••• The Arts District is getting a stylish new womenswear boutique: (In)Larkin (above), which already has a shop in Los Olivos, is opening in the former Starbucks at the corner of State and Victoria. “We’ve taken the best of three worlds—activewear, athleisure, and high fashion—and reimagined them into a space we call athglamour [….] (In)Larkin is your answer to looking effortlessly chic while feeling incredibly comfortable. Think sleek tailoring meets luxurious fabrics.”
••• Womenswear brand Margaret O’Leary, which has 13 stores across the western U.S., is coming to Whistle Club’s former space at 1235 Coast Village Road. We can expect “timeless classics and seasonal must-haves, as well as a curated assortment of designer goods from around the world.”
••• The Music Academy of the West announced that its forthcoming music education center at 901 State Street (Canon Perdido) is being called The Muse. This Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., “Team members will be on hand to share architectural renderings, answer questions, and offer meaningful ways to be part of this exciting new chapter.”
••• From R.: “There’s a huge amount of roadwork on Cliff Drive from the roundabout near Hendry’s all the way to City College. The crews look to be installing large blue piping in the middle of the street. It has been going on for months and Cliff Drive is a mess now—steel plates, uneven road surface, detours, etc. We were wondering what the heck is going on and when will it end!” Cliff Drive is in the middle of a big transformation—well, middle might not be the right word, since construction is expected to go on for several more years. The blue pipe is the water main replacement, which has to happen before everything else (14 new crosswalks, four new traffic signals, wider sidewalks, and much more). There’s more info here (including more renderings), or if you’d rather read an article, head over to Noozhawk.
••• Interpol plays the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 14.
••• I guess I haven’t walked State Street in a while, because I had no idea that Calma Pilates opened at 1331 State (Victoria/Sola).
••• Raoul Textiles is having a factory sale on May 9 (from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at 110 Los Aguajes Avenue.
••• Opening May 9 at Separate Reality: Geo Logic, a solo exhibition of sculpture by Kendall Conrad. “The exhibition presents new work in wood, clay, and bronze exploring geological structure and material surface through a restrained sculptural vocabulary.”
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The renderings of Cliff Drive ‘after’ are misleading as the telephone/utility poles disappear. It is my understanding that the poles are NOT going to be put underground on the East Mesa (unlike West Mesa) because it us ‘too expensive. ‘ what happens to the funds from SCE that have been collecting all these years? And was the amount ($200k per annum) ever indexed for inflation? Mike Jordan doesn’t care because he lives in West Mesa. A fire hazard in addition to being a huge eyesore.
The roads are horrible all over the city. I live on the Mesa and it is a joke. De La Vina is pothole breeding ground. What are we doing?
Of the 17 views available on SB website – there are exactly 3 pedestrians, and 1 cyclist in total across all images. Is it really wise to make through traffic more difficult, spend millions of dollars, complicate further maintenance, and lose parking for this amount of foot traffic? I understand $27m is a grant and $6.8m is SB city money, but that’s still $34m of tax payer funds that could be used elsewhere. A water main repair is fully warranted, but why not work to repave some of our deteriorating streets elsewhere?
I watched the city council meeting on Tuesday and the same Jessica Grant, Transportation Planner with the city presented a plan for the Castillo street 101 underpass. It’s unbelievable that the new design is for ONE LANE going northbound from Montecito street. Anyone that lives or works in the are knows the area is already impacted by traffic at all hours of the day. One lane for everyone coming from the Mesa and SBCC, one lane for traffic coming from the harbor, one lane from West Beach. . . all converging into one lane going north under the 101.