Thanks to the Carlsbad Lions Club. the 54 year Miss Carlsbad tradition of scantily clad, pretty young things parading around on stage is alive and well.
Tomorrow night, March 22, 2008 at the Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center at 3557 Lancer Way, we’ll see the girls competing in “sportswear” and “evening gown.” Swimwear and talent competitions are gone, but as we said before, these teen and miss contestants are going to do their best for the judges, because thousands of dollars in cash “scholarships” are on the line.
Carlsbad’s Museum of Making Music is presenting an evening with performance artist/musician Laurie Anderson on Monday April 7, 2008 at 7 PM. Ms. Anderson takes a break from her current Homeland Tour to present a “casual discussion and violin demonstration” as part of MMM’s newest exhibition, The Violin in America. For those who don’t know her:
Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single “O Superman,” reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film, Home of the Brave. –from Wikipedia
We know her best from the song Excellent Birds (performed with Peter Gabriel). Ms. Anderson is a pleasant reminder that the 80s New Wave scene (that we loved so much) had moments of depth and artistic integrity. This is a don’t miss evening.
Tickets are $25 for general admission, $15 for students and Museum Members.
Futurist and best-selling author Joel Kotkin will speak the morning of April 15, 2008 at the first “Momentum Breakfast” hosted by the Leadership North County Alumni Association at the Sheraton Carlsbad Resort and Spa.
Kotkin will explain the powerful trends shaping urban and suburban development today and in the future not just locally but around the country and around the world. Kotkin’s most recent book, ‘The City: A Global History’ studied what cities since the beginning of recorded history through to the present needed in order to become great. Kotkin found that healthy, reliable infrastructure such as roads, schools, medicine, food and water supply were the best indicators of future success.
We’re hoping all the members of the City Council will attend this breakfast. Tickets are $30 each (including food) and can be purchased on the Lncalumni.org website. More details after the jump. [click to continue…]
The Paddle Out Campaign is raising funds to build out the interior, including new exhibits and displays, of CSM’s soon-to-be new location at 312 Pier View Way. . . . There will be live music with Super Wave, fabulous Hawaiian-style buffet and a silent auction with many limited-edition items.
Tickets are $55 for members, $65 for non-members and are available right here.
This Sunday, February 24, 2008, in Carlsbadistan’sMagee Park the Cardiovascular Disease Foundation is holding their annual 5K walk for life and free community health fair (RAIN or SHINE).
The 5K Walk entry fee for adults is $25; children 12 and under walk free as well as military, fire and police department personnel and their families. The entry form and online registration are available at www.cvdf.org. Walkers registering on-line may bring a friend free! Day of walk registration will be from 8-9 a.m. An aerobic warm-up will begin at 8:30 a.m. And the walk begins at 9. All the details after the jump (click the “continue reading” link).
The Museum of Making Music is hosting a special exhibition “The Violin in America: Old World Tradition, New World Sound” that will explore the transplanting of European violin making traditions to American soil.
On February 23, 2008, you are invited to help us celebrate the opening of this premiere exhibition. Come explore the development of American violin making from its European beginnings and early New World identity to the work of today’s best masters.
At 6 PM, the Museum will host a wine and cheese reception followed by a performance by the Hutchins Consort and the talented Anne Akiko Meyers at 7 PM.
Maybe it’s because high school was not exactly the high point of our lives that we find all this Carlsbad High Schoolhistorical stuff so weird. Seriously, aren’t you supposed to move out after you graduate? That’s why we laughed when we saw that:
Graduates of all years from Carlsbad High School are invited to participate Saturday in a parade of period cars commemorating the migration of students 50 years ago from then Oceanside-Carlsbad High School to their first day of classes at the brand new $1.1 million Carlsbad High.
So how was the parade? If you went, please let us know in the comments. And then, maybe explain why you’re still hanging around your high school like David Wooderson in Dazed and Confused.
This morning at 7:30 AM 10,000 ground pounders left the Westfield Plaza Camino Real and stormed the streets of Carlsbadistan in the Carlsbad Marathon. Runners representing all 50 states and 14 countries competed in the sold out event. Click the link for all the day’s photos (Double-click to see them in full size AND color).
Runners, friends, and families flocked to the Westfield Plaza Camino Real parking lot today to pick up numbers, t-shirts, gift bags, and load up on socks, energy bars, and self-massaging devices in the Carlsbad Marathon Health and Fitness Expo. We rolled by the big white tent to see what was going on the day before the stampede. Click the link for all the photos, and click the photos to see them at full size.
This morning at 8 AM more than 2,500 of Carlsbadistan’s youngest runners (aged 3 through 12) busted off the starting line in the Keebler Kids Marathon Mile at Legoland. The one-mile loop through the Legoland park as part of the weekend-long festivities of the Carlsbad Marathon. Everyone who participated got a gold medal.
Though we do not condone the seedy, underground, baby-racing scene, there was also a “diaper dash” for babies who still travel on all fours. For more on the weekend activities surrounding the Carlsbad Marathon click the link.
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Thanks to the Carlsbad Lions Club. the 54 year Miss Carlsbad tradition of scantily clad, pretty young things parading around on stage is alive and well.
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