The Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort (formerly The Fess Parker) was the venue for the 2018 Spirit of Entrepreneurship (SOE) Awards. An exciting event for the 33 finalists, all women, being judged in 11 categories with three finalists in each. The SOE Foundation is to support entrepreneurship at all levels in our area and to […]
Social gridlock reigned when attorney Michael Bollag and his wife, Tracy, hosted a super sunset soirée at their stunning aerie near Hope Ranch for Granada Premier Patrons. “It has just gone from strength to strength over the past few years and is a vital part of the theater’s fundraising,” says Craig Springer, who retires next […]
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It was a night on the tiles when Monarch Wealth Strategies celebrated its 10th anniversary on the roof of the MOXI museum with 100 guests quaffing the vino and noshing on the comestibles. President and founder Aaron Clark, who has more than 500 clients and also just opened an office in Santa Maria, said: “It […]
Peoples’ Self-Help Housing finally (postponed due to fire and flood) were able to have the grand opening of their new affordable housing development at 510 North Salsipuedes St. If you’ve driven down Haley Street, it’s that beautiful Spanish-style building on the corner. There were 300 applications, and a lottery was held for the 40 apartments […]
The oenophiles we’re out in force when Grassini vineyards opened its new 1,400-sq.-ft. tasting room at the historic El Paseo. The 104-acre vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley was planted in 2002 and mayor Cathy Murillo cut a ribbon to mark the new opening. Among the guests quaffing the vino and noshing on the bounteous […]
And I don’t mean just for Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan Markle. Having covered the British Royal Family for more than four decades, I was deluged with interview requests on TV and radio nationwide to bring my 40 years of expertise to the forum. The local ABC affiliate, KEYT-TV, had presciently booked me […]
Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) held its 17th annual Mother’s Day Luncheon to honor and remember our mothers in the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. It was a poignant event and totally heartfelt. It began with emcee Pamela Dillman Haskell moderating the lively (cool?) teen-parent fashion show from K.frank. The Santa Barbara Arts Performance […]
It couldn’t have been a more perfect evening when the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara threw its 80th anniversary gala at the Heartstone Ranch in Carpinteria, with the 220 guests raising $200,000 for the popular organization. The super soirée, emceed by Montecito Bank & Trust chairman Janet Garufis and the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone, […]
Too many cooks spoil the broth goes the old adage, but culinary wizards were in abundance when UCSB Arts & Lectures threw a benefit gala at the Museum of History with Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN’s Parts Unknown. The 61-year-old, who flew in from Bali via Dubai for the 300-guest fete, gave an expletive-filled speech […]
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CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association – is celebrating its century with 12 concerts featuring the world’s finest instrumentalists. Highlights will include appearances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, violinist extraordinaire Itzhak Perlman, the Russian National Orchestra, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen in its International series at the Granada. The […]
Goats were in abundance when 12-year-old African Women Rising, a northern Uganda charity, held its second Goat Fest with more than 200 guests at a rustic Cold Springs Road estate, raising enough to purchase 300 of the animals. “It’s not so much a fund raiser as friend raiser, to draw attention to the 11-year-old organization,” […]
Santa Barbara Polo Club opened its 107th season with a bang when former patron Andy Busch and his wife, Kim, threw a bash for his new Folded Hills 15-acre vineyard in Santa Ynez. Andy, whose Grants Farm team used to be a regular feature at the Carpinteria club, bought the 600-acre ranch some years back […]
After 10 years as film commissioner for Santa Barbara, Geoff Alexander is moving on to pursue a career in real estate sales. He is being replaced by Ryan Grau – whose title is director of film and special events – who grew up in Ventura and moved to our Eden by the Beach in 1995. […]
The mad social whirl took on a whole new meaning when Montecito realtor Randy Solakian and Beverly Hills real estate powerhouse, Rick Hilton, hotel heir father to Paris and younger daughter Nicky, who married banking heir James Rothschild three years ago, hosted a Cinco de Mayo fete, just a tiara toss or two north of […]
