24 Dec 2024
CALM-ing Holiday Tea
Lobero Associates hosted its annual holiday tea at the University Club while collecting toys for CALM, which fights child abuse. Established in 1972, the associates have raised more than $1.5 million – purchasing a Steinway grand piano, updating the historic theater’s bathrooms and replacing the theater’s ancient curtain, and undertaking innumerable other tasks. Paula Bottiani […]
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Whole Lotta Clappin’ Going On
Talk about the Fab Four! The Tony Award-winning musical, Million Dollar Quartet staged by the Ensemble Theatre Company at the New Vic is set on December 4, 1956, when, in an extraordinary twist of fate, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins were brought together at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, for […]
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Everyone’s a Critic
The reviews are in for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s latest Netflix endeavor Polo, the penultimate installment of their $100 million deal with the streaming giant. But despite the likely high hopes it would join the ranks of works like Disney’s soccer saga with Ryan Reynolds, Welcome to Wrexham, and 2020’s, The Last Dance, the […]
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Mission Scholars
Nonprofits understandably like to make a big deal about anniversaries, noting with pride and gratitude how long they have been a part of the community and the ways in which they’ve adjusted their services to meet evolving needs. On the other hand, Mission Scholars hasn’t been around long enough to trumpet their decades of service, […]
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17 Dec 2024
Mothers’ Helpers: Helping Mothers this Holiday Season and Beyond
For the past 15 years, the nonprofit organization Mothers’ Helpers has supported low-income families in Santa Barbara county by providing them access to essential baby items. This holiday season, the organization is hosting a Christmas program that allows community sponsors to purchase and wrap gifts for selected families, bringing a bit of magic and cheer […]
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DignityMoves: Montecito Parish Raises Funds to Help Areas Homeless
Montecito’s Episcopal Parish, All Saints by-the-Sea, has donated $50,000 to help provide temporary shelter to Santa Barbara County’s homeless community. The grant will go to San Francisco-based Interim Housing, a nonprofit that touts an innovative model to end homelessness by taking underutilized or vacant land to build temporary communities using prefabricated materials for mobile housing […]
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Montecito Union Renovation Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
The completion of several anticipated renovation projects – some a decade in the making – brought together Montecito Union School students, parents, and educators for a ribbon-cutting celebration. Using a set of giant ceremonial scissors, MUS Principal Nick Bruski cut the ribbon leading to the school’s newly refurbished Towbes Library and Innovation Laboratory – a […]
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Naughty Nutcracker: A Dazzling Night at Santa Barbara’s Holiday Spectacle
Santa Barbara brought the holiday sparkle with a cheeky twist at The Naughty Nutcracker, held December 7 at the Alhecama Theatre. Produced by Teresa Kuskey, and Rick Oshay, and choreographed by Kuskey, this La Boheme Productions show delivered Vegas-style flair with plenty of holiday mischief. The lively evening blended art, philanthropy, and festive fun, drawing […]
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Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffaloes Medal
HH has a 1920s Sterling and enamel medallion from the Royal Antediluvian (‘before the flood’) Order of the Buffaloes in red, white, cobalt, and turquoise; made by Fattorini & Sons LTD., Jewelers, Bradford House, Birmingham. The red ribbon is embroidered ‘RAOB Grand Council.’ The Sterling is hallmarked with a lion and letter E, the piece […]
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L’image Gallery: All Arts on Deck
In the Funk Zone, across from Validation Ale, a large warehouse has sat unoccupied for the past four years. What was once the Santa Barbara Winery is now a collection of cavernous, expansive halls checkered with white walls and exposed concrete. One might say it is the perfect setting for an art gallery; from December […]
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Good Luck
One of my favorite stories is about an antiques expert who, one day, while driving down a country road, stops at junky-looking store. Before going in, he notices, in the entrance-way, a cat drinking from a saucer. The cat doesn’t interest him – but what does is the saucer, which, he can tell immediately is […]
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Women Engineers Rule Racing Day
Westmont’s 12 junior engineering students battled in a three-part competition as part of their Machine Design course that included racing and jumping the 500-piece remote-control car they had created in front of Kerrwood Hall on Dec. 5. In the end, it was the women who shined with the team of Grace Morgan and Ainsley Martin […]
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Luncheon Features Former USAID Head
The Westmont Women’s Leadership Council Luncheon features Henrietta Holsman Fore – a recognized leader in business, corporate boards, the U.S. government, the United Nations and nonprofit organizations – on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, 12-1:30 pm at Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road, Santa Barbara. A limited number of tickets, which cost $150 per person, […]
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Let There Be Light
The college kicked off the Christmas season with its annual lighting of Kerrwood Hall in a festive event, Let There Be Light, on Dec. 3 as the Westmont community gathered on Kerrwood Lawn. Santa posed for pictures inside the holiday-decorated Kerrwood Hall lobby. Brad Elliott, campus photographer and Your Westmont contributor, was named the special […]
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Cacao Ceremony. From Soil to Soul: A Journey Through Culture, Connection, and Regeneration in Montecito
On a brisk, starry evening last Friday, December 6, Montecito hosted an event that transcended a typical gathering. Hosted by Farmer’s Footprint and Project Biome, initiatives championed by visionary Dr. Zach Bush, the evening was rife with storytelling, sensory experiences, and cultural appreciation. Held in an intimate venue redolent with art and music, the event’s […]
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Faherty Opens in Montecito
Twin brothers Mike and Alex Faherty, who had long dreamed of launching their own fashion brand, realized their vision in 2013 when they founded Faherty Brand. Now, over a decade later, they’ve opened their 76th store in Montecito – on Coast Village Road, no less. Since the grand opening on Friday, December 6th, store leader […]
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A Child’s Christmas in Tripoli
Christmas day of ‘68 began like most days; with a guy bellowing singsong prayers in the dark from a mosque somewhere just off base. The mounted lo-fi bullhorn gave the already mysterioso liturgy a surreal 1930s radio feel – think “Libyan Rudy Vallee” if that helps. If that doesn’t help, I get it. Though we’d […]
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Richie’s Barber Shop 13th Annual Holiday Tri-Charity Funder
Richie Ramirez and head barber Jessica Jay launched the Barbershop’s 13th Annual Charity fundraiser for the holidays, on Friday, December 6. The annual charity event was started humbly in 2011 with Richie’s love of kids. He launched first the “Toys for Tots” where he collected three oversized moving boxes of toys for kids that were […]
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The Annual Hathaway Tree Decorating
The annual tradition of decorating the Hathaway Tree at Manning Park was held by the Montecito Association and its Montecito Beautification members, in collaboration with Montecito Fire, on Wednesday, December 4, in the afternoon. There were at least 30 adults, a handful of kids, and two doggies on hand to help, along with water and […]
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