Plus: The new owner of the Quality Inn; clarity on Pacaso’s guest policy; Flume to play the Santa Barbara Bowl; John Cleese at the Granada; “Tick, Tick… Boom!” this weekend; weekly dance parties; zebras for sale.
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Last week’s sales also include a two-acre vacant lot in Hope Ranch; three-bedroom on half an acre on Alameda Padre Serra; a 1950 house with a tricky floor plan on Eucalyptus Hill; and more.
More food news: XO’s world-class breakfast sandwich; opening forecast for Augie’s restaurant and tequila bar; Santa Ynez Valley chefs and winemakers band together for a Ukraine benefit dinner; new chef at the Mar Monte Hotel’s restaurants; Santa Barbara food startup raises $5.6 million; Hot Rich Lady in a jar.
Plus: Hotel coming to the vacant lot next to Santa Cruz Market; hotel rates are now 50 percent higher than three years ago; Pacaso opposition on the Riviera; the old Victor the Florist storefront is for lease; Kismet’s annex is open in Montecito’s Upper Village; discounted membership for the forthcoming CycleBar.
Other recent news: Who will donate the last $50,000 for the Plaza Del Mar bandshell?; Santa Barbara Airport, Amtrak, and city buses drop mask requirement; the Montecito Journal’s new spinoff magazine; Carpinteria Skate Park moves forward; FAA revokes license of asinine YouTube pilot; drama at the Montecito Sanitary District; Goleta motel to become permanent housing for the homeless.
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Noteworthy new listings also include Sand Point Road oceanfront for $23 million; a 1923 house in the Upper East; neighbors on the back of Eucalyptus Hill; Mission Canyon midcentury; a throwback in the Golden Quadrangle; and more.
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Plus: Cat Power is playing the Lobero; the latest Jeff Bezos rumor; a new mobile dance class in Santa Barbara; Letter Perfect found its next home (and a new name); where Home Crush is opening in Summerland; “The Little Book of Montecito Writers.”
Burning Questions
- What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
- When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
- What’s This Scaffold Structure on Las Positas Road?
- Why Does Street Striping Take So Long to Happen?
- Why Do Rocket Launches Look the Way They Do?
- How Is the San Ysidro Debris Basin Designed to Work?
- What’s This Building on Helena Avenue?
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