New Listing :: Carpinteria Country Living

The best of both worlds - country living & beach lifestyle on this peaceful estate in Carpinteria, California. 

6855 Shepard Mesa Road :: Carpinteria California

3 beds | 6 baths | 2,825 sqft

Offered at $3,100,000

Lovely gated Shepard Mesa location on the lower loop of the street with peaceful distant ocean views. Foliage framed patios allow for ultimate feeling of privacy. Nestled on a knoll top, this property suits a comfortable, relaxed country lifestyle. This home has been lovingly restored and remodeled and is move-in ready. Four stall stable includes tack room, feed storage space and dual wash racks. The property features solar panels located on the sunny side roof of the stable. Guest cottage offers privacy for visitors with living room, kitchen space, one full bathroom and one half bathroom, laundry, and bedroom suite. Santa Barbara screens are featured throughout the guest cottage and main house allowing ocean breezes and the sounds of fountains and nature. Welcome home! 

FACTS

• Baths: 4 full, 2 half
• Lot: 4.74 acres
• Single Family
• Built in 1969

FEATURES

• Fireplace
• Flooring: Other
• Hot Tub/Spa
• Parking: Carport, Garage - Detached

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

• PropertyType: Residential
• Source Lot Size Area: Assessor
• View Description: Ocean, Canyon
• Rooms: Stable, Guest House, Master Bedroom, Tack Room

• Style: Ranch
• Eating Areas: Formal Dining Rm, Breakfast Nook
• Lot Description: Landscaped, Horse Property, Horse Property Improved
• Laundry: Laundry Area

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Moxi Museum Opens February 25th, 2017

MOXI is nearly complete! Get a sneak peek inside and fly through their finished building. It may be beautiful now, but it's going to be even more exciting once their doors open come Feb 25th, 2017.

Opening Soon

The Science Center: MOXI The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation

“A major source of local buzz is the arrival of MOXI: The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation on lower State Street,” says Compass agent Susan Pate. “Located within Santa Barbara’s downtown arts and entertainment district (known by natives as the Funk Zone) and just blocks from the beach, the community’s newest hands-on experience for children (and adults too!) celebrates the spectacular vision of Law & Order creator Dick Wolf and his wife Noelle, who funded the project. A decade in the making, the LEED-certified museum has been designed by local firm AB Design Studio as a 17,000-square-foot space chockful of interactive exhibits conceived by award-winning museum planning firm Gyroscope, Inc., the creative force behind dozens of education hubs from Boston to the Bay Area. Last but not least, a Sky Garden will proffer aerial views of Santa Barbara’s awe-inspiring environs.”

By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @NoozhawkNews |

Exhibits will be dedicated to spark interests in science, technology, engineering, arts and math education, or STEAM.

Guests can build a race car and send it flying down a custom designed track, make a creation on a high-tech 3-D printer, or feel gusty winds and launch materials up three wind columns.

Throughout the museum, there will be surfaces to feel, items to launch, sounds to be heard and more than 70 displays.

Once inside the building, the public can also create sound effects for a movie clip, or wander upstairs to experience downtown Santa Barbara on a scenic rooftop, use five observation telescopes, and take in exhibits featuring wind- and solar-powered musical instruments and bubble blowers.

Image :: Exhibits by Moxi - The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation

The 21st-century museum's exhibits draw on sound, gravity, speed, fundamentals of light, color, interactive media arts and technology.

“It’s a limitless experience, and we want this to be extremely thought provoking,” said MOXI president and CEO Steve Hinkley. “This is an opportunity to educate the public in a fun and complete multi-sensory way. We want people to feel there’s something different every time they visit.”

The displays were created by Tucson, Ariz.-based Creative Machines, Roto and the Science Museum of Minnesota, and designed in partnership with Oakland-based Gyroscope.

“The vast majority of exhibits developed are unique,” Hinkley said. “They don’t exist anywhere else.”

Image :: The Sky Garden - by Moxi - The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation

Visitors to MOXI’s scenic rooftop Sky Garden will be able to experience downtown Santa Barbara, use five observation telescopes, and take in exhibits featuring wind- and solar-powered musical instruments and bubble blowers. 

In late-October 2016, one of biggest exhibits was installed in MOXI’s main entrance window—the Color Mixing Machine.

The pink, blue, yellow, red, orange and mixture of colors can be observed from State Street and hangs above the main entrance.

Onlookers will also notice the museum name is engraved between the two big arched windows. 

Image :: The Color-Mixing Machine - by Moxi - The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation

Nestled between the train station and Hotel Indigo, the facility is three floors tall and includes the rooftop Sky Garden with panoramic views.

At MOXI, there will be far more than displays.

MOXI will align with classroom curriculum and help student achieve in STEAM learning, Hinkley said.

Santa Barbara County school districts, private schools and youth programs including the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County have created relationships with MOXI representatives.

“There’s evidence saying the more senses you engage in the learning process, then you will understand the concept more richly and also remember it better,”  Hinkley said. “There are some exhibits that are auditory-based, sound-based and sensory-based. We are trying to grip every human way of learning experiences, and trying to build exhibits that reflect it.”

MOXI includes a space where visiting school groups can work on projects and will host children camps in spring 2017.

The facility also includes a theater created by UC Santa Barbara's AlloSphere Research Group.

"(The community will) playfully interacting with MOXI’s hands-on exhibits sparks curiosity and creativity," said Director of Education Ron Skinner. "(It's) the processes of exploration and self-discovery combined with creative design and making leads to an understanding of how the world works without the need for heavy science content."

Located at 125 State St., the museum will house a space for special programs, and after-hour events where people 21 years and over can sip drinks, listen to music and explore science and creativity activities. 

Image :: Instagram @moxisb

"MOXI will provide an amazing resource to our community and an entirely unique experience to our guests of all ages," Skinner said. "It is easily accessible to the entire community."

MOXI began reaching out to the public to raise the final funds during the summer, and has $1.5 million left to close out the $25 million capital campaign.

The donations support the design and construction of the exhibits and facility.

General admission for adults will be $14; children ages 3 to 12 are $10; and children under 2 are free.

MOXI members will receive a full year of free general admission, discounts and members-only hours.

Prices for individual members start at $90 annually.

The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, except Thanksgiving and Christmas.

MOXI began when the Children’s Museum of Santa Barbara incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1990, and the museum broke ground in 2014.

Memberships are available now and tickets for the grand opening will be available soon.

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Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017

Image: Arlington Theater hosts the Santa Barbara Film Festival | Photo credit Santa Barbara Magazine

Experience Movie night in Style 

 🥂Dinner & Show 📽

The former Arts & Letters has been revolutionized into the new @somersetsantabarbara, an old world European Grand Cafe designed to be a classic. End the night with Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone at the Arlington Theater 8pm for the 32nd Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Image: New Somerset Restaurant in Santa Barbara where Arts & Letters used to be. 

SBIFF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to making a positive impact utilizing the power of film. SBIFF is a year-round organization that is best known for its main film festival that takes place each year in February. Over the past 31 years the Santa Barbara International Film Festival has become one of the leading film festivals in the United States – attracting 90,000 attendees and offering 11 days of 200+ films, tributes and symposiums. We bring the best of independent and international cinema to Santa Barbara all year, even more so with the recent acquisition of the historic and beloved Riviera Theatre as our new home for our year-round programming. We continue to expand our year-round operation to include a wide range of educational programming, fulfilling our mission to engage, enrich and inspire our community through film.

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Film Festival Schedule

   32nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival

3 FEBRUARY, 2017 - 11 FEBRUARY, 2017 / RECURRING DAILY

Image: Opening night of the Santa Barbabra International Film Festival - Photo by Fritz Olenberger.

200+ films, filmmaker Q&As, celebrity tributes, industry panels, and dozens of free community and educational events in downtown Santa Barbara. 

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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2017 Outstanding Performers of the Year Award

3 FEBRUARY, 2017

                    Time: 8:00pm - 12:00am | Location: Arlington Center for the Performing Arts

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling will be presented with the 2017 Outstanding Performers of the Year award at a tribute moderated by Roger Durling on Friday, February 3, 2017 for their remarkable performances in Damien Chazelle’s dazzling La La Land, from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment label. This marks the first time Stone has been honored by the festival and will be a return for Gosling who was the inaugural recipient of the Cinema Vanguard Award in 2008.

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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2017 Virtuosos Award
4 FEBRUARY, 2017

Location: Arlington Center for the Performing Arts

The recipients of the 2017 Virtuosos Award, created to recognize a select group of talent who have distinguished themselves through breakthrough performances in film this past year, will include: Aaron Taylor Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Dev Patel (Lion), Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures, Moonlight), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Ruth Negga (Loving), Simon Helberg (Florence Foster Jenkins), and Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences). The Award presentation, which will be moderated for the seventh year by Dave Karger, will take place February 4, 2017 at the Arlington Theatre at the 32nd edition of the festival, which runs February 1 to February 11, 2017.

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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  2017 Cinema Vanguard Award
5 FEBRUARY, 2017

 Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams will be honored with the Cinema Vanguard Award on Sunday, February 5, 2017 at the 32nd Festival. The two actors will be celebrated for their remarkable roles in Kenneth Lonergan’s deeply poignant Manchester by the Sea and will be feted with a tribute at the Arlington Theatre. This announcement comes on the heels of their respective Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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 2017 Montecito Award
8 FEBRUARY, 2017

              Time: 8:00pm - 12:00amLocation: Arlington Center for the Performing Arts

Isabelle Huppert will receive SBIFF’s prestigious Montecito Award for her critically acclaimed role in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, a Sony Pictures Classics release. Given to a person in the entertainment industry who has made a great contribution to film, the award will be presented to her at a ceremony on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 moderated by Anne Thompson at the historic Arlington Theatre. 

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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 2017 American Riviera Award
9 FEBRUARY, 2017

                     Time: 8:00pm - 12:00am Location: Arlington Center for the Performing Arts

Jeff Bridges will be honored with SBIFF’s 2017 American Riviera Award on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the historic Arlington Theatre. Bridges will be fêted with a Tribute, moderated by Scott Feinberg, celebrating his illustrious career, culminating with his captivating performance in David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water, a CBS Films release. The tribute is sponsored by Bella Vista Designs and Classic Party Rentals.

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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 2017 Closing Night Film: Their Finest
11 FEBRUARY, 2017

             Time: 8:00pm - 12:00amLocation: Arlington Center for the Performing Arts

The 32nd festival will close with the Lone Scherfig’s romantic comedy Their Finest at the Arlington Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 11 in advance of the film’s March 24 stateside release. Their Finest is written by Gaby Chiappe, based on the novel by Lissa Evans and stars Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, and Richard E. Grant. SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling stated, “Lone’s deeply touching film is authentic, funny and depicts the power that cinema has to bring people together and share their stories. It was the perfect choice to close this year’s festival.”

LOCATION:Santa Barbara International Film Festival

WEBSITE:http://www.sbiff.org PHONE:(805) 963-0023

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New Compass Quarterly

Think listings meets lifestyle = Compass Quarterly, a digital & print magazine - with interesting articles on real estate, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, design and technology. Now live, the fifth edition of "Compass Quarterly." Read about 2016's milestones and our predictions for 2017.

Compass Quarterly

Winter 2017

Our vision — then and now.

Nothing forces reflection more than the dawn of a new year. As Compass confronted the arrival of 2017, we witnessed formerly futuristic fields — artificial intelligence, virtual reality, intergalactic travel — actualize around us, and observed the reinvention of neighborhoods nationwide. But just as we looked back, so, too, do we anticipate the achievements yet to come. From intelligent new infrastructure in Boston and Miami to the restoration of landmarks in San Francisco and the Hamptons, every milestone represents another brick in the future of real estate.

The Milestones Issue

8 Ideas Changing the Way Live

A celebration of advances in our daily lives, this section explores domestic trends through the lens of a singular, pivotal benchmark.

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10 Real Estate Experts Predict the New Year's Biggest Game-Changers Nationwide

From new places to gather to new ways to get around, Compass agents share their communities’ most transformative openings of 2017.

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The Secrets of Selling Celebrity Homes

Meet the elite agents who regularly partner with athletes and entertainers, leveraging their own pasts to assist today’s high-visibility clients.

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The Year's Most Anticipated New Buildings

Catch an exclusive glimpse of the residential architecture transforming our skylines coast to coast

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What’s Next for Real Estate?

Our most forward-thinking agents rank 12 new technologies by impact and proliferation in today’s housing market.

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How Real Estate Has Evolved Over 30 Years

Compass’ most tenured agents compare notes and anecdotes on how the industry has shifted throughout the decades.

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The Country’s Top 10 Home Trends

A gadget-rich Bay Area mansion, a live/work Boston loft, and a very Instagram-worthy LA bungalow all appear in our rankings for what home buyers want now.

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The American Neighborhoods to Invest in Now

Compass agents who’ve based their businesses in niche neighborhoods advise on where — and what — to look for right now.

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The 8 Tools Every Agent Needs

Our Head of Product zeroes in on which products really moved the needle for our agents’ business this year.

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