FOOD STUFF
••• First look inside Gracie, now open at the harbor (above).
••• A new hotel bar downtown.
••• Could Sweetgreen be coming to Goleta?
••• Triangular burgers at Revolver.
••• Food changes at M. Special’s State Street taproom.
••• Corazón Comedor closed for upgrades.
••• Ghirardelli got slapped with a stop-work order.
••• Rudy’s in Carpinteria recovering from a kitchen fire.
••• Dumpling pop-up and Secret Bao’s dim sum brunch.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: An old-school bungalow on Miramar Beach; Christopher Lloyd’s house on W. Mountain Drive; the flip (or floops?) of Meg Ryan’s last renovation; sweet hundred-year-old Hedgerow-ish property; 1970s style on the back of the Riviera; Lower Riviera fixer; Eastside cutie; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Vandenberg Space Force Base on track to double SpaceX launches.
••• The relaxation of federal environmental reviews of the commercial space industry.
••• SpaceX may never have to pay federal income taxes.
••• Repairs to Isla Vista beach stairs.
••• Update on Goleta road extension.
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