••• Alfarah Self Care—a “organic, non-toxic and healing botanical skincare line”—is opening a shop at 624 Chapala Street (Cota/Ortega) in a few weeks. In the meantime, you can book a session in the Harmonic Egg….
The Harmonic Egg is a Frequency Healing Chamber that delivers bio energy therapy that restores the body’s balance and promotes healing. It resets the Autonomic Nervous System to allow cells to balance and encourage natural healing. This innovative technology allows the patient to repair at a cellular level, destress and profoundly relax the body.
The chamber was designed in a dodecagon shape, and it incorporates Tesla mathematics, sacred geometry and the Golden Mean Ratio within its construction. The egg-shaped resonant chamber was created to focus the energies of sound, light and color.
••• E. spotted a listing for Maison K‘s space at 1253 Coast Village Road, available starting in January. Owner Kimberly Hayes says she’ll be moving to a new location.
••• The talented Leon Bridges returns to the Santa Barbara Bowl on October 16. See you there!
••• Jake & Jones and Ali Golden (of Oakland and Ojai) are throwing a warehouse sale at 1315 State Street from August 23 to 25.
••• C. spotted a notice of development at 428 Chapala Street (Gutierrez/Haley) saying the single-story building is likely to be torn down and replaced by 33 apartments. There are so many apartments in the pipeline—how many is enough? How many is too much?
••• Two blocks away, 428 Anacapa Street, a proposal for “six short-term rental units and nine long-term rental apartments”—where a pair of single family residences now stand—goes before the Architectural Board of Review on Monday.
••• Those look like shoe boxes in the window of 922 State Street, formerly home to Namaste (it moved across the street) and before that, judging from the awning, Mon Petit Bijou. But they’re actually boxes of SuperMoss, which is opening a shop in the space. From the website: “We aim to curate a diverse range of specialty gardening products that make the plants in your life stand out! Most SuperMoss products are both decorative in nature and beneficial for plants.” UPDATE 8/20: The company’s marketing director sent over some more info….
SuperMoss the brand has been around for decades. You could go to Michaels and buy in person along with a thousand other boutiques and big box around the country, or online.
The office move, above the Retail space, happened a month ago. The vision for the State Street retail is really about community, creation, and education. So yes there will be product, but that isn’t the driver of the location. We want to be an experiential space on State. A place where people can come to be inspired, educated and have a fun time. There is a big outdoor patio where we want to put on DIY moss creation workshops, community and educational events. Inside as well will be focused around Biophilic design and how plants in general can enhance sustainability and our lives. Yes, we’ll have product, but with two decades under our belts, this is about becoming more involved with the local community than having rows of products on the shelves there.
Now next question you likely have is when. Shooting for within six months. Could be sooner but a lot needs to be done to the interior and this is new for the company.
••• I honestly though the Sonoma Fit gym was dead before it even opened—the company won’t respond to requests for an update—but there were signs of life the other day. (Not just an open door, but actual construction happening inside.)
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The historic Casa de Sevilla restaurant space to be apartments? Another piece of old Santa Barbara going buhbye.
I saw the photo and thought the same thing.
I agree. we are loosing the very spots that made S B a great place LA has not a clue about tradition its all about the money. They have taken over A Shame
Truly impressive how the Harmonic Egg manages to incorporate so many different fields of woo woo mathematics into one small space.
The egg’s function seems to be to densify and compress free-floating gaseous BS into a dense, solid object.
I wonder where the Tesla powered harmonic dodecagon chicken is that laid the egg.
Personally, I won’t pay a single red penny for any harmonic egg that lacks a turbo encabulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
SkyG, that’s exactly what I was thinking!
The masses are allowing the loud mouth minority to destroy Old Santa Barbara piece by piece. It’s a real shame. It will never become better than it was.
waaaaaaaaaaaay too true! People come bc they like it, then set about changing it. When I moved to SLO in 80s (1980), I overheard a ‘cowboy’ saying he was moving to Atascadero bc SLO was changing too much… where’s the new Atascadero??
In 1980, the U.S. population was 223M. Today it’s 342M. What, none of those people are allowed to move here? But it was OK for you to move to SLO in 1980, and then later it was OK for you to move here?
The city of Santa Barbara is mandated, by the state of California, to add over 5,000 units by 2031. This is not optional and this is not new news. As a person with the respect of the public’s opinion, I encourage you to lead the public away from ‘how many apartments is too many,’ to a more productive conversation of how we can activate a community that better understands what we are required to do as a city, and how we can participate in the development process to make this inevitable change more adopting.
Well put!
Remove all traces of the wokeness in Sacramento. Mandate multi-unit/low income housing in Montecito and Hope Ranch, and see how fast the construction begins!! Let’s share the joy.
I agree with Jillian, Casa de Sevilla, one of two (the other being the Talk of the Town) restaurants I dearly miss. But more importantly that building was declared a structure of merit and then back in 2018 the owners at that time appealed the designation and prevailed.