FOOD STUFF
••• Taqueria La Unica has finally opened (above).
••• Dang Burger to take up residence in Carp.
••• The Three Pickles shop on Chapala Street is open.
••• Taste of Santa Barbara is in May.
••• Rincon Brewery’s Funk Zone outpost has reopened with a full kitchen.
••• Brass Bear Uptown has started serving weekend brunch.
••• An update on Na Na Thai in Buellton.
••• More thoughts on Satellite’s forthcoming satellite location.
••• The Daisy has expanded dinner service.
••• Self-checkout at Bristol Farms.
••• The recipe for Bettina’s passion fruit pavlova.
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JUST LISTED
Will someone pay $4 million to live in San Roque? Noteworthy new listings also include a 1990s four-bedroom just off Butterfly Beach; sweetness with potential in Arcady Estates; an Upper East bargain; and the former model home for Carpinteria’s Lagunitas community.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A new chapter for the Sacred Space in Summerland (above).
••• No nonstop flights between Santa Barbara and Chicago this summer.
••• Update on the Santa Ynez Valley zipline park.
••• Goop rumored to be expanding in Montecito.
••• Office building/chapel on Chapala sells.
••• Story poles are up for the 250-room hotel in the Funk Zone.
••• Robert Cray Band to play the Lobero.
••• Answer to last week’s “Where in Santa Barbara…?”
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Oprah Winfrey’s creek construction makes downstream neighbors nervous (photo courtesy the Montecito Association).
••• Santa Barbara County tightened the eviction code.
••• Planning Commission waffles on 101 Garden Street hotel.
••• Update on the county’s ambulance services contract.
••• Library plaza should be done by October.
••• Elings Park improvements.
••• Opposition to fish farms in the Santa Barbara Channel.
••• 72-room hotel in Carpinteria moves forward.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted. — Dan Kolodziejski
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