••• Tickets are on sale for AIA Santa Barbara’s ArchitecTours on October 4. This year’s selections includes five houses (including the Fernald Point one by DesignARC, above), an office, the Hotel Santa Barbara, and Ospi restaurant.
••• Carpinteria’s Heritage Goods & Supply is opening in Cassandria Blackmore’s former space at 1275 Coast Village Road.
••• From the city: “Construction for the Milpas Street at U.S. Highway 101 Operational Improvements Project is scheduled to start mid-September and is anticipated to be completed early 2026.”
••• UCSB’s Naked Shakes theater troupe is back at Elings Park September 11-14 with a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
••• A gallery called Separate Reality is joining the lineup of businesses at 111 Santa Barbara Street in the Funk Zone. Its debut show is The Shifting Point, “a retrospective of California artist David Florimbi’s paintings. Spanning over four decades of work, this exhibition highlights Florimbi’s dreamlike, archetypal imagery that explores the intersections of body, myth, and landscape. His paintings, often described as both sacred and uncanny, draw from Jungian archetypes and European art traditions while remaining strikingly contemporary.”
••• Hershey Felder returns to the Ensemble Theatre Company from April 30 through May 10 for a one-man show about Frédéric Chopin. Which reminds me I should rewatch Impromptu (1991), with a cast for the ages—Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Julian Sands, Bernadette Peters, Emma Thompson, Mandy Patinkin….
••• The Goleta Lemon Festival is September 27 and 28, with “over 80 booths packed with local crafts, nonprofits, lemony food, drink, and souvenirs.”
••• Drew and Ellie Holcomb play the Lobero Theatre on April 21.
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