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At the Rialto: A big finish -- and a sequel?
Published: Monday, August 9, 2010 at 5:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, August 9, 2010 at 5:03 p.m.
There will be a “Last Night” party — food, wine, a choice of five films — at Ky Boyd’s Rialto Cinemas Lakeside on Monday, Aug. 23.
Expect a hush when Boyd stands to thank patrons for a great 10 years and, perhaps, to make an announcement about the Rialto’s future.
Boyd is talking to somebody, seriously it seems, about a possible new home for the art house.
He’ll begin moving out of the five-plex on Summerfield Road following the party because his lease isn’t being renewed. Landlord Lynn Duggan is passing the theater building to the Tocchini family, whose SR Entertainment Group properties include the Roxy and Airport Stadium theaters.
Dan Tocchini has pledged not to change the operation on Summerfield, which under Boyd has drawn some 2.5 million people to foreign, art and international films and many relayed performances of the Metropolitan Opera and London’s National Theatre.
The last day to see a regular-run film at Boyd’s Rialto Lakeside is Aug. 22, the day before the party.
MARTY’S LAGOON: There was a heck of a 90th birthday party for conservationist Dr. Martin Griffin out at the Audubon Canyon Ranch’s 1,000-acre Bolinas Lagoon Preserve.
A crowd of 320 cheered Marty and thanked the former Hop Kiln Winery owner and Sonoma State Hospital public health director for his decades as one of the state’s staunchest guardians of nature.
It was noted that in the early 1960s a plan emerged to construct in west Marin a freeway that would have required the filling in of the Bolinas Lagoon. Marty wrote the personal check that become the down payment for the purchase and preservation of the lagoon property.
The party’s main event was the unveiling of a sign bearing the new name of the Bolinas Lagoon Preserve. It is now the Martin Griffin Preserve, as it should be.
SEEN ANY FLAMINGOS?You may soon.
Santa Rosa’s Tina Boyd is placing those kitschy plastic flamingos in people’s yards and inviting them to pay a few bucks to forward the pink prank onto someone else’s lawn.
“It just befuddled me” for the birds to appear in his yard the other morning, Don Silverek said.
When he learned that proceeds of the flocking go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, he gladly ponied up to have the birds placed secretly in a friend’s yard. And on it goes.
Coincidentally, Empire College hospitality students are taking orders from businesses interested in having a dozen or so flamingos grace their property for a day.
The Empire students will charge a fee for a commercial flocking (gotflocked.com) and will split all proceeds between the Santa Rosa Bird Rescue Center and the good eggs at The Children’s Village.
Y NOW: You probably heard that the YMCA, formerly known as the Young Men’s Christian Association, has shortened its brand again — to “The Y”.
But aren’t there two Y’s?
The YWCA has existed for more than 150 years, and it came to Sonoma County in 1975. The local YWCA’s director, Denise Frey, doesn’t begrudge the Sonoma County Family YMCA for becoming The Y.
But Frey reminds us that there is still the YW and that it is so busy — in Sonoma County, it provides myriad services to women and families harmed by domestic violence — that a while back it lengthened its brand to reflect its advocacy role. “YWCA: Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women.”
Now that the former YMCA and the YWCA have both updated their brands, it may be easier for us to distinguish them and their missions.
Frey offers as a memory aid, “We’re the ones without the pool!”
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