Tag archives: Emilie Sears

Two years after it opened, the owners of Montecito’s Magic Castle Cabaret Milt and Arlene Larsen are moving on, I can exclusively reveal. “The Cabaret has been closed for a long year and we are not getting any younger,” laments Arlene. “When we started, we seemed a lot younger. “After talking it over for many […]

Jack Sears, who with his wife, Emilie, owned one of Montecito’s most iconic watering holes, Cafe del Sol, for nearly half a century, has died in San Diego, aged 84. The tony twosome sold the property by the Andree Clark Bird Refuge, now the Magic Castle, in 2013 and closed the popular nosheteria the following […]