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TARGET AUDIENCE: Karl Adderley wasn’t totally surprised when he spotted the elderly woman in Balboa Park last Friday, holding tight to the handle of a wagon full of old newspapers and magazines — and eagerly waiting for the doors to open on the first San Diego Hoarding Conference.
SAN DIEGO SHUFFLE: Insiders say poor polling numbers persuaded termed-out city councilwoman Donna Frye not to challenge longtime incumbent Ron Roberts for supervisor this fall. But friends say she may be waiting for a shot at the state legislature ... Three American beauties with homes in Baja’s Rosarito Beach — Debbie Shine, Susanna Stehr and Robin Mackenzie — have filmed a pilot for a reality series they’re pitching to U.S. television. A welcome respite from stories about Mexico’s drug scourge, the kick-back slice of life across the border is called Baja Blondes ... New mother Kendra Wilkinson, San Diego’s contribution to the TV world of Hugh Hefner and the E! channel, looks firm and fine in her recent OK! magazine spread — shot postpartum ... Postscript: How long before everything Hollywood ends with an exclamation point?
DRINK TO THIS: The San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research claims to be making great strides breeding endangered yellow-legged frogs indigenous to our Southern California mountains. According to its own publication, ZooNooz, only about 120 of these amphibians remain in the shaded mountain streams that neither freeze over nor evaporate. And the riverbeds have been drying up. So they’re captive-breeding them here. At first, zoo researchers were having trouble replicating the variable water temperatures that promote breeding. (The frogs do well at around 50 degrees, but colder water promotes the hibernation that later leads to optimal mating behavior.) So research coordinator Jeff Lemm got creative. His scientific breakthrough: two wine chillers that perfectly replicate the yellow-legged frogs’ favorite 40-degree winter.
NEWS THAT FITS: The indomitable Giuliana Bosco, who did hard time and then won parole after scamming San Diegans through various schemes, was back in the slammer last month. This time, sources say, the charge is credit card fraud ... Hear them roar: Meg Whitman, the former eBay boss who wants to be governor, rolls into town April 13 for a campaign dinner at the U.S. Grant Hotel. Riding shotgun: another formidable female politico, former Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who’ll speak to the gathering ... Ric Grenell, onetime press secretary to San Diego Mayor Susan Golding and longtime Bush spokesman for the U.S. at the U.N., is working in private enterprise these days. But he’s keeping a steady public profile with a flurry of op-ed pieces — most notably with huffingtonpost.com and most recently in The San Diego Union-Tribune ... Jeff Light, the newly named editor of the Union-Tribune, has ink in his blood. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, where his dad was editor of the local newspaper.
ITEMS INFINITUM: Travel + Leisure readers have named five San Diego properties to their list of top resorts in the U.S. The Lodge at Torrey Pines leads the local pack, followed by Four Seasons Resort Aviara and newcomers Hotel del Coronado, Hotel Solamar and La Jolla’s La Valencia ... According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, Americans consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information last year. Never heard of a zettabyte? Silly, that’s one sextillion bytes — or 3.6 gigabytes per person per day ... Self-help is still hip: Cardiff author Allison Maslan’s new book, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality, debuted at No. 1 on Amazon.com in February, and is still on bestseller lists in the U.S. and Canada ... Ageism: San Diego State University, which dropped its journalism major about a decade ago in favor of communications, has now dropped the communications major in favor of journalism. Does this signal the end of the communications age?
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