••• The U.S. Postal Service is threatening to move out of the Montecito Country Mart, where it has been for over 40 years; here’s a petition to try and keep it there.
••• The Malia Mills boutique that was at the Country Mart is now at The Post.
••• The VCA Care Specialty and Emergency Animal Hospital at Haley and Garden is closing. That leaves Advanced Veterinary Specialists as the area’s sole 24-hour veterinary office (along with two in Ventura and one in Orcutt).
••• Two more Santa Barbara Bowl shows were announced: Santana on September 12 and 13 and Alabama Shakes on September 25. Here’s hoping there’s room on the schedule for Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, Sturgill Simpson’s latest band. I’d pay the full ticket price just to hear them play the opening track, “Make America Fuk Again,” from their randy, angry new album, Mutiny After Midnight. Unfortunately, it’s no longer online.
••• The Santa Barbara International Orchid Show is March 20-22. “This year’s theme, Orchid Escape, invites you on a journey through the vibrant beauty of orchids and their exotic environments.”
••• “Will the Union Pacific bridge be double-tracked to allow for future expansion?” asked a commenter on the recent post about the new Cabrillo/Highway 101 interchange. It will indeed, said the supervising transportation planner at the city’s Public Works department. However, she added, “there are a lot of existing physical/topographical limitations along UPRR’s route north and south of project location so we are not sure the reality of a double track in Santa Barbara County or other counties on the route for this to come to fruition any time in the near future.”
••• Opening March 28 at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara: Pinhole Noir. “Lindsay Skutch’s striking black-and-white photographs of familiar sites and sights in Southern California are taken with pinhole cameras she constructs using Sanka coffee cans, cardboard CBD containers, and Christmas cookie tins. The photographs have an eerie, outside of time feeling—like buried memories or dimly remembered dreams.”
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I volunteer every year at the Orchid Show- the best way to see the production! It is so fun to people watch and see the purchases people make- people drive from San Diego/LA/Santa Monica to see their favorite purveyors!