Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
On His Own
Although a March 25 San Diego Union-Tribune article announced that “Street Scene is poised to reclaim the streets that inspired its name,” founder Rob Hagey has taken out a special-events permit to hold it in the Petco Park parking lot on September 19 and 20.
“He said it was going to be a toned-down, more low-key event,” says Betty Hale, staffer with the City of San Diego’s Special Events office. “He said there were not going to be as many major artists.”
In 2004, Petco’s parking lot was used for the largest Street Scene ever; an estimated 105,000 turned out to see headliners AFI, Foo Fighters, and Social Distortion.
It is now up to the San Diego Padres and the Centre City Development Corporation as to whether the event will be held in the parking lot. The approval process takes six to eight weeks.
One longtime production contractor says the lack of a major backer may not bode well for Hagey as he sets out to hire sound, light, and staging contractors. The source says that in 2006, Hagey settled outstanding bills with many of his production contractors, paying them 60 cents on the dollar.
Another promoter says Hagey intended to align with a larger promoter who would help back the event.
“He couldn’t find any takers,” says the promoter. “He’s in it on his own.”
Regarding payment to production contractors for the 2006 event, Hagey says, “Everybody has been paid. It was agreed on when we did it. I have years of working with these people, some since 1979. As an independent promoter, I did the best I could do under the circumstances I was in.”
He says that just because the permit application spells out the Petco parking lot, it doesn't mean that the event “...would be exclusively pegged to that area.” He says getting the site is an “ebb and flow process. It is a work in progress. We are working dilligently to create an event that is very urban and very cool.”
– Ken Leighton
Here's something you might be interested in.
On His Own
On His Own
Although a March 25 San Diego Union-Tribune article announced that “Street Scene is poised to reclaim the streets that inspired its name,” founder Rob Hagey has taken out a special-events permit to hold it in the Petco Park parking lot on September 19 and 20.
“He said it was going to be a toned-down, more low-key event,” says Betty Hale, staffer with the City of San Diego’s Special Events office. “He said there were not going to be as many major artists.”
In 2004, Petco’s parking lot was used for the largest Street Scene ever; an estimated 105,000 turned out to see headliners AFI, Foo Fighters, and Social Distortion.
It is now up to the San Diego Padres and the Centre City Development Corporation as to whether the event will be held in the parking lot. The approval process takes six to eight weeks.
One longtime production contractor says the lack of a major backer may not bode well for Hagey as he sets out to hire sound, light, and staging contractors. The source says that in 2006, Hagey settled outstanding bills with many of his production contractors, paying them 60 cents on the dollar.
Another promoter says Hagey intended to align with a larger promoter who would help back the event.
“He couldn’t find any takers,” says the promoter. “He’s in it on his own.”
Regarding payment to production contractors for the 2006 event, Hagey says, “Everybody has been paid. It was agreed on when we did it. I have years of working with these people, some since 1979. As an independent promoter, I did the best I could do under the circumstances I was in.”
He says that just because the permit application spells out the Petco parking lot, it doesn't mean that the event “...would be exclusively pegged to that area.” He says getting the site is an “ebb and flow process. It is a work in progress. We are working dilligently to create an event that is very urban and very cool.”
– Ken Leighton
Comments