Yard House Hot, Autobistro Not; Plus Some Quotes
Let’s start this week’s column with a few good quotes “April first didn’t seem like a good time to start a venture”: Dick Ortwein, on why he and fellow departing Koll exec Vic Laidlaw picked April 3 as the launch date for Focus Real Estate LP (see Nidal Ibrahim’s front-page story) “It’s always exciting to move from a place where history was made to a place where history is being made”: Celebrated neurobiology researcher Ricardo Miledi, as he received a UCI Medal on March 18, explaining why he left London to come to Irvine. Dr. Miledi said it had also helped UCI’s recruitment effort that executive vice chancellor Bill Lillyman, another of the evening’s medal winners, put the Miledis up at the Surf & Sand hotel in Laguna Beach. Other UCI honorees: dance prof Donald McKayle and Henry and Susan Samueli “We didn’t mean to shake everybody up, but after three issues the Times is selling out”: former OCBJer J.L. Sullivan, noting the timing of Times Mirror’s sale to the Tribune Co. with the launch of his weekly downtown LA freebie, the Los Angeles Garment & Citizen “We have no interest in retiring, but we don’t run anything”: former Apple boss John Sculley, explaining his current role as a VCer (Sculley Brothers, with his brothers Arthur and David) to the March 15 Chapman U Economic Forum. Sculley also tried to explain the New Economy. Editor RR learned that in the NE he is no longer a journalist, but an “infomediary.” End quotes Manifest Doti: Also at the Chapman event, Prez Jim Doti announced the university’s six-year capital campaign drive has reached $148 million (almost all of it from local contributors) and that he expects to hit the $160 million goal well ahead of the March 2001 target . Autobistro, the pricey drive-through along Mariner’s Mile in Newport Beach that attracted lots of press coverage but few cars, is closed and a for-sale sign is up Some of the Thursday night action has left Newport Center for the Yard House, atop Triangle Square in Costa Mesa Concerts are back at the International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach (twice a month, with sound meters to regulate noise levels). The first show will feature the ’60s group the Chantays, of “Pipeline” fame, from 1-3 p.m. this coming Sunday, April 2 OC license plates:
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