If all retail outlets marketed their products the way wine shops do, there would be coffee sampling at Starbucks, shot putting at Dini’s, and burrito testing at Cessy’s.
Carlsbad’s Wine Spot is no different. Take this weekend for example: from March 28-30, 2008 The Wine Spot is having an event they’re calling an “April Fools blind tasting.”
We are doing a blind taste test in honor of April Fools Day, so come in this weekend and test your knowledge of wines. We will give prizes for the most knowledgable palate or person with the best guesses. No foolin’
What this means is that they will be selling wine by the glass to customers without telling them what they’re drinking. How great is that? Give them money and they’ll serve whatever they want. If this sounds appealing, drop by The Wine Spot at 2801 Roosevelt St. any time this weekend and drink like a fool.
Say good-bye to the classic mid-centuy, tiki stylings of the Ocean Street Apartments overlooking the lagoon at 2303 Ocean Street on Carlsbadistan’s northern border. According to the City of Carlsbad those 50 units are getting demolished so 2303 Investors, LP can put in “35 residential Airspace condominiums” with underground parking.
While neighbors are probably happy to see 50 rental units worth of problems wiped off the face of the map, it will be sad to see the old place go.
Pieces of the old Lake Arrowhead area Santa’s Village have made their way to Carlsbad’s Flower Fields according to a story in The Press-Enterprise. The old tourist landmark (which opened before Disneyland in 1955) closed in 1998, but a couple pieces have made their way to the beach.
The Flower Fields is another family business. Its CMO, Paul Ecke III, remembered Santa’s Village from childhood and bought many of its structures at auction after it closed. . . .According to a press release, he was bidding against comedian Paul Reubens, of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” fame. . . . Ecke came away with the Gate House; the Crooked Treehouse; tiny picnic tables with seats made from pouring cement into five-gallon buckets; and many of the giant mushrooms that dotted the landscape.
It was 25 years ago that Ralph Rubio and his father founded the Carlsbad-based Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill and made fish tacos the official food on San Diego, according to a story in the San Diego Business Journal.
With $16,000 from his father, Rubio, a 1978 graduate of San Diego State University, launched the company that made the fish taco San Diego’s signature dish in January 1983. . . .The idea for Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill came from excursions to Baja California, where Rubio and his college buddies dined in cantinas and at little stands lining the avenidas. . . .“My father and I talked about the concept for a long time, and then finally we did it,” he said.
Linking this up this story is making us hungry. Follow the link for the rest of the story, we’re going out to one of their 170 shops for some fresh fish tacos.
Carlsbad’s Gemological Institute of America is currently hosting a showing of what they are calling a “Native American jewelry collection.”
The items in the exhibit are on loan from one of GIA’s students, Jamie Steelman, who is currently enrolled in the Graduate Gemologist (G.G.) program. . . .Steelman loaned a Navajo squash blossom necklace made of large chunks of Lone Mountain turquoise, a Zuni thunderbird inlaid ring, and other items from the Navajo and Zuni tribes. . . . “Traditional Native American jewelry is a truly American art form,” Steelman said. “Its beauty lies in its rusticity.”
If you like turquoise, this may be worth checking out. The jewelry will be on display until July 1 2008. Click here for more information.
The annual Carlsbad TGIF Jazz in the Park series has gotten so popular that it is outgrowing its venues according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times. So event planners are going to change things up a bit.
The plans will be unveiled at a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Stagecoach Park, 3420 Camino de los Coches. . . . Under the city’s tentative plan, no concerts will be held at downtown’s Pine Avenue Park, because it isn’t big enough to hold thousands of people, Gordon said.
But it appears that some aren’t too happy about the changes. Especially news about moving the stage at Stagecoach Park. Or in our case, we’re not happy about not being able to walk to any of the TGIF events next year (which ruins half the fun in our opinion). Maybe Carlsbadistan will just have to start their own concert series.
As if we needed one more reason to feel lazy on the morning of April 6, 2008. The San Diego Union-Tribune tells us that:
American mile record holder Alan Webb has entered the April 6 Carlsbad 5000, according to sources at Elite Racing, which puts on the 5K road race. “He’s definitely coming,” Webb’s agent, Ray Flynn, said yesterday. . . . Webb broke Steve Scott’s nearly 25-year-old record in the mile last July in Belgium, running four laps in 3 minutes, 46.91 seconds. Scott’s record was 3:47.69.
An American runner hasn’t won the Carlsbad 5000 since 2002. And when fast Americans enter, we guess that’s big news. Run, American, run.
This Saturday at Legoland a 20,000 brick life-size model of Indiana Jones will be unveiled and on display for everyone to see on their way into the park. But, that’s not all. We’re not sure what it means, but here are the details:
Meet true fans of the Indiana Jones movie franchise as they dress like their favorite movie characters. They will also hand out IndyFans posters, give bull whip demonstrations, ask trivia questions, and award some great prizes including tickets to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on opening night, and return tickets to Legoland California.
We’re guessing this is a movie promotion tied into the all-new Land of Adventure, but it sounds fun nonetheless.
Top-Flite (Callaway’s golf ball brand) has had some sales trouble, but the Carlsbad company is not down and out. While rap commercials have almost unilaterally sucked, this one is pretty damn funny. And it was all filmed in Carlsbadistan. Notice anything familiar?
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If all retail outlets marketed their products the way wine shops do, there would be coffee sampling at Starbucks, shot putting at Dini’s, and burrito testing at Cessy’s.
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