Tag: Mate Gallery

December 11, 2025

The 2025 Shop-Local Gift Guide, Part 5

Wrapping up this series with a grab bag of 14 gift-worthy suggestions from all around town. 6

December 13, 2024

Seven-Mile Stretch of Carpool Lane Opens Today

Plus: Construction to start on Santa Claus Lane streetscape improvements; L.L. Bean at Mate Gallery; mysterious markers on Romero Canyon Trail; frisky 1980s brochure for the San Ysidro Ranch; Phoenix travel advice. 7

March 6, 2024

Mate Gallery’s New Shop Is Bigger and Better

Plus: The monthly SB Funk Zone Live celebration; improvements to the perpetually wet Castillo Street undercrossing; a dirt-road block in Los Olivos finally got paved; downtown bank branch to close; Lauren Daigle to play the Santa Barbara Bowl; "Where in Santa Barbara...?" answer; curb cuts designed to redirect rainwater. 1

December 13, 2023

The Biltmore Got Slapped With a Stop-Work Order

Plus: New tenant at State and N. La Cumbre in San Roque; Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Indigo Girls, and Amos Lee to play the Santa Barbara Bowl; James Perse rumor; a peek inside Mate Gallery's forthcoming shop; the Hilton's colored lights. 8

July 27, 2023

Mate Gallery Is Tripling in Size

Plus: Bungalo805 is making a pivot toward childcare; Biltmore scuttlebutt; photos of Bellosguardo's beach house and cabanas; update on the Montecito Water District's smart meters; the Steward hotel has opened in Goleta. 8

September 22, 2021

The Riviera Theatre Is Reopening

Plus: A visit to the new tween shop Lemondrop; four new public pickleball courts in Goleta; a $20 million listing in Hope Ranch that's worth a look; exhibit about artist Edward Borein and his circle of friends; cool tote at Mate Gallery.

July 9, 2020

Sur la Table’s Santa Barbara Store Is Closing

Plus: Montecito estate auction has a whiff of desperation; Mate Gallery's new online sale section; American Express offering $5 credits when you patronize local merchants; a new look for the former Just Folk building in Summerland.

May 9, 2020

Updates on Two Other Big Funk Zone Projects

Plus: Lotusland reopens to the public soon; food drive today will exchange toilet paper for non-perishable food; Mate Gallery photography is on sale; marketing real estate during a pandemic.

April 13, 2020

Change in Plans for the Fess Parker Hotel Coming to Cabrillo

Plus: Upper San Ysidro Trail is closed for repairs; big house on Picacho Lane sells for $5.4 million; memento from the old Miramar resort; midcentury Palm Springs–style house in Birnam Wood available for rent.

March 30, 2020

The Tunnel Road Trailhead to Inspiration Point Has Reopened

Plus: New boat-share club opening in Ventura; residential real estate was added to the list of "essential services"; vintage Montecito Police Patrol sign for sale; progress on the Carpinteria phase of the 101 widening project; New England–style house sold.