COMING ATTRACTIONS
A top L.A. pizzeria is opening in Santa Barbara: L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele—known by many from its appearance in Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love”—expects to debut on State Street in May.
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HOT PROPERTY
What sold last week—and for how much: a flip for the record books; a quaint oceanfront house flipped for a nice profit; big Mediterranean on Eucalyptus Hill; the property after which Olive Mill Road was named; and many more.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Another wine bar is coming to the Funk Zone.
••• The extremely short menu at Shalhoob’s Public Market outpost.
••• Finch & Fork has closed for renovation.
••• The awful design of Chick-fil-A’s proposed Goleta restaurant.
••• Peeking inside the Cliff Room and the old 805 Hazy & Deli spaces.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A big foreclosure in Hope Ranch.
••• Acme Hospitality’s new Palm Springs hotel is taking reservations (above).
••• Homelessness is up 3.4% in Santa Barbara County.
••• Lyle Lovett, Chris Isaak, and Jackson Browne to play the Bowl.
••• Four potential city redistricting maps.
••• “What Is America?” at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery.
••• What’s up with the Montecito Journal’s sister publications?
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