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ART INSTALLATION DOWNTOWN FORECASTS WEATHER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"NEWS<\/a>In order to satisfy a Centre City Development Corporation requirement for public art in the Santa Fe Depot precinct, Bosa Development California, Inc decided to get crafty.<\/p>\n

\u201cPainting in the Sky\u201d is a new Downtown art installation lighting up the top of the two buildings that make up Grande North and South tower condominiums, located at 1199 and 1205 Pacific Highway, respectively.<\/p>\n

Spencer Finch, the Brooklyn, New York-based artist selected for the installation, chose to conceptualize a \u2018modern day lighthouse\u2019 to convey information about the following day\u2019s weather.<\/p>\n

He and his design team utilized the two lighthouses that existed on top of the Grande buildings to facilitate the concept, creating a \u201cred sky\u201d and a \u201cblue sky\u201d composition that would indicate bad or good weather, a play on the old saying, \u201cRed sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NEWS<\/a>
Lighthouses turned into weathervanes by NBY artist, Spencer Finch, alight atop two buildings in the Columbia District. (Photos by Jessie Fleming)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The artist hopes local residents will use the installation for their own viewing pleasure as well as forecasting their daily weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy vision was to create watercolors of the skies that would become a project of light and shadow in the sky at an enormous scale, thereby making the connection between the picture, the idea and the weather forecast,\u201d said Finch of the installation in a press release.<\/p>\n

His premise was to metaphorically link San Diego\u2019s longstanding maritime and seafaring traditions with the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mechanics of the programming and technology are complicated but the fixtures are simple.\u00a0A daily RSS weather feed from Yahoo weather signals the representation of the following day\u2019s weather. \u00a0This triggers the 150 fluorescent tubes and color gels in the lighthouses atop the Grande structures to signal Finch\u2019s red or blue sunset pictures in the architecture of the buildings to make the connection into indicators of weather information,\u201d said the press release.<\/p>\n

Finch\u2019s light-based works have been also been exhibited at MCASD La Jolla in the past.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MUSEUM SETS ATTENDANCE RECORD OVER HOLIDAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the rain and cold weather, visitors turned out in record numbers to climb aboard the USS Midway Museum over the holidays, according to Scott McGaugh, USS Midway Museum\u2019s director of marketing. According to numbers McGaugh prepared for the membership\u2019s newsletter, the venue set a new record of 6,687 guests on Saturday, Dec. 29., a 20 percent increase over the previous record set in 2011. The previous single day attendance record was 5,529 on July 3, 2011.\u00a0 Overall attendance for 2012 at the museum was 1.048 million, which showed an increase of 11 percent over the previous year. The USS Midway Museum is located at the Navy Pier, 910 North Harbor Drive, Downtown.\u00a0 For more information visit midway.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ANTHOLOGY CLOSES ITS DOORS FOR GOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amid weeks of rumors and confusion, Anthology, the popular music and supper club located at 1337 India Street on the edge of Little Italy, has permanently shuttered its doors as of the start of the New Year. Though the Anthology website still states the venue is \u201cpostponing our concert schedule due to refurbishment upgrades and repairs\u201d and still directs visitors to\u00a0 \u201ccheck again later when we reopen,\u201d a statement issued by Casey Pukl, the venue\u2019s marketing manager said otherwise. \u201cIt is with great sadness that I send this email today to inform you that owner, Howard Berkson announced today that Anthology has officially closed its doors and will not be reopening.\u201d Berkson himself was contacted but declined to comment at this time. \u00a0Open just over five years, the venue known for \u201cfine tuned music and cuisine\u201d had reached iconic status among visitors and musical artists. The venue boasted rock, jazz, blues and other musical greats, as well as comedic geniuses on its critically acclaimed and acoustically-sound stage over the years. In addition the venue often served as a site for private events and the owners also graciously offered up the space for dozens of nonprofit fundraising events over the years. Anthology\u2019s closing came quickly on the heels of another celebrated music venue\u2019s closing nearby, 4th and B.<\/p>\n

HOMELESS SERVICES RESTORED<\/strong><\/p>\n

The state\u2019s Department of Finance (DOF) issued a letter to the City of San Diego on Dec. 27, reversing its previous decision to deny $4.3 million worth of funding previously allocated for the Connections Housing project, after the City filed suit in Sacramento Superior Court on Dec. 21. Connections Housing was under redevelopment and is currently about two weeks away from opening. Its initial budget of $32 had been increased due to asbestos and structural issues were uncovered, but developers had secured alternative funding to support the increases. After local redevelopment agencies were dissolved earlier this year, the DOF had assumed control of redevelopment funds in the region, and issued funding cuts to both the Connections Housing and an affordable housing project at Ninth and Broadway. After two months of \u201cexhaustive\u201d meetings with the DOF and no change in stance, the City filed the lawsuit. \u201cWe are heartened that the DOF has since reversed its decision which would have placed the City\u2019s homeless population \u2013 the third-highest of any city in the country \u2013 in jeopardy,\u201d Goldsmith said in a press release. The lawsuit will now be dismissed \u201cwithout prejudice\u201d by the City Attorney\u2019s Office, as a result of the reversal. The affordable housing project funding cut was also reversed.<\/p>\n

ARTS TIX MOVES TO LYCEUM THEATRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to the redevelopment of Horton Plaza, the Arts Tix Box Office has moved to the Lyceum Theatre, located in the basement level of Horton Plaza, near the mall\u2019s entrance from Broadway Circle. This will be only temporary until its permanent location in the southeast corner of the new Horton Plaza Park, which is scheduled for opening in spring of 2014.\u00a0 A discount same-day ticket booth fashioned on a similar offering in New York City\u2019s Times Square, Arts Tix first launched in 1986 in the lobby of the Spreckels Theatre on Broadway. Arts Tix is operated by the San Diego Performing Arts League, a non-profit arts-service umbrella organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the region\u2019s performing arts. The Arts Tix kiosk is now located down the stairs and directly to the right of the Lyceum Theatre\u2019s entrance. Tickets can also be purchased by calling 858-381-5595, or online at SDArtsTix.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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