Totally agree, more parking. Tried to pull in the last few days and it was just an absolute cluster had to leave there was just cars everywhere looking for parking. And anybody in their right mind would not want to sit at the cross-section of a busy road adjacent to the 101 freeway. Nothing relaxing about that.
Ted We-Want-The-Funk Ellis is a talented guy. I liked what he'd done with La Cantina. It was so much more than simply "another Mexican Restaurant." The Ribeye was insane, great cocktails, and maybe 8 beers on tap. The space was great, but it seemed like they just couldn't get people to try it out. Perhaps it was because the name implied it was "another Mexican Restaurant." And I love Mexican, but I do think we're hitting peak Mexican Restaurant even in our Spanish town.
The location cries out for exactly what he's proposing: a destination. It would be great to see some of the excellent local bands (The Caverns, anyone?) and design things more like a northern Santa Barbara/Southern Goleta pub.
I could not be happier that he's going to have another shot at the space. Hope to see M.Special's Sabado Tarde on tap, maybe Pacifico or Modelo, and Santa Barbara Cider, and Guinness on Nitro would be nice. After that, they can do whatever they want to do with the 1000 IPAs that are out there today. Just don't like the sour aftertaste of 'em. Too many hops are no bueno for this Irish lad.
Ted, you got this. Just get the message out, and you won't be competing with anyone but yourself. Turnpike and Hollister deserves a fun and delicious place to congregate.
~ it is always unfun to endure your smug ignorance, why should you pretend to know anything because you read a book full of lies? you ought to disabuse yourself of that conceit. Have given a dozen ways to verify these True facts, should you manage to get off your lazy ass to try. Why would Mort Zuckerman announce on television that Huguette was the richest girl in town? Temple Buell’s heirs could certainly verify that the Clark’s were the owners of the other big house in the 300 acre field across from Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, most of it was his land - tho theirs had the little lake. Gore Vidal was Huguette’s last visitor at Bellosguardo in 2007, he had a stroke in th limo on the way up the driveway & never got out of the car. Dina Merrill had sent him to try and change Huguette’s mind & even her own daughter Stefanie Powers (the 1st of her 12 illegitimate daughters that end with Kate Beckinsale) told her off about this usual ruthless mendacity! Huguette absolutely did own the entire building at 905 5th Avenue w/ both penthouses & the front half of the 8th floor (which was her Mothers apartment that was FULL of Dolls - even in the oven! Though they lived in the house they built on the roof when they bought the building. Propert records would show that & reveal who changed the Title. They were friends of Geraldine who had the legendary Red Barn Cafe in Summerland & her boyfriend the Artist Harvey Leepa. Doris Duke let Huguette swim at her private beach across the street in Hawaii. Perhaps you are associated with the shysters who conspired to rob her is why you keep spouting their Lies ~ much like this Trump cabinet who bark out his propaganda ad nauseum, which no intelligent person could believe. It would absolutely kill Anna & Huguette to witness this vulgar Goop lesbian allowed onto the property to take smutty photographs, what is next for the degradation of this Angelic place ~ a whorehouse? You might educate yourself a bit before you regurgitate the sinister Lies!
Ted’s place is going to be a new local favorite. Really looking forward to something in the neighborhood that’s good and affordable.
I long ago trained my dog to do his dirty business off trail, and at home, in a 5x5 area of the yard. When we hike, he knows to go well into the brush, at least 50 yards away from the trail. I do the same myself and dig a 6" deep hole which gets covered with dirt when I'm finished. Nobody is hiking where we do our dirty business.
Ideally they should add more parking. It can be done in a way with trees and greenery but parking is really needed!
Use of ALL CAPS tends to get dogs riled up.
In front of Meridian Studios
Yay! Thank you for the update on Rudy's in Carp. A family favorite, good to know they are looking for another location there. They've been closed so long with no posted reopening we thought they were leaving town.
I wish the people that needed to read this the most, would read it. Never fails going uphill, you walk into a line of three people in a solid wall that will not move over one bit. They just hold their ground, people have no idea about sharing And nothing about etiquette. It’s absolutely insane when you’re going uphill and people can’t even think about following single file to share the trail. And most don’t.
The dogs are insane, falls in the realm of that inconsiderate selfishness. He just wants to play as he jumps up on you and ripped your skin, oh he’s never attacked anyone before,
There’s a SPF clothed couple on Buena Vista every Saturday that has a white lab that fully ran up on our daughter with teeth and attacked - And is still off leash every time we see them of course my daughter is scared.
Today to E bikes, no bells nothing.
And of course there’s at least 3 to 5 big bags of shit in the beginning of each trail. The cope is, oh I forgot it. I’ll just pick up two next time. Yeah right.
It’s a bummer. Our trails are so beautiful, and there are people that put so much work into them. Thanks for calling out the wonderful groups that do that. I was thinking today I wish there were signs bolted at every trailhead about trail etiquette. You can’t make it too confusing,
Just yield to people going uphill. Although many people probably won’t know what yield means.
It's always fun to read your fantasies
I really think sideline is great.
Go the whole hog with "magnification with finger spread" option (also known as a pinch-to-zoom gesture). Your photography is worthy.
Excited to see what Ted comes up with on Turnpike! Also VERY excited about the listening room in Solvang. I’ve been to a few around the world and really dig going to a space that truly appreciates bringing quality to the music. Especially vinyl!
~ Oh no, she wasn’t maudlin at all. They were sad naturally to lose their ‘dynamo’ however, she was very present, up to date, interested in the World. As she said ‘we were a scandal, so we just kept to ourselves’. She did travel between her many properties every year up until 2007, loved her Hawaii house best - in that happy climate, adored her Summers in Santa Barbara, and visits to her Colorado house (she rebuilt in th ‘90’s) because as she said ‘there are several times a year when there is nowhere else on Earth more beautiful!’ She also had her Mothers little house in Ojai - on th road up to Krotona, Anna was a Theosophist. It was the Paris apartment they couldn’t go back to ~ ‘too painful, all her school Art hanging on the walls’. She didn’t visit some of them, but had no reason/need to sell them. And she certainly Never applied for a loan = so that was clearly some lawyers grift. She had major founders Stock in Citi Bank & Southern Pacific Railroad + Clark’s Shoes. She discovered Animation in the ‘70’s and Loved it, so i taught her how to make flip-books. She played the violin (and hated it) & Anna played harp, when Anna left she missed her so much she taught herself to play harp (!) so she could have those sounds again, she regularly played it at Bellosguardo in the evenings. She loved the Two Fat Ladies cooking show and noticed ‘Colonel Patterson’s daughter always has perfect manicure & lacquer, but the Scottish girl as dirty fingernails plunging into the food!’ This is a Tragedy that she’s been painted this way to facilitate the outrageous betrayal & robbery of this darling bright woman ~ who even Little Edie Beale knew was the richest girl in town most of her life saying “They kept everyone away”. It would reveal the culprit at the IRS to check the Paris property records, kept in the same name for over a Century, and see what name they were changed into after her 2008 stroke left her unable to communicate & they pounced! For that matter it’s the same with Madison Square Gardens- mysteriously “sold” in 2010 . . . Delightful Huguette was bright, funny and deeply thoughtful with Angelically Noble Intentions for her Fathers Fortune = it’s the conspiracy to rob her that is Truly Tragic & Sad . . .
Thank you for these helpful reminders! We'll be celebrating National Trails Day on Saturday, June 6, with a volunteer trail day if any trail users would like to join us!
More details can be found at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/TrailWork
State water project goes to Cachuma, but natural gas and crude oil pipelines do go through Gaviota state park.
Right on, Anne!
100% agree- have been bit 3 times- the last resulted in a settlement. HE IS FRIENDLY is a lie - while being stitched up at Goleta Valley Hospital the door wouldn’t stop opening with emergency room personnel coming in to tell me that they too had been bit. Everyone wanted to see what my wounds look like, compared to theirs!
YOU may not mind if a dog is not on a leash, but I DO! As a senior who has been bitten by “friendly” dogs more than once, consequently I'm terrified to be approached by an unleashed one. There’s rarely room on the trail for me to back away. That is why it’s THE LAW to keep your dog on a leash (generally no longer than 6 feet) on virtually all trails in California. In many state parks dogs are banned entirely. The fact that the laws are commonly ignored doesn’t mean it’s OK to do so.
Amen on the dog poop bags!
Who does that?
Great tips! OMG with the music or podcasts on speaker and trash on trails — so inconsiderate.
As a dog owner, I would add that dogs should only be off leash if they consistently respond to voice commands. Your dog might be friendly, but they may be approaching someone with a dog on leash that needs space. (Or there may be coyotes to avoid!) Dogs that wander into poison oak can transfer the oils onto humans when they rub against them too. I keep my dog close and don’t assume everyone wants her all up in their business! Thank you for publishing these important reminders 😀
Marker is likely the State water line.
Japan is universally admired due to their adherence to societal etiquette. It’s a shame that our culture requires justification or an apology for it, ugh. All those seemingly little things (to some people) add up to reflect an uncivilized society and one that doesn’t value respect for others. Those plastic dog waste bags (and any other litter) and music on the trail are affronts to the soul seeking peace and beauty out there.
You're under the erroneous assumption Macy's could actually be housing. It can't, the potential developer and current leaseholder need the city to give them the land for free for the project to pencil. They city didn't, as they shouldn't have just given it away, so now an office is a much better option than a very large vacancy. All you armchair city planners have zero idea how hard and expensive it actually is to build housing in Santa Barbara. Even most of the planning commission is economically illiterate.
Didn't Yardi propose to covert a third of their campus into employee housing back in '23? Did that happen? I remember they were being told it would need to be re zoned to happen. They were doing that because such a large portion of their employees were no longer required in office. Maybe this gives them a much cheaper lease option (since city is desperate to fill the space, which is taxpayers dime) takes away housing and affordable housing that was being proposed, and then Yardi can covert their entire campus into housing, get subsidized and make a few milly or more? I love the idea of more employees downtown, as that truly drives downtown economy, not residents...but they won't be bringing the numbers they claim. They sound just like Amazon when they were moving in...and they planned to cash in on their own cafe and take business away from downtown business owners 😆 now that building is for sale and those offices are an echo chamber. Sounds more like it's good for Yardi and bad for SB taxpayers and SB business owners. Wolf in Sheep's clothing imo
