Ricardo Calderon and his wife Dinah hosted a champagne-fueled bash at the Coral Casino for international interior designer Veere Grenney and his new coffee table tome Seeking Beauty. It took the New Zealand native, a longtime friend of the tony twosome, two years to write, with photos by Francesco Lagnese from his three beautiful residences […]
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation Golden Gala 2024 was held on Saturday, October 5, at the Montecito Les Belles Fontaines Estate of Alastair and Ann Winn, co-hosted with their daughter Amanda and her husband Travis Twining. The TBCF team asked the more than 300 attendees to wear gold – the internationally acknowledged color of pediatric cancer […]
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The Junior League of Santa Barbara, which is celebrating its centenary, hosted its 14th annual gala “Dazzling Though the Decades” at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara with 135 guests raising more than $100,000. Martha Townsend, former president of the organization, was among the tony triumvirate of speakers with current president Jenni-Elise Ramirez, and president-elect Jessica Hawley looking […]
Records were broken at the 16th annual Domestic Violence Solutions lunch when 264 guests descended on the Hilton helping raise $135,000 for the charity. The frenetic fête was chaired and emceed by Dr. Mark Juretic, who moved to our Eden by the Beach in 2017 to practice internal medicine at Sansum Clinic, and included a […]
One of the world’s most historic orchestras, the London Philharmonic, founded in 1932 by the legendary conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, showed off its talents at the Granada, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures program. Led by principal conductor Edward Gardner the entertaining performance featured “Raices, (Origins),” a new piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban […]
Ensemble Theatre Company opened its latest season at the New Vic with Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, directed by veteran actor Jamie Torcellini and written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen. The five-member cast played a variety of characters with the blood-sucking count portrayed perfectly – not to mention amusingly – by muscle-bound hunk Adam […]
Montecito philanthropist Anne Smith Towbes hosted a decidedly chilly reception at her Birnam Wood home when she organized an ice cream social for John Daly’s Key Class which helps to support and educate at-risk youth with basic life skills, including social etiquette, resume building, and the basics of dining. The curriculum is taught from eighth […]
Prince Harry has revealed daughter Princess Lilibet has inherited her mother Meghan Markle’s “thick hair” and it is now so long “she can almost sit on it.” The Duke of Sussex, 40, made the rare comment while attending the WellChild Awards in London. “Archie and Lilibet have been blessed with their mother’s thick hair,” he […]
Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center’s Executive Director Lindsey Black is inviting the town to attend their 3rd Annual Cocktail Reception on October 23 at MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation. The event is titled, “An Evening to Explore Jodi House at MOXI,” and will be held from 5:30-7:30 pm. This is a […]
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Everybody was seeing red when United Way of Santa Barbara County hosted its 27th annual Soirée en Rouge at the Montecito Club. The Red Feather Ball attracted 215 guests who raised around $400,000 to fund educational programs and initiatives which serve thousands of local children and their families each year. The boffo bash, created by […]
A sea of blue swept over Bella Vista, the sprawling Summerland estate of polo playing hotelier Pat Nesbitt and his wife Ursula, with 500 guests raising around $300,000 with the annual Fun with the Force bash for the Santa Barbara Police Foundation. The popular organization provides financial support for ill police personnel. The bustling bash, […]
Retired psychologist Margaret Wilkinson recently returned from Edinburgh, Scotland, after participating in a historical reenactment of a centuries old tradition, The Riding of the Marches. More than 200,000 spectators were in the Scottish capital for a day of pageantry, tradition and community spirit as the event, dating back to the 16th century, which reaffirms the […]
Montecito author David Gersh, a Harvard Law School graduate and retired attorney, just launched his ninth book – and the third in his comic novel series Unleashed: A Comic Relief – with a bijou bash at the bustling bibliophile bastion Tecolote in the upper village. “It poses the existential question of whether people can trust […]
The Music Academy of the West launched the third season of its Mariposa concert series at Hahn Hall in truly majestic fashion with a recital of new arts songs celebrating the history and legacy of seven African queens The unique program, with piano accompaniment from Kevin Miller, offered historical narrative with 11 songs, each about […]
