by The Editors on June 16, 2007
Being cheese lovers, it’s rare that we focus too closely on exactly how the cheese gets cut. Cutting the cheese is something one must do in polite company because simply biting the corner off a brand new block of roquefort just wouldn’t be polite.
We’ve done our share of nibbling off a block of Sonoma Jack while lounging poolside at the Indian Springs Resort in Calistoga, California; ripping a piece from a sourdough baguette every now and again to keep the cheese-to-bread ratio perfect, however, those days are over. Now, we will take no trip to The Valley without our new Swissmar cheese slicer from The Poached Pear at 2946 State St. in downtown Carlsbad.
This stainless steel masterpiece is 5.75″x5″ and has the deft, balanced feel of a surgical instrument. It glides through even the coldest Tillamook Cheddar like it was melting butter. Cutting the cheese has never been so much fun, nor so effortless. Seems like we’re cutting the cheese all the time now.
by The Editors on June 14, 2007
A while back, in Barring the Barrio, we mentioned that it seems like any time the people of Carlsbad decide they’d like to walk somewhere, that instead of building walkways, walls get built.
The Starbucks on the corner of Grand and Coast Highway is the most recent victim of this mentality. A silly little fence has been erected to keep people from walking from the Village Faire Shopping Center parking lot across a small strip of grass to Starbucks. A simple walkway with four steps and a handrail would have likely cost less, however, in went a wall. We wonder if this isn’t the sign of a deeper problem brewing at the Village Faire. . .
by The Editors on June 1, 2007
Hidden away at 4901 El Camino Real in an old egg factory and next to Bobby’s Hideaway is Buffalo Brothers Guitars. Many would argue that it is the best guitar store in the world. Or what General Manager Kevin Kinnear calls: “Guitar players heaven.” The store and it’s General Manager were recently featured on San Diego’s News 8 (video link). The place is huge. Kinnear says:
We’ve got more guitars in the open than you can actually play and enjoy. This is completely friendly and hospitable and we want you to experience the guitars.
And he’s right, but what the story failed to mention is that while Buffalo Brothers is a great store and Kinnear is wellspring of guitar knowledge his roots in action sports go deeper still. As the founding editor of TransWorld Snowboarding Magazine Kevin helped shape snowboarding culture and then delivered it to the world. Kinnear was recently featured in an award-winning documentary film on the life of snowboarding great Craig Kelly titled Let It Ride. But don’t think that after talking to Kevin about snowboarding that you’ll find it any easier to leave the store without a new six-string in your hands. . . ’cause that just won’t happen.
[Link: KFMB San Diego]
by The Editors on May 29, 2007
Univ style shop co-founder and long time Carlsbad resident (we love that tag) Tim Swart is happy to announce the grand opening of The UNIV Select Shop in South Beach, Miami, Florida on Thursday June 7, 2007.
The UNIV Select Shop features UNIV apparel and other key brands, from footwear, apparel and accessories, for men and women. The UNIV Select Shop interior is an eclectic tribute to old Florida, a time gone by, with additional curiosities thrown in. The shop is a collective between UNIV partners Mirko Mangum and Tim Swart, longtime Miami resident Mark Gamez and entertainer Sal Masekela.
Miami is no Carlsbad, but then neither is Encinitas. Let’s just say if we were there, we’d be there for sure.
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