GET OUT OF TOWN
There are nicer beach towns on the California coast than Pismo Beach, but they’re surely less fun to explore. Pismo has a Bakersfield-by-the-sea energy all its own.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Toro Canyon Mediterranean for $10.25 million; 1990s Tuscan in Hope Ranch; a couple of Birnam Wood spiffer-uppers; Bel Air Knolls spec reno for $3.9 million; 1940s San Roque; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• How to pronounce “syuxtun.”
••• The ever-broken escalators at Santa Barbara Airport.
••• Crosswalks at the intersection of N. Jameson and the Sheffield underpass.
••• Livecasts of theater and opera.
••• Fundraising for a dedicated mountain biking trail.
••• No Time For Love at Separate Reality (above).
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