Food + Beverage

Right at Home

Ospi finds its place in Montecito Article by Matt DeMarcus | Photography by Max Milla Ospi had been trying to get into Montecito for a while. The team started looking in 2020, but finding the right space was harder than expected. Some opportunities went to other groups. Others just did not feel right. Then the Runyon Group reached out. “Everything aligned perfectly,” chef Jackson Kalb says. “It was better than we could have dreamed.” The location gave Ospi something that is not always easy...

Food + Beverage

An Anchor Here

A restaurant built around simplicity, memory, and return. Article by Matt DeMarcus | Photography by Nick Shamblott “I wanted Ancora to feel comfortable, established, almost like it had always been here,” Luca Crestanelli says. That feeling matters to him. Ancora is polished, but not formal. The bar feels easy to settle into, the tables feel close enough to give the room some life, and nothing about the space asks for too much attention. Crestanelli wants people to notice how they feel there...

Arts + Culture

The Bea Side

Vintage fabric, sharp instincts, and Santa Barbara’s creative edge. Article by Grace Galloway | Photography by Lena Ibarra Santa Barbara style is often described in soft language: white walls, ocean light, Spanish lines, linen, oak, restraint. And all of that is true. But there is another current running through the Central Coast, one with more grit, color, humor, and nerve. Joanna "Bea" Shultz lives comfortably in that current. Her pieces have polish, but they also have attitude, the sense...

Arts + Culture

Chairman of the Board

Hand-shaping boards with purpose and soul. Article by Sara DeMarcus | Photography by Lena Ibarra A surfboard begins as a blank. Foam, dust, measurement, instinct. Before the resin cures and before color enters the picture, there is only a form waiting to be found. In Ryan Lovelace's hands, that form becomes something more personal than a product: a board built for a specific person, a specific wave, a specific feeling he's trying to get right. Sometimes that feeling is as simple as catching...