Yes Jenna! I think that’s a great idea and stop complaining .
I heard a rumor that Erewhon was scoping locations in the fall! :)
Not very clear what LAFD is. Is it for county or city fire department? or some unnamed charity?
Regarding Coast Village Road, it might good to see the end dates of the leases of the departing shops. Might just be a bad harmonic convergence.
Beyond that, a renegotiated to market lease might be beyond the departing shop’s means.
Retail is tough.
22 years ago there was an enchanting young children’s store where we bought clothes for my son. He is all grown up now. The needs of the buying public change beyond the attack of online retail.
This is the best travel piece i have ever seen on Venice.
I have been several times..and now want to go back and retrace your steps.
Beautiful photography!
Happy to see Oat is expanding their hours for that location, love their sandwiches.
I had a store in Seattle for 18 years and if you have what people want and need, they will support your business. Women want gifts for other women and men need ideas to help them have confidence in the gifts they give. Simple, complimentary gift wrap is added value. I do not like to give special gifts that I have not seen in person so I shop when I'm on the road at small shops like Junk Girls in SLO.
I had been told this Runyon development was going to be where Erewhon was looking to build their location but these plans don’t indicate that. Too bad. Underground parking would be nice as well.
If your Spanish is good, you can apparently still join a listening session about your recreational use of the national forests on February 5th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sesiones-de-escucha-sobre-actividades-recreativas-en-los-bosques-nacionales-tickets-1105045122709?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
It sure would have been nice if she had shared about more with you about the purpose of the study.
Enough with all these subpar restaurant openings and poor quality vegan options. Joi Cafe and Erewhon, if you're listening please come to SB! In the meantime, I'll stick to the SYV farm stands and cooking everything myself :)
I often hear this argument that businesses collecting donations are gaining an undue tax benefit and I’d love to understand how people figure. If properly accounted for the donation is a liability that’s passed through, and the business is not entitled to a deduction. The original donor is and should keep receipts. Alternatively, the business could book as revenue and then offset with a donation, making it a neutral event. I’m not a tax expert, but this is my basic understanding. Someone educate me.
Sure, the business benefits from
goodwill, but it does take a little administrative overhead to run such an effort.
Retail is struggling everywhere and coast village road is no exception. Everyone learned how to buy online during the pandemic and that’s how a lot of people shop now. The only stores I go to anymore are Pierre LaFond/Wendy Foster and Old Navy. Everything else comes in the mail!
Part of the impact of LA invasion and transformation of Montecito into extension of West LA Shops will be replaced by Rodeo Drive equivalents
And everyone sits by and lets it happen
It's no different than the supermarkets hitting us up for donations after they've overcharged us.
All of the above? Plus, with seemingly more part time residents of Montecito, fewer customers?
There is no neighborhood called Noleta. Silly new-be. BTW, I live in SoMontOliveville.
You can't go wrong with ranunculi!
Why do you think so many businesses on Coast Village Road are closing? Raised rents? Retirement? Too high end to sustain business financials? Wrong demographic for SB?
Oh brother, here we go again. I keep forgetting that you were Huguette's confidant, personal advisor and privy to so many secrets that only you know.
Beautiful city but too many crowds.Just hope my wallet is enjoying its extended stay .Watch out ..thieves are every where and the police don't care.
Huguette had 3 Wills ~ the two bogus ones w/ forged signature & her True Will she left w/ the IRS for safety ( she thought ) it leaves everything to her & her Mothers friend, to do the noble deeds she had planned. Incidentally she owned Madison Square Gardens & the entire building at 905 5th Avenue, along with Clark’s Shoes, her favourite house in Hawaii - across the street from Doris Duke’s Shangri-la, and the Paris apartment where she grew up. It is a Tragedy that they ignored her wishes and confiscated her $6Billion Fortune she had such high hopes for! . . .
"The Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky wrote a travel book about Venice, called “Watermark,” published in 1992. “I would like to live my next life in Venice,” he wrote. “To be a cat there, anything, even a rat, but always in Venice.”
FROM NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/travel/venice-in-winter-joseph-brodsky.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU4.jshC.kUVkph9XJ_MT&smid=url-share
One of my all-time favorite cities in the world 🌎 is Venice and its surrounding towns and villages, with lace… ! glass, …! gastronomical, delights, sipping a glass of wine while sitting in Saint Mark Square ………! and listening to the musicians 🎻🎷🎼magical… secrets of the hotel Cipriani & Daniele, just a magical place…! thank you for sharing all those exquisite photos, it’s takes me right back, and now I can’t wait to go back ! Ciao , and milligrams 🙏
My dream is to spend a week in Venice, revisit the same places and discover new ones, including a night at the opera! Some dreams can come true.
I have another fantastic idea. Let’s have banks stay open late. I sometimes like to do my banking after I get off work and they always close at 5pm.
