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Newsletter: May 7

May 7, 2023|by Erik Torkells

FOOD STUFF
••• Third Window burgers are now available six days a week.
••• Beacon’s Ojai café has closed.
••• Satellite is now open Sundays.
••• Waffle recipes from Goodland Waffles & Melts.
••• Santa Barbara couple launched a mezcal line.
••• Terrace enlargement at the Biltmore’s restaurant.
••• Draughtsmen Aleworks opened a Solvang taproom.
••• Provençal dinner by the Two Baking Brits.
••• Twenty-Four Blackbirds collaboration with Flamingo Estate.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Spiffy 1927 Monterey Colonial in San Roque; 1930s charm with a killer roof deck in Mission Canyon; boxy contemporary with midcentury energy; Mediterranean overlooking the Montecito Club golf course; the East Valley Road house with the wacky roofline; and more.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• MichaelKate Interiors is closing in a few months.
••• Cowboy Junkies to play the Lobero Theatre.
••• I Madonnari street painting festival is on for Memorial Day Weekend.
••• French Wave Film Festival lineup.
••• Rail bike tours out of Santa Paula.
••• Anyone know what the Montecito Club plans to do with all those palm trees?
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Sansum Clinic to be bought by Sutter Health.
••• Santa Barbara schools may stop grading homework.
••• Calle Real Center is getting a makeover (rendering above).
••• Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation wants to raise a bunch of fees.
••• Warehouse proposed for site of former West Wind Drive-In.
••• Interactive light sculpture at UCSB.
••• Environmental review required for Hot Springs trailhead parking.
••• Nashville songwriter buys Hope Ranch house.
••• Bikeshare program extended.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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Just Listed

  • Supersize Spec Compound South of the Freeway
  • A Handsome Renovation in Hope Ranch
  • A Heck of a Swimming Pool on Ortega Ridge
  • Spiffy $20 Million Spec Reno in Hope Ranch
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Recent Comments

Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted. — Dan Kolodziejski

Hallelujah! The return of that Southbound on-ramp is long overdue — Tammy

You've done a great thing for the hapless men of Santa Barbara with this series. Stopping by half of these stores. — Andy

The post office renaming will cost roughly $500,000 paid for by the USPS internal funds from stamps and fees. — Derek

Thank you, Erik, for reminding your readers to support local businesses; it is one of the critical ways to help our communities thrive. (I laughed… — Pat

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