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Painting and Surfing Are Inspiration to Local Artist
special from Diana Scott
Lester DaGradi lives on the same street as he
did when he was young. Not in the same house
or even the same city, but on the Pacific Coast
Highway: that long
rambling road, that
connects Leggett to
Dana Point. Lester
currently resides in
a modest apartment
on a stretch of
the highway in
Point Arena that
is Main Street. He
shares the second
floor with another
family, but his
paintings
grace
the walls of the
entire floor. And when I say “grace” I mean,
“wallpaper”. Lester is prolific.
It’s a small town and his art hangs in most
of the public buildings in town: the post office,
the tech center, the café, the theater, both coffee
shops, and two bars. His apartment-studio has
paintings lining the walls, leaning against the
wainscoting and stacked onto racks. He drives
a ’70 VW bus, which is often graffitied with his
own artwork or political statement du jour. His
dog is always on board.
A home in close proximity to the ocean affords
Lester the daily luxury of choosing whether he
will surf or if he will
paint. Maybe both.
Lester Stewart
DaGradi, known to
his friends as LSD,
was born in May of
1942 in Bakersfield,
California.
His
family moved to
Los Angeles when
Lester was 6 years
old. His artistic
parents
almost
chose to pursue
their art careers
instead of a family; but ultimately, they became
the archetypal southern California family with
two blond kids, a sailboat, and a dog.
His father, Don DaGradi, a longtime
waterman, was a lifeguard in Santa Monica in
the 1930’s. After that, Don lived in Hawaii and
surfed Queens on a redwood surfboard and
earned a living painting houses on the side.
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From the Editor’s Desk
Our cover story this month comes from Diana Scott, local surfer and art lover who
is highlighting the life and art of local artist Lester DiGradi. Lester has been surfing and
painting here on the coast for some 35 years. His work is seen at locations throughout the
South Coast.
January is certainly the month for high culture here on the coast. Classical music fans
will be glad to know that pianist Roy Bogas will be returning to Gualala Arts Center along
with David McCarroll on January 4. See page 7.
On January 10 the National Theatre Live series at Arena Theater will be telecasting
something a little different this month. Instead of a standard stage play there will be a
performance by an avant-garde group, DV8 Physical Theatre, which incorporates dance
and acting. For mature audiences. See page 6.
Arena Theater’s The Met: Live in HD presents 2 opera this month. On January 17 they
present The Merry Widow and on January 31 they will screen The Tales of Hoffmann.
See page7.
More classical music can be heard on January 18 when the Gualala Arts Chamber Music
series presents the Cypress String Quartet. This group is as good as it gets. See page 6.
Speaking of “as good as it gets” that is what you will find at the Arena Theater if you are
looking for world-class ballet as the Bolshoi company presents Swan Lake on January 25
. See page 11.
Fred Adler is at it again as he has conceived a unique billing by pairing violin players from
both the jazz and classical genres. Jazz violinist Mads Trolling will appear with classical
violinist Emma Stone on January 31 in a show Fred calls Violin Virtuosos- Jazz &
Classical. They will each play a set with separate piano accompanists then end their set
with the other violinist joining in for their final number. See page 5.
The Blues on the Coast series at Arena Theater begins a new season on January 24
with East Coast blues guitarist, Albert Cummings. Every musician wants to think of
themselves as unique, but he can’t get away from those comparisons to Stevie Ray Vaughn.
See page 3.
The big non-entertainment news this month is that WestAmerica Bank has donated
their Point Arena building to their tenant, Action Network. Exciting as it is, it will be
a challenge for that organization to become a land owner. This will be the 4th building on
Main Street to come into public or local non-profit hands. See page 4.
Speaking of buildings owned by local groups, the Garcia Grange needs roof work and
their meager well could be supplemented by a water catchment system. Their annual
fundraiser is on January 3. It is an All-You-Can-Eat Crab Dinner with a 50/50 raffle and
a 52-card drawing. See page 3.
Finally, the Arena Film Club has yet another varied and interesting schedule in January.
This group provides some very interesting films that you are not likely to see anywhere else
on a big screen. See page 13.
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Lighthouse Peddler
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Blues on The Coast Series Resumes at Arena Theater
The Blues on the Coast series begins on
January 24 at the Arena Theater when bluesrock guitarist Albert Cummings visits for an
8:30 p.m. show.
The Massachusetts native is not a
household name on
the West Coast, but
that doesn’t prevent
reviewers from around
the country heaping
high praise on him. His
short, 4-gig tour of the
West will include shows
in Point Arena and
Yoshi’s in Oakland.
Along with Warren
Grant on drums and
Karl Allweier on bass
Cummings plays a
variety of styles that has
allowed him to share the
bill with such players
as B.B. King, Johnny
Winter, and Buddy
Guy. It is said he makes
the guitar sound like a
shrieking clarinet, or a growling baritone
sax and his repertoire runs the gamut from
old-style blues to rockabilly to boogie and
rock ‘n’ roll.
After sharing a bill with drummer Chris
Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon (Stevie
Ray Vaughn’s rhythm section), they were so
impressed with Cummings that they agreed
to back him on his debut album, From the
Heart. He has since released 4 more albums.
His songwriting skills give voice to his
working class life as he has been primarily
a carpenter, building custom homes in New
England, but his style
of play and his early
association
with
Double Trouble will
always lead many to
suggest that he may
be the next Stevie
Ray.
The blues series will
again offer 5 shows
and the complete
line-up for 2015
will be announced
soon. All shows will
begin at 8:30 p.m.,
doors open at 8
p.m. Tickets are $20
for each show and
$100 for the series.
Series subscribers
will receive preferred
seating and a T-shirt. Tickets will be
available online at www.arenatheater.org or
through the underwriting businesses, The
Pier Chowder House and Tap Room and
Gualala Chevron. Contact Tracy DuPont at
882-3400.
Already confirmed is Tommy Castro on
February 21.
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On January 3, the Garcia
Grange will hold its Annual
All-You-Can-Eat crab buffet
from 3:00 – 8:00 p.m. The
fare will also feature shrimp
scampi, seafood chowder,
salad, and a vegetarian option. At the same time, there
will be a silent auction . Any
persons interested in making a donation to the auction
should contact the Grange.
There will also be a 50/50
raffle and a 52-card drawing for hunting and sporting
equipment. Tickets prices are
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WestAmerica Donates Building to Action Network
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Action Network Family Resource Center
has announced that WestAmerica Bank
has donated their Point Arena building
to the non-profit. Executive Director
Janet Kukulinsky stated that the staff and
volunteers are excited about the gift, yet
it will mean additional effort on their
part. Ownership of the building requires
stewardship of the structure that includes
maintenance and utilities.
Action Network moved into the building
in August of 2007 and in January 2011 they
requested that WestAmerica lower their
rent, which they did. This lower rent was
less than the bank was paying for the utilities
that were included in the rent. Thus, Action
Network’s monthly expense for the building
will increase as they take over responsibility
for the utilities. Undaunted by this prospect,
Director Kukulinsky is convinced that her
team, along with the whole community, will
meet this challenge.
Some time early this year, Action Network
will have an Open House at the former bank
building to invite the community at-large to
see the facility and to make suggestions that
can help them manage the building. The
staff envisions the potential for the space to
be opened up for a wider community use to
help shoulder the burdens that come with
ownership.
WestAmerica Facilities Manager, Audrey
King, first contacted Action Network in
August to make the offer of donation.
WestAmerica has no further need for the
facility and they wanted to give back to
the community that they once served, so
they decided to donate the building to a
non-profit. Naturally, Action Network, the
current tenant, was given first choice.
After performing their due diligence
along with their real estate consultant, Sean
Rousseau, The Action Network Board of
Directors voted on December 11 to accept
the offer. Northwest Title Company
handled the escrow.
The building will require some attention
soon as inspections revealed some damage
on the roof and painting will be needed
both inside and out. Help is already on
the way as Cottage Carpets of Gualala has
donated carpeting, though padding and
installation will still be required. Action
Network would also like to re-do the front
wall where the ATM machine was removed.
Kukulinsky stated that Action Network
welcomes any volunteer efforts that may be
offered to deal with the various issues.
Staffer Kim Ghezzi points out that
though the building is not used every
day, they are a number of activities that
take place there. There are playgroups on
Tuesday and Friday, a teen/youth coalition
meetings on Wednesdays, breast feeding
classes, parenting classes, pre-natal classes,
after school programs, and the very popular
Music Together classes on Tuesday during
that program (some slots still open for the
Point Arena classes- call for information).
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National Theatre Live from London
DV8 Physical Theatre presents
Saturday, January 10
doors 12:30 / show 1pm
$18 General Admission
$5 Youth Admission
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Blues on the Coast 2015 Presents
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& Band
“Building the Blues from the Ground Up”
Saturday, January 24
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$20 General Admission
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Producer Fred Adler likes jazz. He also likes
classical music. He also likes presenting new
music to local audiences. After becoming
introduced to violinist Emma Steele when
she performed at the Gualala Arts Chamber
Music Series in April of this year, he got an
idea. He thought about young jazz violin
player, Mads Trolling, who Fred booked
for the 2014 Whale and Jazz Festival and
decided
they might
make a very
i n te r e s t i n g
double bill.
The
result
will be a
performance
titled Violin
Vir tuososJazz
&
Classical on
S a t u r d ay,
January 31
at the Arts
Center
at
7:00 p.m.
Emma Steele
The artists
will perform separate sets of their music
each accompanied by an outstanding
pianist. Mr. Trolling has chosen Colin
Hogan to play the jazz set with him and Ian
Scarge will accompany Ms. Steele. She will
be traveling here from Denmark, where she
is one of the concertmasters of the Royal
Danish Opera Orchestra in Copenhagen,
especially for this event.
The violinists will end each of their sets
by inviting the other to join them for a final
piece.
The 24-year-old Steele is a fast-rising star
having already acquired numerous accolades
and soloed with orchestras in Chicago,
Seattle, Helsinki, and New York and has
been featured in a PBS documentary.
Texas born Ian Scarge studied at the SF
Conservatory of Music and has performed
as soloist around the world. Having
founded several musical organizations
while in the Bay Area, he moved to Trinity
County where he is co-founder and director
of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival.
Mads Trolling is an internationally
known violinist, violist and composer
and is a former member of the two-time
Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island
Quartet. Tolling’s Jazz Europa performed as
the Main Event artist at the 2014 Sonoma Mendocino Whale & Jazz Festival. He has
performed all over the U.S including the
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While the offer of the building took
them by surprise, Action Network looks
at every challenge as an opportunity- one
that hopefully will be of benefit to both area
youth and families as well as the community
as a whole.
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Bay Area’s Hogan was a member of the
world renowned Berkeley High School
Jazz Ensemble before moving to Cal State
Hayward to continue his piano study. Colin
is currently involved in many projects
including hip-hop/r+b group Dynamic,
local jazz/groove/experimental collective
the Jazz Mafia, international cafe music
group Trio Zincalo and jazz/funk/fusion
band The Hogan Bros. with brothers Steve
and Julian.
Tickets for the 7:00 p.m. show are $28
in advance and $5 more the day of the
show. They may be purchased in person at
the Arts Center or the Dolphin Gallery in
Gualala or at the website www.gualalaarts.
org. Youth 17 and under are admitted free
with an adult.
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Cypress String Quartet Visits Gualala Arts
Those who appreciate chamber music will
be pleased to know
that Gualala Arts
Center
Chamber
Music Series will
present a second
show in January
when the Cypress
String
Quartet
performs on Sunday,
January 18 at 4:00
p.m. The group was
founded in 1996
in San Francisco
and its current
members are Cecily
Ward, violin; Tom
Stone, violin; Ethan
Filner, viola; and
Jennifer
Kloetzel,
cello. The Cypress
was
Quartet-inResidence at San
Jose State University from 2003 to 2009.
Though the group spends a third of their
year touring the world, they have a particular
focus on encouraging contemporary
composers to create new works inspired
by traditional pieces. Cypress’ is on a
mission -- to build a “living repertory” by
commissioning new works, one per year,
generally, from composers it admires. They
do this by means of a “Call and Response”
program, in which the chosen composer
“responds” to the “call”
of composers from
the past. This year, for
example,
composer
George
Tsontakis
wrote his String Quartet
No. 6 to “respond” to
Schubert and Webern.
The
performance
premiered last March
at
the
Marines
Memorial Theatre in
San Francisco. This is
the fifteenth year of the
“Call and Response”
program.
The program
for the January 18
performance includes
Beethoven’s
String
Quartet in C minor,Op.
18 No. 4, Schulhoff ’s
Divertimento for String Quartet, Op. 14, and
A Antonin Dvorak’s String Quartet in E-flat,
Op 51 (B 92).
Tickets are $25 in advance, $5 more day
of show. Young people ages 7 through 17
admitted free with adult. Tickets can be
purchased at the Arts Center, The Dolphin
Gallery or at the website www.gualalaarts.
org.
NT Live Series Screens New Physical Theatre
The National Theatre Live series at Arena
Theater continues on Saturday, January 10
at 1:00 p.m. with a production by avantgarde dance company
DV8 Physical Theatre
entitled John. The group
was founded in 1986 by
Lloyd Newson. Newson
was dancing with Extempo
in London, but found
the scene too stifling.
Newson’s challenge to
the British mainstream
was born of a triple
alienation as gay, workingclass, and Australian. He
began to experiment with
choreography and created a
form of dance that has been
described as “‘the theatre
of blood and bruises’;
and, as his dancers throw
themselves from ladders
and ledges, through space and at each other,
they occupy the area where athleticism and
masochism meet.”
John is a new verbatim dance-theatre work
conceived and directed by Newson where
movement and spoken word combine to
create an intense, moving and poignant
theatrical experience. Newson interviewed
more than 50 men asking them frank
questions, initially about love and sex. One
of those men was
John and his story
formed the basis of
this performance.
Reviewer
Mark
Shenton calls the
piece
“a
piece
of total theatre
that is also equal
parts
biography,
documentary
and
movement”
and goes on to
call the show “the
extraordinary
integration
of
theatrical forms that
the show achieves is
quietly stunning.”
Though John is a
bit of a departure from National Theatre’s
typical fare, this is the 3rd production of
DV8 to be put up by the National Theatre
following Can We Talk About This? and To
Be Straight With You.
DV8 Physical Theatre has produced 18
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Albert Cummings
Saturday Jan. 24 8:30 PM
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Saturday February 21 8:30 PM
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Monday Jan. 19 8 PM
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JOHN
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Saturday Jan. 17 9:55 AM
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Saturday Jan. 31 9:55 AM
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Jan. 12 In A World
Jan. 26 Born Yesterday
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Bogas & McCarroll Concert at Gualala Arts January 4
Gualala’s favorite classical musician, Roy
Bogas, returns to Coleman Auditorium on
Sunday, January 4 for a 4:00 p.m. concert.
His performance last year included the
artistry of violinist David McCarroll.
David returns with Mr. Bogas for this year’s
concert. David is a one-time resident of the
Starcross Community in Annapolis and,
though his career has taken him around the
world, he is still involved in supporting their
work in helping AIDS orphans in Africa.
He began his study of violin at the age of
4 with Helen Pane Sloat in Santa Rosa and
by the age of 8 was studying at the Crowden
School of Music in Berkeley. When David
was 13, he received an invitation to join
the Yehudi Menuhin School outside
London where he studied with Simon
Fischer. David continued his studies with
Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried at
New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston and with Antje Weithaas in the
Konzertexamen program at the Hanns
Eisler Academy in Berlin. He has performed
as a soloist with many orchestras including
the London Mozart Players and the
Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra and
has appeared in halls throughout the U.K.,
Europe, South America, and, of course, the
U.S.
David plays a 1761 violin made by A & J
Gagliano.
Mr. Bogas reputation as well as his skill is
well known to South Coast chamber music
fans. In addition to his annual visits, he is the
founding director of the Gualala Summer
Festival of Music. He is in the sixth decade
of his world renown career having received
a special prize at the Queen Elisabeth of
Belgium International Competition in
1960 and in 1962 he was a prizewinner at
the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow,
making his New York and London debuts
the following year. In addition to recital
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The Met: Live in HD series continues
on January 17 with a new production of
Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow. Broadway
director and choreographer, Susan
Stroman, has created an art-nouveau setting
that climaxes with singing and dancing at
the legendary Maxim’s. Renee Fleming
stars as the beguiling femme fatale who
captivates all Paris in Lehar’s enchanting
operetta. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo
and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Andrew
Davis conducts.
The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary
international success since its 1905
premiere in Vienna and continues to be
frequently revived and recorded. Film and
other adaptations have also been made. The
operetta was first performed at the Theater
an der Wien in Vienna in 1905. Its English
adaptation by Basil Hood, with lyrics by
Adrian Ross, became a sensation in London
in 1907 and ran for an extraordinary 778
performances, followed by extensive British
tours. The first performance in Paris was
at the Théâtre Apollo on 28 April 1909.
Many international productions, as well as
revivals followed, as did sequels, spoofs and
film versions.
The storyline is rather like a Shakespearean
romantic comedy with its many intrigues
and confusion with all ending happily. The
opera includes several popular musical
pieces, most notably “The Merry Widow
Waltz”.
On January 31 The Tales of Hoffman (Les
contes d’Hoffmann) will be the next in The
Met: Live in HD series.
E. T. A. Hoffmann was a German
Romantic author of fantasy and horror
whose stories form the basis of Jacques
Offenbach’s famous opera, in which
Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as
the hero. In the story the Muse appears and
On Thursday, January 22 at 7:00 p.m., the 2015 Gualala Arts Lecture Series kicks off with Shirley
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and South Korea. She will provide ample visual illustrations of the various types of traditional
gardens found in both Asian countries. Admission is $5
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father worked closely with Walt Disney for
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spent a lot of time behind the scenes of
several favorite Disney classics. His parents
hosted dinners at their home with famed
characters such as Dick Van Dyke, Julie
Andrews and Peter Ustinov. Lester worked
at Disneyland as a teenager and was on
track to be a professional artist following
in his father’s footsteps, before the war in
Vietnam re-routed Lester’s path.
In 1951, Lester’s parents decided to sell
their beach house and move several blocks
back from the water to pay for their first
boat: a 32’ ketch, christened Stardust. A
second boat later replaced the Stardust:
a Cal 24 that Lester raced to Ensenada a
few times in his late
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and eventually in
Alamitos Bay, across
from their home in
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weekends sailing to
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the, now classic, Southern Californian 60’s
lifestyle.
While sailing has always been a passion
for Lester, boat maintenance has proved to
be a lifelong profession. He began repairing
boats at a young age: climbing up masts with
a block and tackle and a bucket, sanding,
varnishing and painting the boats of friends
and family members. Since those days,
Lester has spent much of his life perfecting
the art of watercraft restoration.
Throughout his childhood in Seal Beach,
Lester witnessed significant changes in his
surroundings. The experience of surfing
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1st period gym class so he could cut it to
go surfing. His initial attempt at higher
education was to attend Cal State Long
Beach, where the art program quickly
proved too regimented for Lester’s copious
artistic energy. Shortly thereafter, he
ound his place at The California Institute
of the Arts in Los Angeles, formerly The
Chouinard Institute where his parents had
both attended. Students were allowed to
paint on the walls and, in the sixties, shoes
were merely a suggestion. He grew to be a
bright and focused Fine Art student with
an A average. Had it been available at the
time, Lester would have double-majored in
Music. (His creative strata reach far into the
musical world, but that is another story.) He
reminisces about walking the same wooden
floors his parents had walked and learning
rom some of the same great art professors.
While a freshman at Cal Arts, he received
his draft notice. He wrote letters to
whomever it may have concerned, but was
unable to get a deferment for art school, so
he joined the National Guard. He spent the
next few years in the National Guard while
continuing to surf regularly and attend Cal
Arts. Then came Lester’s senior year. People
around him were being actively deployed to
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water. Despite cautionary surf/swim tactics,
his parents kept a bucket of turpentine at
the back door of the house to wipe the tar
off their bodies. During the early phases of
ts development, Lester recognized the risks
of the proposed dredging of Alamitos Bay.
He rose to the defense of the Pismo clams
and red crabs, but was no match against
the forces of industry. He sadly recalls
watching the broken clamshells come out
of the dredge pipe. And although the jetties
erased any hint of the waves that had been
there prior, the silt deposits from the dredge
made for good skim boarding on the beach.
On his 15th birthday, Lester’s dad
bought him his first new surfboard: a
9’6” Hobie, Phil Edwards model, priced
at $76. Growing up on Seal Beach in Los
Angeles in the 1950’s, Lester surfed with
the likes of Robert August and Billy Fury.
Throughout his teenage years, he surfed Salt
Creek, Poachy, Moonlight, San Clemente,
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Secos Beach, County Line, and Ventura.
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numerous stone structures that adorn the
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vealed that these are
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ruary
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On January 17 the masons will be returning to Fish Rock Rd. to build a viewing
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I am writing this in the aftermath of the
release of the Senate Report on torture.
Everyone is taking sides on the issue with the
torture advocates generally staunch in their
support of these “enhanced” techniques as
both useful and justified. Of course, the 400
plus page summary of the 6000 page report
compiled from over 6 million documents
says otherwise, but facts rarely get in the
way when people are tying to justify their
misdeeds. Have you noticed?
I don’t want to get into the discussion
as to whether the torture was justified
since it appears that it was not, even from
a tactical point of view. Instead, for the sake
of argument, let’s concede that torture is the
best way to get information out of someone.
The question then becomes why not use it
more often?
Consider for a moment a theoretical
situation in which a white guy from
Minnesota kidnaps a couple of kids and
chains them to a basement while he
executes his plan to acquire a ransom or
some other concession. He leaves the kids
to go out and get a pack of cigarettes, is
stopped by the police on a traffic stop, gets
identified as the kidnapper and arrested.
He refuses to tell the cops where the kids
are unless they let him go with a million
dollars and a small plane to fly him to Cuba
where he hopes to buy himself sanctuary.
He is showing complete indifference to the
life of the children and is perfectly happy to
see them die from dehydration if the cops
don’t co-operate (never mind that his plan
is stupid and probably wouldn’t work). If
torture works, why not torture this guy?
What about the serial killer who is caught
but refuses to say where the bodies are? You
can take it from here and think of plenty of
situations where torture would be useful to
law enforcement, given our assumption that
torture is a good interrogation method.
You can see what a slippery slope we
would be on once we justify the use of
torture. That is why the world condemns
torture and many who have been accused
of torturing have been put on trial either
in the Hague or in their own countries.
In other cases where torturers are not
prosecuted due to political considerations,
there can be truth commissions that at
least lay out the misdeeds for all to see and
acknowledge. There is a public admission
of wrong-doing. To me this is essentially
what is happening with this Senate report.
While Cheney, Rumsfeld and company
may not be tried for their crimes, we at least
need to acknowledge that they happened
and disavow their justifications. Future
American administrations may someday
again feel justified in torturing, but they
must know that they are not acting in
accordance with “who we are”, to quote
the only member of the Senate to ever be
tortured-- John McCain, one of the defense
establishment’s biggest supporters.
This leads me to consider the situation
at Guantánamo. If the U.S. government was
looking for a way to portray Americans as
hypocrites they found the perfect solution
in Guantánamo (along with various
outsourced torture chambers). For all the
high blown rhetoric about what a shining
example the United States is for the world,
we didn’t have any trouble resorting to the
policies of our worst enemies. Torture
enablers give the excuse that right after
9/11 we were afraid of another attack and
that our reaction was based on that. That
excuse might hold some weight except
that we were still torturing people more
than 6 years later in spite of there being no
recurring events.
Attorney Laura Pitter, national security
counsel of Human Rights Watch and
someone who has closely followed the
proceedings, believes, “It generates
enormous hostility around the world and
fuels anti-American propaganda”. President
Obama has declared “These techniques did
significant damage to America’s standing
in the world and made it harder to pursue
our interests with allies and partners.” Even
Pentagon cheerleader Lindsey Graham
admitted, “we made a mistake”. McCain
adds, “it’s about how we portray ourselves
to the world”.
Why would many in our government
want to create a gulag such as Gitmo? It can
only be out of a desire to look tough. And
to do things to suspects that would never
be allowed on U.S. soil. It also indicates a
considerable lack in the confidence of our
judicial system. After all, our federal courts
have prosecuted over 500 terrorism cases
since 9/11 and I have not heard of any of
these defendants escaping. In fact it seems
like a slap in the face of our criminal justice
system that they can’t be trusted to deal
with alleged terrorists, even though they
have considerable success with serial killers,
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Bolshoi Ballet’s Swan Lake Telecast January 25
The second of 3 telecasts from the Bolshoi
Ballet will screen at the Arena Theater on
Sunday, January 25 with Tchaikovsky’s
Swan Lake. Yuri Grigorovich is credited
with the libretto and choreography.
The most famous of all ballets was created
at the Bolshoi in
February 1877, since
then the Company
has
learned
to
perform at least 10
further versions of
Swan Lake.
Although
the
ballet is presented
in many different
versions, most ballet
companies today base
their stagings both
choreographically
and musically on the
revival by Marius
Petipa and Lev
Ivanov, staged for
the Imperial Ballet,
first presented from
15 of January to 27
January 1895, at the Imperial Mariinsky
Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia instead
of the original version. Riccardo Drigo’s
revision of Tchaikovsky’s score for the 1895
production was approved by Tchaikovsky
himself.
The recent partnering by the Arena Theater
with BY Experience is what is making these
telecasts possible. BY Experience is the
same company that provides The Met: Live
in HD programs.
The scenario, initially in 4 acts, was
fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells
the story of Odette, a princess turned into
a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse. Prince
Siegfried is set to choose a bride when
he encounters the beautiful swan on an
enchanted lake. The sorcerer attempts to
trick Siegfried into
marrying his own
daughter, but love
wins out and the swan
is turned back into a
human because of the
love of Siegfried.
When the Bolshoi
performed Swan Lake
in New York earlier
this year, critics did
not universally praise
the production, but
all agreed that the
orchestra and the
dancing itself were
superb. The telecast
will be broadcast live
from Moscow.
Having already shown
The Nutcracker, the
photo by A. Melanyin
Arena Theater will be
screening Romeo and Juliet as the final ballet
of the series. Each production will feature
behind-the-scenes programming, including
interviews with the cast and creative teams,
either prior to the start of the production, or
during intermission.
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On Thursday, January 15 at 7pm The
Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Improv
Reading Series at 215 Main in Point Arena
will feature Ojai California poet Tree Bernstein. The reading will begin with live
improv jazz and an open mic with jazz improv; the reading will conclude with more
live improve jazz.
Tree Bernstein teaches Creative Writing
at the Brooks Institute in California, and is
the Ventura area coordinator for California
Poets in the Schools (CPITS). Her advice
column, “Ask Ms. Metaphor” (MixedMetaphorPress.com) appears in the Ojai
Quarterly and online at AskMsMetaphor.
com. She produces a ongoing program for
the Literary Branch of the Ojai Art Center
the second Monday of the month. Recent
programs include: a 75 word short story
contest to celebrate the 75 anniversary of
the Art Center, “Ars Poetica,” an evening
of shared poetic insight, and “A Sense of
Place” where local novelists discussed location as a character in their work. Her
poem “Regarding Pigs” was published in
the anthology, Low Down and Coming On,
published Red Hen Press, © 2010.
Third Thursday Poetry is supported by
The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many
anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers,
Inc. through a grant it has received from
The James Irvine Foundation.
One day we must come to see that peace is
not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it
is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We
must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful
means.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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by Tree Bernstein
The deer had been dead for awhile
Its body full, eyes empty
The body wants its comfort
The body says yes, yet not enough
The body loves its opposite
Later, when flesh falls away,
When bones forecast the future
All that will remain is a stain that
Spills into the night, a map
Asking the body for the way home
Later, when the last love letter is sent
When you unbutton the blouse
Like a broken line on the hi-way
All at once the door opens and light
Spills into a whole new language
Later, when I get my boat
When I shake the sand from my shoes
Like a broken promise
All at once the sun comes out
Asking the darkness for direction
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work, he has performed as soloist with
virtually every orchestra in California as
well as numerous orchestras in this country
and the world. He is principal solo pianist
for San Francisco Ballet and founder of the
MasterGuild Series of chamber music at
Holy Names University in Oakland, where
he is also Professor of Music.
The program will consist of music from
Mozart, JS Bach, Prokofieff, and Ravel.
Full details and ticket information at www.
gualalaarts.org.
Arena Film Club Schedule for January
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lets the audience know that her purpose is
to draw Hoffmann’s attention to herself,
and to make him reject all other loves, so he
can be devoted fully to her: poetry. The 3
acts are each based on stories by the actual
Hoffmann and depict unrequited love. In
the epilogue the Muse reveals herself and
Hoffman embraces his love of poetry.
The French libretto was written by
Jules Barbier, based on the 3 short stories
by Hoffmann. Vittorio Grigolo sings the
tortured poet with all 3 heroines played
by Erin Morley. Thomas Hampson sings
the Four Villains, and Yves Abel conduct
Offenbach’s sparkling score.
The opera is sung in French with English
subtitles and the running time is 3 hrs 25
min with 2 intermissions. Individual tickets
for all the operas are $24 general, $22
seniors and youth (17 and under) $18. Call
the theater at 882-3272 to inquire about
tickets and subscription rates.
The man who insists upon seeing with
perfect clearness before he decides,
never decides. Accept life, and you must
accept regret.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The Arena Film Club continues to mix
it up with in January with a foreign film.
A modern comedy, and a classic, plus a
special free screening
on January 5 at 6:30
of a 20- minute film,
written and direced
by Gualala’s own
Savannah Power, titled
Monster. The film
centers around Casey,
“a young woman
who must come to
terms with feelings
of guilt and shame,
in order to open her
heart again and start
anew. A fugitive of her
own feelings, Casey’s
hunt for her innocence
mirrors the city’s hunt
for a killer in the wake
of the Boston Marathon
attack. “
Power is
currently a film student
SCUTTLEBUTT
at Emerson College in Bostom.
That same evening,January 5 The Shop
on Main Street; During the Nazi era there
was a “Aryanization”
of private property
belonging to Jews
and others in which
businesses were taken
from their owners
and given to “Aryan”
owners. This gem is
a superb relic from
the fluorescent era of
Czech cinema known
as Prague Spring.
Rotten Tomatoes has
a 94% “like”. Won
Academy Award for
Best Foreign Film 1965
In Czech with subtitles.
Monday January 12 In a World… A film
written, directed, produced, and starring
Lake Bell. It is a comedy about a voiceover artist and her struggle to make it in
the highly competitive and male world of
Hollywood voice-over work. Won Best
Screenplay at Sundance in 2013. R 93 min
Monday, January 26 Born Yesterday
A George Cukor comedy-drama of the
Pigmalion theme (think My Fair Lady)
starring Judy Holiday in an Oscar-winning
role oppose William Holden and Broderick
Crawford.
The story of Washington
corruption still resonates today. Accepted
to Library of Congress National Film
Archive. NR 103 min.
All Film Club movies start at 7:00 p.m.
The Cineaste membership level of the
Arena Theater ($85 per year) includes free
admission to Monday evening Film Club
events as well as discounts to regular movies
and many live events. Guests are welcome to
attend Film Club movies for a $10 (adult),
$5 (teen) admission.
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rapists, and other psychotics.
One of Barack’s early campaign promises was to close Guantánamo as a way of reestablishing our moral standing in the world. I suspect if Ronald Reagan was President and
wanted to bring terrorists to justice in U.S. courts, there would have been no big outcry, but
since the primary operating principle of the Republican party has been to oppose Obama
on any and every level, they had to thwart his effort to close Gitmo.
Since Obama has taken office, about 100 men have been released. 66 of the 136 men
in the detention facility in Cuba today have been cleared for release, most of whom have
been imprisoned for 13 years with no charges. Part of the problem is that it is difficult to
find countries willing to take the detainees, in part because they know it would infuriate
many members of the U.S. Congress. Also, most of the remaining detainees are from
Yemen where the political situation is so chaotic that it doesn’t seem like a good place
to send anyone, much less someone who is likely not very happy with the U.S. Uruguay
has recently accepted 6 prisoners and, interestingly, their current President himself was a
tortured prisoner for 14 years.
Almost completely absent from media coverage are the shenanigans taking place in
the so-called military tribunals. Uniformed lawyers have argued with civilian authorities
about charges being leveled. Detainees are being charged with crimes that are not listed
as war crimes (such as conspiracy) and military lawyers are concerned about our captured
soldiers being treated the same way. They claim that such charges may be appropriate, but
they belong in a civilian court, yet Congress has prevented any trial to take place in civilian
courts. Once again, it appears that our military is far more principled than our civilian
authorities.
Meanwhile, tucked away in a high-security prison on foreign soil the FBI has been caught
eavesdropping on a discussion among a detainee, the military prosecutor and defense
lawyers who were discussing a possible plea deal. Also, smoke detectors in attorney-client
conference rooms have been found to be listening devices (said to be planted by the CIA),
despite assurances from the military that rooms have been cleared of bugs. Furthermore,
members of the defense also say it takes weeks, if not months, to get information to their
clients under the system set up to deliver mail from the United States to the prisoners at
Guantánamo.
Although the Obama administration will continue efforts to close Gitmo, starting in
January it may get more difficult to close it after Republicans take full control of Congress.
The only bright spot for the prisoners is that John McCain is scheduled to become
Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Meanwhile, according to a Pentagon report,
you and I paid over $454 million in 2013 to house 136 prisoners. How is that for fiscal
responsibility?
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Vietnam, and thus began the story of Lester’s adult life. He checked in for duty and was
told to await deployment orders that were never delivered. His surfing and art schooling
continued uninterrupted until the feds intervened and transferred him to Fort Ord with
a shaved head and a uniform. Following a disconcerting interlude at the stockade in Fort
Ord, he was given special detention and employed as clerk typist. His personal slogan at
the time, “Dead Soldiers Can’t Kill Anymore,” didn’t win him any friends in the army, so
Lester decided to see what was happening in Canada.
After six months over the fence, he returned to his home state of California. Still
painting, Lester admits that he wasn’t surfing much during those years. “That was the
60’s. There was too much traveling across country and going to concerts. That was before
the Hell’s Angel’s started running it, back when it was about love and families.” All that
love came to a screeching halt late one night while Lester was hitchhiking in Eureka. A
car pulled over and Lester got in, only to discover too late that it was a police car. His
long hair and beard motivated them to crosscheck their lists and he was promptly arrested.
Charged with deserting the army, Lester was detained in the Presidio of San Francisco.
No phone, no letters, no art. He recounts the saga of being locked up in a small cell with
only cornflakes and water for sustenance. His parents didn’t know where he was for two
months. There were times when the prisoners would take the trash truck down to Fort
Point and Lester would see the whitewater crashing out from under the Golden Gate. The
sight of peeling waves will do wonders to strengthen the spirit of a surfer. In due course,
a family lawyer from Disney was able to get the desertion charges dropped and Lester
was freed; released from the army with an undesirable discharge and narrowly avoiding a
twenty-six year sentence behind bars.
In 1970 Lester moved to Santa Cruz. He started surfing The Lane and The Hook. That
is where he found his girl, a girl he deemed “not ruined by the American ethics,” and they
moved into a nice little house. He had much to reconcile, with the uneasiness of his time
spent in the stockade and his dedication to being a thriving artist. Frankly, he didn’t want
anything to do with any of it. The American dream had lost its appeal. In 1976, he and his
girl moved up to Northern California. They lived in a teepee. Lester continued to follow
his career in art and acknowledges that, at the time, he didn’t know how to properly pay
attention to a girlfriend. She traveled to Hawaii. He waited for her to return like a loyal
dog. Meanwhile, she married a surfer and got her doctorate. Lester was still waiting.
Lester moved to the Russian River. He worked as a street sweeper at night and he
painted all day. Gallery shows were successful. Sometimes he lived in his van, sometimes
in a house. His paintings followed his every move.
In the winter of 1980, Lester relocated to Point Arena. The convergence of surfers,
ranchers, artists, farmers and musicians in this remote, wild outpost of a town, combined
with the rugged scenery, gives Lester the time and space to be the artist and surfer that he
is.
Lester personifies the two parallel lives of surfing and painting. Both put him in the
moment where everything else falls away. In his words, “I get a great sense of energy when
I go surfing or when I paint. Something good happens. It doesn’t take anything away from
me like other things can. I can go all the way out painting and it still exhilarates me.” Both
equal independence to him, while simultaneously forcing him into surprising and untested
situations. In fact, it’s all about the surprises. When he’s painting, he has learned to accept
the surprises as evidence that he is making progress. He alludes to something Picasso
may have said, “There’s no use doing it if you already know how to do it.” A lifetime spent
painting and Lester still expects, and attains, something new with every piece.
Lester lives surrounded by his art. His studio is inundated with inspiration: newspaper
clippings, photographs, and the windows wide open to the colorful parade of life on Main
Street. He lives within walking distance of his home surf spot and within earshot of the
roaring waves breaking.
The proximity of nearly 1,700 acres of coastal public lands allows him to access the bluffs
with his easel and paints, day after day. He wants to share the landscapes as he sees them,
how beautiful they are, how clean they are. He wants to make the wild cliffs available to
people. Working primarily with oil on canvas, his painted landscapes are fluid and filled
with vitality, tending towards impressionistic. Showing his work has always taken a back
seat to the act of painting itself. Never the less, his shows are always a success. He often
sells his paintings to the town locals on payment plans, even accepting a bag of homegrown
onions for a down payment! That’s the way he likes to do it. He lives simply and fixes
surfboards to make ends meet. When asked when he first started fixing surfboards for a
living, he stops to think… and with a laugh…“When I got my first Hobie! Bang!”
Pg 14 Lighthouse Peddler, January 2015
Fantasia
The storm that I’ve been watching for a week
Plotted on the NOAA ocean surface maps
Is just now reaching us with rain and rising winds.
The first in several weeks, with more behind it,
Tight low pressure coils on the NOAA maps
Popping up in the Pacific off Japan
And moving eastward in an erratic arc
Like a troop of plastere d Disney hippos
Twirling tipsy counter-clockwise onto stage.
This one comes ashore in a gauzy mist
Like the hem of a tutu above big feet
That will blunder through the coastal forest
Uproot trees, knock the power out for days
Then shamble up and over the ridge
Before the next one twirls its way onshore.
Come on, ladies, let’s see you dance some more,
At least until the rivers fill and steelhea d spawn.
Dan Wormhoudt
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14- Vietnamese New Year
15- He sang about Alice
16- Planks
17- The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
18- River sediment
19- One who enjoys inflicting pain
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