As if Carlsbadistan needs another reason to drink beer. Pizza Port is loading up on the good stuff next weekend for a Belgian Beer Party blow-out on Saturday, March 28, 2009, according to a story on TheFullPint.com.
More than 100 Belgian and Belgian-style beers will be available for sampling. The first session is from 10 am to 4 pm. The second session is from 5 pm to 11 pm. Pre-Sale tickets are available for $40 at the Pizza Port website – www.pizzaport.com. Tickets will be $45 at the door, if there are any left available. There will be 3 liter bottles opened every hour and the Pizza Port bottle shop will have glassware and full bottles for sale. Look for a pre-party on Friday the 27th at Pizza Port Carlsbad with 10-20 Belgian beers on tap.
Glenn Sundby, founder of International Gymnast magazine and the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 . He was 87. Sundby had spent the last year in an assisted living facility in Carlsbad.
Sundby was known and loved throughout the gymnastics world for the tireless and numerous contributions he made to the sport. He was a gentle but determined man, loyal to the core and was never one to give up on his ideas. Gymnastics has truly lost a humble legend and faithful friend.
According to the story on the International Gymnast Magazine website, “A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 28 at 10 a.m. at Coastline Baptist Church, 557 Vista Bella, Oceanside, Calif.”
On January, 16, 2009 Carl T. Herrman, Carlsbadistan’s premiere US Postal Service stamp designer, helped launch to new priority mail stamps at the SANDICAL Stamp Show in San Diego, CA.
The 2009 Express Mail stamp depicts Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful erupting in the warm glow of an autumn sunset while several bison graze nearby. The 2009 Priority Mail stamp, paying tribute to America’s redwood forests, depicts two people walking through a forest of redwood trees. Both stamps are digital illustrations produced by stamp artist Dan Cosgrove of Clarendon Hills, IL, under the direction of art director Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, CA.
Sorry we missed it. . . because there ain’t no party like a stamp launch party.
Carlsbadistan wake boat builder Epic has launched a new plug-in electric hybrid wake boat that reportedly cuts carbon emissions by 50%.
The 22-foot craft is expected to bring its hybrid equivalent of 375 horses to the water sometime in July. The price tag could be as much as $150,000 dollars for this specialized boat though the company foresees being able to produce a $70,000 version by 2012. We can only wonder if some of the plug-in hybrid technology used here will also find its way into into the Aptera 2h.
And it makes sense, Epic CEO Chris Anthony is also the co-founder of Aptera.
North County Times writer Paul Sisson turned in a great story today (photos by Bill Wechter) about St. Patrick’s day with Tip-Top Meats‘ owner Big John Haedrich.
Ironically, Haedrich —- the owner of Tip Top Meats and a hospitality icon in Carlsbad —– is German, not Irish. His nickname reflects his 6-foot-plus frame and his thick hands, which he used to butcher his first hog at age 12. . . .A fourth-generation butcher, he said he long ago learned the secret to cooking a great St. Patty’s Day plate: . . . “Use choice meat, put it in a good mild cure and sell it for a medium price,” Haedrich said, whose butcher shop and restaurant sits near the corner of Palomar Airport and Paseo del Norte, just east of Interstate 5.
Whatever it is Big John is doing, we like it. And so will you.
The name Sorenson Media has been synonymous with video compression since the company was founded in 1995. But now, that company has moved to Carlsbadistan, according to a story in the North County Times.
Sorenson Media, based in Salt Lake City, opened its new office in Carlsbad to be the hub of its business, said Peter Csathy (pronounced “Chatty”), the company’s chief executive, on Tuesday. The original Utah office will remain, he said, but most of the hiring will take place in the Carlsbad office on Jefferson Street.
Welcome to Carlsbadistan, Sorenson. We can always use a little video compression help around here.
The Carlsbad Police Department’s Gypsy Hunter, Detective Patty Parra, spent the past four months looking for a pair of men who were preying on elderly women, and now that hard work has paid off according to a story on CBS8.com.
Handcuffed in court, police say 35-year-old Sonny Mitchell is a traveling gypsy who preys upon elderly women. Detectives say Mitchell and his accomplice trick senior drivers into pulling over, then after setting fires in their trunks, the scammers would allegedly convince the seniors that their cars needed immediate repair for their own safety.
Thanks to Parra’s work Mitchell is being held on $500,000 bail and his accomplice who was found in Reno, Nevada is in the process of being extradited.
A woman was robbed outside of Macys at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real this afternoon at 5:40 PM according to a story in the North County Times.
About 5:40 p.m., a man allegedly approached a woman, knocked her down and grabbed her purse, the dispatcher said. . . . He fled east from the shopping center in a white newer model extended cab pickup truck driven by another man. The vehicle was seen heading east from the shopping mall, located on El Camino Real. . . The first suspect was described by the dispatcher as a black man with dreadlocks, wearing a gray hooded-sweatshirt. . . The driver was described as Latino.
We always stay away from that mall after dark, but this was in broad daylight. Hopefully the Carlsbad Police Department gets these guys. They’ve been doing pretty well with arrests lately.
After his Daily Show debacle in weeks past we don’t know if being recommended by Mad Money’s Jim Cramer is a good thing or a bad thing, but Carlsbadistan’sIsis Pharmaceutical was one of that man’s picks in what he calls the “Lightening Round” of his show, according to a story on Inveterms.com.
ISIS represents an attractive buyout opportunity for several reasons. First, the company saw its revenues climb 38% to $29.7 million with a switch from royalty revenue to R&D collaboration revenues. Second, the company is expected to end 2009 with more than $550 million in cash. Third, the company has a very positive outlook for 2009 with several key milestones on the horizon for its drugs.
In a story on an increase in Southern California shark sightings, The Los Angeles Times has an unconfirmed report that a Carlsbadistan surfer was “rushed by a shark” last weekend. That, coupled with the blob of “marine life” that washed up on Cherry St. sunday night, is making us wonder a little.
This is the season for increased shark sightings off Southern California. More people are venturing into the ocean and juvenile white sharks — before they become great white sharks — utilize local waters as a nursery area during the spring.
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As if Carlsbadistan needs another reason to drink beer. Pizza Port is loading up on the good stuff next weekend for a Belgian Beer Party blow-out on Saturday, March 28, 2009, according to a story on TheFullPint.com.
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