••• The Eos Fitness chain has leased the former 24 Hour Fitness space at 820 State Street (De la Guerra/Canon Perdido). It’s 37,313 square feet, over three floors. The website lists the opening date as sometime in 2027.
••• The tennis/pickleball court at Manning Park has opened, reports the Montecito Association. “The court is currently available on a first-come, first-served basis [and] one final improvement is still on the way: installation of the windscreen on the surrounding fence.”
••• According to the city Planning Commission’s March 19 agenda, a plan is afoot to turn the ground floor and roof at 25 E. Mason Street (formerly Sonos’s headquarters) in the Funk Zone into a Wedgewood Weddings event venue.
••• News to me: The revamp of Dwight Murphy Field includes “a pedestrian entry archway between the North Parking Lot and the multi-use field” that will have a sign calling it the Ty Warner Sports Complex. Warner donated $5 million to the renovation.
••• Brandi Carlile plays the Santa Barbara Bowl on September 20.
••• National swimwear brand Everything But Water has opened at 1253 Coast Village Road. Does mixing fonts in a logo ever work?
••• Milan-based Eleventy, which makes apparel for women and men, has opened at The Post.
••• Actor/singer John C. Reilly brings his Mister Romantic show to the Lobero Theatre on June 7.
••• My parents live in Indio, at the eastern end of the Coachella Valley, so I spend a fair amount of time there. And the downtown area, which had been depressed for as long as I’ve known it, has suddenly turned very interesting—it has just started getting cleaned up and gentrified (not necessarily a bad word in my book, at least when it refers to moribund commercial zones), with fun independent businesses like The Place and Saguaro Coffee. (Parker Wallace, owner of the latter, went to UCSB.) Moreover, chef Gabriel Woo of the valley’s best restaurant, Bar Cecil in Palm Springs, is opening an Italian restaurant called Donna Forte there in coming months. If you’re in that area, go for a stroll….
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Rincon Brewery‘s Funk Zone outpost is closing after tonight. The rumor is that South Coast Deli will take over the space. But I won’t mention the actual address because my head is clean up my small intestine.
Google it, babe.
Indio…. finally feeling the trickle-down effect of Coachella, Stagecoach and other events. It’s otherwise one of those places where they pull up the sidewalks at 6pm.