News Scrapbook 1988

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) vcning Tribunr. (Cir. D. 123,064) SEP 3 0 1988

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bl IIU Jim_-<:Colachis lets olden touch do the talking a real e tate empire in Anzona and Southern Cahforn1a The cent rp1eee of that ownership 1s a trio of r ort hot all located 10 Southern Cah- forma across the San Diego County line. Ernest Hahn, who developed Horton Plaza here along with a number of other shoppmg centers, knows Colacbis because he serves with him on the board of trustees of the Uni- versity of San Diego.

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.l Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,064) SEP 3 0 1988

Colachls reportedly doesn't like the tenn d velopcr" to de cnbe himself. He prefers bemg known as a property manager in for the long haul Colacb1S IS very serious type of person," d on o erver m the real estate industry. H s perf ion t He Just about humor- owns the Ran ho Bernardo Inn, urf and Sand hotel in Laguna Beach and the Temecula Cr Inn 10 the burgeomng Rancho Cahforma rea m Rivcrsid County, Just I becaus f trong concentration Cola h1

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Hahn said Colachis believes the key to suc- cess in running hotels is direct personal in- volvement He said that's why Colachis has been successful in converting distressed hotel properties mto profitable ones "He thinks that many hotels suffer from the fact they are chaw operations," Hahn said. 'He beheves in the hands-on approach." Hahn said Colachis takes a great sense of pride in havmg a good hotel operation. That's Please ee COLA.CHIS: F-4, Col. l

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.I Daily Transcript (Cir. 0. 10,000) SEP 3O1988 s~h1Jiego Opera Launches First FundCampaign Ssu• / ;/;-;;? nn"r" th ;. ··-·'· Joyce Cutler-Shaw, has been ap- Newport Beach with substantial Director Welton Jones and proved as part of the conceptual developments in San Diego, has longtime G&S company performer plan for the Doyle Community been awarded the "C-Flag," an George Weinberg-Harter have Pork in the Golden Tria ngle. The honorary symbol from the Presi• adapted this production. park will be located on Regents dent's Citation Program for * * * Road. Private Sector Initiatives. The The Grossmont College "We're in the permission pro- symbol recognizes exempla ry Drama Deportment presents cess, doing the test site and raising community service projects and "Bell, Book and Candle" by John funds," reports Cutler-Shaw. "And was given to Fieldstone for its van Druten Oct. 6-16 at The one of the important things about sponsorship of The Fieldstone Stagehouse Theatre on campus. this project is it.will be the largest Collection, 150 Southern Califor. It's a "suave and enchanting com• public project of the new arts com- nia paintings. edy" about a modern witch who mission; il will be the first public/ The Fieldstone Collection is on can perform feats of supernatu private partnership for San view now through mid-October in ralism. "Gillian casts a spell ovrr Diego." Oceanside's Centennial House, an unaltached publisher who fulls UGSU visual arts professor a house being built by Oceanside's head over heels in love with hPr Allan Kaprow, famous in the '50s Carpenter's Apprenticeship Train- and wants to marry her. But wit, as one of the pivotal figures in the ing Program that was recently raf.

univ rs1ty relations for the Universi- ty ,?f San Diego, described Colachi as very European. He's a man with trad1tional valu ." Colachls i a devout Catholic who al O re pect other religions McNamara said ' His daughter, Belle, married Paul Red m 1984 in France's 13th century Chartres Cathedral. Colachis ar- ranged for San Diego' Monsignor 1 Brent Eagen to perform the service Colach1S reportedly had the wedding party flown there Hts wife had some friends bring home wat r tak n from the River Jordan m the Midea t for the chris- tenmg of her daughter's third child Mc am ra said ColachJS is "very Inter_ t d ID h1 ·torical significance of th mgs nd likes to use elements in some of his hotel " Colachts, h said, has donated a Jot of time to U D to help the university •,\h its c n 10n projects. I cons1d r him very analytical " c~amara aid "He's a very astute busm man" Juck Boyce, vice president for fi- nancial affairs f r USO ·d Co- lachis lik to find new dishes ID Eu- ropean restaurants and then have his own restaurants Jn th hotels serve 1hcm Sanford Goodkin, San Diego-based ~ea! estate researcher, said Colachis knows h niche in the real estate field. He' very mtense person and operates in a very disciplined way." He said Colachis IS one "person in the field y,~o has no ego problem." . Colachis next big project is get- !mg the former Scripps Clinic build- mg on Prospect Street in La Jolla fully rented He purchased the prop- erty after Scripps moved to new quart~rs on Torrey Pines Mesa. lnttlally, Science Applications In- ternational Corp. used the property but th e company then moved out to Campus Pomt.

ches, unfortunately, cannot fall in love and this imperfection leads to a number of difficulties." Tickets are $5 general. • * * * USIU's International Com- pany presents "The Boyfriend" at The Theatre in Old Town Oct. 5-30. A. hit on Broadway, this show journeys to the French Riviera and Madame Dubonnet's · fashionabll' finishing school in the days of the Charles on. Jack Tyge tt, associate producer of the lnterna- t1onal Company and head of musical theater at'USIU, directs. The production plays· Wednes- days through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m., with mati, nees at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are $12.50 gen- !'.r.al • * * USD dedicates its new Baldwin concert grand piano with a concert of works by llloza,t, Chopin, Ravel and Schubert Sum-lay at 4 p.m. in the Camino The-at re on campus. Father Nicolas Reveles, USO associate professor of music will perform. ' Tickets are $7 general. • • *

ArtFacts

by Pri scilla Lister

development of "happenings" of art in public places, hos joined the museum's board. . And Cutler-Shaw is lecturing at the Slade School in London ne,.i week O'l thP museum project. "PPople from the Wales Arts Council gnt in touch with me to hear ahout the project. There's a lot of interest in it." She said it will take $:l00,000 to fund the museum. "We need about $30,000 up front and have $10 000 matching at this moment." * * * AT&T donatC'd $60,000 to the Lo Jolla Playhouse this season to sponsor four productions there: "Two Rooms," "Lulu," "The Fool Show," and "80 Days." The AT&T Premiere Project, as ifs called, was developed largely though efforts of AT&T's Raleigh Wilson, an L.JP trustee. "We appreciated the fact that this theater company is perceived in much the same way as our ow~," he said. "We are both recognized nationally and internationally as world-class organizations." AT&T general manager here, Frank Laughton, has als'o recent• ly joined the L,JP board.

fled off to raise money for Ocean- side's centennial. The house is located at 290 N. Pacific at Third. * • Son I.Ji &;, Theatre Founda- tion's Arts Tix booth has osted a 14 percent increas£ i11 ticket ~ales this summer compar~ Li> last !JUmmei-. From June f through Sept. 4, 8,364 tickets were sold and $81,516 was returned to par• t1cipatmg theaters. * • San Diego Gilbert & Sullivan ~company opens its 10th anniver· sary season tonight with the rarely produced G&S operetta, "Utopia, Limited." It will be pe, formed Fri• day :ind Saturday nights at 8 and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. this weekend through Oct. 9 in the Casa de! Prado Theatre in Balboa Park. "Utopia, Limited" involves com- ic situtations resulting from the island of Utopia's attempt to become just like Mother England. It was originally produced in 1893 and while it won critical acclaim at the time, it is rarely performed be- cause of the high production costs involved in staging.

. Colachis i now adding more park- mg and rehabilitating the complex for new tenants. . It isn't the first big projeet he's had 10 La J?lla. He converted the tower- Ing Seville proJect from apartments to condomiruums. He also owns the Scripps Inn, a cozy hideaway right by the ocean in La Jolla. a bed-and- brea fast place he renovated Mike Slattery of Coldwell ·Banker Commercial Brokerage Services said a group of plastic surgeons has rent- ed about 10,000 square feet of the total 100,000 square feet in the for- mer Scripps Clinic complex. ColachJS had put in some palm trees along the front as part of a la~dscape improvement plan. I thmk he knows what's going to ~uc<;tied m the future," Slattery said. Hes a v1s1onary."

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Southeast Asian refugees and USD st~s have teamed up to pro~ the first of its kind art ex- hibit showcasing remarkable Pan· dau embroideries. The exhibit10n goes up today through Oct 19 at the university's Founders Gallery. . . The Pandau artists are Hmong women from the mountain villages m Laos - whQ esca~ed Southeast Asia during the Viet- nam War and now reside in Linda Vista. Some 1,500 to 3,000 now hve in that neighborhood. Linda Vistan Reggie Smith became aware of their hand em• broidery and brought l1SP ru:t pro· fessor Therese Whitcomb to some of their homes to view their art- work. The Hmongs didn't have a writ• ten language of their own until about 30 years ago, according to USO. "Until that time, Pandau needlework was their only record of Hmong history." One of the embroideries depicts Viet Cong soldiers gunning down Hmong men and women. Another shows Hmongs fleeing Southeast Asia. Others tell folk tales and still others are strictly cut applique de- signs. All the pieces are hand cut and hand sewn. 1:he symmetrical designs are created without the use of a ruler or any other kind of straight edge. "Two words come to mind when I think of Pandau. control and ex- quisite," said Whitcomb, who directs Founders Gallery. "The American art audiencc is hungry for works displaying those qualities. Finesse of c,xecutio_n ai~d discipline are qualities lacking m much of today's art. This work is symmetrical, intricate; the kind of artwork we'd associate more with the Chinese. "For those who come to see thP exh1h1t, it will be a whole new cul tural cxper1encP. This is all new (to San Diego)." * * *

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