by The Editors on August 21, 2008
Evan Delaney Rodger, the 18-year-old junior at Cal State San Marcos, is running for a seat on the Carlsbad City Council and she’s not taking campaign donations from anyone: no individuals, no special interest groups, no developers, no hospitals, no businesses. No one.
While other campaigns are bragging about how much money they’ve raised, Rodger is keeping it simple.
She is refusing all contributions to be free of all special-interest influence, confident she will not need tens of thousands of dollars to run. She has embraced a “lean and green” online and grassroots word-of-mouth campaign as a viable alternative to landfill-destined roadside signs. . . . “Scaling things down makes sense in this economy, for the environment and most importantly in terms of rebuilding the community’s trust. It’s easy for the average person to become cynical and apathetic when big donations and campaign spending are spiraling out of control.”
The more we hear, the more sure we become that Evan is right for Carlsbad. Follow the jump for Evan’s entire press release.
[Editors’ Note: The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Logan Jenkins featured Evan in his column today.]
[Link: CleanCarlsbad.com]
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by The Editors on August 21, 2008
Get ready to come out swinging as Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums close out the 2008 TGIF Jazz In the Park season with their August 22, 2008 performance in Calavera Hills Park.
Called “Instant Crowd Favorites” by the San Francisco Blues Festival and “Consummate musicians and entertainers” by New York City’s Lincoln Center, Lucky and Getit really shine before a live audience, bringing an intense energy and sheer personal magnetism to the stage, exercising wit in a continuous battle of the sexes. They’ve earned a reputation as captivating entertainers with “superior musicianship” (Downbeat), engaging audiences at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Greece, the San Francisco Blues Festival, as the house band at the Derby in Hollywood, and hundreds of nightclubs, festivals, and performing arts centers around the world.
Looks like the North County hot rod/roller derby crowd finally has a reason to visit Jazz In The Park. Show starts at 6 PM don’t forget to bring your f-hole tattoos.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on August 21, 2008
South Carlsbad surf locals are going to have to give up their favorite surf spot September 3-6, 2008 as Vans presents the inaugural 2 Star WQS contest El Ponto Loco.
The 2-star WQS event will bring some of the top surfers in the world together as they compete for valuable ratings points and a spot on the ASP “Dream Tour.”
If you can’t surf you might as well watch the ASP WCT Tour hopefuls fighting for a spot in the big show.
[Link: Vans El Ponto Loco]
by The Editors on August 21, 2008
Carlsbadistan’s resident cage fighter Jason Lambert will make his middleweight debut at UFC 88 “Breakthrough” on September 6, 2008 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia according to Sherdog.com.
The bout will mark Lambert’s debut at middleweight, who spent the entirety of his seven-year career toiling in the 205-pound ranks. After reeling off a trio of Octagon wins in 2006, Lambert (23-8) has dropped his last three out of four, necessitating a change of pace for the Carlsbad, Calif. resident. . . . The well-rounded Lambert holds a key knockout victory over Renato “Babalu” Sobral at UFC 68 “Uprising” in March 2007, where the father of one came back from deficit to overcome the regarded Brazilian.
Finally, someone to cheer for.
[Link: Sherdog.com]
by The Editors on August 20, 2008
Sadly, one of the two remaining KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) cars from 80s TV show Knight Rider has been in a Carlsbadistan storage facility for years and we never knew anything about it.
In a story on Staten Island Live about the car making a guest appearance at a car audio store next week we learned the following. . .
The car also had a brush with real-life drama. . . . Before Barris reclaimed the car, which he had worked on during the series, it belonged to Greenwich, Conn., real estate mogul and car collector Andrew Kissel, who was stabbed to death in his basement in 2005. Kissel had never picked the car up from a storage facility in Carlsbad, Calif. . . . KITT is now on its way to Staten Island from California, traveling by truck.
Oh, KITT. If we’d only know. How lonely you must have been all this time. And now, you’re gone. . .
[Link: Staten Island Live]
by The Editors on August 20, 2008
Black Enterprise, the “ultimate source for wealth creation. . . for African Americans” will be hosting their 15th Annual Golf & Tennis Challenge on Labor Day Weekend (Aug. 28-September 1, 2008) at the La Costa Resort & Spa.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary as the premier end-of-summer getaway, the Challenge consistently attracts more than 1,200 of the nation’s most notable black professionals, business executives, and entrepreneurs. . . . This year enjoy evening entertainment from the legendary Ashford & Simpson hosted by Aetna and Charlie Wilson & The Gap Band hosted by FedEx.
We’re guessing we’ll have a little tougher time crashing this party than we did at All Things D.
[Link: MarketWatch]
by The Editors on August 18, 2008
The Carlsbad-based Barbeques Galore, Inc., the world’s largest specialty retailer of barbecues and accessories, filed for Chapter 11 protection in US Bankruptcy court on August 15, 2008. The company operated 65 stores in the US and was in debt to the tune of $50 million, according to a story on Bloomberg.com.
Jeffrey Sears, chief executive officer of Barbeques Galore, said in a sworn statement that “the general collapse of the market from home sales” and the company’s inability to borrow from its bank lender or from Ironbridge forced it to seek bankruptcy protection.
Yep, take it off the grill. It’s definitely done.
[Link: Bloomberg.com]
by The Editors on August 16, 2008
When the doors of the new Carlsbad Apple Store at The Forum opened for customers the first time this morning at 10 AM Elizabeth Jean DeBoer, of the Oceanside Mac User Group was the first person in the store.
“I’ve been here since 4:20 AM,” she said from her comfortable chair before the doors opened. “I’m going to upgrade my iPhone to 3G and I waited until this store opened because I didn’t want to go to Fashion Valley.”
DeBoer entered the store through a gauntlet of more than 40 enthusiastically screaming, clapping, carousing Apple retail employees all outfitted in their matching orange and turquoise T-shirts with the words “I know people” screened on the front of them.
It was a bit of a madhouse actually as each person was welcomed into the store as if they were a high school football player entering the field of a state championship. It was just a continuation of the welcome everyone in line got at 9:50 when all the employees charged out of the front doors of the store and ran down the line of some 200 customers high-fiving them all and yelling the whole way.
The commotion was distracting regular mall shoppers as they tried to find parking. One attractive woman in big glasses leaned out her window or her black Porsche Cayenne to ask was was going on. When someone told her they were waiting for free T-shirts she couldn’t believe it. “All these people are standing in line for a free T-shirt,” she replied with a look of shock. “I thought all the iPods were 10 percent off or something.”
The Carlsbad store is the newest member of the Apple family of more than 200 retail stores worldwide. And while the Carlsbad store’s General Manager Audrey Todd wouldn’t say exactly how many employees her store has (or how many of them are from Carlsbad) she was happy to say that “Apple is always hiring.”
Stores hours are 8 AM to to 9 PM (Sundays 9 AM to 6 PM) and like all Apple retail store it features The Genius Bar, One To One weekly training, Personal Shopping, Workshops and Youth Programs.
For all the details, and more photos follow the jump (click them to view full size).
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by The Editors on August 16, 2008
Thanks to the “discovery of two endagered birds” during an environmental review on the planned site of Carlsbad’s new High School, the opening date is going to be pushed off until 2011.
Two nests of least Bell’s vireo, which primarily inhabits riparian woodlands, scrub, and thickets for breeding, were found on city property between the high school site and College Boulevard, district Superintendent John Roach said. . . . The birds were discovered as part of an environmental review of the 57-acre site at College Boulevard and Cannon Road. The Carlsbad Unified School District is building the new campus to reduce overcrowding at Carlsbad High.
That means a little more time in the porta-classes, kids.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 16, 2008
A Superior Court judge has sided with the City of Encinitas in the battle over who is going to pay for all the upgrades that La Costa Avenue will need for the increase traffic that the proposed Ponto hotel and resort development will cause, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Judge Robert P. Dahlquist said the Ponto plan’s environmental impact report, required under the California Environmental Quality Act as a step before anything can be built, is inadequate and should be set aside. . . . . . . . “At this time, the city is very pleased with the ruling,” Encinitas City Attorney Glenn Sabine said yesterday.
Carlsbad’s City Attorney Ron Ball is hoping to convince the judge otherwise. Apparently, the City of Carlsbad would like to get out of as much of the $5.3 million improvement costs as possible.
The judge agreed with Encinitas that Carlsbad’s methodology for calculating how much developers would pay without addressing who would make up the difference “is inadequate as a matter of law and is not supported by substantial evidence,” the ruling says.
We’d have to say we agree with Judge Dahlquist. The Carlsbad City Council really doesn’t seem too skilled at math.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
Evan Delaney Rodger, the 18-year-old junior at Cal State San Marcos, is running for a seat on the Carlsbad City Council and she’s not taking campaign donations from anyone: no individuals, no special interest groups, no developers, no hospitals, no businesses. No one.
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