TGIF August 5: Big Sam’s Funky Nation

by The Editors on August 1, 2011

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Things are about to heat up at Carlsbadistan’s Jazz In The Park as Big Sam’s Funky Nation blasts open the Calavera Hills Park leg of the TGIF tour on Friday, August 5, 2011. Lead by trombonist “Big Sam” Willams, the Funky Nation reportedly mixes in the sounds of Hendrix, old Steely Dan and even a little Dave Brubeck “Take Five.”

Calavera Hills Park, is located at 2997 Glasgow Dr. at the corner of Carlsbad Village Drive. Free shuttle service will operate between 4:30 and 9 p.m. from Hope Elementary School, 3010 Tamarack Dr. and from Calavera Hills School, 4100 Tamarack Dr. at College Avenue. Bring your picnic baskets.

[Link: Jazz In The Park]

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Carlsbad Community Theatre’s The Wiz

by The Editors on July 28, 2011

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The Carlsbad Community Theatre’s production of The Wiz opens August 5, 2011 at El Camino High School’s Truax Theatre in Oceanside. Yeah, they had to move the production North because of construction at Carlsbad High. For more information and to buy tickets visit Carlsbadcommunitytheatre.com.

[Link: Carlsbad Community Theatre]

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Friends Of The Library Summer Book Sale

by The Editors on July 25, 2011

On August 6-7, 2011 the Friend of the Carlsbad Library will be hosting a sale of books that have been donated to the library.

In addition to a huge variety of almost-new books at used-book prices, this mid-summer event will feature collector comic books, vintage newspapers and magazines, signed volumes, leather-bound editions, games, puzzles and much more. . . As always, there will be hundreds of coffee-table books and other fine volumes at a fraction of retail price. They will include books on art, nature, photography and history, as well as cookbooks, craft books, children’s books and hardback copies of recent best-sellers.

The Super Summer Sale is open from 9 AM to 4 PM Saturday, August 6, and 1 to 3 PM on Sunday, Aug. 7. On Sunday, everything will be half price. It’s a perfect time for us to go back and buy some of the books we mistakenly donated to the library the last time we cleaned out our garage. Follow the jump for more info. [click to continue…]

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City Works To Slow Down La Costa Avenue

by The Editors on July 15, 2011

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Next week, the City of Carlsbadistan will begin work on a project that will see a portion of La Costa Avenue shrink from two lanes to one.

The city will reduce La Costa Avenue to one lane westbound from Romeria Street through Fairway Lane by converting one of the vehicle lanes into a bike lane. Work is expected to begin on July 18 and be completed by July 21. . . The lane reduction will improve driver visibility from the residential driveways located between Romeria Street and Fairway Lane. The new lane configuration will match the existing lane striping on La Costa Avenue east of Romeria Street where a lane reduction has already been implemented.

Bike lanes are good, but we’re kind of wondering how squeezing the flow of traffic on a busy street makes it safer. Follow the jump for all the official details. [click to continue…]

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TGIF July 15: Johnny Polanco & His Band

by The Editors on July 11, 2011

Johnny PCarlsbadistan’s Jazz In The Park gets spicy as it moves West to Poinsettia Park with the big band salsa sounds of Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad.

As the fearless leader of the ultimate West Coast Latin party band, Polanco, who hails from the Caribbean by way of New York, serves as multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger for his band, Conjunto Amistad. Over the years the group has solidified its reputation for a sound described by Latin music chronicler Lina Lecaro as “the kind of infectious, rhythmic, multilayered Latin music that makes even the most timid wallflower abandon all restraint and give it a whirl on the dance floor.”

Sounds like exactly what we need as a finish for the week.

[Link: Jazz in the Park]

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TGIF July 8: B-Side Players

by The Editors on July 5, 2011

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Every summer we say the same thing at least once during Jazz in the Park and that is this: if you’re only going to go to one of Carlsbadistan’s Jazz in the Park make it this week as San Diego’s OG latino, hip-hop, jazz, jarrocho, reggae, ska band the B-Side Players rock the Stage Coach Park. It is unlikely that any band will ever more perfectly communicate San Diego’s diverse cultural music mix than the B-Side Players. For the past 19 years they’ve San Diego’s house band.

With fierce political lyrics and an overwhelming positive vibration of love, culture and unity, this legendary San Diego-based band incorporates the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil into their funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms.

Don’t miss it.

[Link: Jazz in the Park]

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City To Chip $186,000 More At The Lossings

by The Editors on June 28, 2011

Thelossings-Tm-TmTonight when the Carlsbadistan City Council meets they will approve AB#20.610 or Improvements To The Crossings and Adjacent Open Space Erosion Mediation.

Apparently, City staff and Kemper Sports Management (the company that runs The Lossings, but can’t seem to do it at a profit) have decided (after paying a golf consultant to prepare a report) that improvements need to be made if the business is ever expected to prosper.

In order to increase “course playability” the city staff would like to spend $80,000 making the 18th hole easier. Apparently, people aren’t playing the course as much as they should because the 18th hole is just too difficult. City staff is also suggesting that $12,000 be spent to transform a “boardroom” into the clubhouse’s second bar. Apparently, the Canyons Bar and Restaurant (one of the more profitable pieces of the Lossing’s business in the past) is not the kind of establishment that keeps golfers around after their round.

But that’s not all. Thanks to heavy rain fall last winter (and the way the land has been artificially shaped for the course) city staff would also like an additional $106,000 for “open space remediation.” They’d like to “repair serious erosion” that created “crevices and brought silt onto city streets.”

Of course, money has already been set aside in the “Golf Course Capital Reserve Fund” for simplifying the 18th hole and building another bar, however, city staff would like to use money from the Capital Construction funds to pay for the erosion repair. And just like that another $200,000 is flushed down The Lossings.

Meanwhile, we still don’t have the Alga Norte Pool nor the skateboard park. Nice, huh?

[Update June 29, 2011: For the record the City Council unanimously approved the $106,000 erosion control funding and the $80,000 to simplify the 18th hole, however, they did not approve the $12,000 to create a “players club” because Farrah Douglas didn’t like the idea of using the boardroom as a temporary bar. She thinks the course needs something more luxurious and suggested maybe turning the pro shop into a new lounge. Council will discuss the new bar issue at a future time.]

[Link: City County Agenda and AB#20.610]

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Carlsbad Lancer Dancer Junior Campers

by The Editors on June 28, 2011

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The week of August 1, 2011 Carlsbad’s national dance competition award winning Lancer Dancers will be sharing some of their deep dance skills with young dancers grades K-7 during Jr. Lancer Dancer Summer Camp.

Team Co-Captain, Camille Posard shares her theory on success, “Last year we were the Cinderella Story winning the National Championship with 8 rookies on the team and 5 freshmen, but it was hard work and determination not experience that made it possible. We will be sharing what we learned with the dancers at camp this summer”. . . . The Lancer Dancers are excited to be able to share their dance skills, choreography, and teamwork with other young dancers during this week of camp. Their goal for the camp is to inspire others with their love of dance, but more importantly, how teamwork, dedication, and hard work can take you just about anywhere that you set your sights on! Lancer Dancer, Katie Park, describes how camp is about more than dance, “Young dancers will not only learn dances, but leadership qualities and discipline that help you succeed in other aspects of life.”

All the five-day camp requires the will to dance and a $100 donation to the Lancer Dancers. For more information click here and/or follow the jump. [click to continue…]

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Carlsbad’s Noelle Freeman Is Miss California

by The Editors on June 27, 2011

Lnf22I-B78814238Z.120110626142101000Gt810A2Q5.2We’re not really sure how all the beauty pageants work, but Noelle Freeman, 21, of Carlsbadistan has won the title of Miss California and a $10,000 scholarship, according to a story in the Orange County Register.

When she won she didn’t even hear her name called, she said. “I kept looking down at my sash to make sure it was actually happening,” said Freeman, who graduated Chapman as a double major in communications and advertising/public relations.

So, let’s get this straight–a girl from Carlsbad (and former Miss Teen World), going to school Orange, competes as Miss Culver City and wins Miss California. Apparently, when she competed in the 2009 Miss California Pageant as Miss City of Orange things didn’t go so well.

Not sure what Freeman, who just graduated from Chapman University with a double major in popular pageant degrees “communications and advertising/public relations” will do with her scholarship money, but she will definitely represent the state in the 2012 Miss America pageant in Las Vegas in January. Which it would appear she’s been preparing for for years.

[Link: OC Register]

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TGIF July 1: Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band

by The Editors on June 27, 2011

Big BootyThings about to get funky this week in Carlsbadistan’s Stage Coach Park as the funkidelic sounds of Ashville, North Carolina’s Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band bounce Jazz in the Park to it’s feet with some of the best dance music of the summer.

Purveyors of original funk since 2002,” Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band zoomed onto festival stages nationwide, fueled by a heady mix of powerful original compositions, triumphant horns, laid-back grooves, and heavy backbeats. . . Today they are ready to shake the world, one cheek at a time.”

Get it? Ass cheek. Booty? Follow the jump for more info.

[Link: Jazz In The Park] [click to continue…]

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