west side stories...

freebie society rag Montecito Journal tackles gang problems while the News-Press is still trying to get their stories straight... Maria: My brother is a silly watchdog! Bernardo: Ah, my sister is a precious jewel! Anita: What am I, cut glass? Wow! Our South Coast gang problem has even caught the attention of moneyed Montecito. Beginning next month, the Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre -- with a cast including Christopher Lloyd, Billy Baldwin and Andrew Firestone -- will stage "West Side Story" at the Lobero. According to the Montecito Journal, there will be 30 young actors, singers and dancers, ages 10 through 15, in the production. Wonder if any of them will be gang members? and why isn't Jeff Bridges involved??

those are important questions Anita...and honestly I don't know the answers...or where Jeff Bridges is hiding...but I doubt you'll see any real Mexicans rubbing up against the privleged white girls of Montecito! I mean seriously, look at these folks..the kids are cute enough, but braces on their teeth?? the poor little girl will have dental problems all her life because her parents forced her into orthodontics... it's child abuse as far as I'm concerned!! there is no need to wire your mouths for 3 years so your mom and dad will like your smile....the psychological issue here is mommy and daddy don't accept you the way you are...so they brand you with braces!! and honey, you're gonna pay for it later in life...The Girls: [singing] I like to be in America, OK by me in America, everything free in America..

ok so where was I? oh, a production of West Side Story will be at the Lobero starring some kids from Laguna Blanca, Christopher Lloyd of Taxi and Back to the Future fame, a Baldwin brother and Andrew Firestone...Andrew Firestone? Christopher Lloyd has a young hot Montecito realtor girlfriend and I think she sold him the house that burned down in the Tea Fire..but you gotta roll with the punches so I guess he's ok...the Baldwin dude..whatever... and Andrew Firestone.."I think he can act" says the producer Janet Adderly... she thinks he can act?? Andrew Firestone is a daddy's boy afraid to leave the nest..a product of Brooks Firestone's non-work ethic..a spoiled brat who will inherit his daddy's money..

remember daddy's legacy: From 1999 to 2007, the Santa Barbara Air Pollution Control District inspected Greka facilities 855 times and issued 298 violations. During that period, 203 Greka spills threatened or polluted state waters 20 times, according to Fish and Game.. "Right now I can't think of anybody that is worse than Greka," said Steve Edinger, assistant chief of Fish and Game. "They are the biggest inland oil pollution problem we are dealing with across California. Nobody has our attention like Greka does." Authorities say Greka employees have been spotted covering up oil contamination with fresh dirt and were once caught plugging a corroded storage tank with a tree branch -- accusations the company rejects. The district attorney cited Greka for 104 violations in 2004 after employees were allegedly caught trying to tamper with old pollution-belching engines. Greka settled with the county for $675,000. DeVegvar has said the number of incidents is not out of line with those of other producers when looked at on a per-well basis. But the EPA's Wise said that is true only if Greka wells that aren't in use are counted, too. Greka has spent tens of millions of dollars in upgrades, deVegvar said. The company recently said it was tightening security, and in January announced an environmental initiative dubbed Greka Green. But just a day later, it was hit with an 8,400-gallon spill.

Brooks Firestone, whose family leases land to Greka, was one of two members of the county Board of Supervisors who blocked an emergency hearing on Greka in December. He said the staff needed more time to prepare, and warned board members not to become hysterical "To me, a huge event involving oil was the Kuwaiti oil fields that were fired by the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, the 1969 oil spill in the channel, the Valdez tanker and the Normandy tanker," Firestone said at the time. "What is the meaning of this incident?" Days later, on Jan. 5, Greka spilled more than 190,000 gallons of oil and contaminated water on the land it leases from the Firestone estate. Since that spill, Firestone has withdrawn from deciding matters related to Greka. Firestone, an heir to the tire fortune, said it would be too difficult to calculate how much income he receives from Greka. On political disclosure forms, he said he owns only 9 percent of the vineyard land on which the Greka installation sits. Officials have to own at least 10 percent of a business to disclose income from it.. A former county supervisor and Firestone friend, Mike Stoker, has served as a Greka spokesman and said he was hired last year as a consultant to improve the company's relationship with local regulators and help Greka become a "better corporate citizen." He would not say what Greka pays him. Stoker is also the $60,720-a-year district representative for state Sen. Tom McClintock..

so the Lobero is going to host this travesty! West Side Story...using these horrible excuses for human beings, these people with tons of illegitimate money.. to exploit the gang situation, to make fun of Mexicans, so little white girls can wear braces on their teeth, have better smiles and live the high life in Montecito while their parents drink martinis at the country clubs....wake up kids!! there's a gang injunction downtown, so there may be some trouble at the Lobero on opening night... are your mommy and daddy gonna protect you??....here come the Jets, like a bat out of hell - someone gets in our way, someone don't feel so well...