January 9, 2025
Plus: Bristol Farms opening pushed back; a rundown of restaurants that are slated to open here; Carpinteria's farmer's market is in a different location this week; another wine tasting room; fresh yuzu.
October 1, 2019
In other news: Helistop decision delayed; city creates a hotline to report illegal homeless camps; crackdown on longterm parking at the waterfront; residents oppose homeless housing; questioning the Montecito Sanitary District's desired new building.
September 30, 2019
Rhonda Byrne, author of "The Secret," has put her Montecito estate back on the market at a lower price. If anyone can actualize a sale into happening....
Plus: AIA Santa Barbara's annual self-guided architecture tour is coming up; a rare sighting of a diving board; anyone up for a cold plunge?
September 28, 2019
The full list of this weekend's open houses is here. Among the more intriguing ones: a Japanese-Craftsman hybrid, a 1904 house off Miramar Beach with a kooky floor plan; and a well-made Hope Ranch house that just won't sell.
September 27, 2019
Other food-related news and notes: Opening forecast for Mesa Burger in Montecito; Santa Barbara County's natural wine scene; local library has cake pans you can check out; Dart Coffee now selling Buena Onda empanadas.
Also newly reduced: The last remaining part of the Lolita Armour estate; European pastiche below San Ysidro Ranch; killer views on Eucalyptus Hill; tasteful Don Nulty manor in east Montecito.
September 26, 2019
Other recent news: Carpinteria warms up a bit to ADUs; moratorium on new water hookups continues in the Goleta Valley; Olive Street duplex approved; conversations with Philip Glass, Elizabeth Strout, and others; microscopic plastics.
Plus: What might be the best parquet floor ever; design workshop for the Randall Road Debris Basin Project; bucolic artwork at Sullivan Goss; "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on the big screen.
September 25, 2019
Near the end of a quiet street, with the bulk of the yard tucked behind, the 1949 house feels like a world of its own—and yet it's walkable to Coast Village Road.
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Meghan was my dental hygienist for years. She’s the best! — Anita Sonquist
What on God's green acres does that mean- why on EARTH would someone want a partially gluten free product? So you only eat the fully… — Christine!
I was thinking the same thing! Maybe it was said in humor. Brophy's looks like a great place for adults to have fun but I… — Victoria
Megan, sometimes LGF stands for "Low Gluten Friendly", meaning not totally gluten-free. — Tal
I agree, not what we would go to the beach to eat. — Mike
I can't believe someone suggested Brophy's as a good restaurant for a kids birthday party. The Breakwater was a great breakfast restaurant, went there many… — Margaret
I can't believe someone suggested Brophy's as a good restaurant for a kids birthday party. The Breakwater was a great breakfast restaurant, went there many… — Margaret
Interesting. Thank you! — jillian
I agree! I read the new Ellwood menu and thought, "I can't wait to go!" We'll drive 20+ minutes to try something new—and on the… — KD
I went to the breakwater this weekend and I am very disappointed with their prices. Same stale decor and double the prices? They could at… — Roy