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t’s not lost on me that we’ve been writing about the Funk Zone a lot lately and, I think, with good reason. There is just a lot happening down there right now that is interesting for Santa Barbara. The truth is that there’s a whole new world for all of us to explore, and frankly it’s exciting. But that’s not to say that we haven’t been keeping our eyes and ears open for interesting stuff in other parts of town too. There’s much happening these days, dear readers, and I’m confident that we’ll get to all of it in due course. In fact, there’s been something in particular on my mind for a while now, something that I’ve been trying to figure out and put together in a way that expresses my enthusiasm in a single column. I think I worked it out this week, so here goes. Milpas. Milpas is exciting to me. It’s not so much any one individual location – although, I must admit, I am pretty damned happy about the Old Dairy and McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream anchoring the northern end of what is arguably our fair city’s second most recognizable north/south ...continued p.31
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