••• Jeweler Marisa Mason is moving from Arlington Plaza to The Post: “We will be focusing a bit more on fine jewelry but still have a great selection of easy price point jewelry as well,” she says. “We’re trying to move by the end of May, and we will be having a moving sale,” so keep an eye on her Instagram.
••• Ticket subscriptions (i.e., for groups of events) for the Music Academy of the West‘s summer festival go on sale April 10.
••• The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse pay the Santa Barbara Bowl on September 5.
••• The city’s Parks & Recreation department is launching spikeball classes for adults (click on “adult sports”): “This fast-paced, 360-degree game is a dynamic mix of volleyball and foursquare.”
••• “Is there a good source for breaking news in Santa Barbara besides Nextdoor?” asks M. I actually have no idea, as I’m not really a breaking news kind of guy. Any suggestions?
••• Press release: Sullivan Goss has transformed “its front gallery in downtown Santa Barbara into a historic parlor filled with cherished works by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937), Leon Dabo (1864-1960), and Lockwood De Forest (1850-1932). […] The oldest piece in the show is a landscape from 1876 painted by a young Lockwood De Forest on the deck of a dahabiya as it sailed up the Nile. The most recent piece is by Leon Dabo from 1952, after his very last trip to the Provençal region in his home country of France. The paintings by Colin Campbell Cooper date in between, focusing first on his penchant for architecture and then landscape as he painted marvels like the Chartres Cathedral and the Taj Mahal before retiring to explore and paint the hills around Santa Barbara.” Below: De Forest’s “Moonlight Over Rocky Shoreline,” which may or may not be in the show but I think it’s lovely.
••• We have a hedge that’s looking sickly in one part so my husband’s aunt, who is a Master Gardener in Maryland, suggested I reach out to the local Master Gardeners. Sure enough, the UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County have a helpline (phone or email) where you can ask for advice. I heard back—the hedge needs a hard pruning—within a couple of hours.
••• Australian dance troupe Circa brings its “next-level circus” to the Lobero Theatre on April 8; “10 phenomenally athletic performers build and dismantle intricate human towers, leap into one another’s arms and push their physical limits to previously unimagined extremes.”
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While the hedge may benefit from a hard pruning, culturally there probably is another problem causing it to be infested by a disease. Is it the red leaf Eugenia hedge?
Those by default get psyllid And my 30 years of experience, they are more likely to get it if they are water stressed. Quite often plants are water stressed. You have to check what the irrigation is gardeners quite often. Do not check it.
Agriturf can spray
There’s also green worms, aphids, mealy bugs, and if there is a black sticky substance it is called sooty mold, and that is a result of insects, sucking sugar out of the plant and the sugar excreting on leaves, causing the mold. It is a secondary issue but not the actual disease.
Feel free to ask any questions
Good info Tina, thanks
That’s nice that Marisa will be closer to her dad Michael Haskell’s longtime amazing Montecito antique emporium of native american and spanish colonial goodies in the Upper Village/SY Rd. Love these locals! Good luck with the move Marisa! xo
KCLU (102.3) is my source for local, breaking news. I listen when I drive and through the NPR website.
I agree. Also, it is easily available to listen to on your phone through many streaming services (I use tune-in) ; you only need the free version since, with public radio, you don’t have to tolerate endless commercials (do donate to them if you value their invaluable service)
For breaking news there is no other source than the Palm.
When a car flips, he’s there. When a bike rides outside the lanes, he’s there. When a bartender retires, he’s there. When the Mission comes alive and the old men are dressed like boys, he’s there. John covers it all and offers a locals’ only flavor. He even pronounces Ree Phooff Eeeee Oooo correctly!
John Palminteri is a local gem and a member of a dying breed – the local newsman. Cherish him for when he’s gone, there will be no other to replace him.
For last weeks news and gossip from the same 8 people go to EdHat, especially its comment section. For news that reads like a press release written by a PR intern, go to Noozhawk. For ad sponsored content and neo-liberal editorials, go to the Independent. For gossip, The Montecito Journal. For fires and weather related events, KEYT. For a dose of actual news, KCLU / KCRW do a decent job for SoCal related events. And if Nextdoor is on your phone or in your thoughts, bless your heart.
ST, you are freaking hilarious! Keep it coming!
Ha! Best comment I’ve ever read! Not just because it’s hilarious, but also incredibly accurate. I forgot about Nextdoor, I thought it had held hands with LinkedIn and walked off into the sunset.
Palm seems to post most frequently on Facebook (dunno about Insta). Another site is Reddit r/santabarbara It’s about the same not-quite-live timeframe as NextDoor, but has more of a “enjoy living your life in SB” and less “get off my lawn” vibe than ND.
@KSBY is the only on air local news worth watching- their employees can actually have a conversation on air that makes sense, and they ask questions with purpose vs stare blankly after misreading cue card/rolling script. KEYT is pathetic! I listen to my scanner, that way I am up to date on crime