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…]
We’ve caught the Parthenon’s glow during a roof-top dinner at The Fresh Hotel, cringed as Hollywood stars hit on Canadians from a waterbed on the roof of The Standard Hotel, and waved from the deck of Mr. A’s as jet airliners flapped past. We’ve even shared a pitcher on the roof of the old Margarita Rocks in Oceanside, but we’ve never, ever watched the sun set from a roof-top restaurant in Carlsbadistan. That may change when the new Lumiére Carlsbad Village Hotel goes in on Ocean St. at Offshore.
lumière hotel group is currently entitling a proposed four story, fifty-five key ocean front hotel in Carlsbad, California featuring an opulent rooftop restaurant, lounge, and pool with unforgettable views of the Pacific Ocean. We will be offering a small number of oceanfront residences for purchase.
According to the project description filed with The City, the hotel will feature 39 hotel rooms, 10 condominiums, and two affordable apartments (you know, for the help). We haven’t seen the plans yet, so we really have no idea what the hotel will look like, but either way, it will be cool to look out over the Paciic from a rooftop restaurant in Carlsbad.
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.
You’d think we would have known this, however, while scanning the results from the recent ASP Roxy Pro Gold Coast surf event at Snapper Rocks in Australia we completely missed Carlsbadistan’s best female surfer because Julia Christian changed her name when she married her long-time boyfriend Magoo del la Rosa Toro.
She is now Julia de la Rosa Toro and she is surfing under the Peruvian flag. Her quarter final appearance at Snapper Rocks suggests that she’s surfing better than ever as well.
This probably explains why we haven’t seen her in the water lately.
Adam Pfankuch, Carlsbad, Calif., earned his fifth win in San Felipe in Class 1-2/1600 in a VW-powered Mirage. Class 1-2/1600 had the largest field in the race with 28 starters.
Adam finished 15th overall among the cars and trucks in the 22nd Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 with an average speed of 46.46 MPH. Sounds a little like Pfankuch dominates his class.
We thought St. Patricks day would be a nice time to kick off a new feature on Carlsbadistan. We’re calling it the Bar Blotter. Each report will feature all the police activities at Carlsbadistan bars. Here’s how it went the evening of March 17-18, 2008, according to the Carlsbad Police Department.
08:21 PM Dini’s: Location cited for being “overcrowded.”
10:27 PM Coyote Bar: Some parties needed separating.
10:36 PM Alley Bar: Noted, but nothing reported.
10:43 PM Alley Bar: Noted, but nothing reported.
11:09 PM Boars Crossing: Man cited for dropping his cigarette ashes on the ground in violation of California Penal Code 23111
11:19 PM Peabody’s: Subjects were fighting inside Peabody’s. Parties were separated now, but suspect still on the scene.
And that’s it. Looks like it was another good night in Carlsbadistan.
Maybe we’re the only one’s who haven’t done this yet, but Google Maps now has “street view” images of Carlsbad Blvd. all the way through Carlsbadistan. A simple click, click, click and you’re down the coast from Off Shore To Vigilucci’s. Looking at all these images kind of makes us wish we’d been on on the sea wall when the camera car rolled by. Better check the photos, maybe you were. [Link: Google Maps]
Jodian Squire has touched a lot of lives, and now teachers and parents at the Carlsbad Country Day School are turning out to touch hers.
After trying for months to find out why she was feeling pain in her chest, Squire, 35, was diagnosed in October with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, said school director Melissa Reed.
Teachers are holding a silent auction to raise money to help cover the Squire family’s $30,000 medical bills. For more info on how you can help, call (760) 804-0550.
It’s cool of places like Hensley’s Flying Elephant to help people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day even if they can’t do it up on Monday. Hensley’s is throwing down the same party two days in a row so no one misses out, and other celebrate for 48. Today, beginning at 2 PM it’s The Bad Blokes (Traditional Irish “foot stomping” tunes are blended with covers from popular Irish rock groups like The Pogues, Waterboys, Young Dubliners and Gaelic Storm) and then from 5 to 10 PM it’s Skelpin.
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