FOOD STUFF
••• The San Ysidro Ranch has a new restaurant (above).
••• Expanded summer hours at the Tuesday farmers’ market (and a trick for opening plastic bags).
••• More on Augie’s tequila bar, opening downtown.
••• What’s new at the “biggest little farm.”
••• Wylde Works now has a parklet on State Street.
••• Low Pigeon mugs.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: A sexy, contemporary left turn by Jeff Shelton; midcentury architecture on the Riviera; that ostentatious mansion below McMenemy Trail; a 1933 house on Picacho Lane; a grande dame in the Upper East; and many more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Another leaking oil well on Summerland Beach is getting capped.
••• Checking out the new Montecito Mercantile shop (above).
••• The Wallflowers to play the Lobero.
••• $5 million price cut.
••• The Seaside Makers shop in Paseo Nuevo is open.
••• Winner of last week’s “Where in Santa Barbara…?”
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Should these old hangars be preserved?
••• Inflatable elephant spotted around town.
••• Montecito Club’s fight for as-built approval.
••• Water supplies and the drought situation.
••• Rapid Covid testing for travel and events.
••• Circus Vargas opens this week.
••• Improvements to a Hope Ranch pedestrian bridge.
••• New boat hotels in the Ventura harbor.
••• Ojai home store.
••• Solvang has been called an “adult Disneyland.”
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Congratulations to Tom Stanley for correctly identifying where this photo was shot.
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