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Dueling pianos have arrived on State Road.

Recent out of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, one in every of Santa Barbara’s hottest nightclubs has rebranded from Backstage Kitchen & Bar to Backstage Dueling Piano Bar.

It is a three-level membership at 409 State St., with three bars, two pianos and a stage.

The Victorian and Eastlake structure stands out from the Spanish model round city. Inbuilt 1889, it was referred to as the Religion Mission, and it provided spiritual companies, meals and lodging to younger males looking for spiritual steerage, in response to Backstage advertising supervisor Jenny Roberts.

The constructing survived the 1925 earthquake and remodeled into the Lodge Savoy. In recent times, it has been workplaces and residential to locations reminiscent of Qs, Matrix and Blind Tiger.

The dueling pianos occur each Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

“They feed off the power of the group,” Roberts mentioned. “It is by request. The extra power from the crowd, the extra entertaining it’s.”

Backstage serves meals and drinks, and it affords reside music on Wednesdays. Roberts calls it “elevated pub fare,” including that the vibe of the place is “unpretentious, snug and real.”

Roberts mentioned she’s happy to be on State Road at a time of such transition. She want to see the automobile closure lengthen to the 400 block.

“Closing down State Road and protecting it as a promenade is absolute genius as a result of this city was begging for a strolling central district,” Roberts mentioned. “Not solely is it nice for the vacationers, however it’s fabulous for the companies as a result of it truly places folks proper in entrance of it, slightly than driving by it. There is a new power and new understanding of what’s on the road. It’s giving all enterprise way more of a chance to succeed.”

Mayweather Boxing Studio Coming to Santa Barbara 

One of many best skilled boxers of all time is opening a health club in Santa Barbara.

Floyd Mayweather, a boxing champion who retired with an undefeated document of 50-0, plans to open Mayweather Boxing + Fitness in La Cumbre Plaza in September.

The crew is already at work within the plaza, throughout from Islands and subsequent to Starbucks, signing folks up and taking enrollments.

“All the exercises are designed from his exercises,” mentioned Alex English, director of gross sales and operations.

The Santa Barbara health club is one in every of about 50 set to open throughout the nation. About 30 have already got opened. Mayweather owns a majority of the corporate however is providing franchises. 

English famous that it will likely be a boxing studio, not a boxing health club.

“Boxing health club, folks suppose sweaty, smells unhealthy, folks get punched within the face, head gear, mouthpiece, all of that,” English mentioned. “That is not what that is. It is a health studio.”

The corporate’s web site states, “Regardless of who you’re — a former athlete, younger skilled, stay-at-home-parent, or retiree — for 45 minutes a day, you turn out to be a champion.”

There can be lessons all day, private trainers, and every little thing is guided and geared towards an individual’s wants.

“You might be studying approach, you’re studying kind, however it’s not essentially to struggle,” English mentioned. “It is to get in form.”

For extra data or to enroll, click here to visit the studio’s website or e-mail [email protected]. Founding enrollees, English mentioned, will get about 50% off the price of enrollment. 

Cappello & Noël Agency Provides Two Attorneys

Santa Barbara regulation agency Cappello & Noël LLP has employed two new affiliate attorneys, Matthew Hofer and Richard Lloyd.

Hofer’s follow focuses on industrial and environmental litigation in state and federal courts. He advises shoppers starting from personal people to Fortune 500 companies on quite a lot of complicated authorized points and has expertise with state regulatory businesses, together with the California Coastal Commission, the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, in response to a information launch.

Earlier than becoming a member of Cappello & Noël, Hofer was an legal professional with King & Spalding LLP and Morrison & Foerster LLP in Los Angeles. He acquired his bachelor’s diploma in political science and historical past from UCLA and his juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center. He grew up in Santa Barbara.

Lloyd has labored on the agency since 2015, starting as a paralegal.

He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2003, and in 2020 from the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law, the place he was class valedictorian, in response to a information launch.

Lloyd is concerned in all agency circumstances, from consumption to getting ready and offering help for multiweek trials and arbitrations. He’s initially from Nice Britain. He labored in London advising shoppers, negotiating authorized charges and conducting detailed assessments on quite a lot of prices issues, together with multi-jurisdictional industrial litigation, high-profile defamation circumstances and complicated medical negligence claims.

“Matt’s industrial and environmental litigation expertise is intensive,” managing companion A. Barry Cappello mentioned. “He has efficiently represented shoppers starting from personal people to Fortune 500 companies. Richard’s meticulous consideration to element and excessive degree of negotiating abilities are an incredible asset to the agency. We’re lucky to have them each on our staff as they proceed to develop of their authorized careers.”

Dispensary Permits Hashish Consumption On-Web site

Lompoc is dwelling to the primary hashish dispensary the place folks can smoke the hashish on-site. 

Seaweed on Ocean, Dispensary and Lounge has opened at 1101 E. Ocean Ave.

It is the one place between San Francisco and Hollywood the place hashish might be consumed on-site. The dispensary acquired the primary license from the City of Lompoc, on July 13, 2018.

Patrons can eat high-quality, protected, examined merchandise by smoking, vaping, dab bar consuming, consuming in addition to topical, in response to a information launch. 

Seaweed Lounge is open weekdays from 5 p.m. to shut, and all day on weekends and holidays.

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