This Friday night (April 18, 2008), Floggy Molly, the band which features Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub & Grill owner Matt Hensley on accordion, is playing on the Jay Leno Show.
And to celebrate this occasion Hensley’s is staying open for the show @ 11:30pm.
Guests even have the chance to win a Flogging Molly skateboard signed by the band and Jay Leno himself. Does this mean it’s a late night out at the Pub?
[Link: Hensley’s Pub]
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The California State Parks (the arm of government that would like to charge $8 for parking at Tamarack) is hosting a local “beach clean-up” day on April 19, 2008 at Tamarack State Beach from 10 AM to 2 PM.
According to their flyers:
Events of this caliber are essential in educating the public with hopes of raising awareness and generating support for coastal preservation and stewardship.
While we’re not exactly sure what “caliber” this event is going to be, we are happy that we can all get out and celebrate Earth Day by cleaning up our front yard. Just please, don’t make us pull weeds. We’re not down with that at all.
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Elisa Williamson, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Carlsbad Unified School district is encouraging and inviting everyone who supports Carlsbad public education to get out Friday, April 18, 2008 at 4:45 PM to send the message “Enough is Enough…No Cuts to Education!”
The idea is to have people with signs and placards (with slogans like “No Cuts to Education” and “Education Cuts Don’t Heal.”) on main freeway and highway overpasses in Carlsbadistan. Hopefully, this won’t lead to any accidents on the freeways. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
For all the details, follow the jump.
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A 20-year-old man died last night at about 7 PM when the car he was riding in “left the road and struck a telephone pole” on the “6500 block of Avenida Encinas, near the Poinsettia Coaster Station, according to the North County Times.
A passenger in the back seat of the car suffered major head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, Kennedy said. Two other men, a driver and a passenger in the front seat, were taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla with minor injuries. . . . The name of the man who died was not released Tuesday night. Carlsbad police were investigating the crash and said it was unclear why the car left the road.
Now the San Diego Union-Tribune is claiming the two other passengers in the car are using the classic “the other guy was driving” DUI defense.
The two other men, also between 20 and 30 years old, were hospitalized, Rawson said. Rawson said each is claiming the other was the driver. . . . Beer cans were in found the car, Rawson said.
[Link: North County Times and San Diego Union-Tribune]
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In the April 16, 2008 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Peter MacLaggan, Senior Vice President of Poseidon Resources Corp., (the company that hopes to put in “the largest and most technologically advanced [desalination plant] in the Western Hemisphere”) in our lagoon has written an Op-ed piece titled From Sea To Tap, as a response to Mindy McIntyre’s Op-Ed of April 10, 2008 titled The SUV of Water.
California’s water supply system is based largely on pumping water from environmentally sensitive watersheds in Northern California and the Colorado River over hundreds of miles to Southern California through an elaborate and costly network of dams, canals and reservoirs. But proven desalination technology now allows us to produce higher-quality water along the coast, where the majority of the state’s population resides, at a comparable cost and without damaging the environmentally sensitive upstream habitats.
No matter what you think about the Carlsbad desalination factory, both of these opinions are good reading.
[Link: LA Times]
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Carlsbadistan.com stickers are perfect for placing almost anywhere including, but not limited to: your computer, skateboard, bike, car, refrigerator, office cubicle, door, desk, binder, tool box, cat, scooter, surfboard, or locker. Each sticker is three inches in diameter (there are three in the image above) and features our lovely Encina Power Station, the seawall along with a lifeguard tower and if you look closely, you’ll see a lifeguard Jeep in the Tamarack parking lot.
To get some FREE stickers just click here and email us your mailing address and we’ll send you an envelope full of stickers (while supplies last).
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We let our last poll run for way, way too long. As a reminder we asked readers “What do you call home?” And here’s how the results stacked up based on a mind-numbing 78 votes:
It appears that we have nailed our targeted demographic pretty dead-center. Kudos to us. We’re also happy with the “Far Away” numbers because that means many who love Carlsbadistan (but can’t live here full time), are using our site to keep tabs on their favorite beach Village. And for that we say thanks.
For poll number five, we’ve decided to ask Carlsbadistan how you feel about your cable company? You know, the one with the metropolitan cable monopoly. We have had some problems with our Time Warner On-Demand service, but at this point, we’re really not interested in getting it fixed (even though Time Warner Cable San Diego’s VP of Public Affairs Marc Farrar has been nice enough to offer to “resolve the On Demand issue” not once, but twice.)
So this week we’re asking our readers to finish the following sentence: Time Warner Cable is. . .
Please look to the right-hand column (under the words “What Do You Think?” and let us know.
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If you’re wondering why all the clocks on your appliances were blinking today when you got home, it’s because at approximately 11:08 AM Carlsbadistan power went out thanks to a “suspected problem in the overhead electric system” on circuits AG01 and 0781 according to San Diego Gas & Electric.
Nearly 4,500 SDG&E customers were effected by the morning outage. (Click the image at right for full detail.)
These kinds of outages make it very difficult for us to catch up on the latest episode of The Hills.
[Link: SDG&E Outages]
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First it was the Mastodon fossil found at El Camino Real and Canon Road. Now, a second discovery has been made at the new Robertson Ranch development.
Late last month, paleontologists monitoring the excavation of Robertson Ranch, which is being developed for homes, spotted a skeleton of a giant ground sloth as earthmovers were grading. . . “We know we have part of a pelvis, part of a front leg and part of a back leg,” Deméré said of the sloth discovery. “There were two ribs we could see and part of a vertebra. . . . They’d been held together a couple of hundred thousand years by mudstone.”
While this giant sloth roamed the Carlsbadistan area approximately 120,000 to 200,000 years ago, experts believe it was likely not one of Mayor Bud Lewis‘ pets.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Steven Russolilo of the Dow Jones Newswires checks in with Callaway Golf. Will the company’s “relatively wealthy customers” save it from the perils of a tanking golf market?
The consumer wasn’t super strong last year, yet Callaway couldn’t keep its $499 driver in stock because there was such high demand for it,” said Bill Chappell, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc. Callaway’s 2007 net sales rose 10 percent, to a record $1.12 billion. . . . Despite Callaway’s growth drivers, its sales could take a hit as consumers struggle with rising gas prices and paying their mortgages. . . . It’s very easy for a consumer to say they have enough golf clubs sitting in their garage that they may realize they don’t need a new set of Callaways,” said John Shanley, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group.
While reading this story we were reminded that market analysts are professional guessers. But yet, we all seem to care what they have to say when it comes to business. Why is that?
[Link: Chicago Tribune]
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