••• Old Town Goleta gets in on the vintage/resale wave with Plunder Thrift, a new shop at 5733 Hollister Avenue that promises “remarkable secondhand, radical prices, and DGAF Mom Energy.”
••• I had an enjoyable coffee with two of the founders of Student Bees, the new company that allows you to hire UCSB students for odd jobs. They mentioned that quite a few people have engaged them for help with deploying sandbags, which I thought others might find useful as we head into the rainy season. Also, the website mentions a two-hour minimum, but I believe that’s no longer in effect.
••• Santa Barbara has a new semi-pro hockey team—make that “a full-contact, travel men’s Senior A hockey team”—called the Santa Barbara Islanders. Home games are at Ice in Paradise, as you might expect.
••• Opening October 30 at Sullivan Goss: Beyond the Veil, abstract paintings by Maria Rendón. Below: “Of Pollen.”
••• Consider this your annual reminder not to use fake spider webs for exterior Halloween decorations—birds and other animals can get trapped in it.
••• News from Cuyama: “Blue Sky Center is pleased to announce the official reopening of its historic L88 Airstrip following extensive repairs and infrastructure improvements necessitated by the devastating 2025 Madre and Gifford wildfires. Located on Blue Sky Center’s 267-acre campus in the Cuyama Valley, nestled within Santa Barbara County’s high desert backcountry, L88 is operated by the nonprofit’s team and serves as vital emergency-response infrastructure and an aviation gateway to the region.”
••• I have reason to hope that Siteline’s email newsletter sign-up is now hitch-free, so if you’ve had trouble, please give it another go. And if you don’t receive a confirmation email (with link you’ll need to click), please let me know at [email protected]. Or if you’d like me to add you manually, I can do that, too.
••• Climate change really is messing with bird migration.
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