HOT PROPERTY
Just when you think the market might be calming down, it roars back to new heights: another $125 million in real estate changed hands last week.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Aperitivo is a welcome addition to the restaurant scene.
••• Why the apparent new name of Paradise Cafe makes sense.
••• Blackbird’s downshift of a food menu.
••• Everytable won’t be opening this year.
••• Two more pop-ups at Third Window Brewing.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara County is stuck in the red tier.
••• Local voter turnout is at 91 percent and counting.
••• The News-Press won’t accept Trump’s defeat.
••• This year’s Parade of Lights at the harbor is canceled.
••• Final Cat Canyon oil proposal withdrawn.
••• Former baseball star buys $5.7 million Santa Barbara spread (above).
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MORE HOT PROPERTY
Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi have sold yet another high-end property—this one after just three-and-a-half weeks.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Betsey Johnson is popping up in the Funk Zone.
••• Four new shops at La Arcada Plaza.
••• NS Ceramics has moved.
••• Wise Guys Barber & Shave on W. Victoria.
••• “No camping” sign.
••• A bone to pick with Skyview Los Alamos.
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PRICE CUTS
There were only five notable price adjustments this week, including a cool contemporary backing off an attempted Covid bump, 10 acres above San Roque, a vivacious Spanish house in Mission Canyon, and a sprawler outside town.
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