FOOD STUFF
••• First impressions of Broad Street Oyster Co. (above).
••• Why doesn’t the entire State Street Promenade have bollards?
••• Opening date for Rory’s Place in Ojai.
••• A new liquor license is pending for a State Street dive.
••• Who benefited from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund.
••• The quest for Diamond Crystal kosher salt.
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JUST LISTED
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi are going for a $13.9 million flip. Other noteworthy new listings: a stone-clad bungalow from the 1920s; prominent Padaro Lane pocket for $29.5 million; high style in Hope Ranch; 8,493-square-footer on Eucalyptus Hill’s golden slope; oceanfront flip on Sea Ledge Lane; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Likely moving date for the Saturday farmers’ market.
••• Inside Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Montecito house.
••• Biltmore employees file class-action lawsuit against owner Ty Warner.
••• The Santa Barbara Police Department is having trouble hiring people.
••• School board member Laura Capps running for the county Board of Supervisors.
••• Committee to work on the Mission Canyon Bridge project.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• “Highly curated lifestyle boutique” to open on Coast Village Road.
••• Advance tickets for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s big Van Gogh show are now on sale.
••• Planet Fitness is opening a 21,000-square-foot gym in Goleta.
••• Lindsey Buckingham to play the Lobero Theatre.
••• Another Cottage Health clinic is in the works.
••• A fireplace store is closing (and having a sale).
••• New award for Santa Barbara County poets.
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