FOOD STUFF
••• Music venue and speakeasy planned for State Street landmark (above).
••• Finch & Fork has reopened with a new menu.
••• Cocktail bar with food opens next week in West Beach.
••• New café in Carpinteria.
••• More outdoor space at Field + Fort.
••• Mariscos Santa Barbara has opened in Old Town Goleta.
••• The Middle Eastern food at Third Window Brewing’s Tamar pop-up.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: 1980s Ennisbrook ready for reinvention; a couple of biggies in Hope Ranch; Riven Rock with a lovely pool area; flip attempts on Marina Drive and Picacho Lane; Endless Summer filmmaker Bruce Brown’s 42-acre coastal ranch; Riviera fixer; an ode to white; recent renovation in Summerland; the 1920 bungalow next to Jeff Shelton’s Vera Cruz house; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The push to turn Diablo Canyon nuclear plant into a “clean tech innovation park.”
••• Santa Ynez Valley to host its first gay pride weekend.
••• Toro Canyon house gets a $7 million price cut.
••• Death Cab for Cutie and Yo La Tengo at the Bowl.
••• Author Geoff Dyer to speak at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
••• The 11th-annual Harbor Nautical Swap Meet is coming up.
••• Some thoughts on a new-ish Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco (above).
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Carpinteria carpool lanes will be open by next month.
••• I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival is back at the Mission.
••• County sheriff candidates debate.
••• School superintendent challenger backs out of election forum because she didn’t like the rules.
••• Motorcycle sidecar tours come to Santa Barbara.
••• UCSB’s North Campus Open Space officially opens.
••• Carpinteria to consider a moratorium on new chain businesses.
••• Avocado larceny.
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