25 Mar 2025
License Plate Readers in Montecito and More
The Montecito Association March 2025 meeting was held in person at the Montecito Library community room and on Zoom, Tuesday, March 11. MA President Doug Black with1st VP Leslie Lundgren called the meeting to order and moderated the presentations. The key agenda item was the presentation by FLOCK representative Brooke Midgett, via Zoom. Flock makes […]
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Montecitan Martha Salas Balances the Books. The Textbooks.
Higher education is expensive. It’s no accident that for decades academic dorm cuisine has been lovingly built around the Cup O’ Noodles® tradition, an affordable scholastic delicacy whose variants include beef, chicken, shrimp, teriyaki, and the always-worrisome “spicy” – an indefinable “flavor” commonly avoided the night before a mid-term. Apart from higher ed’s tuition, fees, […]
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Montecito Historian Trish Davis on Women’s History Month
Montecito’s Trish Davis is being featured in my column for her contributions to preserve the history of Montecito. Davis was recommended to me by the Montecito Fire Protection District Fire Chief David Neels in response to my community request for Montecito women to be featured in my news column for Women’s History Month.Neels stated in […]
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22nd Annual Tiara Ball
The renowned 22nd Annual Tiara Ball by the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation (SBCHF) was held in all its elegance at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara Resort on Saturday, March 8. This annual beyond the black-tie soirée showcases guests in bejeweled tiaras, formal gowns, fine wool tuxedos and more ahead of Paris Fashion Week. While the gala […]
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Caving In
The limestone monolith towered above Shasta Lake within the Trinity Alps National Forest. Naturally carved within its mighty limestone crags was one of the biggest cave systems in the U.S. We boarded a small boat and easily motored across to the other side of shimmering Shasta Lake. A solitary bald eagle roosted atop a gnarled […]
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Alma Fonda Fina Now Serving Breakfast Daily
Alma Fonda Fina Restaurant at the Montecito Country Mart announced this week it is now serving breakfast – brunch from 8 am to 2 pm daily! Start your day with classics like chilaquiles, huevos rancheros, or a breakfast burrito. Reservations and walk-ins. Allora by Laura on CVR Closed Allora by Laura on Coast Village Road […]
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Crime in the Cito: Sheriff’s Blotter 93108
Possession of Methamphetamine / Padaro Lane Sunday, March 2, at 20:55 hours Subject was sleeping in the driver’s seat of his vehicle which was blocking traffic. When contacted, subject provided consent to search both their person and their vehicle. Inside vehicle, there were two small baggies of suspected methamphetamine inside the small pocket of the […]
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App-titude Test
I decided to buy the latest iPhone. Mine was so old that Siri could no longer remember stuff. “Siri, where’s a good place to get a burger and fries.” “Hi Eddie. I’d suggest Howard Johnson’s.” “I think they went out of business.” “Whoa! Don’t tell President Nixon. He loves their sarsaparilla.” So, off I went […]
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Greed: The Other Green-Eyed Monster
Avarice. Avidity. Cupidity. Covetousness. Voracity. Ravenousness. Rapacity. Gluttony. “Greed” actually comes from the Greek word, “Voracious,” meaning, always hungry for more. Different names, same ugly monster. Greed – the sibling to Envy – is often referred to in mythology, literature, and religion… and not in a good way. Recently, I had the misfortune of being […]
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Take Your Spring Cleaning Outside
The recent rain is a welcome reprieve from the dry conditions that aided in propelling the devasting Palisades Fire near Los Angeles and the Eaton Fire in the foothills of Altadena. But this is no time to rest on our laurels. “A few inches of late season rain are not enough to significantly move the […]
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Salesmen Samples
LW has a miniature pine dry sink, the type – though in larger scale – that was in use before indoor plumbing, and whose basin was typically zinc, soapstone, or copper lined. The dimensions are 8” (w) x 4.25” (d) x 7.5” (h), and the sink well is 2.5” deep. Hers is stamped with a burnt-in […]
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Talk Examines AI’s Future, Possible Dangers
Two Westmont computer science professors will offer a holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), explore promising new developments, and expose lurking dangers in a Westmont Downtown Lecture, “A Human Approach to AI: Understanding Its Promises and Perils,” on Thursday, March 27, at 5:30 pm at the Community Arts Workshop in downtown Santa Barbara. The talk […]
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Stargazers to Catch Martian Views
Westmont’s powerful Keck Telescope will zoom in on Jupiter and its Galilean moons on Friday, March 21, beginning at 7:30 pm and lasting several hours. The Westmont Observatory is open to the public every third Friday of the month and held in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes […]
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Baseball Swings Another Sweep
Westmont baseball (22-3, 17-1 PacWest), ranked No. 5 in NCAA DII by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, swept Azusa Pacific in a doubleheader, 9-5 and 11-2, on March 15 at Carr Field. The Warriors are 19-1 over their last 20 games. Two pitchers established new program records for the Warriors. Senior starter Bryan Peck […]
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Mags and Rags
In the time between the invention of printing and the advent of the Internet, many types of periodicals have come and gone. In our own era, we have seen the birth and demise of magazines of news, humor, commentary, housekeeping, and many other more specialized subjects. A key element in the survival or failure of […]
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Storm Sings ‘Sins’ with the Santa Barbara Symphony
As anyone knows who’s seen Storm Large subbing in with Pink Martini in the Portland band’s frequent visits to Santa Barbara, there’s not a lot of guile when the slyly sultry and self-possessed singer takes the stage – or does interviews. That’s been true no matter who’s she talking to or whether she’s singing punk-flavored […]
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Feinstein Finds His Way Back to Bennett
Modern proponents of the Great American Songbook don’t come much bigger than Michael Feinstein. Since the mid-1980s, the multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated, Tony-winning recording artist and performer has received national acclaim and adulation since launching a career as a cabaret singer-pianist devoted to the loosely defined collection of American popular songs, show tunes and jazz standards […]
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Montecito Music: Muller Returns
Peter Muller, the hedge fund founder whose other passion of making music often outweighs his day job, is coming back to SOhO to play a benefit concert on March 27 that will also serve as a preview to a few new compositions. The show will feature an extended version of his longtime band The Kindred […]
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A Celebration of Spring: Enjoy the Bounty of the Equinox
March 21st marks Ostara, the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. A truly holy-day when we can connect with the opportunities for new beginnings, and we can celebrate the return of warmth and light. Surely, the energetic shift towards longer days – with budding blossoms offering their fresh fragrance and the chatter of birdsong starting […]
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