NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara wants restaurants to expand into sidewalks, streets, and parking lots.
••• There’s talk of closing 13 blocks of State Street to cars.
••• The state released guidelines for restaurant dining rooms.
••• County reopening being slowed by Lompoc prison outbreak.
••• Pot-delivery business doing well.
••• Botanik has a new greenhouse.
••• Republican house candidate Andy Caldwell.
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WALK WITH ME
In the heart of the Golden Quadrangle: The streets northwest of Montecito’s Upper Village are home to impressive estates, storybook cottages, a Richard Neutra house, and an indignant French bulldog.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Two former Loquita chefs are selling weekly Asian dinners.
••• Loquita, The Blue Owl, and Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road have reopened.
••• Rusty’s Pizza in Summerland opened.
••• Profile of Organic Soup Kitchen.
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WEATHER FORECAST
“The springtime north winds start kicking in tonight, which will keep the clouds away,” says Jack Martin of Action Roofing. “Thursday brings another sunny day, but the evening winds will shift to the south coast and over us in Santa Barbara. Friday and Saturday ware looking quite nice, with offshore winds and temps rising—each day this week, we’ll be in the mid to upper 70s, and Friday and Saturday highs will be close to 80.” Email [email protected] to receive daily updates.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Updates on two other big Funk Zone projects.
••• Lotusland reopens to the public soon.
••• A chance to swap non-perishable food for toilet paper.
••• Mate Gallery photography is on sale.
••• Marketing real estate during a pandemic.
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BURNING QUESTIONS
“I don’t remember these black beetles from previous years, at least not in these numbers,” asks R. “Does nothing eat them? They would seem to be easy prey, since they meander around so slowly and often end up on their backs with their legs wriggling.” The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has the answer.
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