Newsletter: November 30

FAVORITE THINGS
This holiday season, let’s make an effort to spend our money here—because if we want wonderful independent shops, we need to support them. Besides, it’s fun! In Part 1 of the 2025 Shop-Local Gift Guide: Domecíl, The Daisy, Chicken Little, Italian Pottery Outlet, and Art Essentials.

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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The argument against the Paseo Nuevo deal (and the Nordstrom land is now excluded from the proposal).
••• SBIFF’s downtown multiplex got named (above).
••• Zoe Bikini to close.
••• New fees and requirements possible for Santa Barbara massage therapists.
••• Adaptive reuse of an old airport hangar and two Quonset huts.
••• An update from Edhat.
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GET OUT OF TOWN
Having only ever gone to Santa Ynez for a meal and maybe a brief stroll, I dragooned my husband into spending a night there. The 24-hour trip felt like much longer, in the best possible way.

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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Know where this was shot? Prove it in the comments.

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