Good evening, 919 Gang. This is the
first time we’ve listed a job which involved writing for the U-T.
MARTINA SCHIMITSCHEK writes:
Is
anyone interested in generating one story a month on home design? I’m looking
for a regular contributor to the U-T’s monthly publication, Coastal San Diego
Homes and Estates. The writer would need to be San Diego-based, contacting architects
or interior designers for ideas and touring the home for the story. Please
contact me at martina.s@cox.net
if you are interested and would like more information.
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PRESTON
TUREGANO
writes:
Any 919ers who received the Union-Tribune Sunday
probably noticed a 4-page full broad sheet that wrapped around the front of the
paper before you got to A-1. (My paper didn’t arrive until 9 a.m., thereby
continuing my concerns about a new U-T carrier out in faraway La Mesa.) The
wrap was a big advertisement (paid, gratis or discounted?) for the San Diego
Symphony’s 2019-2020 season and to remind readers that 38 (or 39?) year-old
Venezuela-born Rafael Payare is the SDS’ new music director/conductor. Since
2009, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been led by its Music Director/conductor
Gustavo Dudamel, also of Venezuela and currently 38 years old. The SDS
2019-2020 season schedule was also in the special wrap around.
What the big promo (soliciting concert
subscribers) did not tell you is that U-T Editor and Publisher Jeff Light is
among 31 SDS board members and former U-T lawyer Hal Fuson is board Vice Chair.
Both are members of 919. Yes, I know that in the past the Copleys supported
SDS, as well as SD Opera and other local arts organizations. But, as far as I
know, neither Helen, nor David, Copley sat on the SDS board because that would
have been a conflict of interest. Copley Symphony Hall got its name as a result
of Symphony gratitude for millions in Copley financial contributions. Yes, at
the time of his death, David was on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego (in La Jolla), but as far as I know MCASD never ballyhooed itself in
the U-T with a big use of newsprint. David was once on the board of the SD Museum
of Art, but resigned after the museum trustees demanded that he kill a SDMA
exposé I was working on in 1995-96. The nervous museum board ninnies had
written David, telling him he had a conflict of interest as U-T co-owner and as
a SDMA trustee. So, he did the right thing and quit the board. While the U-T
should support local nonprofit public institutions by extending discounts for
ads, its Publisher and Editor should not be a member of an arts organization’s
board benefitting from U-T largess. Doing that just smells bad.
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REBER: Many thanks to all who sent 919 Gang Directory bios today – and there
were a lot of you. Chuck Boyd touched up his bio and mentioned his acting
assignments in TV shows and movies in Charleston, S. Car., and Savannah, Ga.
These photos show him at work.
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| A "Homeless Man" in a new crime series streaming on HULU |
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| Assistant Prosecutor in LIZZIE, the trial of Lizzie Borden, set in 1897 |
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