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PILLAR TO POST—Weekly roundup of media items with a local focus.
LATEST POOP.
Making conversation at
dinner with Leslie and Gary Meads, I asked what’s hot in local dining? Immediately Leslie curled her nose. “I know what’s not
hot and that’s the smell coming from the La Jolla shoreline. It is so bad it’s chasing people away from
restaurants located on the water. It is
really, really bad.”
No
sooner said, than the next morning reporter Lisa Halverstadt in the Voice
of San Diego penned “What’s the Big
Stink About La Jolla Cove?” Here’s the
poop, according to Lisa: “…Years ago, La Jolla residents and tourists
frequented the bluffs that surround the cove but the rocky areas have since
been fenced off. Cormorants, seagulls and seals have taken over, leaving behind
piles of feces.
“A
lack of oxygen exposure or recent rain has allowed the stench to fester, and
it’s done just that for months. Dry, hot conditions over the summer made it
even worse. On some days, the stench travels nearly a mile from the cove…”
For
the entire VOSD article link: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/community/article_3cdaca12-2dcd-11e2-b5c2-0019bb2963f4.html
Hmmmm. Maybe the recent rain will help. Maybe our Fire Department might like to hold
a practice drill and hose down the area.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
James's Discover S.America |
Ron James visiting distant relative |
Peripatetic journalist Mary
Hellman James and food/wine guy and web pioneer Ron James left town by air after Turkey day for 4 days in Rome. They’re
always going someplace fun. Next they hopped on a liner in
Rome, where reports had them stopping by the Rock of Gibraltar, where Ron
couldn’t resist monkeying around.
Thanks
to NASA satellites we tracked their route, which took them by ship to South
America. The couple just checked in from beaches near Buzios, Brazil, then Rio
and Sao Paolo. They’re home now. Can’t wait to read all about it soon
on Ron’s popular food and
wine blog: http://sandiegowineanddine.com/
GOOD INTERVIEW.
Bastiaan Bouma hates it
when people ask him what is his favorite building. “My favorite building is a
building designed by a local architect and that the client is happy,” the new
executive director and CEO of the San Diego chapter The American Institute of
Architects told San Diego Home/Garden
Lifestyles Editor Janice Kleinscmidt during his visit to the magazine last
week.
Dutch
via Canada, Bastiaan Bouma is dynamic and determined to bring out the best in
San Diego architecture for the world (and locals) to appreciate. www.aiasandiego.org The past decade had Bastiaan in Chicago at an
executive post with the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
SPEAKING OF CHICAGO.
Phyllis Schwartz |
Phyllis Schwartz is back in
town after resigning as VP/news director at Fox’s WFLD in Chicago. She was quoted in the windy city press:
“…This was an extremely difficult decision to make but I have decided to be
with my family in California.” Phyllis
is a SDSU grad (’77) and worked in news locally at NBC 7/39 and KFMB-TV.
WRITER ON FIRE: Caitlan Rother
Reporter turned successful
crime writer Cailan Rother is working on a new book on convicted murderers
Nanette Packard and Eric Napolski, who were recently convicted of killing her
live-in lover back in 1994. There’s no
doubt, Caitlan will produce another best seller from this cold, cold case as
she is currently hard at it.
Caitlan Rother |
Meanwhile her most recent
in-book-stores-now “Lost Girls” (Pinnacle, Paper. $6.95), continues to do
extremely well. The LA Times recently reviewed the book about a San Diego county
murderer, who killed two young women in Escondido.
"Lost Girls" by
veteran journalist and true-crime writer Caitlin Rother is a deeply reported,
dispassionately written attempt to determine what created that monster and
predator. It is a cautionary tale and a horror story, done superbly by a writer
who knows how to burrow into a complex case without becoming captive to her
sources,” said LA Times reporter Tony
Perry.
HOLIDAY PHOTO.
The photo at the top has
made its way around the Internet. Works today to poke some holiday cheer at those crusty editors in every writer's life.
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