OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025 | 13 “As our audience has aged, we have to evaluate year to year if we stay at two weekends. Although, continued retirements have people who have had our festival on their bucket lists for a lifetime, are nally coming as rst-timers,” he said. “ e audience will determine, hopefully, a few more at two weekends, but it has been decided yes, two weekends in October 2026.” Plus, the festival may have an insurance policy … Good’s 26-year-old son, Austin. “Austin has become very invested in the festival the past couple years, now three years out of college,” Good said. “He’s a full-time account executive with Scenario Communications doing PR work and red carpets for lm festivals and other clients that company represents. “He does our videoing, and edits those from the past festival throughout the year into our e-blasts and social media. He does some of the photography when Pat Benter isn’t there. Since he mostly works remotely in his professional career, unless on assignment, he spends two full weeks now on the island encompassing the entire event,” Good said. At the end of their stay, before they pack up and leave the island, father and son will celebrate the conclusion of another festival with a golf outing at the Catalina Island Golf Course. “It’s a tradition,” Good said. “Jack, my head of security, Austin and I play a round of golf on the same course that Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hughes used to golf together there back in the day. “But, I’m also hoping to get in the festival’s Jeep Gladiator and drive up the island to the isthmus, Two Harbors, to spend a night at the B&B up there and drink an evening away at the Harbor Reef bar watching, hopefully, the Padres beating the Dodgers in the baseball playo s.” Good recommends that his festivalgoers splurge, at least once, and arrive on the island a day or two before the rst festival weekend and stay through the second weekend, so they can enjoy more of what company represents. “He does our videoing, our videoing, and edits those from the past festival past festival throughout the into our e-blasts and social media. He photography when Pat Benter isn’t Benter isn’t there. isn’t there. Since mostly works remotely his professional he spends two weeks now on continued on page 14 Photo: ALEX BROWN Photo: PAT BENTER Photo: COREY REESE Vincent Ingala Norman Brown Art Good and Tracy Larsen, JazzTrax box o ce ticketing manager, dancing at the after-party BPM: Brian Bromberg, Paul Brown and Michael Paulo Photo: Bobby Quillard
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