The Coast News, Feb. 22, 2013

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FEB. 22, 2013
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burger for lunch with
caramelized onions and
roasted garlic aioli.
On the dinner menu we
serve venison sliders with
onion jam and tellagio
cheese. Wild boar osso
bucco over Anson Mills
grits is on the dinner men u
also. And remember always
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run by Jason Haas, with his
emphasis on Rhone style
wines using vines fr om
French Beaucastel, creating
a world-class Chateauneuf-
Du-Pape style of wine; and
Cass Winery, specialists in
Rhone varietals such as
Grenache, Mourvedre,
Viognier, Syrah and
Roussane.
Playful Ted Plemmons
runs the show on Paso’s east
side in the shadow of a huge
heritage oak tree, symbolic
of Paso Robles (which literally
means “the Pass of the
Oaks.”)
The Rhone Valley plays
a big r ole with its F rench
varietals, but Zinfandel is
the celebrated grape in this
part of the Calif ornia Wine
World.
March 15 to Mar ch 17,
Paso invites the public to
more than 130 wineries that
offer barrel tastings, winemaker
dinners, BBQ’s and
live music. It’s called “Grow
Zinfully Wild.”
But back to the P aso
San Diego Road Sho w this
month Feb. 25 and Feb. 26.
I asked Communications
Director Chris Taranto why
a road show of this type is
best for SoCal wine lo vers
that want to learn a bout
Paso wines. “We have more
than 30 wineries sho wcasing
over 150 wines with
many of our mar quee
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north end of the project, forming
more of a barrier than a
welcome. Just where will the
retail bonanza come from?
The city is dri ven to
develop residential areas and
commercial zones because it
needs the sales and pr operty
tax revenue to ser vice enormous
bond de bt, pay excessive
salaries and pensions,and
cover operating expenses.
Eighty-one percent of General
Fund revenue comes fr om
check on the w eekends as
many of our specials
involve game meats in some
fashion.
I’ve tried all the game
dishes at Union and the y
are worth checking out. And
I will r eiterate what Chef
Gethin said a bout not
ordering it a bove medium
rare, you will be disappointed
unless you like dry meat.
Check Union out at localu-
wineries and our lesser
known properties that ar e
looking to be disco vered,”
he said.
I asked him what v arietals
he r ecommended.
“Historically we became
known for Zinfandel.
Italian immigrants brought
it with them as the y homesteaded
the ar ea. In the
‘80s we saw a lot of
Cabernet planted in the
region.
Today, Paso has earned
a lot of acclaim f or the
Rhone varietals and
blends.” He went on to say
“I want to encourage everyone
to visit paso wine.com
to learn a bout the e vent
and purchase an admission
to attend the winemak er
dinners at select r estaurants
Feb. 25 and the Grand
Tasting Feb. 26 from 6 to
8:30 p.m. at the McMillin
Events Center at Liberty
Station in Pt. Loma.
On Feb. 27, Wine Steals
in Hillcrest and Cardiff will
also be featuring wines
from Paso from 5:30 to 7
p.m. We feel that our w ellbalanced
full bodied
California style wines will
please your palate.” I can
second that emotion.
Wine Bytes
A premium Rose’ tasting
is contin uing Tuesday
through Saturday from 5:30
to 9 p.m. at Addison in the
Grand Resort in Del Mar .
Flights of thr ee beautiful
sales and property taxes.
Streetscape is particularly
appealing to the city
because the $20 million funding
comes fr om TransNet,
which is countywide sales tax
revenue. The city e xpects
great benefit for little cost.
To help bring Streetscape
about, the city annually gives
$30,000 of taxpa yers’ money
to the Leucadia 101 Main
Street Association, an ostensibly
non-profit group of merchants,
commercial real estate
owners and de velopers. The
city also contr acts Peder
nion101.com and Tip-Top
Meats in Carlsbad is a good
source for game to cook at
home.
Visit tiptopmeats.com
for more information.
David Boylan is the founder of
Artichoke Creative, an Encinitas
based integrated marketing agency.
He can be reached at
david@artichoke-creative.com.
wines for $20. More information
at (877) 814-8472.
Rossi’s Pizza and P asta
in San Mar cos is ha ving a
Pedroncelli Wine Dinner
Feb. 23 at 6:30 p.m. Cost is
$60. Five courses with fi ve
tastings including the
acclaimed Pedroncelli
Mother Clone Zinf andel.
RSVP at (760) 533-4486.
Movie night at Orfila
Winery in Escondido F eb.
23 from 6:30 to 8:30 p .m.
features Casablanca with
Humphrey Bogart. Cost is
$8. Wine and snacks available.
Details at (760) 738-
6500 ext. 22.
Davanti Enoteca in
Little Italy San Diego pr esents
an evening with Peter
Neptune Master Wine
Sommelier Feb. 26 from
6:30 to 10 p .m. Spanish
wines with a six-course dinner
are featured. $ 85.
RSVP at (619) 237-9606.
Il Fornaio in Del Mar
hosts a Mic hele Chiarlo
Wine Dinner Feb. 28 from 6
to 10 p .m. Cost is $55.
Wines include Bar olo and
Barbaresco. Call for RSVP
at (858) 755-8876.
Frank Mangio is a renowned wine connoisseur
certified by Wine Spectator.
His library can be viewed at www.tasteofwinetv.com.
(Average Google certified
900 visits per day) He is one of the top
five wine commentators on the Web.
Reach him at mangiompc@aol.com.
Norby at $105,000 of taxpa yers’
money annually to be
Highway 101 coordinator and
to play seven other roles, all of
which strongly influence
Streetscape. The city has
made Norby a one-man interlocking
directorate.
If the Str eetscape plan
itself were as good as the
scheme that brought it about,
few people would object.
The city has the full y
funded opportunity to do it
well. Why do it poorly?
Doug Fiske lives west of
101 in Leucadia
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their children out of the
program. Still, he said the
district has worked to find
“individualized solutions
for each of the f amilies,”
including a separ ate PE
class at some of the
schools.
The yoga program
counts toward the 200 minutes
of r equired PE in
some district sc hools, but
not others like El Camino
Creek, Baird said.
Further, Baird said the
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es to further de velop her
artistic ability. Having studied
through the Watts Atelier
in Encinitas and many weekend
workshops with pr ominent
artists, she says, “I
believe that an y of m y success
as an oil painter is a
result of early and continual
daily practice with drawing.”
Relocating to Car lsbad
with her husband in 2008,
Pacheco states, “The nearby
Pacific Ocean, with its waterways
and lagoons,has provided
me with much inspiration
and subject matter f or my
paintings.”
She continues, “I’m passionate
about painting
because I feel complete
when I’m doing it.
Sometimes as I paint, I'm
feeling a one-ness with
nature and things seem to
fall into place. Other times,
when I'm not a ble to r each
that level of concentration, I
chalk it up to e xperience,
scrape the boar d, and move
on. It's all a learning part of
life.”
When painting “en
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realignment.
In surrounding Los
Angeles County, homicides
were at 166, the lowest
number since 1970.
By contrast, murders
were up in the San
Francisco Bay area,
increasing from 248 in
2010 and 275 in 2011 to
310 last year.
Almost all the
increase took place in
three cities, San Jose, San
Francisco and Oakland,
where killings rose 52 percent
over two years.
Taken together, those
three cities lost more than
850 police officers to budget
cuts over the last thr ee
years, which may help
explain some of their
homicide increase.
The other dozen cities
in the region reporting had
24 percent less m urders
over that period, and overall,
Bay area slayings
remain well below historic
highs.
It’s a mixed bag, with
preliminary numbers for
the first six months of last
year showing violent crime
in major cities ma y have
climbed 4 per cent and
property crime 9 percent.
Even at that, crime
overall appears to be w ell
below the historic peaks of
the 1980s.
And in 2011,
California crime r anked
third from the bottom
program’s curriculum w as
built upon fitness standards
dictated by the state
government, not any kind
of religion.
Baird also noted several
law firms have offered to
take the district’s case pro
bono.
The district started
yoga at five of its schools in
the fall, and then launched
the program at its f our
remaining schools in
January. At most of the
schools, students in all
grades participate in the
program twice a w eek for
plein air” Pacheco usually
paints relatively small canvasses,
making it possible to
capture an accur ate representation
of a scene bef ore
the sunlight c hanges its orientation
significantly. She
says, “When I'm out in the
field painting, I'm recording
patterns of light, colors and
values that I can r elay to a
larger studio piece later .”
When asked by collectors to
recreate one of her plein air
paintings on a larger scale to
satisfy their needs, she often
uses her original plein air
paintings as her guide.
As recipient of man y
awards during the past several
years, Pacheco was selected
from hundreds of entries
to participate in a juried
exhibition sponsored by the
San Diego Museum of Art
Artists Guild. Titled, “En
Plein Air: a Char les Reiffel
Tribute 2013,” the international
exhibition was juried
by both Martin E. Petersen,
author and f ormer senior
Curator of American
Painting at the San Diego
Museum of Art, and Jean
Stern, renowned authority
on California Impressionism
among the ten lar gest
states.
No one y et knows if
the preliminary numbers
will stand up or if an y
increases are due to
realignment.
But it’s certain that
given the or der to fr ee
thousands of prisoner s
that came fr om federal
judges backed by the U.S.
Supreme Court, things
could be much worse.
“The governor was
presented with thr ee
choices,” his press secretary,
Gil Duran, wrote in an
email. Brown, Duran said,
could have defied the
order, precipitating a constitutional
crisis.
He also could ha ve
released prisoners willynilly,
without concern f or
public safety.
Or he could do something
like the realignment
program, which keeps all
serious, violent or se xual
offenders in prisons.
The program transfers
no present state prison
inmates to county jails and
allows no one placed there
to be released earlier than
they otherwise would have
been. All felons sent to
state prison will do all
their time there.
The inmate r eduction
stems mainly from two categories:
About 14,000 ar e
parole violators who previously
would have been
sent back to state prison
and now go to county jails
instead, if parole violation
30 minutes. Currently, the
University of San Diego is
studying how the pr ogram
affects student beha vior
and health.
“We’re waiting for
those results,” Baird said.
“Anecdotally, we’ve heard
from students and principals
that ther e are lots of
positives to the program —
students are more relaxed
and better able to study.”
But Broyles’ press
release isn’t as optimistic,
stating the program has led
to “harassment and bull ying.”
and Executive Director of
the Irvine Museum.
Selection into this exhibition
was indeed an honor.
Two of P acheco’s plein
air paintings, along with
those of 33 other selected
artists, will be on exhibit at L
Street Fine Art in San
Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter
from Feb. 19 through April 6.
The public is invited to meet
the artists at an opening
reception honoring the
award recipients Feb. 24
from 6 to 9 p.m.
For more information
about the e xhibition go to
http://sdmaag.org/events/cha
rles-reiffel-en-plein-air-international-artists-exhibition
More about Rita
Pacheco can be found at ritapacheco.com.
Kay Colvin is an art consultant and
director of the L Street Fine Art
Gallery in San Diego’s Gaslamp
Quarter. She specializes in promoting
emerging and mid-career artists and
bringing enrichment programs to elementary
schools through The Kid’s
College. Contact her at
kaycolvin@lstreetfineart.com.
is their sole new offense.
Another 10,000 sta ying
in county jails pr eviously
would have gone to
state prison f or felonies
that were not se xual, violent
or serious, by legal
definition.
None of those inmates
can have prior convictions
in these thr ee categories,
either.
“A mass r elease of
serious felons w as on the
table due to the court
order,” said Terri
McDonald, undersecretary
of the state prison system.
“We had to find an alternative
that left higher-risk
offenders in state prison.
“The crime n umbers
now are all over the place,
so it’s far too soon to know
what’s really happening on
the streets,” she added.
Which means no one
knows yet whether realignment
has caused crime to
rise slightly or not.
But one thing is certain:
Most alternati ves to
doing realignment as it
now works could ha ve
been a lot worse.
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