December 11, 2024
Tag: Kismet
December 2, 2023
January 21, 2023
A-List Boutique to Open in Montecito’s Upper Village
Plus: Kismet will open a dedicated lingerie studio; Jack Johnson to play the Lobero Theatre; the slate for the 2023 Santa Barbara International Film Festival; the Montecito Tea Gardens gets another $10 million price cut; are you Santa Barbara's next poet laureate? 5
July 6, 2022
A New Jewelry Boutique on State Street
Plus: Rêver Atelier has moved; Rad Power Bikes's showroom will be in the Funk Zone; Q&A with "Bull Durham" creator Ron Shelton at Chaucer's Books; Santa Ynez General pop-up in Montecito; $4.5 million price cut for 32-acre oceanfront property; new book of D.J. Javier's tray artworks; amusing Montecito Union School misspelling. 5
April 25, 2022
Makeover Proposed for the Former Nordstrom Building
Plus: Hotel coming to the vacant lot next to Santa Cruz Market; hotel rates are now 50 percent higher than three years ago; Pacaso opposition on the Riviera; the old Victor the Florist storefront is for lease; Kismet's annex is open in Montecito's Upper Village; discounted membership for the forthcoming CycleBar. 5
January 3, 2022
November 9, 2021
July 15, 2021
Burning Questions
- What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
- When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
- What’s This Scaffold Structure on Las Positas Road?
- Why Does Street Striping Take So Long to Happen?
- Why Do Rocket Launches Look the Way They Do?
- How Is the San Ysidro Debris Basin Designed to Work?
- What’s This Building on Helena Avenue?
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You happen to be in the minority of cases, so nice for you. Your class of housing is also not what’s housing most of the… — A
My reading is that it applies to most apartment buildings, which amount to most rentals, in SB. It’s pretty radical. The justification is mostly knee-jerk… — A
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