by The Editors on August 20, 2008
Sadly, one of the two remaining KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) cars from 80s TV show Knight Rider has been in a Carlsbadistan storage facility for years and we never knew anything about it.
In a story on Staten Island Live about the car making a guest appearance at a car audio store next week we learned the following. . .
The car also had a brush with real-life drama. . . . Before Barris reclaimed the car, which he had worked on during the series, it belonged to Greenwich, Conn., real estate mogul and car collector Andrew Kissel, who was stabbed to death in his basement in 2005. Kissel had never picked the car up from a storage facility in Carlsbad, Calif. . . . KITT is now on its way to Staten Island from California, traveling by truck.
Oh, KITT. If we’d only know. How lonely you must have been all this time. And now, you’re gone. . .
[Link: Staten Island Live]
by The Editors on August 20, 2008
Black Enterprise, the “ultimate source for wealth creation. . . for African Americans” will be hosting their 15th Annual Golf & Tennis Challenge on Labor Day Weekend (Aug. 28-September 1, 2008) at the La Costa Resort & Spa.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary as the premier end-of-summer getaway, the Challenge consistently attracts more than 1,200 of the nation’s most notable black professionals, business executives, and entrepreneurs. . . . This year enjoy evening entertainment from the legendary Ashford & Simpson hosted by Aetna and Charlie Wilson & The Gap Band hosted by FedEx.
We’re guessing we’ll have a little tougher time crashing this party than we did at All Things D.
[Link: MarketWatch]
by The Editors on August 18, 2008
The Carlsbad-based Barbeques Galore, Inc., the world’s largest specialty retailer of barbecues and accessories, filed for Chapter 11 protection in US Bankruptcy court on August 15, 2008. The company operated 65 stores in the US and was in debt to the tune of $50 million, according to a story on Bloomberg.com.
Jeffrey Sears, chief executive officer of Barbeques Galore, said in a sworn statement that “the general collapse of the market from home sales” and the company’s inability to borrow from its bank lender or from Ironbridge forced it to seek bankruptcy protection.
Yep, take it off the grill. It’s definitely done.
[Link: Bloomberg.com]
by The Editors on August 16, 2008
When the doors of the new Carlsbad Apple Store at The Forum opened for customers the first time this morning at 10 AM Elizabeth Jean DeBoer, of the Oceanside Mac User Group was the first person in the store.
“I’ve been here since 4:20 AM,” she said from her comfortable chair before the doors opened. “I’m going to upgrade my iPhone to 3G and I waited until this store opened because I didn’t want to go to Fashion Valley.”
DeBoer entered the store through a gauntlet of more than 40 enthusiastically screaming, clapping, carousing Apple retail employees all outfitted in their matching orange and turquoise T-shirts with the words “I know people” screened on the front of them.
It was a bit of a madhouse actually as each person was welcomed into the store as if they were a high school football player entering the field of a state championship. It was just a continuation of the welcome everyone in line got at 9:50 when all the employees charged out of the front doors of the store and ran down the line of some 200 customers high-fiving them all and yelling the whole way.
The commotion was distracting regular mall shoppers as they tried to find parking. One attractive woman in big glasses leaned out her window or her black Porsche Cayenne to ask was was going on. When someone told her they were waiting for free T-shirts she couldn’t believe it. “All these people are standing in line for a free T-shirt,” she replied with a look of shock. “I thought all the iPods were 10 percent off or something.”
The Carlsbad store is the newest member of the Apple family of more than 200 retail stores worldwide. And while the Carlsbad store’s General Manager Audrey Todd wouldn’t say exactly how many employees her store has (or how many of them are from Carlsbad) she was happy to say that “Apple is always hiring.”
Stores hours are 8 AM to to 9 PM (Sundays 9 AM to 6 PM) and like all Apple retail store it features The Genius Bar, One To One weekly training, Personal Shopping, Workshops and Youth Programs.
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by The Editors on August 16, 2008
Thanks to the “discovery of two endagered birds” during an environmental review on the planned site of Carlsbad’s new High School, the opening date is going to be pushed off until 2011.
Two nests of least Bell’s vireo, which primarily inhabits riparian woodlands, scrub, and thickets for breeding, were found on city property between the high school site and College Boulevard, district Superintendent John Roach said. . . . The birds were discovered as part of an environmental review of the 57-acre site at College Boulevard and Cannon Road. The Carlsbad Unified School District is building the new campus to reduce overcrowding at Carlsbad High.
That means a little more time in the porta-classes, kids.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 16, 2008
A Superior Court judge has sided with the City of Encinitas in the battle over who is going to pay for all the upgrades that La Costa Avenue will need for the increase traffic that the proposed Ponto hotel and resort development will cause, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Judge Robert P. Dahlquist said the Ponto plan’s environmental impact report, required under the California Environmental Quality Act as a step before anything can be built, is inadequate and should be set aside. . . . . . . . “At this time, the city is very pleased with the ruling,” Encinitas City Attorney Glenn Sabine said yesterday.
Carlsbad’s City Attorney Ron Ball is hoping to convince the judge otherwise. Apparently, the City of Carlsbad would like to get out of as much of the $5.3 million improvement costs as possible.
The judge agreed with Encinitas that Carlsbad’s methodology for calculating how much developers would pay without addressing who would make up the difference “is inadequate as a matter of law and is not supported by substantial evidence,” the ruling says.
We’d have to say we agree with Judge Dahlquist. The Carlsbad City Council really doesn’t seem too skilled at math.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 16, 2008
Have a thing for small, shiny objects? Like rolling fresh cut diamonds through your hands all day? Well, there may be a way to get paid to do it all day. Find out at the Gemological Institute of America’s Jewerly Career Fair on September 12, 2008 at the GIA campus in Carlsbadistan.
When you attend GIA’s Jewelry Career Fair, you’ve come one step closer to creating the life you’ve imagined. Career Fair gives you the chance to explore everything the fine jewelry industry has to offer.
Hey, even if you’re just a small time jewel thief this may be the perfect place to learn more about the gemological indsutry.
[Link: GIA via Diamonds.net]
by The Editors on August 15, 2008
When Carlsbad’s Rebekah Price, 35, painted her Piragua Street house sea-foam green the neighbors were not stoked.
“It glows at night,” said neighbor Karen Sims, who has tried to give the color scheme some latitude. “I’ll think, maybe it’s not so bad. Then you turn the corner and you’re like, oh, it is that bad. . . . “The last week has been a complete nightmare where I haven’t slept,” said Price, 35. “I’ve dealt with angry, hostile, ridiculous people … screaming at me when they drive by, ‘Go back to (expletive) Tijuana!’ They have their kids yell at me, harass my children.”
Some people were so upset that they reportedly smeared dog poop on her fence and threw a dead rabbit on her lawn. Which we guess is how people respond to problems when they live so far away from the beach.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 14, 2008
This Saturday night Aug.16-17, 2008 the Carlsbad Recreation Department is hosting the Snores & S’mores: Pirates Cove family camp-out at Stagecoach Community Park. But as the registration deadline was August 8, 2008, if this is news to you then you’re not going. Neither are we.
This unique event offers all the fun of camping, with the safety and conveniences provided by a local community center. The theme is “Pirates Cove,” taking participants on an overnight adventure to live the pirate’s life. Enjoy fun family activities such as searching for hidden treasure, family competitions, arts and crafts, outdoor family movie screening, popcorn and bonfires for s’more-making. Participants may choose to pitch a tent or sleep under the stars. A community barbecue is included in the price, or families may choose to bring their own food.
We are thinking about going on a late-night marshmallow raid just for the fun of it. Then we’ll be the pirates.
[Link: City of Carlsbad]
by The Editors on August 14, 2008
When knew that when video game giants Activision and Vivendi merged there would be some changes at Carlsbad-based video game developer High Moon Studios. We just didn’t know how deep the cuts went. According to Gamasutra they went nearly 30 percent deep.
The layoffs, which apparently consist of a notable portion — as many as 60 — but not a majority of the developer’s more than 150 staff, were telegraphed in the July 29th statement from new owner Activision.
Hope Carlsbadistan doesn’t loose too many of the talented minds behind Darkwatch and The Bourne Supremacy.
[Link: Gamasutra]
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