FOOD STUFF
••• Opening date for Tina’s Pizza, the Bettina spinoff in Carpinteria (above).
••• Rozzi Pizza soft-opens this week in West Beach.
••• Blaze Pizza has closed.
••• Profile of Marley Confections.
••• The Starbucks on Milpas has opened.
••• Little Mountain forecast change.
••• Update on Hotel El Roblar and new restaurants coming to Ojai.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: A Hope Ranch villa that keeps getting better; new construction in the Montecito Ranch Estates for $29.5 million; contemporary gem on the Riviera; 1927 stone house by George Washington Smith; family-friendliness in Montecito Oaks; Mediterranean villa on the Eastside’s edge; spiffy style on the Mesa and in San Roque; charming 1920s European architecture; Ojai ranch with a hilltop labyrinth; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The Santa Ynez Chumash Museum opens next week (photo by Patrick W. Price).
••• Downtown homeless center has become a nuisance.
••• Santa Barbara school district rescinded all those pink slips.
••• The Isla Vista Food Co-Op is on the ropes.
••• Broadway in Santa Barbara’s 2025-26 lineup.
••• Will Los Patos Way end with a whimper?
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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