
FOOD STUFF
••• Third Window burgers are now available six days a week.
••• Beacon’s Ojai café has closed.
••• Satellite is now open Sundays.
••• Waffle recipes from Goodland Waffles & Melts.
••• Santa Barbara couple launched a mezcal line.
••• Terrace enlargement at the Biltmore’s restaurant.
••• Draughtsmen Aleworks opened a Solvang taproom.
••• Provençal dinner by the Two Baking Brits.
••• Twenty-Four Blackbirds collaboration with Flamingo Estate.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Spiffy 1927 Monterey Colonial in San Roque; 1930s charm with a killer roof deck in Mission Canyon; boxy contemporary with midcentury energy; Mediterranean overlooking the Montecito Club golf course; the East Valley Road house with the wacky roofline; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• MichaelKate Interiors is closing in a few months.
••• Cowboy Junkies to play the Lobero Theatre.
••• I Madonnari street painting festival is on for Memorial Day Weekend.
••• French Wave Film Festival lineup.
••• Rail bike tours out of Santa Paula.
••• Anyone know what the Montecito Club plans to do with all those palm trees?
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Sansum Clinic to be bought by Sutter Health.
••• Santa Barbara schools may stop grading homework.
••• Calle Real Center is getting a makeover (rendering above).
••• Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation wants to raise a bunch of fees.
••• Warehouse proposed for site of former West Wind Drive-In.
••• Interactive light sculpture at UCSB.
••• Environmental review required for Hot Springs trailhead parking.
••• Nashville songwriter buys Hope Ranch house.
••• Bikeshare program extended.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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