
EXCLUSIVE
Summerland is getting a bookstore: it’ll be in the 1921 building currently home to Garde, where everything is currently 50 percent off.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Brutalism gone wild at the San Ysidro trailhead; a 2008 Mediterranean with a remnant of the old Arcady estate; one of the most darling houses in the Hedgerow; new farmhouse-style construction in Montecito; vacant lots with approved plans on the Riviera and in Hope Ranch; 1928 Lower Riviera bungalow; 71-acre equestrian compound in the Santa Ynez Valley; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• State Street Promenade extended for three more years.
••• Parklets off State Street get a reprieve.
••• Architect suggests a different promenade design.
••• Jeff Bridges bought in Hope Ranch.
••• Fergie sold her Santa Ynez Valley ranch.
••• Photos of last weekend’s Summer Solstice Celebration.
••• Eminent domain to be used for Goleta’s San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path project.
••• Gay pride flags stolen in Los Olivos.
••• The concert lineup at Ojai’s Libbey Bowl.
••• The tree of the month.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Pop-up dinner series at Brekkies by Pico’s original chef.
••• Stella Mare’s building would be difficult to tear down.
••• Porchetta sandwiches and cherry hand pies for July 4.
••• The tom yum fries at Na Na Thai.
••• High Seas Mead’s taproom gets the go-ahead.
••• Margerum’s new tasting room in Los Olivos.
••• Twenty-Four Blackbirds is growing its own cacao trees.
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Recent Comments
Great 🥝 🇳🇿 travel reportage Eric ! Love all your details as well as extensive photos ! — Mark
So wonderful to have this new shop there in the El Paseo. Hand crafted ceramics, plants both real and dried, art, books, candles, decorative glassware,… — Miguel
Sad to see McCormick House close up shop to sell off. I've taken a few wonderful art classes there over the years. It is such… — JD
It is absurd. — Laurie
Exactly! I have no words for anyone that could even think of approving such a design and In Buellton of all places. Ed St George… — Monica
Alessia Patisserie & Café, 134 E Canon Perdido Street, Entry mat — Tal
PS- the generated photo previously used was more hidious though — Christine!
If you read the city paperwork- they describe the current Pea Soup design as “art deco”. I don’t think what they think is our deco… — Christine!
Come again? — J
Actually- the Art Deco style they speak of.... is what the current building is described as. — Christine!