by The Editors on May 29, 2009
We’ve always said that Carlsbadistan’s Museum of Making Music is probably the finest unknown museum in San Diego. And now, we have a chance to help the museum be a little less unknown by voting in the San Diego Union-Tribune’s “Best of San Diego 2009” poll.
From now until June 7th, you are invited to cast your vote for San Diego’s Best Museum as nominated by visitors to signonsandiego.com. We are extremely honored that the Museum of Making Music was nominated and recognized in this poll.
We didn’t know that summer was election time, but we’re still going to vote for Carlsbad every single time. Click here to cast your vote. And while you’re at it vote for Legoland, La Costa Resort & Spa, Buffalo Brothers, Broken Yolk, Karl Strauss Brewing Company, Islands, Bistro West, Tip Top Meats, Pizza Port, Carlsbad State Beach, and all the other Carlsbadistan nominees we missed.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on May 29, 2009
Worried about keeping the kids busy this summer? The Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad have an affordable answer with Kids Kamps.
Whether it’s playing on a sports team, creating artwork, designing a power point presentation on the computer, going to the beach and park, or venturing out on a field trip, all this and more is available to Club members. Each week features a unique theme and activities to match, as well as field trip options. . . Kids Kamp is available Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. Please call the Village Branch at (760) 729-0956 or La Costa Branch at (760) 944-9211 to make your reservation. Kids Kamps sell out early … so be sure to enroll soon!
Sounds like a perfect summer escape. . . for everyone. Click here for the Summer Program Guide as a .PDF.
[Link: Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad]
by The Editors on May 29, 2009
Want to know how Lisa Irvine and her crew of number crunchers go about setting up the budget for the City of Carlsbadistan? Well, want no more. On June 4, 2009 at 6 PM at the city’s Faraday Center everyone will get the chance to review the city’s 2009-10 budget, ask questions, and provide feedback that will be presented to the City Council.
The City Council is scheduled to receive a report on the fiscal year 2009-10 budget June 2 and consider it for adoption June 16. . . For more information, contact the City of Carlsbad’s finance department at 760-602-2493. . . .Regular updates on the city budget and financial forecasts are available on the city’s Web site at www.carlsbadca.gov/finance.
Sure, the City Council is going to see it first, but at least we’ll all have time to give feedback before they adopt it.
by The Editors on May 29, 2009
At the 2009 US Open of Surfing this summer in Huntington Beach there will be a special event called the World Professional Surfing All Stars in which a group of surfers (chosen by “the people”) will compete in a special contest.
At this year’s Hurley US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, 10 of the world’s best surfers including four World Champions Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, C.J. Hobgood and Andy Irons plus six others surfers – voted on by you – will attend the event and participate in all the All-Star related activities.
Carlsbadistan’s Taylor Knox is on the list of nominees and we need your help making sure he makes the list. Click here and vote for Taylor.
[Link: World Pro Surfers]
by The Editors on May 27, 2009
According to a recent tweet, Carlsbadistan resident Tony Hawk was meeting with some T-Mobile people at The Wall Street Journal’s D7 | All Things Digital conference when he ran into Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (@ev).
had a mtg with T-Mobile this morning and look who I ran into: @ev – the guy behind the guy behind the Twitter
Tony is well on his way to being Evan’s next million follower man. . . between them they have 1.5 million followers.
[Link: @tonyhawk]
by The Editors on May 27, 2009
We’ll all be able to taste the flavors of The Village this Sunday, May 31, 2009 from 3-6 PM as 20 of Carlsbadistan restaurants serve of samples of their cuisine during The Carlsbad Village Associations Flavors of the Village Restaurant Tour.
“Come sample our broad array of international foods in the Village” invites Robin Young, Executive Director of the Carlsbad Village Association (CVA), “The Flavors of the Village in Carlsbad offers Irish, French, Mexican, Italian, Vegetarian and, of course, American cuisines – literally something for everyone”. . . Participating restaurants include: Beach City Smoothies, Caldo Pomodoro, Carlsbad Chocolate Bar, Dini’s Bistro, El Puerto, Fish House Vera Cruz, Gregorio’s, Hennessey’s, Knockout Burgers, Knockout Pizza, Las Olas, Le Passage, Naked Café, Ocean House, O’Sullivan’s, Pizza Port, Pollos Maria, Senor Grubby’s, Submarina and The Wine Spot.
Strangely, many of our favorite restaurants aren’t participating, but we’re going to use this as a chance to get off our well-worn path and try something new.
[Link: Friends of the Village]
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by The Editors on May 27, 2009
Last night’s headliners at D7 | All Things Digital Conference at The Four Season Aviara were Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the founders of Twitter. The two answered some pretty hard-hitting questions from the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, but mostly they just said, “We need to do a lot of work on the business” over and over again in very clever, engaging ways.
Click here to watch a highlights video.
[Link: D7 | All Things Digitial]
by The Editors on May 26, 2009
Carlsbad High School swimmer Spencer DiDio was recognized as one of nine “athletes of the week” by the San Diego Union-Tribune this week for helping the Lancers win its seventh straight titled.
The senior, who will attend USC, set a section record in the 100 fly and helped Lancers teams set section marks in the 200 medley and 400 free relays. DiDio was first in the 200 IM.
Congrats, Spencer.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on May 26, 2009
At this moment some of the biggest names in digital technology are cueing up at Carlsbadistan’s The Four Seasons Aviara (if that’s what it’s still called) for The Wall Street Journal’s D | All Things Digital Conference which runs May 26-28, 2009. And that means it’s time for our annual All Things Barged expedition. We’re not as excited this year because the line-up of tech players this year while strong isn’t exactly a list of people that we’re interested in, but there are still some extremely heavy hitters. Here’s who will be speaking in Carlsbadistan over the next three days:
Irving Azoff | CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment
Mitchell Baker | Chairman of Mozilla
Steve Ballmer | CEO of Microsoft
Carol Bartz | CEO of Yahoo
Mark Cuban | Chairman of HDNet and Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures
Eve Ensler | Playwright and Founder of V-Day
Arianna Huffington | Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | CEO of Nokia
Mike Lazaridis | Co-CEO of Research In Motion
John Lilly | CEO of Mozilla
John Malone | Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation
Roger McNamee | Partner, Elevation Partners
Jon Miller | Chief Digital Officer of News Corp.
Jon Rubinstein | Executive Chairman, Palm
Randall Stephenson | CEO of AT&T
Biz Stone | Co-Founder of Twitter
Owen Van Natta | CEO of MySpace
Katharine Weymouth | Publisher of the Washington Post
Evan Williams | Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter
Jeff Zucker | CEO of NBC Universal
Now that we think about it, if we made a list of people in the tech business who had some serious explaining to do it would look a lot like the D7 speakers list. Here’s a little of what we mean:
- Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo needs to explain what happened to Nokia’s business after Apple stepped in with the iPhone.
- Palm’s Jon Rubinstein is going to do the same thing, though he will be disguising his excuses as a presentation of their new webOS.
- Twitter’s Biz Stone and Evan Williams need to explain some kind of end game for a company that has raised close to $300 million, has 30.1 million users and zero revenue.
- Mark Cuban has some seriously SEC issues that we’re sure he’s just itching to explain.
- It would be wise of Carol Bartz to explain why Yahoo has a future
- Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker should explain how money can be made with a free browser
- Steve Ballmer will likely attempt to explain the roll out Mircosoft’s next marketing failure (Bing)
- And finally, The Washington Post’s Katharine Weymouth will be faced with the “what ever happened to newspapers” question that we’re sure she’s extremely tired of answering.
We would love to hear many of these explanations, but the conference costs $5,000. We’ll let you know how it goes. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher were very cool to us last year as was a certain PR person from Google.
If you’re interested in following along click here to get the All Things D iPhone app.
[Link: D7 | All Things D]
by The Editors on May 25, 2009
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