The Leo Carrillo Ranch Friday Night Film Festival continues this Friday August 24 with a showing of the 1929 classic Mr. Antonio. In this film, Leo Carrillo plays Antonio Camaradino.
In this romance, an organ grinder falls in love with a corrupt mayor’s daughter. The mayor, worried that the organ grinder will reveal his knowledge of the politician’s illegal activities, does all he can to persuade the organ grinder that the girl is not interested in him, but the intrepid street performer is not dissuaded.
Bring a low back chair, warm clothes, a flashlight, and a blanket. The movie starts promptly at sunset with a showing of the Cisco Kid before the main feature. Admission is free and hot dogs, chips, popcorn, cotton candy, and sodas can be purchased at the Barn Theater.
The next three Fridays will feature the following films: Guilty Generation, If You Could Only Cook, and I Promise to Pay.
Those who have put Jazz In The Park off all summer get one last chance to make it happen this Friday night August 24 as Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers bring their own brand of Southern California blues to the lovely Calavera Hills Park at 2997 Glasgow Drive.
According to an old saying, when you’re on top, there’s nowhere to go but down. However, Rod Piazza, one of the nation’s top blues performers and multi-winning Handy Award winner as best blues harp, remain at the top of his game and continue to look for ways to climb.
If you miss this one, you won’t get another change until summer 2008.
Property owners in the Old Carlsbad area (a.k.a The Barrio) are getting together Thursday August 23, 2007 at 7 PM to discuss being included in Carlsbad Village redevelopment plans according to the North County Times. The meeting will take place at Father Raymond Moore Hall at 3256 Madison Street.
A Cleveland-based private jet service Flight Options LLC recently released a list of the top 10 favorite places their rich-ass customers like to fly (via private jet) and Carlsbad sneaked onto the list in ninth place behind Nantucket, Napa, Scottsdale and others. Here’s how they described us:
With seven miles of accessible beach, championship golf, world-class spas and the kid-friendly appeal of Legoland, Carlsbad is a classic Southern California destination for families and couples alike.
Then again, Las Vegas was number one on the Flight Options list so obviously these jet fliers have their priorities completely backwards.
Back in the middle of July we mentioned how a group of Lego fanatics were going to build the world’s tallest Lego tower during the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Canada and steal the current world record (94.3 feet tall) from Carlsbad, California. Though they tried all weekend, they were unable to build a Guinness World Book of Records tower thanks to heavy winds. . . Phew!
Pray for more wind in Toronto. We’ll keep you posted.
In the battle of the sports trading card giants it appears that Carlsbad’s Upper Deck has decided to terminate its tender offer for all outstanding share of Topps Co., Inc. . .
and added that the action of Topps made conditions precedent to the tender offer incapable of being satisfied. Further, Upper Deck said that all shares of Topps previously tendered and not withdrawn under the tender offer would be returned promptly in accordance with the terms of the tender offer.
Let’s just say that Upper Deck is not happy with the Topps board right now. And the deal is off.
When a man driving a Saab tried to elude police on a high speed chase down I-5 by exiting the freeway at Cannon road, he ended up slamming into the back of a Mercedes-Benz, which collided with a truck in front of it.
The Mercedes was pushed into the back of a truck which briefly caught fire. At least two other vehicles also collided after the chain-reaction crash, the CHP said.
The woman driving the Mercedes was taken to the hospital and the two children in the back seat were uninjured. The man driving the Saab was reported unhappy about his arrest:
He was shot with a Taser gun and was taken by helicopter to the hospital.
Every time a Saab driver gets Tasered we smile a little.
It couldn’t happen to a better company. Time Warner Cable has been operating it’s business in the City of Carlsbad for the past nine months with out a valid local franchise agreement. As much as we hate the idea of only having one choice when it comes to cable, it is good to know that the City is standing up for itself against the media giant.
The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego, is the latest step in a months long battle between Carlsbad officials and Time Warner over the franchise agreement, which allows Time Warner to use city rights of way to run its cable lines. The city contends Time Warner’s franchise contract expired Nov. 19 and has attempted to get the company to sign a new contract with higher franchise fees.
Then again, according to the North County Times as of January 1 the Public Utilities Commission handles franchise contracts for the entire state and Time Warner may not even need one.
The four-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a pool by La Costa Spa and Resort guests has died six days after he was taken to Children’s Hospital.
Brennan Bostani of Los Angeles was pronounced dead at Rady Children’s Hospital last night, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. . . Brennan is survived by his parents, Aileen and Arman Bostani.
After publishing reports of motorboaters’ rampant disregard for the “passive use/no motorboats” area on Carlsbad’s Agua Hedionda Lagoon we decided we should check it out for ourselves.
The buoys are back up (there are five of them). And, after watching for approximately 15 minutes on Saturday August 18, 2007 we found that the majority of the boaters were respectful of the buoys. We did however see one boat that seemed to be ignoring the no fly zone all together. Click the video below to see more:
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