April 27, 2025
Tag: Santa Barbara International Film Festival

The Rancho San Marcos Golf Course Has Reopened
Plus: A new podcast about Santa Barbara; Band of Horses and Iron & Wine to play the Arlington Theatre; Maren Morris returns to the Santa Barbara Bowl; the Cold Spring bridge project is completed; Soul Sucker ceramics and plants at El Paseo; architectural tours of downtown; next year's SBIFF dates; De La Vina bridge replacement to start next month; new look for the five-story building proposed for De La Guerra Street. 2
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April 18, 2024

A Knitting Shop Is Opening Downtown
Plus: Moving sale at Eye of the Day in Carpinteria; a visit to antiquarian Lee Stanton's Upper Village shop; next year's dates for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; opposition to El Capitan Canyon Resort's expansion plan; Opera Santa Barbara‘s 2024-2025 lineup. 3
May 2, 2023
February 13, 2023

Rooms & Gardens Is Moving to Montecito
Plus: MarBorg's price hike for "non-curbside" service; Goleta Beach County Park has partially reopened; Zodo's bowling alley has been rebranded; documentary about the cool house on Pepper Hill; city survey about the Single Family Design Board design review process; contemporary photos of old buildings; Highway 101 construction updates. 12
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 13, 2022

Bossie the Cow Is Getting Rebuilt and Moved
Plus: The Randall Road Debris Basin is just about done; the Chumash are working on a 31,000-square-foot commercial building in Santa Ynez; 2023 dates of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; the city's ugly new solar arrays; this year's French Festival has been canceled; what not to do with used corks. 5
February 13, 2022

Seven-Foot-Tall Sunflower Sculptures Proposed for State Street
Plus: Over-the-top Valentine's Day decorations on Foothill Road; plans to tear down a 20-year-old estate on Picacho Lane; the 747 Designs shop is having a big sale before it closes; this year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival slate; a revised take on a big Eucalyptus Hill house. 1
December 1, 2021

A Production Designer Has Opened a Stylish Shop
Plus: Lots of great vendors at the Victoria Court holiday market; the Goo Goo Dolls play the Bowl next fall; what's happening at Summerland's gas station; pop-up gallery on De La Guerra Plaza from Oat Bakery's Louise Ulrich; Slingshot/Alpha Art Studio is moving; three new local books for your gift list. 1
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