"It is not this council's policy to keep anything hidden from the people," said San Marcos’ Mayor Jim Desmond to fire chief Todd Newman during the city council's October 26 meeting. "The first time I …
October 27, 2010
Blog Entries
- Change of plans to minister to a laid off friend
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- Week 9 High Five
- White truffles! and other news that's fit to chew
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- You will meet a stranger...
- Oh, It's beer, beer beer...
- Update San Diego, 10/27/2010
- The Plot Thickens
- Hopped up on Opium
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- Floss Silks, Black Oaks, and Autumn Leaves
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News & Stories
San Marcos Officials Conceal Federal Fire Map
Vista Residents Want North County Transit Trains to Lay Off the Horns
Mark Martin's alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. The alarm is an air horn on the Sprinter rail line one mile from his Vista home. That sound has been the wake-up call …
October 27, 2010
Say It Loud at Maria Maria
“Black Magic” cooking? Often! Maria Maria is a small but growing chain co-owned by musician Carlos Santana along with a larger restaurant company (which also owns Bing Crosby in Fashion Valley). The menus are designed …
October 27, 2010
Eerie Twists in Gee's Bend
Amid Athol Fugard’s Nobel Prize–worthy opus are plays about individuals on the margin of the Big Picture. In Blood Knot, Master Harold and the Boys, Sizwe Banzai Is Dead, and others, Fugard shows the cruel …
October 27, 2010
Life in Him Yet
Granted, Clint Eastwood in his senior years has demonstrated a remarkable readiness to broaden his boundaries as a director. A quick check of his filmography will show that as long ago as his middle-aged Breezy, …
October 27, 2010
The San Diego Rescue Mission Opens Its Doors to Just a Few Homeless Women Each Evening
The San Diego Rescue Mission opens its doors to just a few homeless women each evening. Although the facility is large and houses many men, only 50 women are allowed inside a very small area. …
October 27, 2010
Ohr Shalom Synagogue
Membership: 350 families Rabbi: Scott Meltzer Age: 41 Born: Akron, Ohio Formation: Harvard University, Mass.; Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, L.A., N.Y. Years Ordained: 14 San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing your sermon? …
October 27, 2010
A Power Greater Than Ourselves
October has been very good to me. I’ll miss it. Rain and chill, overcast skies; one could squint and imagine oneself anywhere in reality as opposed to Southern California, which I never thought quite qualified. …
October 27, 2010
Jesse Davis, Starring Ne-Yo
“My inspiration growing up was Billy Eckstine and Nat King Cole,” says jazz singer Jesse Davis, whose first solo gig in Las Vegas came courtesy of a recommendation from Frank Sinatra. “I’ve been compared to …
October 27, 2010
Watercolors: It's All in the Pigment
Every October, when the colors of autumn start to show, my creativity seems to wake from a long summer slumber. I think the seeds of my creativity were sown in my childhood in New England. …
October 27, 2010
Silverado-Modjeska Peak Loop
The goal of this marathon hike or mountain-bike ride is to reach Modjeska Peak, the lower of the two distinct peaks that form “Old Saddleback,” the defining summit ridge of the Santa Ana Mountains. If …
October 27, 2010
San Diego Sports Arena Repaved, Renamed
With the exception of the brief time it flew the doomed iPayOne corporate banner, for more than four decades locals have known it as the Sports Arena. But after November 1, that changes when the …
October 27, 2010
Ibrahim Bin Adham
My father was one of the princes of Khurasan, and I was a youth and rode to the chase. I went out one day on a horse of mine, with my dog along, and raised …
October 27, 2010
Harith al-Muhasibi
God has appointed self-mortification for the seekers, for the training of the soul. Men are ignorant of the high station of that one who is preoccupied with his Lord, who is seen to be thinking …
October 27, 2010
Portugal. The Man in the American Ghetto
They sound better live. When I saw “Portugal. The Man” at SOMA the first time a couple of years ago, I didn’t know what to expect. I was thinking folksy indie-pop, the way they sound …
October 27, 2010
Chilled Avocado and Heirloom Tomato Soup
Recipe by Carl Schroeder, executive chef, Market Restaurant I have a sports background. I played football and ran track in college. I liked the physical aspect of work, but I knew that being a personal …
October 27, 2010
Crowdsourcing — A Call for Papers
This began with a telephone call from an old friend in Vegas. Brian is a lifelong degenerate sports bettor and so his conversation inevitably buzzes around the topics of “How I won the bet” or …
October 27, 2010
Horse Sleep, Flatulent Vapor, Prison Life for Disabled
Hello, Matt: My neighbors have a horse, and they told me that the horse sleeps standing up. After that I tried to see if I could see the horse do that, and I think I …
October 27, 2010
The Shake Down on Midway
“It’s everything we love,” says Shakedown Bar owner DeadTed. “Working in bars, building motorcycles, skateboarding, punk, rock and roll. It’s who we are.” City Heights native DeadTed began working on cars and choppers when he …
October 27, 2010
Why Did 91X Fire Mookie?
Marc “Mookie” Kaczor was escorted out the doors at 91X when he was fired October 15. He’d been on the air there since 2002, when he segued from the Grossmont College radio program to the …
October 27, 2010
Now You Know: Grand Tarantula
Jordan Clark moved to San Diego from a small town in Connecticut when he was 16. Inspired by local groups such as Boilermaker, Pinback, No Knife, Tanner, and Drive Like Jehu, Clark and three friends …
October 27, 2010
Is My Team Ploughing, by A.E. Housman
‘Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?’ Ay, the horses trample, The harness jingles now; No change though you lie under The …
October 27, 2010
Muhammad Ali and the Diet Mirror
Thirty-Five Years AgoThere are two ways to play the blues: One is for a band to launch an uncommitted 12 bars to flesh out a sagging set, jam on one riff relentlessly with tons of …
October 27, 2010
People Who Work with Their Hands Know
For almost 30 years Mike has helped build casinos and hotels in San Diego, Las Vegas, and even Honolulu. For several Gucci stores, he has handcrafted shell-shaped archways surrounded by exotic veneers. His work is …
October 27, 2010
Folk Yeah!
Thursday 28That Grammy-winning animated band from Plastic Beach, Gorillaz, swings into Viejas Arena. It’s concept pop of the highest order, co-created by indie-rocker Damon Albarn (Blur) and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl). The virtual quartet …
October 27, 2010
Down the Rabbit Hole at Cafe Zucchero
A rabbit? In Little Italy? Can’t believe my eyes. But there he is, hopping up from the trolley tracks and into the bushes of one of those mega-condos near Date Street. This close to downtown? …
October 27, 2010
How to Play the Saw
“You know how to play that thing?” asks an elderly hardware-store employee in a blue apron. Bianca Lara has taken a brand-new carpenter’s saw from a display, propped the handle against her leg, and is …
October 27, 2010
Apples in stereo, with a Lowercase s
Robert Schneider is a gifted writer of upbeat, melodic guitar pop. With his long-running band the Apples in Stereo (or, as they prefer it, the Apples in stereo, with a lowercase s), his songs are …
October 27, 2010
Escondido Sobriety Checkpoint Draws Protesters, Nets Five DUIs
On East El Norte Parkway east of North Ash Street, the Escondido Police Department staged a sobriety checkpoint On October 23 between 6 p.m. and midnight. According to a news release, 1450 cars were checked …
October 27, 2010
Darrell Issa's Birthday Bash
On October 20, GOP congressman Darrell Issa threw a birthday party for himself at Carmine’s restaurant in Washington, D.C., a brand-new branch of the famous Carmine’s in New York, which boasts serving “every meal in …
October 27, 2010
San Diego City Auditor Busts Scrap Metal Scheme
The San Diego city auditor says he has busted a scheme in which employees of a division of the City’s General Services Department sold scrap metal from city projects for $5000 and spent $3000 of …
October 27, 2010
Allied Waste Puts Richard Ledford on Trash Detail
On September 17, Richard Ledford picked up a contract to lobby on behalf of trash hauler Allied Waste/Republic Services Inc. to help it “obtain a contract for the sale and private operation” of the City-owned …
October 27, 2010
Mortgage Mess Could Hit Banks, Housing
Remember the giddy days of the real estate bubble? Crooked lenders drew up mortgages without keeping track of them. Wall Street packaged them and foisted them off on naïve investors. The real estate bubble burst, …
October 27, 2010
Carlton Oaks Golf Course, TY Investment, and the San Diego River Conservancy
A Santee company has been trying since 2008 to buy a chunk of land along the north bank of the San Diego River. The property is situated on a little finger of eastern San Diego …
October 27, 2010