than two decades, the

boys bring the kind of incredibly close four-part harmonies that only families can achieve, creating a sound that no less of an authority as David Crosby has called them “the best vocal group in the country.” Crosby is only one of a long list of rock royalty that Venice has toured and recorded with, as a group and/or individuals, including Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Warren Zevon, Brian Wilson, Phil Collins, Sting and Cher. And there’s no better time to hear them on their own than during the Christmas – which brings families together anyway – for a show that sprinkles some holiday chestnuts and covers among the band’s original songs. WHEN: 9pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $27 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

live in accord with each other. Unique to the Great Russian Nutcracker, the peaceful ambiance is established by award-winning Russian designer Valentin Federov’s three-dimensional backdrop, an homage to Henri Rousseau’s jungle paintings. Emissaries from around the world appear to honor and dance for Masha and her Prince on this peaceful Christmas night. The Sugar Plum Fairy becomes the Dove of Peace and dances a welcome ballet for the young couple. See for yourself tonight when the Russians take over the Samala Showroom at the Chumash Casino. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $30-$50 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com

Chanukah humor – Have you had it up to here with all the cheery good tidings, Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah wishes being bandied about since Thanksgiving (not to mention the endless parade of dancing nutcrackers)? Then maybe you’ll want to check out the lighter side of the season with a fun, family-friendly Chanukah-themed stand-up performance by members of the Jewish Community Center’s Comedy Club. And remember, you don’t have to be Jewish to love levity. WHEN: 6-8pm WHERE: Bronfman Family JCC, 524 Chapala St. COST: $10 INFO: 957-1115 ext. 107.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16

Merry groove-mas – The Santa Barbara-based world music band Dreamtime Continuum likes to call its style a mix between “spirit groove” and “celestial funk,” which explains why a large percentage of their concerts take place during solstices and equinoxes. Didjeridu, shakuhachi flute, guitars, congas, percussion, bass and more make up the mantra-driven music also known as “poetic cosmic zap-rap,” which turn out to

be original songs with extended jams into the ether. Zone, meditation, dance, flow – whatever you might be feeling in response – is welcome. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Center of the Heart, 487 N. Turnpike Rd., COST: $10 INFO: 964-4861 or www.centeroftheheart.com

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17

Quotations from Krieger – Join Nuclear Age Peace Foundation president David Krieger right here in Montecito as he signs his new book, Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action, a collection of quotations on peace, war and the human spirit. The 400 statements from diplomats, generals, economists, poets, theologians, scientists, peace leaders and war survivors quoted in the book were selected to encourage thought and inspire action toward a more peaceful and nuclear weapon-free world. Krieger will also be featured on the program “Community Leaders and Heroes,” airing on Cox Cable Channel 8 at 4:30pm daily December 19-24. WHEN: 5-6:30pm WHERE: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road COST: free (books available for purchase) INFO: 969-4977 or www.wagingpeace.org

Vodka & latkes – who knew? – The Young Adult Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara is going “all out” for its fifth annual Vodka Latke Chanukah Party. The event, open to any young adult who wants to experience a real festival of lights, features a professional DJ (popular spinner Scott Topper), photographer, photo booth, chef, media arts entertainment, event planners, celebrity bartenders and much more in an all-in-one extravaganza right down at the beach. Of course, there will be lots of latkes – the traditional Jewish name for fried potato

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20

Kos it’s Christmas – Contemporary jazz saxophonist Dave Koz has successfully tapped into the holiday zeitgeist with his annual Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour, which heads to the Granada once again this year. The 14th anniversary show features trumpeter-composer-producer Rick Braun, South African singer-guitarist Jonathan Butler, and Dutch saxophone star Candy Dulfer, all of whom are familiar to local audiences both through Koz and via their own gigs in town. The foursome will perform hits from their respective catalogues and jam on original arrangements of seasonal favorites in a high-energy show geared for family audiences. Koz’s latest record, Hello Tomorrow, contains the chart-topping hit “Put The

Top Down,” but you’ll be hearing a lot more selections drawn from his three classic holiday albums: December Makes Me Feel This Way, A Smooth Jazz Christmas and Memories of a Winter’s Night. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 1214 State St. COST: $49-$88 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21

The ‘Magic’ is back – Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” simulcast series takes a break from its 2011-12 season of new transmissions to reprise the presentation that kicked off the series in December 2006. Mozart’s The Magic Flute, returns to two area theaters tonight for special encore screenings of the Met’s special family-oriented production of the world’s most frequently performed opera. In Julie Taymor’s (The Lion King and Spiderman on Broadway) fantastical production, the hero Tamino teams up with the comical bird-catcher Papageno to win the hand of the beautiful princess Pamina. To find her, the two unlikely friends must navigate through a mysterious world of supernatural dangers and avoid the wrath of Pamina’s vengeful mother, the evil Queen of the Night. Boasting an astounding cast of creatures

and what is perhaps the art form’s most popular aria (by the Queen of the Night), Mozart’s final opera is endlessly inventive, charmingly fantastical, and utterly unique, blending myth, magic, and an extraordinary variety of tuneful music in a tale of romantic love and spiritual transcendence. The production stars Ying Huang as Pamina, Erika Miklósa as the Queen of the Night, Matthew Polenzani as Tamino, Nathan Gunn as Papageno, and René Pape as Sarastro. Check it out for the first time at the modern, intimate and music-oriented Hahn Hall on the campus of the Music Academy of the West, which began simulcasting the “Live in HD” series in 2008. WHEN: 2 & 6pm WHERE: 1070 Fairway Road COST: $12 INFO: 969-8787 or www.musicacademy.org/met-live

pancakes (fried foods are tied to the tradition of the burning oil of Chanukah) – and plenty of vodka (which of course is distilled from potatoes), courtesy of the great Santa Barbara-based producer/distributor RND Vodka. The format has changed from being merely a great party as in past years, to being a big gala benefit for the federation’s mission, which supports and provides social service programs, including senior services, counseling, volunteer programs, community education, rescue and relief, and builds community and encourages leadership among young adults. The federation’s programs are open to all, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion or gender. WHEN: 8pm to 12midnight WHERE: Casa Las Palmas, 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $20 INFO: 957-1115 ext. 107 or www.JewishSantaBarbara.org/VodkaLatke.aspx

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18

Final ‘Cracker’ – Ellen Schipper’s West Coast Ballet gets the honor of the season’s last presentation of Tchaikovsky’s classic, as “A Gem of a ‘Nutcraker’” hits its 21st year. Company dancers will be joined by select West Coast Ballet alumni, including Mia Monteabaro, as well as the students of the Ellen Schipper Classical Ballet Studio, with local character actors filling out the cast alongside guest artist Darion Smith of Janusphere Dance Company in New York City. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Center Stage Theatre, upstairs in Paseo Nuevo COST: $26 general, $21 seniors and students, $16 children 12 and under INFO: 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org •MJ

for sure, but “this might be the last year” he and Alice will be doing either the party, the interior decorations that include a Christmas tree in every room, or the outside extravaganza.

Decorations outside feature full-sized cutouts of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Bear and a baby bear sitting in a sleigh being pulled by five reindeer (the lead reindeer – sans red nose – moves its head from side to side as its reins made of garland restrain its move-ments). Nearby is a moving-operat-ing Ferris wheel with eight chairs filled with stuffed animals. Along the path to the entry of the property are “snow people” in varying sizes: the littlest are their grandchildren Tyler, Cassidy, Billie, Gretchen, Brian, then their three sons and two wives Dennis, Madison, Ashton, Jayme, Allan, “Mommy” and “Daddy.” The other side of the driveway features lit reindeer and palm trees garlanded with lights at their trunks.

A miniature caboose with a Christmas tree atop is festooned with candy canes; the front gates are gar-landed with huge holiday wreaths. A railroad crossing sign with red lights and bells warns of an impend-ing “arrival,” a teeter-totter features two little bears riding up and down; a blinking sign indicates directions to the North Pole. Nearby are even more reindeer, sleds, sleighs, bells, ribbons, and lights: lots and lots of lights.

There’s more: giant candy canes

hanging from trees, a Gingerbread Cookie house, large giant Nutcracker soldiers – perhaps eight feet tall – guard the front entry to the house. Nearby are drums, sleighs, Victorian carol singers, a Santa Claus hold-ing packages, and other delights. It is indeed a California-style Winter Wonderland.

George and Alice were married 59 years ago this September 27; he was 19 and she was 17 when they exchanged wedding vows in 1952; they met at Canoga Park High School when he was 17 and she was 15. When they first met, he told her he would take her out, and she replied, “no you won’t,” but it looks as though those vows will stick.

When they were first married, he was in the U.S. Army, stationed at Camp Roberts. Even then, he made cut-outs of reindeer and hung them from the trees to the trailer they were living in. When they had their first child, they began decorating every Christmas season; George made many of the decorations with the kids when they were small, and some of those decorations are over fifty years old. It’s all stored in barns on the prop-erty and taken out every year; it takes “four or five days” to put it all up.

The Krebs have hired a professional videographer to record what is likely to be the last party, “something I can

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Eight-foot-tall Nutcracker Soldiers guard the entrance to the Krebs’ home

George Krebs, whose Montecito home is chocka-block from floor to ceiling with Christmas deco-rations in every room, says this year’s party and decorations may be the end of a 50-plus-year tradi-tion


Bella Vista $$$1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)Featuring a glass retractable roof, Bella Vis-ta’s ambiance is that of an elegant outdoor Mediterranean courtyard. Executive Chef Alessandro Cartumini has created an inno-vative menu, featuring farm fresh, Italian-inspired California cuisine. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7 am to 9 pm.

Cafe Del Sol $$30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)

CAVA $$1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500)Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas and margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella and sangria to lobster tamales, Churrasco ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunflower-colored interior is accented by live Span-ish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive fireplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor people-wat ching front patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm.

China Palace $$1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)Montecito’s only Chinese restaurant, here you’ll find large portions and modern décor. Take out available. (Montecito Journal staff is especially fond of the Cashew Chicken!) China Palace also has an outdoor patio. Open seven days 11:30 am to 9:30 pm.

Giovanni’s $1187 Coast Village Road (969-1277)

Los Arroyos $1280 Coast Village Road (969-9059)

Little Alex’s $1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)

Lucky’s (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$ 1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540)Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak-house in the heart of America’s biggest little village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails, and an enormous wine list are featured, with white tablecloths, fine crystal and vintage photos from the 20th century. The bar (separate from dining room) features large flat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm. Valet Parking.

Montecito Café $$1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392)

Montecito Coffee Shop $1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)

Montecito Wine Bistro $$$516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520Head to Montecito’s upper village to indulge in some California bistro cuisine. Chef Nathan Heil creates seasonal menus that

$ (average per person under $15)$$ (average per person $15 to $30)$$$ (average per person $30 to $45)$$$$ (average per person $45-plus)

M O N T E C I T O E A T E R I E S . . . A G u i d e include fish and vegetarian dishes, and fresh flatbreads straight out of the wood-burning oven. The Bistro offers local wines, classic and specialty cocktails, single malt scotches and aged cognacs.

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

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

Plow & Angel $$$San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine on traditional dishes such as mac ‘n cheese and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original artwork, including stained glass windows and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the fireplace. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extend-ing until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$1046 Coast Village Road (565-2014)

Stella Mare’s $$/$$$50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)

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

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

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

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

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

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

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

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

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

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

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

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

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

In Summerland / Carpinteria

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

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

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

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

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

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

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

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

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

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

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

Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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always have for the rest of my life,” he says, explaining that he will probably discontinue the party, mostly because, at 78 years old, he’s “burned out.”

The party is scheduled for Saturday, December 17, and each guest is required to not only dress in black-tie or its equivalent, but must also bring a wrapped new gift for a young girl or boy; the following day, Sunday, a large party is planned outside for “thirty or forty kids from the United Boys & Girls Club.” The kids will get to sit on a live Santa Claus’s lap, whereupon they’ll receive one of those gifts brought by last evening’s partygoers, drink hot chocolate, and listen to a live band in the courtyard.

And, a Merry Christmas will likely be had by all.

Time Is On His SideWhen VISTA volunteer Dr. David

Bisno, an ophthalmologist by trade, first visited the clockworks inside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, he was taken aback by the sad state of the mechanical wonder. Among those he discussed the condition of the clockworks with was Dick Schall, a “clock nut” who, along with his wife, Maryan, collected vin-tage clocks. David and Dick talk-ed about the impressive circa-1929 Connecticut-made Seth Thomas clock in the tower, which was func-tioning but could not be seen, as it was hidden from the public behind a wooden wall amidst janitorial sup-plies, brushes, ladders, chairs, and other flotsam.

Deciding the clockwork should be seen, they both agreed to sponsor construction of a small gallery space, along with a mural depicting the his-tory of time. They of course would clean up the clock, put it in good order, and present written explana-tions of time and the clock for gen-eral viewing.

They found Mostyn Gale, the Santa Barbara County Courthouse’s

part-time Clock Master, who cleaned up the clockwork, painted bits and pieces and put it in good order. When it came time to find a mural-ist, David’s wife, Fay, searched the internet; she went to “mural-ists in California,” then “muralists in Southern California,” and finally, “muralists in Santa Barbara.” “Then she came up with my name,” mural-ist Ed Lister explains as we climb the stairs to the clock tower. “I’d met her ten years before,” Ed con-tinues, “because she, as a kid (in the 1950s), used to run around [the George Washington Smith-designed house off APS] I was living in at the time. It was the house where she

COMInG & GOInG (Continued from page 41)

Santa Barbara-based British-born muralist Ed Lister admires the circa-1929 Seth Thomas clockwork inside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse tower

The four clock faces surrounding the Santa Barbara County Courthouse tower stopped displaying the correct time nearly two years ago, but should be up and running any day now

Santa Barbara County’s Courthouse, London’s Big Ben, and Flamstead House in Greenwich, England are given prominence in Ed Lister’s nearly completed clock tower mural (notice too the flock of birds running along the top [time “flying” by], the dirigible airship, Spirit of St. Louis, and Santa Barbara’s “Flying A” film studio logo)

The entire Krebs family – grandchildren, children, wives, and parents – line the driveway before the entry gates as “snow people”

15 – 22 December 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45What is right to be done cannot be done too soon – Jane Austen

spent a good part of her childhood. She came by to show her husband the place where she grew up.”

Lister once created backdrops for movies, “big stuff, for TV, commer-cials, and that sort of thing,” he says (edlisterscenic.com is his web-site). “But, when we moved here in 1995 (to bring the kids up in Santa Barbara), jobs stopped dead,” he adds.

When Fay called and asked if he’d be interested in doing a mural, Ed responded positively. David then directed Ed to paint the history of time, and how it applied to the Chumash. “Well, the Chumash didn’t really have an interest in time,” Ed says with a laugh. “They ground up acorns, caught salmon and ate them, and that was it. It didn’t matter what time of day it was. They didn’t plant

stuff; they didn’t have calendars; they didn’t really care about time. They didn’t have a need for time. I pointed that out to David and he said, ‘Well, do what you can,’” leav-ing it up to Lister to decide what to put on the 7-foot-high, 56-foot-long mural.

The mural begins with Stonehenge, “which had a notion of time passing. It’s an annual clock, if you like,” Ed says. From there, Ed painted a Roman sundial, an Egyptian water clock, the mysterious bronze 2,200-year-old Antikythera Mechanism with its 72 cogs and wheels found by sponge divers over a hundred years ago on the ocean floor near the island of Antikythera in Greece. Further along is an astrolabe, a 13th-century European hourglass, a Greek obelisk, a portrait of Ptolemy studying the

moon, and a fusee (a compensat-ing device for controlling the ener-gy given up by a metal flywheel). Pictured too are the first clocks at St. Albans and Canterbury in England (made about 1256). Ed did get around to including the Chumash and portrays them standing on the shore as they view the first landing of the Spanish. Further along, there is a Chauncey Jerome clock from Connecticut, the first mass produced U.S.-made clocks to be exported to England (circa 1820-1850).

A portrait of Eli Terry, a carpenter who made a clock out of wood and partnered with Seth Thomas, grac-es the mural as does Sir Sandford Fleming, who came up with the idea of worldwide time zones and Greenwich Mean Time (Meridian Zero). Once Lister gets into the 20th

century, Santa Barbara’s train station appears near Albert Einstein whose days at the patent office working with clock-like inventions led to his theory of general relativity. There is also a flock of tongue-in-cheek birds representing how “time flies,” Hamilton watches, the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, the Spirit of St. Louis (made in Long Beach), and the Flamstead House in Greenwich, whose globe on top of its observa-tory dropped at 1 pm daily allowing passing ships to set their time by it.

“The reason most of the portraits are of Englishmen,” Lister (who was born in Kent, England and retains a thick British accent) suggests, is because “most of the heroes of horol-ogy were English,” although there is one Dutchman, Christiaan Huygens, who developed advanced pendulum clocks in the 1650s.

Ed’s son Charles, an art student in San Francisco, helped with the portraits.

Curiously, the “bells” hanging inside the clock tower are made of fiberglass and were never meant to be struck, although 80-pound ham-mers were commissioned and paid for; one sits on the floor under one of the bells. “The choice in 1929,” Ed explains, “was to either save money and include a nice viewing plat-form, or spend money on real bells but have no viewers.” They chose a viewing tower.

When the clock is up and running, hammers will stop just short of strik-ing the fiberglass bells, and sensors will allow a “Big Ben” sound to emanate. How often those bells will “ring” is yet to be determined.

The Clock tower gallery was meant to be finished by January 2011, then April, “but the [reconstruction of the] fountain held it up and it was put on the back burner,” Ed explains. By the time you are reading this, the mural and the clockworks should be available for public viewing. •MJ

Ed Lister’s first panel in the five-panel mural depicts Stonehenge, an Egyptian obelisk, Roman sundial, the mysterious bronze 2,200-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, a 13th Century European hourglass and other ancient methods of divining the passage of time

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Jack Warner Montecito $4,995,000Josiah & Justine Hamilton 284.8835Jack Warner designed. 4 bed/4.5 bath. 1 Acre. www.thehamiltonco.com

Wine Country View Estate $4,595,000Paul Hurst 805.680.8216Montecito quality estate on 6+ acres. 5BR/7BA + GH; Pano views; Text GOTO 4SBRE4 to 95495.

919 Park Lane $7,950,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Montecito. 5br/7ba Ocean vus. 3 ac, tennis crt, pool, scrning rm. www.MontecitoProperties.com

Green-Built Estate $6,950,000Wilson/Hurst 705.7620/680.8216Newly built 5/4.5 estate + GH in the heart of Montecito; Txt GOTO 4SBRE2 to 95495 for pics.

580 Toro Canyon Road $14,950,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Montecito. Refined elegance. Mtn & Ocn Views. 2BR/6BA www.MontecitoProperties.com

New French Normandy $11,800,000The Brothers Gough 455.3030/455.1420Magical French Normandy countryside estate on +/- 4 acres; @ 4/5 plus pool and guest cabana.

1319 Plaza Pacifica $2,895,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Montecito. Designer perfect single level condo ground floor 3br/3ba taking full advantage of its location, this residence offers luxury beachside living at it’s finest. Huge ocean view patio. www.MontecitoProperties.com

Stone Italianate Estate $22,000,000Mermis/St. Clair 805.895.5650The best of Saladino! The perfect pairing of comfort & grandeur, modern & old, in this 1929 stone Italianate estate completely restored by the master himself, for himself. www.SaladinoVilla.net

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