by The Editors on August 16, 2007
Mark Gruman and Tim Loveday have no problem calling themselves “gurus.” They formed their Carlsbad-based sustainable furniture rep firm, Channel Logic, this year “to advance the presence of sustainability in the marketplace by becoming the premiere source for sustainable home furnishings and raw materials products.” Their blog Sustainable Furniture Gurus hopes to act as a conduit to facilitate sustainable furniture discussions.
We’re climbing mountains of paperwork to find answers on global trade issues, product sources, and questions on sustainable standards. It will take years before the global market goes from brown to green to truly sustainable.
It’s not easy being green. We all could use a little help, right?
[Link: Sustainable Furniture Gurus]
by The Editors on August 16, 2007
The Carlsbad Boys & Girls Club has received a “conditional approval” for the $7 million, 18,600-square-foot clubhouse they hope to build in Carlsbad’s Bressi Ranch development.
Saying the project’s architecture was “stunning” and the building was “well deserved” for the nonprofit youth organization that’s put up with a temporary clubhouse in La Costa for 25 years, the commission voted 6-0 to grant the project a conditional use permit. Commissioner Bill Dominguez was absent.
The organization hopes to have the clubhouse open in 2009.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 15, 2007
Being fans of both Kem Nunn and Deadwood creator David Milch we awaited their new show John From Cincinnati with anticipation because it featured a beach town (like Carlsbad) and surfers (like us, sort of).
The HBO series centered around a troubled family of formerly famous surfers from Imperial Beach (some claim it was loosely based on San Clemente’s Fletcher family) who encounter a strange, seemly autistic man named John, who claims to be from Cincinnati. John has come to get the family “back in the game.”
When the show arrived Sunday nights on HBO we were intrigued. Rarely does a beach community, (or surfers in general) appear in the mainstream media with serious representation. As the weeks wound down to last Sunday’s finale, however, the show drifted so far in to the metaphysical realm of surf as metaphor for spirituality and marketing as religion that even the show’s writers seemed to get lost.
They won’t be lost any longer. HBO has announced that it is canceling John From Cincinnati. The ratings never picked up, and the fact was, the show was complex and confusing. “A spokeswoman for HBO declined to comment on the reasons for “John” ‘s cancellation.”
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on August 15, 2007
Carlsbad’s annual September barrio street fair won’t be happening this year because of Fiesta del Barrio President Ofelia “Ofie” Escobedo’s health issues.
A well-known community leader in the Barrio area for decades, Escobedo has pretty much been the driving force behind the fiesta since its founding in 1991. She said Monday that she has known for months that this year’s event might be canceled.
According to the North County Times, Escobedo has been fighting to recover from throat cancer.
“I’m still under doctor’s care, but I’m much, much better,” she stressed Monday. “I’m on the way to recovery and I’ve already started going back to my committee meetings.”
We wish Ofie the best and look forward to Fiesta del Barrio 2008.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 15, 2007
Seems like this is something that should have happened in the 1970s, but better late that never.
Customers of the Carlsbad Municipal Water District can expect to receive postcards by the end of August notifying them that fluoride will be added to the city’s water supply starting Oct. 1. . . Dentists have long argued that the substance can help prevent tooth decay and reduce the risk of cavities. But while many health care professionals support the fluoridation movement, it has been controversial in recent years.
According to the North County Times, the city of Escondido residents fought fluoride for four years before finally losing out. Carlsbad City Councilman Mark Packard, a local dentist says that it’s about time.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 15, 2007
Carlsbad filmmaker Devin Fearn created a blood and guts zombie movie that is reportedly selling out shows in “Northern California. This Friday August 17, 2007, Fearn, a history major living in Santa Cruz, CA is bringing his $10,000 film The Beginning to the Carlsbad Community Cultural Arts Center at 3557 Monroe St. (at the High School) at 7:30 p.m. Erin Glass of the Union Tribune Entertainment guide interviewed Fearns about the film. You can listen to it here. The entire cast and crew will also be on hand to answer questions following the film. Seeing the film will cost you your soul. . . just kidding. Admission is $5 at the door and it is for “mature audiences only.”
[Link: Carlsbad Community Cultural Arts Center via San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on August 15, 2007
Without giving too much away, let’s just say that we get our fair share of train horn sounds blowing in our windows at all times of the day and night (hey, there went one just now), but since the Federal Railroad Administration decided in June 2005 to allow communities to create quiet zones some cities like Sacramento and San Jose have quieted the trains. Now, according to the North County Times Oceanside, Encinitas, and Carlsbad (thank, God) are trying to get the horn blowers to quiet down.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 14, 2007
The project application notice on the Burchfield’s Ocean Street residence has been upgraded/vandalized with an interesting stencil. It features a little butterfly in the upper right hand corner and the words: “carlsGOOD” followed by a question mark.
Obviously it’s a play on Carlsbad, but what does it mean? Is it simply someone’s tag? Or a street art project? Is it ironic commentary on a project application notice? Or is it a more general question forcing viewers to ask: “Is Carlsbad a good place to live?” Or is it simply the planning department’s new approval stamp?
We have no idea. If you know what’s going on, please leave a comment.
by The Editors on August 14, 2007
For politicos from other parts of the country, La Costa Resort and Spa seems to be the destination of choice when traveling on the public’s dime. But lately it’s meant trouble for somel. In Knoxville, Tennessee they’re looking a little more deeply into it.
The Ethics Committee, formed earlier this year as a result of state legislation aimed at cleaning up government after the Tennessee Waltz scandal, also wants Kim Bennett, executive director of the county pension board, to explain the La Costa golf trip. . . Commissioner Chairman Scott Moore and Commissioner Ivan Harmon were among four county representatives on the trip hosted by Wilshire Associates, the county’s pension consultant. . . .The trip included a round of golf, which costs up to $205 per person at La Costa. The foursome’s travel was funded by the county pension board.
Nothing like letting the county pension fund pay a couple rounds at La Costa.
[Link: Knoxnews.com]
by The Editors on August 14, 2007
We received an email recently saying that the Agua Hedionda Lagoon is now “a death trap for kayakers, sailors, paddle boarders.” According to this source, the buoys that formerly separated the “passive use area” from the “powerboat area” near the Bayshore Drive public access walkway have gone missing and powerboats are now using the entire back end of the lagoon (in clear violation of lagoon regulations), leaving little or no space for human propelled water craft. The email continued:
Last week a No Fear helicopter filming a wake boarder and another boat that was filming too, ran amuck using every space off the lagoon for over an hour. They we’re going all the way to the back of the lagoon almost capsizing a children’s kayaking class that was in the passive area. . . The police we’re called and did nothing. . . The police have been called to put up the buoys again to protect the area and they have done nothing.
Sounds like the City of Carlsbad needs to step up and get the Police Department out to do some regulating. Or at least put the buoys back up.
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