november2011

@SanDiegoMag

asked, What did

you do during

the Blackout?

@SpiffingJewelry Lis-

tened to podcasts by

candle light with my hubby!

@sunnyincali Drank

beer and chatted with

all our neighbors by can-

dlelight. The power needs

to go out more o en!!

@TheRedDoorSD Sat

in our beautiful gar-

den & looked at the stars.

@CaliforniaKara Put a

pint of @cherrygarcia

out of its misery :)

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Fashion matters

I am so happy that Nina Garin is writing in your

magazine. I have followed her since she wrote for

Union-Tribune. She is a keeper and I will subscribe

if I can read what she writes. Thank you.

— especial71

And you’re still talking about

September’s arts issue...

How could you leave Donal Hord’s 1937 Aztec (also

known as Montezuma) off your list of 100 works of

art to see before you die? Hord, San Diego’s most

distinguished sculptor and the only local artist to be

named a fellow of the National Sculpture Society,

produced the iconic symbol for San Diego State,

a work then SDSU President Hepner called “the

central fi gure of campus.” Hord’s work was a WPA

piece, and the National Director of the Federal Arts

Project was so awed by the fi nished Aztec product

that he paid to have terra cotta casts of the sculpture

to exhibit at the FAP headquarters in the nation’s

capital. In 1941, Hord’s Aztec received extended in-

ternational acclaim when it spent six months on dis-

play at the New York City Museum of Modern Art.

—Seth Mallios, Ph.D., Professor and Chair

of Anthropology, San Diego State University

Besides PETCO Park, which is icon enough in its

architectural design, check out Ken Goldman’s

awesome murals inside the administrative offi ces

of that building depicting Padre game scenes. It is

genre art at its fi nest for this area right now.

—muckwalkers

Some interesting choices. It would have been nice to

have at least one architect or historic preservationist

on the jury, if so many buildings were going to be

considered as art. But please, the editing on this article

was so poor. How hard would it have been to fi nd out

that Alberto Treganza designed the Lemon Grove

Lemon, that Frank Allen, Jr. was the architect for the

Hamilton Store building, that Bakwell & Brown were

the architects of the Santa Fe Depot, etc.? And are we

just supposed to go to “Chula Vista” and we will auto-

matically see the Father Serra work? Really, some bet-

ter descriptions, addresses, and directions are in order.

—Anonymous

Errata: In “Meet San Diego’s

Newest Restaurant Mogul” on

page 34 of the October issue, the

last line should have read “And

while Carder says he is commit-

ted to keeping the company head-

quartered in San Diego, if the $10

million round of funding comes

through, he’s thinking big for his

next expansion market: New York

City.” In “Docs Off the Clock” on

page 96, the physician that per-

formed the surgery on Lauren

Cooke was Dr. Peter B. Wile, not

Laura D. Wile.