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Save the Date! Bloom Market Hosted by Jake & Jones on Saturday, May 7th

Local boutique Jake & Jones is hosting Bloom Market featuring 40 vendors from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles and beyond on Saturday, May 7, at El Presidio de Santa Barbara. We can’t wait to see you there!

An Axe-Throwing Club Is Opening on State Street

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.

A New Chapter for an 1825 Adobe Downtown

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.

Low Pigeon’s Last Day Is Friday

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.

Makeover Proposed for the Former Nordstrom Building

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.

Montecito Homeowners Fight Effort to Reclaim Hot Springs Trailhead Parking

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.

Something Completely Different in the Santa Ynez Valley

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.

Where in Santa Barbara…?

Know where this was shot? Prove it in the comments. (Update: We have a winner!)