by The Editors on July 29, 2007
Carlsbad’s summer TGIF Jazz In The Parks moves to the heart of Carlsbadistan for two weeks. The Pine Avenue Park leg of the tour kicks off with Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca.
Ricardo Lemvo has established himself as a pioneer with his innovative music, combining Latin and African elements from salsa to soukous with an occasional merengue or Afro-Portuguese excursion. This Congo-born artist of Angolan ancestry is the embodiment of the Afro-Latin Diaspora which connects back to Mother Africa via the Cuban clave rhythm. Lemvo is truly multi-cultural and equally at home singing in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Lingala, and Kikongo.
We’re going to walk to this one (dragging an ice-chest), see you there.
[Link: Carlsbadca.com]
by The Editors on July 28, 2007
While the course itself won’t open for play until August 11, the city’s $63.3 million project The Crossings-At-Carlsbad will be open for public inspection today.
During today’s events, people will be able to look out the windows of what Kulchin describes as “one of the most beautiful clubhouses I’ve ever seen.” They’ll also be able to practice their putting skills and even hike the trails that run through the project.
We don’t know which is worse: seeing the course and not being able to play it, or just skipping the event entirely. We think we’re going to wait.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 26, 2007
San Diego’s NBC 7/39 recently ran a story on areas of San Diego where a person is most likely to experience an aggravated assault. Well, lucky us. According to their reports Carlsbadistan has had nine more assaults this year compared to last. They didn’t give the total, but at least we’re not leading the county.
The area with the most increases in assaults is Poway. The city has had 18 more assaults through May compared with last year. Vista’s overall crime rate is down 20 percent, but the city has seen 15 more assaults this year. Carlsbad has had nine more assaults so far this year
[Link: NBCsandiego.com]
by The Editors on July 26, 2007
Two masked Latino men who robbed Yanagi Restaurant on El Camino Real and Alga and then hit the Marriot Residence Inn on the 2000 block of Faraday Tuesday night July 24 are being sought by police. The suspects are described as approximately 25 year olds, 5-foot-11 to 6-feet tall, and weighing 160 to 170 pounds. They reportedly escaped in a “gray or silver” SUV and made it to Vista where they robbed a Mexican restaurant.
At least it wasn’t another Carlsbad bank, huh?
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 25, 2007
The last FREE MOVIE night of July is tonight at the Wednesday Night Carlsbad Film Series. The films celebrate Children’s Summer Reading Program 2007 with the mystery theme “Get a Clue @ Your Library.” The final movie Spy Kids screening in the Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium at Carlsbad City Library at 1775 Dove Lane.
When two of the world’s top secret agents, Gregorio (Antonio Banderas) and Ingrid Cortez (Carla Gugino), are kidnapped it’s up to their children to save them. Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara) take on evil technowizard Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming) to save their parents in this family adventure.
For additional info, please call (760) 602-2047.
by The Editors on July 22, 2007
Get ready for a rollicking big band time July 27 as TGIF Jazz in The Parks brings five time San Diego Music Awards Best Big Band winners Big Time Operator to Poinsettia Park.
Big Time Operator has a look, a feel, and a totally contagious enthusiasm that is hard to beat and impossible to ignore. Whether you’re 2 or 102, you’ll be tapping your toes and moving to the music as this ten-piece band hits all the high notes.
And we don’t doubt them for one minute. The park will be swinging. And we mean that in a good way.
[Link: Carlsbad.ca.us]
by The Editors on July 21, 2007
Looks like a leaking Carlsbad City pipe is to blame to the tune of $11.3 million in a slow-moving landslide that destoyed eight condo unites on La Costa Avenue.
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been settled against the city of Carlsbad and the Carlsbad Municipal Water District over a condo complex destroyed by a landslide. . . The eight units of the La Costa De Marbella condominium project in the 2400 block of La Costa Avenue had to be demolished after the slow-moving slide in March 2005. The suit was settled for $12.5 million.
City officials claimed the slide was the result of heavy rains, but the court did not believe them. Maybe they can borrow some money from The Crossings. That project seems to be loaded.
[Link: NBC San Diego]
by The Editors on July 20, 2007
Wal-Mart has just purchased a 17-arce site at the corner of College Blvd and El Camino Real where it hopes to build “its most upscale store in the nation,” (which isn’t saying much) according to story in the North County Times.
It will be an absolute paradigm shift,” said Wal-Mart spokesman Aaron Rios in an interview Thursday evening. . . Wal-Mart, which has long sought entry into Carlsbad, recognizes that if it succeeds in building a store in the affluent, carefully planned community, it could not be a typical “big box” store, Rios said.
Upscale? We were trying to think of something funny to say about an upscale Wal-Mart, but the truth is. . . Wal-Mart sucks. And there’s really nothing funny about that.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 20, 2007
The world women’s tennis number one seed Justine Henin withdrew from the Acura Classic yesterday saying that she has injured her wrist. Her website says she is “on a highly deserved vacation of rest and relaxation.” Henin is the fourth top 10 player to drop out of the La Costa Resort & Spa’s final WTA hurrah.
Eight of the top 10 players on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour were in the field when the Acura’s entry list was announced, with Henin atop this list. Of the eight, only four now can be considered likely participants in the $1.34 million event July 28-Aug. 5 at the La Costa Resort and Spa.
But no worries. The Acura Classic is still a great time no matter who is missing.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on July 20, 2007
When Calavera Hills Middle School principal Eric Trogden left his job unexpectedly last week to pursue a career as a financial analyst the district decided to move assistant principal Catina Hancock into the job.
Hancock, 33, brings experience as a classroom teacher at Jefferson Elementary School and assistant principal at Calavera Hills Elementary School, Calavera Hills Middle School and Aviara Oaks Middle School to her leadership role as principal, said Torrie Norton, assistant superintendent of personnel.
Hancock was apparently in the running for the job of Magnolia Elementary, however, when Trogden left the trustees moved her up and found Ron Hess, a principal from Twentynine Palms, to come in off the desert and head Magnolia until it closes.
Magnolia’s new principal, comes to Carlsbad from the high desert community of Twentynine Palms, where he served four years as principal at Joshua Tree Elementary School in the Morongo Unified School District. The New York native, a 28-year veteran of education, served in schools in Virginia and Texas before moving to California five years ago. He worked in the Murrieta Unified School District as principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School for a year before moving to the desert.
For more on this story, click the link.
[Link: North County Times]
Carlsbad’s summer TGIF Jazz In The Parks moves to the heart of Carlsbadistan for two weeks. The Pine Avenue Park leg of the tour kicks off with Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca. 
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