While it’s easy to imagine Mamie Eisenhower baking a pumpkin chiffon pie, it’s hard to picture Nancy Reagan (or anyone else) slicing the ends off lemons, scooping out the contents, and filling the rinds with …
October 20, 2010
Blog Entries
- Best Pics: Week 7
- Not Quite Melrose Place
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- Sanders's "Frighten 'Em" Prop. D Scam
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- Ramona Sentinel Publishes SDG&E Comments on WEBA Opposition
- Week 8 High Five
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- The Op
- The Orionid Meteor Shower
- Just minding my own business
- Update San Diego 10/20/2010
- The Unbearable Lightness of Bee-ing
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- Comfort Music
- A rainy night in Serra Mesa inspires
News & Stories
Bob Wilson Cookbook Art Included GOP Elephant in a Sombrero
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts. — Abel Stevens I zoomed in on a glittery globe that contained translucent swirls of pink, purple, and green. The sky was a clear, rich …
October 20, 2010
John Cage Is Realized at Palomar College
Bonnie Whiting Smith begins the Palomar College afternoon “concert hour” with a three-minute John Cage piece entitled “A Flower.” The piece consists of melodic singing and the sound of Smith’s knuckles and fingertips tapping on …
October 20, 2010
“Hello, Cleveland!” The Batusis
Rocket from the Tombs was a mid-’70s Cleveland band that never got a lot of recognition. But Rocket spawned bands that did gain notoriety — such as Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys — and …
October 20, 2010
Animals and Mental Illness, Ants Eat Toenail Clippings?
Heymatt: I’ve been watching my crazy cat and was wondering if animals have mental illnesses like people do. We get schizophrenia and paranoia and other things. Are animals vulnerable to them too? Sometimes I wonder …
October 20, 2010
The Squeaky Wheel Tour for Missing Persons
On October 17, 2000, Regina Marie Bos, a 40-year-old mother of three, performed during an open mic at Duggan’s Pub, a neighborhood saloon near her home in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her Saturn was parked across the …
October 20, 2010
Roxy Monoxide Record Ripped Off
“It’s kind of disheartening to put so much work into a CD, get it up on iTunes and Amazon, and then have someone just make it available for anyone to steal,” says singer-guitarist Scott Samuels …
October 20, 2010
Excerpt from The Spirit of Pilgrims by Lyman Beecher
“The government of God is the only government which will hold society, against depravity within and temptation without; and this it must do by the force of its own law written upon the heart. This …
October 20, 2010
The Low Life of Tom Waits
Thirty-Five Years AgoThese days, Tom Waits is sleazier than ever. He looked like he’d wandered in off Broadway that night, straight from the doorway he’d been sleeping in. It isn’t often that you see a …
October 20, 2010
Elephant Six Built to Spill BBQ
Thursday 21Chicago instrumental trio Russian Circles rolls into town behind its third and finest effort, Geneva. This proggy iceberg of a record drifts and splinters in the vein of Mogwai, replacing the Glaswegians’ ice-ax percussion …
October 20, 2010
Different Strokes
Trepidation is not the ideal frame of mind in which to approach a film, even around Halloween. But after I Stand Alone and Irreversible, the French enfant terrible Gaspar Noé merits nothing less and nothing …
October 20, 2010
Excerpt from the Sahih Bukhari by Al-Bukhari
The Messenger of God said: “While a man was walking on the road, his thirst grew strong and he found a well and descended into it and drank and was leaving, when he saw a …
October 20, 2010
Johnny Lira Comin' at Ya — Pow!
Countdown to Halloween right here on TGIF: the Gutenberg cyber all-hits all-the-time blogorama and alternative weekly fishwrap and freaky friday funfest!!! your DJ? Whaddami sayin? Your KJ! That’s keyboard jockey — Johnny Lira! Comin’ at …
October 20, 2010
Mental Eats: San Diego Cooks' Books
A reader recently asked whose food-writing I enjoy. Truth is, after so many hours of scribbling food prose, I’m totally full — when I hit the pillow I want mainly mysteries — Andy Dalziel, Inspector …
October 20, 2010
Housecoat Project Punk Quotes Coltrane
“Our first guitarist, Eric Rad, died onstage mid-song at the Mabuhay Gardens from an apparent heart attack,” says saxophonist Bob Bartosik of his long-defunct punk band Housecoat Project. The group’s unreleased 1988 album Girlfiend comes …
October 20, 2010
San Diego Hip-Hop — Very Verité
619 hip-hop kingpin Mitchy Slick did not win “Best of” in his category at last month’s San Diego Music Awards, despite a spirited write-in campaign launched by SDRaps.com. But at least considerable debate was generated …
October 20, 2010
Two Poems by Sandra Alcosser
What Makes the Grizzlies Dance June and finally snow peas sweeten the Mission Valley. High behind numinous meadows ladybugs swarm, like huge lacquered fans from Hong Kong, like serrated skirts of blown poppies, whole mountains …
October 20, 2010
White Rabbits Make Awesome Racket
A few months ago I went to see the XX, a young band that won just about every award available in the British music industry this year. Everything about that band is minimal and sparse, …
October 20, 2010
Patric Douglas. Part Two — More Shark Tales
Here’s a brief catch-up for last week’s truants: Patric Douglas, 42, is CEO of Shark Diver, a shark-cage-diving enterprise that will hook you up with a 20-hour boat ride to Isla Guadalupe, one of the …
October 20, 2010
A Chat About Lemon Grove Kid Dennis Hopper
Of course, he didn’t stay here. Most likely, you wouldn’t either, not if you were young and ambitious and living a two-hour drive up the freeway to get to Hollywood. Not if you’d grown up …
October 20, 2010
Digestive Relief with the Aloe Leaf
I am in full Earth-mama mode these days, using a natural remedy whenever possible. So when Patrick started moaning from the bathroom about inheriting his father’s bad digestion, I started looking into aloe. Yes, aloe. …
October 20, 2010
Church of the Nativity
Membership: 1000 families Pastor: Monsignor Lawrence Purcell Age: 70 Born: Indio, California Formation: University of San Diego–St. Francis Seminary, San Diego; Pontifical North American College, Rome, Italy Years Ordained: 45 San Diego Reader: How long …
October 20, 2010
The Glory Man at Lamb's Players Theatre
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau says doing good can have selfish motives. Goodness, he writes, “must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he …
October 20, 2010
Easy to Love Mixon's Downtown
You can try to love this part of town, but it’s hard. I’m at First and Ash. Land of monthly-stay hotels and parking lots. Just a stone’s throw from City Hall and its concourse, the …
October 20, 2010
Mayor Sanders Frustrates Critic at San Diego Budget Town Hall Meeting
On the evening of October 18, things got “nutty” at University City High School, where the first of eight “Budget Town Hall” meetings was held. The meeting was organized by mayor Jerry Sanders’s office to …
October 20, 2010
Seismic Research Vital to Offshore Drilling
The National Science Foundation is planning what it calls a “marine seismic research” project during which “various research vessels operated by U.S. academic institutions or government agencies” will use a variety of underwater devices such …
October 20, 2010
F is for Funding: F Street Owner Alma Vasic Comes Through for Toni Atkins
Alma Vasic, owner of F Street Corporation, which runs the adult bookstore chain and website by the same name, contributed $2500 to Democratic assembly candidate Toni Atkins on October 11, according to state filings. The …
October 20, 2010
Bilbray, Issa Drink Sempra’s bitter brew
Who has been the biggest recipient of Senate campaign cash from Sempra Energy’s political action committee this year? According to figures compiled by the OpenSecrets.org, as of October 3, it’s none other than majority leader …
October 20, 2010
Mission Valley Village residents wait for the unknown
"We just want the uncertainty to end,” says Donna Fenter. “We’ve been living in limbo for years. It’s torture. It feels like a damn internment camp. We can’t make any plans. We can’t do anything …
October 20, 2010