We’ll all be able to taste the flavors of The Village this Sunday, May 31, 2009 from 3-6 PM as 20 of Carlsbadistan restaurants serve of samples of their cuisine during The Carlsbad Village Associations Flavors of the Village Restaurant Tour.
“Come sample our broad array of international foods in the Village” invites Robin Young, Executive Director of the Carlsbad Village Association (CVA), “The Flavors of the Village in Carlsbad offers Irish, French, Mexican, Italian, Vegetarian and, of course, American cuisines – literally something for everyone”. . . Participating restaurants include: Beach City Smoothies, Caldo Pomodoro, Carlsbad Chocolate Bar, Dini’s Bistro, El Puerto, Fish House Vera Cruz, Gregorio’s, Hennessey’s, Knockout Burgers, Knockout Pizza, Las Olas, Le Passage, Naked Café, Ocean House, O’Sullivan’s, Pizza Port, Pollos Maria, Senor Grubby’s, Submarina and The Wine Spot.
Strangely, many of our favorite restaurants aren’t participating, but we’re going to use this as a chance to get off our well-worn path and try something new.
Last night’s headliners at D7 | All Things Digital Conference at The Four Season Aviara were Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the founders of Twitter. The two answered some pretty hard-hitting questions from the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, but mostly they just said, “We need to do a lot of work on the business” over and over again in very clever, engaging ways.
Carlsbad High School swimmer Spencer DiDio was recognized as one of nine “athletes of the week” by the San Diego Union-Tribune this week for helping the Lancers win its seventh straight titled.
The senior, who will attend USC, set a section record in the 100 fly and helped Lancers teams set section marks in the 200 medley and 400 free relays. DiDio was first in the 200 IM.
At this moment some of the biggest names in digital technology are cueing up at Carlsbadistan’sThe Four Seasons Aviara (if that’s what it’s still called) for The Wall Street Journal’s D | All Things Digital Conference which runs May 26-28, 2009. And that means it’s time for our annual All Things Barged expedition. We’re not as excited this year because the line-up of tech players this year while strong isn’t exactly a list of people that we’re interested in, but there are still some extremely heavy hitters. Here’s who will be speaking in Carlsbadistan over the next three days:
Irving Azoff | CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment Mitchell Baker | Chairman of Mozilla Steve Ballmer | CEO of Microsoft Carol Bartz | CEO of Yahoo Mark Cuban | Chairman of HDNet and Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures Eve Ensler | Playwright and Founder of V-Day Arianna Huffington | Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | CEO of Nokia Mike Lazaridis | Co-CEO of Research In Motion John Lilly | CEO of Mozilla John Malone | Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation Roger McNamee | Partner, Elevation Partners Jon Miller | Chief Digital Officer of News Corp. Jon Rubinstein | Executive Chairman, Palm Randall Stephenson | CEO of AT&T Biz Stone | Co-Founder of Twitter Owen Van Natta | CEO of MySpace Katharine Weymouth | Publisher of the Washington Post Evan Williams | Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter Jeff Zucker | CEO of NBC Universal
Now that we think about it, if we made a list of people in the tech business who had some serious explaining to do it would look a lot like the D7 speakers list. Here’s a little of what we mean:
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo needs to explain what happened to Nokia’s business after Apple stepped in with the iPhone.
Palm’s Jon Rubinstein is going to do the same thing, though he will be disguising his excuses as a presentation of their new webOS.
Twitter’s Biz Stone and Evan Williams need to explain some kind of end game for a company that has raised close to $300 million, has 30.1 million users and zero revenue.
Mark Cuban has some seriously SEC issues that we’re sure he’s just itching to explain.
It would be wise of Carol Bartz to explain why Yahoo has a future
Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker should explain how money can be made with a free browser
Steve Ballmer will likely attempt to explain the roll out Mircosoft’s next marketing failure (Bing)
And finally, The Washington Post’s Katharine Weymouth will be faced with the “what ever happened to newspapers” question that we’re sure she’s extremely tired of answering.
We would love to hear many of these explanations, but the conference costs $5,000. We’ll let you know how it goes. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher were very cool to us last year as was a certain PR person from Google.
McGee Park on Carlsbad Blvd. was host today to the annual Memorial Day party of The Carlsbad The Church of Jesus Christ Latter -day Saints and they were rocking out. We first heard them at the post office and followed their rocking sounds all the way to the park.
Saturday morning gave Carlsbadistan beach goers a little taste of what is possible this weekend. But will the sun stick around or will the May gray return and cloud up the rest of the weekend? We’ll all just have to wait and see.
Where are we going to be on this Memorial Day weekend? Well, on Saturday May 23, 2009 from 9 AM to 1 PM? We’ll be down at Ponto trying out some of Al Merrick’s latest Channel Island’s creations, that is if you all don’t check them out before us.
Okay, we actually like this one. The endless feathering on this wave is hypnotic. . . at least when those on-shores are blasting up Elm CVD. Nice work, Bryan.
It’s summer time again and that means sipping wine to the sounds of the finest traveling bands in the business as the City of Carlsbadistan kicks off its 24th season of TGIF Jazz In The Parks.
This summer, like last, only three parks will be in the mix: Stagecoach, Poinsettia, and Calavera. Here’s what we all have to look forward to:
Stagecoach Park 3420 Camino de los Coches, 92009
June 19 Canned Heat – boogie blues
June 26 Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas – zydeco
July 3 Big Time Operator – big band swing
July 10 Bill Magee Blues Band – southern blues
Poinsettia Park 6600 Hidden Valley Road, 92011
July 17 Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca – afro-cuban
July 24 Lowrider Band – latin/funk
July 31 Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars – cajun
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We’ll all be able to taste the flavors of The Village this Sunday, May 31, 2009 from 3-6 PM as 20 of Carlsbadistan restaurants serve of samples of their cuisine during The Carlsbad Village Associations Flavors of the Village Restaurant Tour.
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