by The Editors on April 24, 2008
Thanks to a planned public works center and police and fire training facility (that will be built on the land currently occupied by the Carlsbad Skateboard park) there is some worry that skateboarders will have no park at all until the new park at the Alga Norte is completed, according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times. But don’t expect the Carlsbad City Council to care.
The City Council unanimously decided Tuesday that it does not want to find an alternate location for the Orion Way skatepark, since Alga Norte is opening soon. The council will revisit whether the city needs two skateparks —- as some skateboarding enthusiasts have suggested —- after Alga Norte opens.
When a location in the Calavera Hills Park site was suggested for a possible interim or second skateboard park Council member Ann Kulchin threw this idiotic line into the discussion: “There’s a lot of residences there,” she said. “I’m not sure they would welcome a skatepark.”
Carlsbad was the home of the world’s first concrete skatepark, it is the birthplace of modern skateboarding (and the industry that surrounds it) and yet this is the kind of response we get from our City Council. It’s pathetic. Truly.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on April 17, 2008
The winners of the 2008 City of Carlsbad Recreation Department’s Fourth Annual Battle of the Bands, The Funky Kicks will be playing a free show at the Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium as part of the Rock The Library teen concert series at the Carlsbad City Library at 1775 Dove Lane tonight, April 17, 2008 at 7 PM
The Rock The Library Concert series plays each week through May 29.
Follow the link for all the details on future shows.
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by The Editors on March 26, 2008
This Saturday at Legoland a 20,000 brick life-size model of Indiana Jones will be unveiled and on display for everyone to see on their way into the park. But, that’s not all. We’re not sure what it means, but here are the details:
Meet true fans of the Indiana Jones movie franchise as they dress like their favorite movie characters. They will also hand out IndyFans posters, give bull whip demonstrations, ask trivia questions, and award some great prizes including tickets to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on opening night, and return tickets to Legoland California.
We’re guessing this is a movie promotion tied into the all-new Land of Adventure, but it sounds fun nonetheless.
For more info follow the jump.
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by The Editors on March 21, 2008
by The Editors on March 13, 2008
We’ve written about this before, but on March 10, 2008 Legoland California officially opened their newest theme section: The Land of Adventure.
A real live camel staring at his own LEGO image, a dancing snake charmer and a 16-foot tall LEGO Pharaoh weren’t the only surprises at LEGOLAND California today as the family theme park unveiled Land of Adventure. The brand new area opens just in time for spring break with four new attractions including the park’s first-ever dark ride, Lost Kingdom Adventure.
“Taking such a popular LEGO series and making it into an interactive area for families with children 2 to 12 has been an incredible experience,” says Master Model Designer Bill Vollbrecht who was a lead designer of the new area. “I am honored to have worked with the Merlin Entertainments Creative Team from beginning to end transporting guests into 1920s Egypt.” Vollbrecht even studied Egyptian history and hieroglyphics to make Land of Adventure more authentic, entertaining and educational.
Lego would also like to remind everyone that this is only part of it’s planned $20 million in improvement this year. The “two-story 36,000 square foot” Sea Life Aquarium will open in July. We are seriously looking forward to checking this new zone out and are guessing that this alone would be a great reason to visit the park, if you (like us) haven’t been there since New Year’s 2007. Follow the jump for the entire press release.
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by The Editors on March 11, 2008
According to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune Connie Liu, 12, “an eighth-grader at Aviara Oaks Middle School in Carlsbad,” was the runner-up in the San Diego County Spelling Bee held this morning at the Scottish Rite Memorial Center, Mission Valley. She lost to the repeat winner Justin Song of Carmel Valley Middle School.
Nice work Connie. You’re making Carlsbadistan proud.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on March 6, 2008
At first we thought this was the memoir of a bitter old man and his wife, however, My Bag and Me, is actually a kids book that was produced by Carslbad-based Penton Kids Press to teach kids about the importance of reducing our dependency on paper and plastic bags.
“We believe it is important to help young children understand and participate in going green,” says Penton Marketing Director Tom McGrew. He adds, “‘My Bag and Me’ follows a child, and his reusable shopping bag, on a trip to the grocery store. By the end of the story, the child is ready to say no to paper and plastic and prove it with his own reusable bag.”
So yeah, keep consuming kids, but when you’re bringing home a carload of food wrapped in plastic and paper be sure to carry it in a reusable cloth bag.
[Link: Marketwire.com]
by The Editors on March 4, 2008
Marueen LoBue sounds a little scary. She’s raised two sons Andy, 27, and Ben, 21 and now that they’re out of the house and still alive she believes she has a little information to share with the rest of us in the form of a “self-published” book titled Mean Mom’s Club: The Mom’s Rule Book.
“If you consider a mom’s role is to insure safety,” LoBue said, “then it becomes clear that your job does indeed including being a mean mom: setting clear boundaries and saying no when the boundaries are being tested, each and every time without fail.”
Damn, if wasn’t for our Mean Reader Club rule about never, ever reading another self-published book, we’d check it out. Sadly, we’ll never grasp any of the pearls of wisdom Mrs. LoBue is handing out. Hey, rules are rules.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on February 1, 2008
From Today’s Local News:
In March 2006, at age 16, Myriam Rodriguez was arrested in connection with punching a police officer in the face, she said. In order to have the charges dropped, Myriam was sent to the Boys & Girls Club in Carlsbad to participate in the Gangbusters program.
On Jan. 24, Myriam was honored as the 2007 Youth of the Year at the Eighth annual Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad Super Star Recognition Dinner at the Village branch location.
“I was just extremely happy about it. I don’t know how to explain it, just a really happy moment,” she said.
Congratulations to Myriam and the Carlsbad Goys & Girls Club.
[Link: Today’s Local News]
by The Editors on February 1, 2008
Our Carlsbadistan Legoland park may not be owned by the company that founded it, but that doesn’t stop us from celebrating a little knowing that our favorite locking block company has turned the ripe old age of 50. Lego blocks have become metaphor for so much more than kids toys. They have changed the way software is developed, the way pre-fab housing is manufactured, and much, much, more. They’ve even changed our afternoon traffic patterns thanks to the daily Cannon Road cluster.
The basic eight-stud red Lego brick was first sold in Denmark in 1949. But it took a further nine years for Ole Kirk’s son, Godtfred Kirk, to file the patent for the versatile “Automatic Binding Brick” with its interlocking 2×4 studs. The plastic bricks are part of a unique system: tiny tubes inside give the knobs on top of other blocks more places to grip. They hold together well but can be taken apart easily by a child. And consistency has been key: the bricks produced today have the same bumps and holes, and can still interlock with those produced back in 1958. Fifty years on and the Lego Group is the world’s fifth largest toymaker in terms of sales, after Mattel, Hasbro, Bandai and MGA Entertainment.
Click the link below for Time Magazine’s coverage of this big birthday.
[Link: Time]
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