••• Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County‘s ReStore is coming back, this time to the former Habitat space at 400 State Street (at Gutierrez). Look for it to be ready this summer. The store will “collect community donations of gently used furniture and home décor, along with usable building materials and fixtures. These items, along with a small number of thoughtfully curated new items, will be sold to the public; the proceeds will support Habitat Santa Barbara’s local affordable housing efforts.”
••• Two pieces of news from the Montecito Country Mart: La Ligne (“clothes you can eat, sleep, drink and dance in,” as modeled by Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer, below) will be taking over the Malia Mills space, possibly as soon as April. And the I ❤︎ Montecito in-house exhibit has opened next to Alma Fonda Fina. From the release:
Montecito’s particular landscape—our mountains close to the sea, our foothills and seductive beaches—have drawn people here for generations to live out their idea of the California dream. On these walls, we have collected stories that describe some of these dreamers and the legacies they’ve left behind: from textile designers to silent film studios to surfboard shapers to architects to farmers and sign-carvers, this is a place of aching natural beauty, sophistication, and cultural richness.
••• Four more Santa Barbara Bowl shows have been announced: The Black Keys on June 13; Young the Giant and Cold War Kids on July 18; Earth, Wind & Fire on September 18; and Freya Skye on September 19.
••• J. noticed that the Best Western Plus Pepper Tree Inn on upper State Street appears to be getting reflagged as Found Hotels, Santa Barbara, Series by Marriott. It’s weird how hotel companies have so many brands these days. (Marriott alone has over 30.) The conventional wisdom is that it helps them attract more types of travelers, but does it? When the brands are totally meaningless?
••• The answers to the Where in Santa Barbara…? roundup of restaurant restrooms have been posted.
••• Two exhibits open at Sullivan Goss this Friday: landscapes by tonalist painter Sarah Vedder and “thirteen exceptional works of art made between 1938 and 1991 by Sidney Gordin (1918-1996).”
••• The city of Goleta says that the two roundabouts at Highway 217 and Hollister Avenue, part of Project Connect, should open by the morning of March 2.
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I cannot imagine a worse location for a Re-Store. No parking. Overtly difficult access via one-way streets and a steady stream of tourists and homeless passing by on their way to the beach or the bar. They’re a store that resells home construction items like doors, windows, furniture, cabinets and misc hardware to local contractors and DIY’rs. WTF were they thinking?