Siteline | Newsletter: January 15

FOOD STUFF
••• Is more change coming to Montecito’s Upper Village?
••• Downtown Mexican restaurant has soft-opened (above).
••• Augie’s has updated its menu and lowered prices.
••• Drift hotel café and bar should debut soon.
••• The Goleta Beach restaurant was damaged in last week’s storm.
••• Bedda Mia is on an extended break.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: A sweet 1950 farmhouse on Eucalyptus Hill; Hedgerow house that wants updating; 6,319-square-footer on 20 acres in the valley; Bel Air Knolls spec reno; 1931 style on De La Guerra Terrace; the one in Summerland where you park on the roof; and more.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• Los Padres National Forest is closed for two months (McMenemy Trail photo by Scott Addison Jerlow).
••• Santa Barbara Airport to have limited parking while improvements are made.
••• Update on oil seepage off Summerland’s Lookout Park.
••• Bluff instability after storms.
••• Interior designer Birgit Klein moved her showroom.
••• Neat 1930 Mary Craig rental.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The Black Keys are playing the Santa Barbara Bowl.
••• The pair of blue vases atop the Presidio Plaza Building.
••• Alaska Airlines says San Diego service is unlikely.
••• The local aversion to double left-turn lanes.
••• “The Search for the American West” at Sullivan Goss.
••• Overheard in Santa Barbara.
••• An amusing bit of off-color humor.
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