••• While at The Shopkeepers in the Funk Zone, a reader was told that the store will be closing, but I have been unable to confirm it. (The shop opened in 2017.) The company also has an outpost at Linden Square in Carpinteria.
••• Local crisis averted! The Montecito Association reports that the effort to keep the post office at the Montecito Country Mart has been successful.
••• Apparently, I manifested Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds (a.k.a. Sturgill Simpson and his band) playing at the Santa Barbara Bowl, but on a date when I can’t attend (September 9). They’re going to cook live…