FOOD STUFF
••• First look inside Rare Society, the Funk Zone steakhouse opening this week.
••• More on the all-day restaurant opening at Anacapa and Ortega.
••• Food hall coming to San Roque.
••• The new breakfast and lunch menu at the Dutchess in Ojai.
••• Artist Michael E. Long’s recently completed diorama of the Blue Owl.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Renovated and ready to be flipped in Hope Ranch; a Cielito house with a rock-and-roll room; Mediterranean off Las Alturas; Hope Ranch Annex house with a large guest house; a flip opportunity in Upper San Roque; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A new jewelry boutique on State Street (above).
••• Rêver Atelier has moved.
••• Rad Power Bikes’s showroom will be in the Funk Zone.
••• Q&A with Bull Durham creator Ron Shelton at Chaucer’s Books.
••• Santa Ynez General pop-up in Montecito.
••• $4.5 million price cut for 32-acre oceanfront property.
••• New book of D.J. Javier’s tray artworks.
••• Amusing Montecito Union School misspelling.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• A push to remove the southbound 101 onramp at San Ysidro Road.
••• New dates for the construction of three roundabouts.
••• A block of Anacapa will become two-way starting this fall.
••• Possible new uses for the Earl Warren Showgrounds.
••• Pelicans determined to be starving.
••• No charges in Santa Barbara High School prank.
••• Groundwater fee in Carpinteria.
••• Dreary design proposed for W. Montecito Street hotel.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Congratulations to Karl for identifying where this was shot. We’ll play again Saturday morning.
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