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I find myself smiling
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me and his sta are like family.
The added comfort and care
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For some, its the Hollywood-style perfection that graces the covers of magazines. For others, its a more natural smile that reflects confidence from
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and a member of the Extreme Makeover: Extreme Team, Dr Weiser designs beautiful smiles every day!
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Mark T. Weiser D.D.S.
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Aesthetic & Family Dentistry
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and I am so grateful!
Thank you Dr. Weiser.
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I always believe a director should
always be sleeping with the leading
actress because then, when you have
a good idea in the middle of the night,
you can wake her up and tell her right
there in bed before you forget it!
jokes Brad, 53, who has been married
to Julia for 25 years after they both
worked on the long-running NBC
show, Saturday Night Live.
Julia, who has had tremendous TV
success with shows like Seinfeld and
The New Adventures of Old Christine,
launches her new HBO comedy series
Veep, written by award-winning
Scottish writer Armando Iannucci,
about a female vice president, in April.
A most busy lady...
Tipper Hits the Town
Despite having lived in our rarefied
enclave for nearly two years, sightings
of Tipper Gore, ex-wife of former vice
president Al Gore, like the Scarlet
Pimpernel, are few and far between.
But Tipper, who moved into a six-
bedroom, 6,500-sq-ft $8.7 million
manse, just a tiaras toss or two from
the San Ysidro Ranch, as I exclusively
revealed in this illustrious organ, was
front and center at A Filmanthropic
Event for the Casa Esperanza
Homeless Center and Community
Kitchen at the new Greek nosheteria,
Petros, which coincided with the 27th
annual film fests first night, just across
the road at the
Arlington, with
Diane Keaton and
Kevin Kline, the
co-stars of Darling
Companion.
It was so nice
of her to turn
up for us, says
Mike Foley, the
charitys execu-
tive director, who also welcomed
fest director, Roger Durling, mayor
Helene Schneider, and Jelinda and
Barry DeVorzon, a former Oscar nom-
inee himself.
The 200 guests helped raise around
$25,000 for the center, which serves
175,000 hungry and homeless annu-
ally.
As for the charming and bubbly
Tipper, she says she loves reading
Montecito Miscellany.
Clearly a woman of impeccable
taste!...
Vocal Steps
It wont win an award, but the
Ensemble Theatre Company has
called on my vocal prowess again for
its production of the Tony-winning
Broadway comedy The 39 Steps,
which opens at the Alhecama Theatre
February 2.
A rare sighting of
Tipper Gore at the film
festival
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Among the topics to be discussed are the changing nature of power and
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The best little paper in America
(Covering the best little community anywhere!)
Y
our answer to Donna Handys
letter (Let Them Die? MJ #
18/4) shows some ignorance
of how Americas healthcare system
doesnt work. Whether you like it or
not, you and the rest of the insured
people in this country are paying
the healthcare costs of over 55
million uninsured and their families.
Seventy thousand people in Santa
Barbara County alone are on Medicaid.
Most conservatives dont like
Obamacare as they call it because it
mandates the uninsured to get health
insurance. I guess they would rather
keep carrying the uninsured on their
backs. The rest of us pay for all of it
(your free market at work).
Our healthcare system is one of the
worst in the industrialized world and
that includes high infant mortality,
and yet we spend more per capita on
it than any country in the entire world!
The only health service that we are the
best in the world in is rescue care,
thanks to what we have learned in
our continuing insane wars. If you get
to a trauma center with the worst of
the worst medical problem, chances
are better in the U.S. than in any
other country that they will pull you
through.
The for-profit health insurance
business is the enemy of all sick
Americans. Germany has one of the
finest healthcare systems in the entire
world with for-profit docs and hospi-
tals, but their health insurance com-
panies are non-profit. We are the only
industrialized country in the world
where if you lose a job that gives
you health insurance, you also lose
your health insurance and have to
go to COBRA (Editors note: so-named
via the Consolidated Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act), which is unafford-
able for most working people, let
alone those that are jobless. COBRA is
aptly named. It is truly a snake.
In Japan, people carry a credit-card-
sized health card that any doctor in
any city in Japan can stick into a
computer and get your entire health
record, even when you are in another
city.
Health insurance in all other indus-
trialized countries is government-
mandated, affordable, and in most
cases, people in those countries are
healthier and live longer than we do.
Look at the numbers.
My wife was treated in Austria
some years ago for a broken nose after
a fall. The ambulance that carried us
was much more comfortable and bet-
ter than the trucks we have here. The
hospital service was excellent and the
cost was minimal. An ambulance from
where I live off Alston to Cottage is
over $1,500! The ambulances are hor-
rible.
The healthcare system is no more
free market as you claim it is than
the rest of the businesses in this coun-
try. If you really believe that we live
in a free market country, then you
are not as knowledgeable as I know
you to be.
I will be happy to debate the free
market issue with you anytime and
anywhere!
Regards,
Ernest Salomon
Montecito
(Editors note: Thank you for your
note, Ernie, but it baffles me that folks
as perceptive as you put words in my
mouth that I never uttered or in this
case, wrote. You write that The health-
care system is no more free market as
you claim it is than the rest of the busi-
nesses in this country. Please find in my
response where I claim that. I dont. I
merely state that a free-market solution
would be preferable to what is about to be
implemented. As for the rest of it, that we
apparently dont live in a free market
country, well, you are probably correct
at this point, as all these mandates, regu-
lations, stipulations, requirements and
other burdens placed upon small busi-
nesses make it impossible to operate freely.
A situation that I believe is detrimental to
the future of our country. J.B.)
TimberSIL Talk
I came across Steve Schechters
letter (Railroad Blues MJ # 18/3),
regarding toxic railroad ties. This let-
ter is to suggest an alternative: ties
made from TimberSIL, a remarkable
glass-wood fusion product invented
by an environmental toxicologist
who became very concerned about
the negative health effects that toxic
chemical exposure was having on
human health.
TimberSIL provides a protective
barrier rather than relying on poisons
to kill insects and prevent rot or decay.
TimberSIL is great for whole-house
construction inside and out, railroad
ties, sensitive environments, bridges,
marinas, decks, fences, walkways and
furniture! I attended a fire-prevention
talk given by your fire department
and they had a sample of the product
as part of their display.
I hope this information will get to
2 9 February 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 9 Every two or three years I knock off for a while, that way Im constantly the new girl in the whorehouse Robert Mitchum
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Write Bigger Checks
Has it escaped your notice, that of
all the high-profile politicians, celeb-
rities, and wealthy business persons
who proudly proclaim they should be
paying more in federal income taxes,
that absolutely none of them actually
do pay more in income taxes?
Not Obama, not Biden, not Pelosi,
not Sean Penn, not Matt Damon, not
Jane Fonda, not Warren Buffet, not
Bill Gates, and not Mark Cuban.
Dont you think that if any of these
distinguished folks had paid more
in income taxes, that we would have
heard about it?
My suggestion to these and other
conscience-stricken, loftier-than-thou
individuals is, that if you truly believe
you should be paying more in income
taxes, write a bigger check. Otherwise,
shut up! Youre blowing it for the rest
of us who believe the federal govern-
ment has an unequal, unbalanced,
unmitigated, unrestrained, and unre-
lenting approach to squandering our
money.
Don Michel
Montecito
(Editors note: You are right on the
money. Obama and his spin meisters have
won this round, as nearly everyone is talk-
ing about the rich paying more and virtu-
ally no one is zeroing in on the out-of-
control governmental spending that con-
tinues unabated. The President has pulled
off the ultimate magic trick: Concentrate
on my right hand and pay no attention to
what my left hand is doing. J.B.)
The Good Grace
of Ms Rachow
I have read obituaries, as you have.
I have been asked to write a few.
Grace Rachow, however, seemed to
raise someone from the dead, if you
will pardon the concept, with her
vivid descriptions, her memories,
and with her lively and varied use
of the English language to give lov-
ing recognition to an inspiring man
(Coup De Grace No Magumba! MJ
# 18/3).
I did not know Sam Alfano. Now I
wish I had. Perhaps that is the job of
good obits. Thank you for including
this wonderful memorial in this issue,
and for Ms Rachows increasing my
LETTERS Page 204
At Crane Country Day School, experiential education allows both
academic (left brain) and creative (right brain) endeavors to flourish!
Sophie Russo
Crane Student 2002-2010
Excels in fencing;
nationally ranked
Plays piano every day
Loves parkour
cross-training
Enjoys studio art
and digital art
Crane awards in math,
science, & creative writing
Engineering Academy
at Dos Pueblos High
Production Editor for
Academys newsletter
Enrolled in IB
and SBCC classes
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FEBRUARY 15
2 9 February 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 10 The Voice of the Village
critical frst 72 hours following an event.
The mutual self-help organization serves
Montecitos residents with the guidance
and support of the Montecito Fire, Water
and Sanitary Districts. This month: Disaster
Psychology; the psychological impact of a
disaster on rescuers and victims, and how
to provide psychological frst aid.
When: 10 am
Where: Montecito Fire Station,
595 San Ysidro Road
Info: Geri, 969-2537
Discussion Group
A group gathers to discuss The New
Yorker
When: 7:30 pm to 9 pm
Where: Montecito Library,
1469 East Valley Road
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10
Father-Daughter Dance
Montecito Union School hosts annual
dance; daughters can bring their fathers or
other special adult
When: 6 pm to 8 pm
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
Cost: $25 per person
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11
Friendship Centers 13th Annual
Festival of Hearts
Its Fiesta in February! Don your
Fiesta best and enjoy Heart-Art, wine,
luncheon, live and silent auctions and live
entertainment. All proceeds from the event
support Friendship Centers H.E.A.R.T.
(Help Elders At Risk Today) Program,
subsidizing the cost of adult day services
for low-income aging and dependent
adults and their families.
When: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Where: Fess Parkers Doubletree Resort,
Reagan Room, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd.
Tickets: $100 per person, available online:
www.friendshipcentersb.org
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12
Uni-Tea Garden Party
Author, actress and musician Mara
Purl will be the guest speaker during
an afternoon of tea, refreshments and
entertainment to beneft The Unity Shoppe.
The fundraiser will be held at La Casa
Nichita, former home of Fernand Lungren,
an early American artist. Included in the
festivities will be a tour of the historic home
and grounds, and an award given for best
hat worn to the event.
When: 2 to 5 pm
Cost: $70 for sponsorship, which includes
Limousine and Vintage Car rides to and
from the event MJ
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4
Valentine Art Show
Porch will be hosting their fourth annual
Valentines art show. Titled love
2
, the
show will feature a series of work by
various local artists.
Amidst the fowing champagne, tasty love
bites and seductive music, Barnaby
Conrad will be center stage signing his
most recent book, 101 Best Sex Scenes
Ever Written, an erotic romp through
literature for writers and readers.
When: 5 pm to 8 pm
Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane in
Carpinteria
Cost: free
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5
Film Screening
Laguna Blanca alumni Adam Pesce
and Danielle Robinsons documentary
Splinters premiered this year at the
Tribeca Film Festival and was named Best
Documentary in the 2011 Surfer Poll at
Surfer Magazine. They sold it to Snag
Films and ESPN and it has been selected
as part of the documentary lineup for
SBIFF.
When: 5 pm
Where: Metro 4 Theatre, 618 State St.
Info and Tickets: www.sbiff.org
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9
Food Drive at MUS
To beneft Unity Shoppe, donations can
be left in the schools parking lot. Items
needed include baby food, cereal, pasta,
peanut butter, rice, soup and canned
goods.
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
MERRAG Meeting and Training
Network of trained volunteers that work
and/or live in the Montecito area prepare
to respond to community disaster during
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2
Valentine Craft
Create valentines with love and glue from
a kaleidoscope of paper hearts, stars,
fowers and leaves; open to all ages
When: 2 to 5 pm
Where: Montecito Library,
1469 East Valley Road
Info: Jody Thomas, 969-5063
Art Exhibit
Montecito Aesthetic Institute presents
Art Series #4, featuring art from Laguna
Blanca Lower Campus students. Light
appetizers and refreshments provided.
When: 5 pm to 7 pm
Where: 1150 H Coast Village Road
Info: 565-5700
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3
Music of the Night
Four SBHS student directors-
choreographers-producers-performers
corral a cast of 35 high-school students for
the twelfth annual Music of the Night, to be
held at Santa Barbara Highs theater.
McKenna Mender, Claire
Patterson, Savanna Jordan,
and Clayton Barry have put
together a night of upbeat songs,
dances, and ensemble numbers from
Broadway shows such as Beauty And
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by Kelly Mahan
Montecito Tide Chart
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Thurs, Feb 2
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Fri, Feb 3
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Sat, Feb 4
12:18 AM 2.1 6:25 AM 5.1 01:49 PM -0.5 08:13 PM 3.4
Sun, Feb 5
12:59 AM 1.8 7:04 AM 5.3 02:17 PM -0.7 08:36 PM 3.6
Mon, Feb 6
1:38 AM 1.6 7:41 AM 5.6 02:46 PM -0.8 09:02 PM 3.9
Tues, Feb 7
2:18 AM 1.3 8:19 AM 5.6 03:16 PM -0.9 09:29 PM 4.1
Wed, Feb 8
2:59 AM 1 8:58 AM 5.5 03:46 PM -0.7 010:00 PM 4.3
Thurs, Feb 9
3:42 AM 0.8 9:39 AM 5.2 04:17 PM -0.5 010:32 PM 4.6
Fri, Feb 10
4:30 AM 0.7 10:23 AM 4.7 04:50 PM -0.1 011:09 PM 4.7
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4
Playroom Grand
Opening
Summer For Kids childrens
store has renovated and
added a playroom; a
grand opening featuring
refreshments, decorating,
and crafts will be held
When: 11 am
Where: 1235 Coast
Village Road
Info: www.summerforkids.
com
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7
War on the Water
Commemoration
Maritime Museum commemorates the
Bicentennial of the War of 1812 with
paintings by Hans Skalagard.
The artist will display 25 oil paintings
in the exhibition; refreshments will be
served.
When: 5:30 pm to 7 pm
Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way
Cost: Opening Reception: free, Exhibition: free with museum admission
RSVP: 962-8404 ext. 115
The Beast (Be Our Guest), How To
Succeed In Business Without Really
Trying (Brotherhood Of Man), The
Producers (Springtime For Hitler)
19 exciting numbers in all. An extra
added attraction will be Allison
Lewis singing I Dreamed A Dream
solo, but then the entire evening
should be considered an extra added
attraction that no family, no student
from elementary school to post-graduate
college types, and no one over the age
of 21 should miss, as Santa Barbaras
most talented take to the stage.
When: 7 pm, February 3, 4, 9, 10, & 11
Where: Santa Barbara High School,
700 E. Anapamu Street
Cost: $5 students; $10 adults
Info: 805-966-9101, ext. 220
Atlantis Screening
The Santa Barbara International Film
Festival will be showing ex-Montecito
Union student Matt Ornsteins flm,
Atlantis, which he wrote and directed.
The flm, about the fnal space shuttle
launch, will also be shown to the MUS
upper school students on Thursday at 2
pm.
When: 10:20 am
Where: Metro 4 Theatre,
618 State St.
Info and Tickets: www.sbiff.org
2 9 February 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 11
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t is another Saturday evening and
the kids look tired. Tired, but
hugely satisfed that their Santa
Barbara High School production of
Music of the Night is coming together.
Four student producers-directors-
choreographers-performers SBHS
seniors McKenna Mender, Savanna
Jordan, Claire Patterson, and SBHS
junior Clayton Barry head up a cast
of at least 35 singers and dancers in this
entirely student-produced-designed-
and-funded production.
All of us, notes Clayton dur-
ing a break in rehearsal, have been
involved in the theater department
since we were freshmen. Although
this is his first year directing, as it is
for Claire, Savanna and McKenna are
taking their second turn as directors.
Weve all been around for the whole
time, Clayton adds, so we were
kind of groomed into theater.
As the four of them join me for this
interview on a bare stage in the high-
school theater, the enthusiastic (and
really hard-working) cast continues
dancing, singing, and rehearsing their
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Sunday, 22 January, 12:57 pm Deputy Valadez was dispatched to a residence
on La Vuelta Road to investigate a property dispute. On the scene, Valadez
spoke with the reporting party, who reported hedges on his property were
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incident. A report was taken.
Teens Rescued on a Mountain Ridge in Alisal Ranch
Wednesday, 25 January, 6:45 pm Members of the Santa Barbara County
Search and Rescue (SAR) and Santa Barbara County Fire Helicopter rescued
two teenagers on a mountain ridge above Alisal Ranch. Two local male teens
went on a hike at 3 pm above the guest ranch near Solvang; however, they had
to stop several hours into their hike when it started to get dark. One of the
hikers called his father because he and his friend did not have any lights or a
good idea of where they were located on the hike. The father contacted Santa
Barbara Sheriffs Emergency Dispatch for assistance; they used GPS coordinates
to locate the stranded hikers. SAR communicated with the hikers via cell phone
to determine if they could hear sirens from where they were located in the
ravine. A four-person field team went in to access the teens, while Santa Barbara
County Fire helicopter confirmed their location. It took the SAR 90 minutes to
hike uphill, often on hands and knees, before reaching the stranded hikers. SAR
determined that the hikers did not have any injuries. Both teens were trans-
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and outside the church.
Frederick also co-authored Local
Democracy Under Siege: Activism,
Public Interests and Private
Politics, which won the 2008 Best
Book Award from the Society for the
Anthropology of North America.
She graduated from Spelman
College and earned a doctorate in
cultural anthropology from Duke
University.
Track Stars
to Shine Saturday
Westmont hosts the Sunshine Multi-
Event & Indoor Open on Saturday,
February 4, beginning at 11 am with
the shot-put and long jump. Running
events begin at noon with the 60-meter
hurdles and conclude with the 1,600-
meter relay at 3:15 pm. The event is
free and open to the public. Athletes
from Azusa Pacific, Biola, Concordia,
Vanguard, Fresno Pacific and Cal
Baptist are expected to compete.
Russell Smelley, Westmonts
head track-and-field coach, says the
Warriors mens and womens distance
medley relay teams will attempt to
meet the NAIA indoor national quali-
fying standards. Adam Thompkins,
a multi-event, season record winner,
will begin his quest for national prom-
inence in the decathlon in individual
events this weekend before taking on
the indoor heptathlon at APU next
week, Smelley says.
SBIFF Spotlight
by Lily Buckley
Laguna Blanca alumni Adam Pesce
and Danielle Robinson (class of 98)
have joined forces to make a docu-
mentary about the rise of surfing in
Vanimo, an isolated village in Papua
New Guinea, called Splinters. The
sport was first introduced when a vis-
iting Australian pilot left his surfboard
in the village in the 1980s. Directed by
Adam, the film follows four surfers
leading up to the Papua New Guinea
National Surfing Titles. It was bought
by Snag Films and ESPN and will be
released in theaters February 3; it has
also been named Best Documentary in
the 2011 Surfer Poll at Surfer Magazine.
Splinters has been selected as part of
the documentary lineup for the Santa
Barbara International Film Festival,
and it will be shown on February 5 at
5 pm at Metro 4.
The SBIFF has also chosen ex-Mon-
tecito Union student Matt Ornsteins
film, Atlantis, as part of its Shorts
Program, to be shown on Friday at
Metro 4, at 10:20 am. The 19-minute
film, written and directed by Matt,
is centered on the final space shuttle
launch, and stars Parenthoods Jason
Ritter and One Tree Hills Kate French.
In addition, a special screening has
been set up for the upper school stu-
dents at Montecito Union Thursday,
February 2. MJ
Marla Frederick will speak at a free public lecture
at Westmont next Wednesday
Laguna Blanca alumnus Adam Pesces directorial debut will be shown as part of SBIFF on February 5 at
Metro 4 (Photo by Lou Mora)
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his is such a great organization;
the people here are just
fantastic.
So reflected the Junior Staff
Commodore Jack Byers as we stood in
the corner of the Santa Barbara Yacht
Club on the night of the Commodores
Ball. This is the event in which the
clubhouse is packed out with sailors
and sailor-ettes who want to salute
the outgoing commodore: In this case
the very outgoing Jack Byers.
An upbeat, organized, and efficient
guy, Jacks mood meter is always on
happy and his perennial positive
persona has resonated with the whole
organization. As a contractor, he also
has contributed much professional
know-how to the club. This year the
Santa Barbara Yacht Club which
is a popular spot for everything from
local non-profit dinners, dance clubs,
high school proms, and the very suc-
cessful annual charity regattas fin-
ished a remodel of its galley/ kitch-
en. We all know what those projects
entail, and Jacks deft hand could be
seen throughout the process, work-
ing with a great team to bring it all to
completion.
His wife Karen known as the
Commodorable is a little power-
house herself. She was recently named
Woman of the Year by the Yacht
Club Women for her contributions,
dedication and outstanding service
to the SB Yacht Club Women and the
Yacht Club.
For this evenings event, staff com-
modore Tony Papa served as emcee
and came up with pranks and puns
and gags and gifts from the ridicu-
lous to the ribald but all in good
fun to toast and roast Byers. Then
the evening was finished off by
dancing couples swinging smartly
to the music while an enthusiastic
gaggle of girls bopped and hopped
to the band.
These are momentous years for
the clubs commodores. While Byers
saw the kitchen remodel through to
completion, Dave Baxter, who now
serves as 2012 Commodore, will over-
see the 140th anniversary of the Santa
Barbara Yacht Club. As the second
oldest yacht club on the Pacific Ocean,
it is one of the oldest and earliest
organizations in Santa Barbara.
Then, next year, in 2013, the club
will continue under the direction of
Francie Lufkin, who will become the
first female commodore in club his-
tory.
We have well-to-do people and we
have just hard-working people here,
Byers summed up, but when we all
come together, everybody gets along
and we just have a great time helping
each other and the community. Its
truly such a wonderful organization.
February
of the Fine Arts
Several local artists and writers are
launching works and making news
this month.
We start out with the irrepressible
Sam Salario, who knows how to live
life on the edge as a seriously senior
citizen. Forever a forward-looking
optimist, the 92-year old tells me he
buys green bananas...
Last year, he published two books
(including Deek Dietrich, Legendary
Bounty Hunter: Eight Short Stories), then
he wrote and produced a screenplay
(set in Isla Vista during Halloween,
no less!), and now a new stage play
that he penned is opening at the Plaza
Theatre in Carpinteria.
In Search of a Long-Term Relationship
is a senior citizen Internet romance.
Matt, who is on the prowl has made
a digital connection with Leona, a
smart, refined, well-read, and gra-
cious neat freak. Now, it is time for
meeting in person. Sparks fly and set
their friends love lives afire, but can
Matt and Leona kindle some romance
of their own? In Search of a Long-Term
People think I have an interesting walk; hell, Im just trying to hold my gut in Robert Mitchum
Ms Graffy is author of
Society Ladys 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
State Street Spin
by Erin Graffy de Garcia
Relationship plays Friday, February 10,
11, at 8 pm and Sunday matine at
3. Catch the details at www.plazathe
atercarpinteria.com.
Next up, Thea Vandervoort will be
one of the featured performers in Santa
Barbara Dance Alliances upcoming
production, Kinesis. Holding a dance
degree from UC Riverside, Thea was a
product of the locally renown Hanlin
Dance studio (and I can still remember
her amazing extensions in the Arabian
Dance for their annual Nutcracker).
She has choreographed a very pret-
ty, classical pointe Baroque-flavored
composition for the Dance Alliances
mixed rep show. The performance is
at Center Stage Theater upstairs at
Paseo Nuevo on Febuary 3 at 8 pm
and February 4th at 2 and 8 pm.
Then, if it seems local artist Martha
Ingman Lorch is in the pink and
sees nothing but blue skies through
rose colored glasses, well... dont be
green with envy. She recently won the
2012 Platinum Palette Award (Best
of Show) in the National Watercolor
Society Donors Exhibition at the NWS
Gallery, in San Pedro. Well done!
Finally, over at Center Stage on
February 19, Maria Lane Ross is pro-
ducing a staged reading of The Jaguars
Nest, which was inspired by a true
story of a woman struggling both with
a failed mental health system and
within herself.
The story was developed by Ms
Ross, and the stage play was writ-
ten by Ross and Ed Giron, who is
directing. This funny, irreverent, dra-
matic, sometimes heartbreaking story
explores what happens when all is
stripped away from you, but you can
still have hope, and with hope, mir-
acles can happen. A Q and A session
will be held after each performance.
These performances of the staged
reading benefit Peoples Self Help
Housing.
Proceeds are specially designated
for the purpose of providing compli-
mentary access to the exquisite cul-
tural events Santa Barbara has to offer.
Tickets for The Jaguars Nest are avail-
able at the Center Stage Theater box
office & at www.centerstagetheater.org.
Santa Barbara is
Buzzing About
Cielito Restaurant & Taqueria.
Remember the Stateside Restaurant,
previously the Alcapulco in La Arcada
Court downtown? Or if you have lived
here long enough, do you remember
when it was the El Cielito? With a
nod toward local nostalgia, two local
partners, Karen Phillips and Gordon
Hardy (Jeannines) have refurbished,
revamped, and renamed their res-
taurant in La Arcada court Cielito
Restaurant & Taqueria.
The first week they were open, they
had to turn away nearly 80 people in
one night alone. Muy upscale. MJ
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Outgoing Commodore Jack Byers and his wife,
Karen, were feted at the Santa Barbara Yacht
Clubs Commodores Ball. She had also been
named the Woman of the Year by the Santa
Barbara Yacht Club Women for her dedication
and contributions.
Staff Commodore Tony
Papa served as emcee
at the Yacht Clubs
Commodore Ball, which
roasted the outgoing
2011 Commodore Jack
Byers (left) as he turns
over the helm to the
2012 Commodore Dave
Baxter
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ing for a lot of the songs. Im actu-
ally a dancer (with Santa Barbara
Dance Art); Ive been a dancer since
I was three years old and have done
productions over the summers for
various years. Ive never done theater
productions at Santa Barbara High
School outside of Music of the Night,
but for the choreography, we just
listen to all the songs for hours and
it starts to get into your head and we
go from there.
How do you decide how everything will
flow?
Clayton: We kind of figure out our
set list first and things usually come
together. I know theres a lot of chore-
ography that we plan beforehand but
then theres a lot of internal stuff that
just comes out organically. Well figure
out right step, left step and everything
else just blossoms.
Theres stuff that works and stuff
that doesnt work. We nailed a really
great opener were opening with Be
Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast.
Its a huge number and its so much
fun and everybody is on stage but
couldnt find a good closer, because
its a group number; its very specific.
We found it though, from a musical
called Catch Me If You Can.
The thing is, we learn the music and
then we change everything. We get it
all technically down, get all the notes,
and then its like wild cards.
Opening Night
The first paid public performance
of Music of the Night is scheduled for
Friday, February 3 at 7 pm, but the stu-
dents have been rehearsing every day
after school (including Saturdays and
many Sundays, especially as opening
night approaches) since early January.
They learn all the music before Winter
Break and practice with it in the music
room before moving into the theater
in January. The directors and nearly
all of the cast too dont leave until
8:30 or 9 pm most nights.
Music of the Night features nineteen
songs in all; for most of the num-
bers there will be four or five soloists
and there are many full-on ensemble
song-and-dance numbers. Allison
Lewis, 2010s Santa Barbara Teen Idol,
will sing I Dreamed A Dream from
Les Miserables completely solo and
Gabe Kaster will sing Marian the
Librarian from The Music Man. Its a
group number but hes the only one
actually singing. A live band will per-
form on stage in a raised proscenium.
Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for
adults and performances are sched-
uled for February 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11.
All shows begin at 7 pm.
We urge you to attend, enjoy, and
exult in seeing and hearing some of
the most talented kids on the Central
Coast for a piddling $10, less than the
price of admission at any local movie
house. In exchange for their months
of work, laughter, tears and sweat all
they seek in return is your applause
and appreciation.
It will be well deserved.