by The Editors on June 17, 2007
Carlsbad’s Shaun White was in Franklin Tennessee yesterday putting on a show for the kids at the Journeys Backyard BBQ tour at CoolSprings Galleria in Williamson County. But not all the kids were happy.
Christian Bush, 10, of Joelton, was disappointed last year because skateboarder and MTV star Bam Margera, wasn’t on the program. “I didn’t like it very much last year because Bam wasn’t there,” he said.
He left unfulfilled again this year because Margera had to cancel his appearance after suffering a lacerated liver earlier in the week, event organizers said.
That didn’t stop Shaun and the rest of the Carlsbad-based Adio Footwear team from putting on a show including Shaun pulling “a couple of 720-degree spins in warm conditions.”
[Link: Robertson County Times]
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 16, 2007
We’ve been seeing a few too many sea lions lately. The other day while surfing we saw a destressed looking sea lion floating vertically just outside the lineup with only his nose out of the water. The next day a dead one washed up on the beach. Then yesterday morning, June 15, a baby Sea Lion pup washed up on the beach at Cherry Street. It was alive and doing well. The life guards called SeaWorld and:
The SeaWorld team arrived about 10 a.m. and decided to take the animal to diagnose it, said lifeguard Matthew Clark. The team couldn’t diagnose it in the field and they didn’t want to leave it there because it was so young, he said.
Wonder what will happen to this pup? Hopefully, it won’t show any aptitude for entertaining huge throngs of toursits. If it does, it will be a long, hard road to freedom.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 16, 2007
Horace Hogan II, the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Carlsbad-based residential development company Brehm Communities has been selected to receive the prestigious 2007 City of Hope Spirit of Life Award. A gala will be held in his honor on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at the San Diego Sheraton Hotel and Marina.
This event offers members of the construction industry a unique opportunity to unite in tribute to a respected colleague and make a significant contribution to City of Hope, a world-renowned biomedical research and treatment facility.
[Link: City of Hope via SD Union Tribune]
by Eero Lloyd Neutra on June 15, 2007
Occasionally high end architecture, especially in custom ocean front homes, falls into what an old acquaintance categorized as “more money than brains” design. The idea is that often people with money end up designing a home that they would never design nor build if there were fiscal limitations. And this lack of constrained creativity produces buildings that don’t quite ring true.
The Kiko Beach Front Residence tips lightly into this category and is currently under construction at 2649 Ocean Street. Designed by the obviously talented Wolfram Kalber of Wolf Design Build the Kiko Beach House is a functional looking four story that is wrapped in superfluous waves of stucco facades and oddly shaped accessories.
While the building maximizes the lot perfectly, the most interesting aspect is the way it interfaces with the beach out front. A wall separates the public beach from the private beach and then that private beach is again segmented from the swimming area with what looks like a glass enclosure matched on the wall of the pool with a translucent champagne glass like waterfall.
The home is nearing completion and while some could argue that its bombastic contemporary lines are over the top, no one would call it poorly executed, or for that matter ugly.
[Link: Wolf Design Build]
by The Editors on June 15, 2007
Between May 29 and June 5 four dead dolphins have washed ashore on the beaches between Carlsbad State beach and the Oceanside Harbor. All of them with fatal bullet wounds.
“It’s a horrendous thing that happened,” said Mark Oswell, spokesman for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. “That someone would go out there and shoot four dolphins.”
According to the report it appears the dolphins were all shot on the same day with the same calibre gun. The story goes on to report that dolphins are usually killed by fishermen who are upset about the mammals stealing their catch. Sadly, the criminal fine is only $20,000 and not much jail time.
The NOAA is offering a $2,500 reward for anyone who has information on the dolphin deaths.
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on June 15, 2007
While excavating at an undisclosed new home construction site Carlsbad workers discovered what is being called the remains of a 100,000 year old Mastodon.
Tom Demere is the paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum. We’re the first people to ever see this specimen. And it hasn’t seen the light of day for at least 100,000 years. It kind of confirms our ideas about the ancient environments here in the coastal plain of Southern California. He says two complete tusks, an upper jaw fragment with three teeth, and vertebrae from one mastodon were found.
That is serious local status.
[Link: KPBS]
by The Editors on June 15, 2007
TaylorMade-adidas recently cut 41 employees and more than half of those were from the Carlsbad office.
Scott Leightman, a company spokesman, said the layoffs were relatively minor for a company the size of TaylorMade-adidas, which has more than 1,400 employees worldwide.
According to golf industry watchers the industry is currently not growing. “TaylorMade-adidas appears to be properly cautious. The golf industry is not growing, said McAndrew, editor of Web Street Golf Report, and the company is being careful not to overextend itself.”
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 14, 2007
In our first poll we asked the readers of Carlsibadistan.com the following question: If we put a weekly poll up on the site would they answer it. The polling has ended and the results are as follows:
50% Would answer a weekly poll
50% Would NOT answer a weekly poll
Yes, it was a trick question. It appears that 100 percent of those voting will respond to a Carlsbadistan poll, however, they many not on future polls. Then again, only four people voted (including us).
We put a new poll up. It’s over in the right hand column and this week it’s about the Carlsbad Junk Antique shops that litter the village. Let us know how you feel. Vote often.
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. . .
Carlsbad’s Shaun White was in Franklin Tennessee yesterday putting on a show for the kids at the Journeys Backyard BBQ tour at CoolSprings Galleria in Williamson County. But not all the kids were happy.
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