HOT PROPERTY
It was another $100 million week for local real estate—and that’s not even including sales under $3 million. Notable properties to change hands include houses on Butterfly Beach and Sand Point Road for $31 million and $23 million, respectively; one of Birnam Wood’s best; a neat mini-compound near the Natural History Museum; and a Crocker Row grande dame in the Upper East. See what sold and for how much.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Mercury Lounge will close at the end of the month.
••• Magic Castle Cabaret is closing.
••• Ojai gelateria hopes to open next week.
••• Opening date for Solvang’s Vaquero Bar.
••• Another home baker to keep in mind (above).
••• A profile/review of Little Dom’s Seafood.
••• Industrial Eats’s new sister restaurant in Lompoc.
••• Clos Pepe Vineyards is for sale.
••• Pico’s one-bedroom vacation rental.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Vaccinations will soon open to people age 50 and up.
••• Instrumental Music is closing after 25 years (above).
••• Santa Barbara city council approves Sola Street bike path.
••• One city councilmember says he’ll help try to oust another.
••• Ventura County Fair canceled again.
••• Gwyneth Paltrow’s Montecito renovation.
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JUST LISTED
Notable new listings: A fabulous little compound in the Hedgerow, midcentury lines on Alston Road, 1917 hacienda by Frances T. Underhill, another Wellington Avenue cottage, and a triplex on Anacapa, just up from Crushcakes.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• New Biltmore rumor: it’ll stay closed till it can be rebranded.
••• Board & Brush craft studio opening on E. Canon Perdido.
••• New multi-vendor space aiming to debut this fall.
••• Maria Rendón’s debut solo show at Sullivan Goss (above).
••• An amusing sidewalk misspelling.
••• Charming detail inside the Mission’s gift shop.
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