••• Tickets are on sale for AIA Santa Barbara’s ArchitecTours on October 4. This year’s selections includes five houses (including the Fernald Point one by DesignARC, above), an office, the Hotel Santa Barbara, and Ospi restaurant.
••• Carpinteria’s Heritage Goods & Supply is opening in Cassandria Blackmore’s former space at 1275 Coast Village Road.
••• From the city: “Construction for the Milpas Street at U.S. Highway 101 Operational Improvements Project is scheduled to start mid-September and is anticipated to be completed early 2026.”
••• UCSB’s Naked Shakes theater troupe is back at Elings Park September 11-14 with a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest…