JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: A $46.5 million showstopper from Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi; a Picacho Lane estate for $45 million and a boxy neighbor three doors down; sunken indoor-outdoor bar in Birnam Wood; midcentury next to Knowlwood Tennis Club; 1921 Upper East cottage; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Chamber music at Bellosguardo.
••• Another Los Alamos landmark is for sale.
••• Screening of film about the origins of Plaza Rubio.
••• Guided tarantula walk.
••• The Courtyard by Marriott’s roof deck (above).
••• John Evans paintings at Caldwell Snyder.
••• Arts District get-together.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara proposes painful regulations for restaurant parklets.
••• Carpinteria votes to allow parklets.
••• Santa Barbara is said to be mulling an increase in the hotel tax.
••• Santa Barbara County is considering three new taxes.
••• Commuter train service from Ventura County is in the works.
••• Gate installed at the Hot Springs trailhead.
••• Two regional banks have merged.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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