••• The Bellosguardo Foundation has run a few posts showing the beach house (built in 1927), inside and out, which is not on the tour—or at least wasn’t when I did it. They’re totally worth a look: go here, here, here, and here.
••• There’s an interesting new business called Good Company at 2613 De La Vina Street (Constance/Alamar). It’s “a residential interior design studio and home decor showroom” that’s also “a private social club”; “Members of all tiers are always welcome to join us for Open Access Hours [and] additional Programming is available with advanced membership, including children’s programming, after-school enrichment, as well as educational programming including topics that apply to our pillars of home, wellness and community.”
••• Art & Soul‘s new gallery at 1323 State Street (Victoria/Sola) opens this Thursday, December 12, with The Art of Place: Celebrating Santa Barbara’s Contemporary Voices, highlighting work by Brad Betts, John Baran, Pedro De La Cruz, and Sylvan Butera Rich. And the Funk Zone outpost will be around through February; up through December 29 is Winter Otherland, with work by Colette Cosentino, Kellen Meyer; plus, there are “portrait opportunities with Blue Gabor Photography, set to the magical backdrop of Cosentino’s ‘Messages with Rabbit.'”
••• James Taylor comes to the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 13.
••• And Valerie June returns to the Lobero Theatre on June 15.
••• “Why does the San Ysidro Debris Basin project involve drilling in the creek bed?” asked J. The response from the county’s Public Works department: “The drilling is for the piles (columns driven into the ground to support the structure) for the debris racks that will be installed as part of the project. There is a pipe in the background of the photo. This pipe diverts the water from one side of the project to the other.”
••• While I was in that neck of the woods to take a photo, I checked out the botanical garden under construction at the northern end of the San Ysidro Ranch. Lots of planting has occurred, with much more to come, based on all the potted plants lined up nearby.
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