Chrysler says Friday night that work from the studio in Carlsbad will be moved to Auburn Hills, where the automaker has its headquarters. Chrysler plans to work with the about 20 Carlsbad employees affected by the closing. . . . In the statement, Chrysler says: “These moves are designed to help Chrysler become a more globally focused manufacturer.”
Tomorrow some of Carlsbadistan’s biggest action sports stars including Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, PLG, and others will be at the Clairemont YMCA Skateboard Park to help raise money for Grind For Life, an organization that helps people with cancer.
Islands Restaurants, the Carlsbad-based operator of “59 company-owned restaurants” has announced that they are “calling it quits in Elk Grove, California.”
Cynthia Darlington, marketing director for the Carlsbad-based chain of 59 company-owned restaurants, said the Elk Grove site was “not performing up to our expectations.” . . . Islands was prepared to stick it out, she said, but another restaurant group offered to pick up Islands’ lease and buy its equipment. She could not identify the chain, but said it probably was “better suited for Elk Grove” than Islands proved to be.
We had to laugh at one of the comments: “What, an all you can eat trough?” Don’t worry. We still love your fries.
Sero Propeties, a Los Angeles-based company, has apparently purchased a large chunk of The Island at Carlsbad (that mall up in the netherlands of College and Faraday) from Orange County-based Island Property Partners, LLC for $23.6 million dollars according to story on crefeed.com.
The acquisition includes 39,982 square feet of retail space within the Island at Carlsbad, which was built in 2000. The two-story retail project is located at 5813 Van Allen Way and is currently leased to tenants including Carl’s Jr., U.S. Healthworks, TD Waterhouse, First Future Credit Union, Randstad U.S. and The Islands Oasis Food Court.
This trailer is from the film Drips by group of Carlsbadistanians who call themselves Soonami Productions. Their newly launched website describes them like this:
We are a group of people passionate about film, theatre, music, photography, video production and fine art. As artists, we are interested in working with local San Diego artists and others across the U.S. to pursue artistic projects of these types. Through the Web and other technologies we hope to take advantage of redefining what community is by working with those who share our passions and values whether near or far away.
The US Postal Service is in the process of releasing a new set of stamps memorializing “some of the most impressive scientific achievements of the 20th century,” according to a story in the Imperial Valley News. The scientists features on the stamps include: Theoretical physicist John Bardeen, biochemist Gerty Cori, astronomer Edwin Hubble, and structural chemist Linus Pauling. But the most interesting part to us was the involvement of Carlsbad resident and US Postal Service Art Director Carl Herrman.
For each stamp, artist Victor Stabin of Jim Thorpe, PA, with the assistance of art director Carl Herrman of Carlsbad, CA, created a collage featuring a painted portrait of each scientist combined with diagrams or photographic representations associated with their major contributions.
Mr. Herrman, is famous in the world of design for having been involved with the art direction of literally hundreds of commemorative stamps in his 16 years as an Art Director for the U.S. Postal Service. We’d show you an image of the stamps, however, they are being unveiled today in a ceremony at Madison Square Gardens.
When everything is destroyed in the inevitably coming Armageddon we are relieved to know that the new City of Carlsbad recycling silo on the seawall above the beach at Offshore will still be standing.
Looking more like a bomb detonating chamber, this solid concrete recycling bin/dog urinal is serious about collecting aluminum, glass, and plastic ONLY. Put anything else in there and rocket launchers will magically appear in the turret and blow you into the next dimension.
If we hadn’t overheard two gated-community moms discussing windy, open-cockpit plane rides over the coast while their children were in swim lessons, we probably would have missed this story on a business at the Carlsbadistan Airport.
In addition to biplanes, Barnstorming Adventures (800/759-5667 or barnstorming.com) offers aerobatic rides in a WWII war-bird plane. Or, thrillseekers can play out a dogfight in two Varga air-combat planes. Biplane flights start at $199 for one or two people; war-bird and dogfight flights cost more. . . The company’s Sunset Special Fly/Dine package for two ($569) includes a 60-minute sunset flight, followed by a three-course meal at the nearby Four Seasons Aviara Vivace restaurant.
As one woman said, “The only thing we kept thinking about while on the flight is that we don’t have wills.” Point taken.
The ancient mammal’s tusk and jaw bones are on display at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center, at Faraday Avenue and Cannon Road, through July. . . .The fossils are owned by the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose team of paleontologists discovered mastodon bones June 14 when earth movers were grading land for a housing development at El Camino Real and Cannon Road in Carlsbad.
Or maybe you’re not interested in dead elephant bones.
At first we thought this was the memoir of a bitter old man and his wife, however, My Bag and Me, is actually a kids book that was produced by Carslbad-based Penton Kids Press to teach kids about the importance of reducing our dependency on paper and plastic bags.
“We believe it is important to help young children understand and participate in going green,” says Penton Marketing Director Tom McGrew. He adds, “‘My Bag and Me’ follows a child, and his reusable shopping bag, on a trip to the grocery store. By the end of the story, the child is ready to say no to paper and plastic and prove it with his own reusable bag.”
So yeah, keep consuming kids, but when you’re bringing home a carload of food wrapped in plastic and paper be sure to carry it in a reusable cloth bag.
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Now that Chrysler has fallen into the hands of “private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP” things are obviously tightening up. That is a bummer for workers in the Carlsbad advanced design studio.
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