••• Caltrans tells the Montecito Association that the Route 192 bridge between Hot Springs Road and Sycamore Canyon Road will reopen this Friday, sometime before 1 p.m.
••• The Santa Barbara Bowl announced its first show for the 2020 season: Dead Can Dance on May 12.
••• I don’t know who’s responsible for the butterfly street art in the Funk Zone, but I love it.
••• Could something new be opening in the former jewelry store space across from the Montecito Village Grocery? I wouldn’t mind an outpost of Low Pigeon.
••• The Gear shop inside Kim’s Service Dept. on State Street—where Cubaneo, Shaker & Mill, and Modern Times are—looks like it has some interesting merchandise (worth remembering as we enter the holiday season). It wasn’t open when I popped in, so I’ll have to return for a closer look.
••• The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced that Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver of Marriage Story will receive the Outstanding Performers of the Year Award on January 17. (Renée Zellweger was previously announced as the recipient of the American Riviera Award.) Tickets for both events are here.
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