FOOD STUFF
••• Three Santa Barbara restaurants (including Loquita, above) were awarded Michelin’s Bib Gourmand.
••• The county extended its parklet provision for another two years.
••• A new sake-and-grapefruit spritz born in Montecito.
••• A profile of the Good Plow.
••• Activity at a former restaurant space on Chapala.
••• The Santa Barbara Lobster Fest is coming up.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales include a pair of one-bedroom cottages on Padaro Lane for $12 million; a big new Ennisbrook house, also for $12 million; a Birnam Wood midcentury with its own golf-cart gate; a 1922 Riviera fixer by Anna Louise Murphy Vhay; an 1895 house in Summerland; and many more. See what sold—and for how much.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara to make life difficult for liquor stores.
••• Los Padres National Forest has reopened.
••• A long look at the cannabis situation in Carpinteria.
••• Santa Barbara Ice & Propane appears to have closed.
••• Goleta to fight Winchester Canyon cannabis farm.
••• Apartment complex at Castillo and Carrillo moves forward.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Divinitree yoga studio has a new name (photo by Ingrid Bostrom).
••• She & Him’s Christmas show at the Arlington Theatre.
••• Updates on the renovation of Eastside Neighborhood Park and the Plaza Del Mar band shell.
••• Lecture about architect R.M. Schindler.
••• Apply to be on one of the city’s Advisory Groups.
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