The SN&R reported on the story I broke about the Crest. That's funny that the mayor was there and gave positive feedback to Mr. Wine Investor because she played all innocent when LM talked to her about it at the railyards meeting. Two faced bitch! Uh, that's right, I said it.
I'm not trying to sway your votes one way or another, I'd just like to point out that if you'd like to vote for anyone that's nominated for a sammie, you can do it here.
Dueling shows tonight, Dan Deacon at Fools (which is supposed to start at nine, and Ancient Sons at Marilyns). Also, RTL is playing Record Club on sunday. With The Makes Nice (bubblegum rock) and the long-awaited reunion of Red Tyger Church! Once again there are four bands, too many!
Good, they finally posted my comment on that Breton article. I was starting to smell a conspiracy.
And another arena discussion percolates up. So the NBA gets to decide where they want the arena, hmm? We'll see about that.
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Great work on breaking that Crest story, Beckler.
~~~your friend scoopy
whatevs, sarcast-o
I don't hate the idea of an Arena at Cal Expo provided that the traffic logjam on Bus80/Cap City is resolved.
Maybe a combo of mass transit with a Park & Ride incentive for events and some kind of side fork extension on the bridge (I don't know the real term) to route to the fairgrounds at another spot than Expo Blvd or adding second level on the current bridge with each going one way. Where the money would come from? Got me. No one would want it to be a toll bridge or have a tax increase. Maybe the NBA could sponsor it (joke).
But for real the current traffic overload needs to be fixed already and having the Arena there would bring the issue to a head in a big way I think.
Does Jim Brennen know about the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts that is going up on 14th and H? This place sounds just like a Sac-style "Lincoln Center-type thing". Does he really think it will work to have another performing arts center 7 blocks away? Has Fargo not clued him into this plan?
http://www.sacbee.com/102/story/220635.html
http://www.capradio.org/articles/articledetail.aspx?articleid=3800
Anna
Lincoln Center art type things are the new TCBY frozen yogurt shops, I mean corner coffee place, I mean Leatherbys, I mean brewpub, I mean Shakeys, I mean Chuck E Cheese, I mean Orange Julius, I mean Adkins diet, I mean, sushi joints.
Oakley Blades + Baby on Board/pogs = Lincoln type art center
It's heckasac's fault for bringing back the 1980s day-glo. Frankie Say Relax.
Smitty, that maybe your best post ever....
-Mrs. Troublemaker
hella LOL at smitty comment
That N&R story was such a non-story. Late and all spun around one little quote that's so old now it shouldn't be reprinted unless they have some follow up.
Mr. Wine Invester probably wishes to god that he could unsay that.
It's nice timing though. The Crest has had some especially highly visible and impressive shows going on lately that are sure to convince anyone still undecided that the folks who run The Crest are best left to do what they do so well.
The "non-story" is that the city is incompetent, ill-advised and just-plain dumb when it comes to assisting/dealing with the three downtown theaters.
Of course, none of the three theaters' GMs will go on the record and say something like that ...
... which is understandable
... so the little story goes about things in a more roundabout, subtler and back-door ways.
It's not really a story about the Crest--which is not to say all things in life shouldn't be Crest-centric.
Writer's a bit of a hack, nevertheless.
As ex-GM at Tower, corporate said DO NOT talk to the media. I was told when I interviewed that they shitcanned one person for bad-mouthing how they run things on the internet.
I was directly told not to go to any local business meetings. I was very quiet during The Tower District meetings, but I would laugh about decisions made. It might have been how amused I was at the suggestion that local businesses pay off the police to get a quick response time.
The idea that local businesses can rent an off-duty police officer to be local security. We were told that we can have them be Good Cop or Bad Cop depending on what the majority of the businesses wanted.
It makes sense but the presentation was kind of mafia-filtered-through-a-Stepford-lobbyist like.
Anyway, I was told that Tower Corporate (and this IS NOT the same people who ran Tower Records, they have their own multi-national corporation thank you very much) runs google searches to find out what's going on out there.
The city never made an attempt to talk with me when I was at Tower (but wouldn't it be my place to talk to them?). Not SNR, not the Bee.
A local outfit wanted to interview me for public access but I was told Tower corporate wouldn't return their calls so it went nowhere.
I'd assume the GM downtown probably doesn't give a rat's ass because it's a corporate job. The Crest is locally owned and operated. Pretty hard thing to find these days.
Oh, I should say, that wasn't the Tower GM before me who was shit-canned for talking about Tower's shortcomings.
The corporation now rents Tower direct so there's a good chance improvements will be made.
Yeah, the "non-story" mentioned more than The Crest, but the Curtains for The Crest headline and intro were sensationalist crap that the writer KNEW were false. I know first hand that the writer doesn't write the headlines often, but the intro was total B.S. as well.
I don't hate on the N&R as much as most, you can assume it's because I've freelanced for 'em and I won't argue, but this was just plain bad journalism.
"this was just plain bad journalism."
who hates the news and review? i occasionally get frustrated with a thing or two, but I am certainly glad it exists and I read it fairly eagerly (if you can do anything fairly eagerly) every week. if I have to choose being alarmist about the Crest going under (as the news and review did) or being like "yay, I can't wait until this wine country investor changes the Crest into something urban" (like the Bee did) I would definitely choose the alarmist perspective.
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