At around 9:00 p.m. on September 6, a delivery driver for the Pizza Hut on Cannon Road stopped for a girl who stepped off the curb against a red light. She was in her late …
September 8, 2010
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News & Stories
Carlsbad Teen Staggers into Traffic, Then Rescued
Rock photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park
Not being a musician or performer, I have no idea what it’s like to be in a life that lurches from on-the-road lulls between gigs to the raw, over-the-top energy of performance. Like most of …
September 8, 2010
How Did You Quit Smoking?
Thirty-Five Years AgoUnlikely as it seems, San Diego has an expanding core of rock bands doing original material, and taking their cue from the San Francisco bands of seven years ago, these outlaw units have …
September 8, 2010
DVD Review: Séraphine, Chinatown, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Anna StumpArtist, drawingwithanna.com I have two French films to recommend. The first is Séraphine, based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis. I recommend it especially for a transcendent scene in which the …
September 8, 2010
North Park Is the Silver Lake of San Diego
“I think Thursday is the best night in San Diego, honestly,” says blogger Rosemary Bystrak, who books music at the West Coast Tavern in North Park. “There’s always the most things going on then.” She …
September 8, 2010
Ernie Watts at Jazz88 in Ocean Beach
“The Stones were on tour, and the saxophonist they had with them wasn’t working out.” Ernie Watts, on the phone from his Los Angeles home, is having a bad case of jet-lag after performing with …
September 8, 2010
Jazz88 hits the steamy streets of Ocean Beach
Thursday 9Guilty pleasure alert: the singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will deliver a smorgasbord of songcraft to Humphrey’s by the Bay, catering to all your country, pop, rock, and R&B needs. No kidding, Ms. Crow’s Very Best …
September 8, 2010
Hot Time in Old Town's Cosmopolitan Restaurant and Hotel
I deliberately ignored the most recent previous incarnation of Old Town State Historic Park and everything in it. Oh, I did succumb to curiosity at one point, enough to have a margarita and a few …
September 8, 2010
Speaking Italian in a San Diego kitchen
I come home from Florence with $26.40 in my bank account. I need a job, preferably at an Italian restaurant, some upscale place in the Gaslamp where I can speak the language occasionally. I find …
September 8, 2010
Get a Cuddly, Scaly Gecko
“Can I make room in my heart for a gecko?” joked my hubby Pat. When an overwhelmed Marine-wife friend of ours asked if we’d adopt her family’s pet, a house gecko, how could I say …
September 8, 2010
Pho Anh & Grill in Nestor's Southland Plaza
‘Do you have a, like, breakfast section?” I ask because I’m looking at the menu, and it’s either spring rolls, noodle soups, or rice dishes. I know, this is Vietnamese. But, at 10:00 on a …
Daybreak Church
Weekly Attendance: 1200 Pastor: Jason Graves Age: 36 Born: Van Nuys Formation: Life Pacific College Ordained: 10 years San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing your sermons? Pastor Graves: That can vary greatly, …
September 8, 2010
Deluxe Mac & Cheese
Recipe by Marc Liautard, executive chef, Barrel Room Why did I leave France? Well, I was curious. I grew up in Clermont Ferrand in Auvergne in the center of France. One day, I answered an …
September 8, 2010
San Diego’s home-price recovery isn’t what it seems
These days, someone talking about a double-dip isn’t ordering ice cream. A double-dip is the dolorous possibility that the economy will slump again, after staging a very modest, government-goosed recovery from the worst downturn since …
September 8, 2010
Paltry Donations to Prop 19
Proposition 19, the measure on the November ballot to legalize and tax marijuana, raised a total of $370,565.64 through the end of June, a relatively paltry portion of which came from donors in San Diego …
September 8, 2010
Excerpt from "The Great Religious Leaders" by Charles Francis Potter
Christian theology, having thus determined, established, decreed, and ordained the nature of God, proceeded to examine the nature of much-more-visible man and found him, by contrast with the perfect Almighty God, quite a worm of …
September 8, 2010
Excerpt from "Introduction to the Devout Life" by St. Francis de Sales
In the creation God commanded the plants of the earth to bring forth fruit, each after its kind; and in a similar way He commands Christians, who are the living plants of His Church, to …
September 8, 2010
San Diego women who have converted to Islam
Over the phone, Maureen Slater sounds like a soccer mom. She uses words like “jammies” instead of pajamas and laughs at her own jokes (“I’m smarter than my husband, ha-ha-ha”), some of which aren’t really …
September 8, 2010
Chula Vista Is the Happiest Place on Earth
“It was a struggle to get the permits from the City of Chula Vista,” says Mikey Hernandez. “They rarely issue permits for live music that goes beyond 11 p.m., but I was adamant about getting …
September 8, 2010
Two poems by Jane Hirshfield
The Heat of Autumn The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. One is a dock you walk out on, the other the …
September 8, 2010
Chicago Blues for a San Diego Summer's End
I must write this on the eve of Labor Day’s three-day weekend, so I can’t very well tell you how it went, how it was — what the hell. There is a distinct shade of …
September 8, 2010
King Biscuit Founder Found Dead in an Oceanside Hotel
“I’m blown away. I just can’t fathom this.” Gary Beck is the midday radio host at Jazz 88.3. “Kenny and I were real close. I’d known him almost 30 years. I talked to him just …
September 8, 2010
Is Mitchy Slick's Rap Too Real for the San Diego Music Awards?
Yes, another San Diego Music Awards — Sunday is the 20th annual — another hip-hop category controversy. Nothing new here. Some may remember the local rap artist “Trick” picketing the SDMAs outside Humphrey’s back in …
September 8, 2010
After-Burner
Camping: nature’s way of promoting the motel industry. — Dave Barry "Are you a Burner?” asked the guy sitting across from me. I couldn’t remember his name, only that he was a college student by …
September 8, 2010
Borrego Springs Water District: Less Water Flows In, More Money Flows Out
Dennis Dickinson takes his dogs for a hike off Borrego Valley Road in Borrego Springs at 6:30 in the morning to avoid the heat. From the trail, Dickinson looks west toward San Ysidro Mountain. In …
September 8, 2010
Hike or bike to Sunset Peak Summit, near Mount Baldy
The hike (or mountain-bike ride) to Sunset Peak, near the community of Mount Baldy, offers up fine views of an archipelago of high peaks stretching from San Gabriel Wilderness in the west to Cucamonga Wilderness …
September 8, 2010
miXtape Cues '80s Music and Memories at the Horton Grand Theatre
Back when, a dear friend used to give mix tapes as gifts: collections of favorite songs on audio cassettes. She insisted that the sequence was as important as the songs. Like a baseball lineup, it …
September 8, 2010
Chargers Hype Meg Whitman
Political pundits have been quick to dissect the motive for $20,000 in contributions made earlier this year by Chargers owner Alex Spanos, a lifelong Republican, to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, pointing out that the …
September 8, 2010
Henry Clay People “Working Part-Time” at Casbah
“We were working part-time all the time/ We were banking on the kindness of strangers and loved ones and those who fall between/ To give us everything, ’cause we need everything.” Those are the opening …
September 8, 2010
Debora Galan Mixes Jazz and Lounge
“I go for a groovy vibe,” says singer-percussionist Debora Galan, “mixing old jazz and Latin jazz standards with lounge music, along with whatever surprises I decide to add in.” Born in Madrid, Spain, Galan says …
September 8, 2010
Sleep Recommendations for Children, Sayings that Refer to Animals
Heymatt: My kids like nothing more than sleeping. They can sleep maybe 12 hours a night. On school days they have to go to bed really early, and it’s almost impossible for me to get …
September 8, 2010
SDSU PIG Manifesto
Concerned that the imminent departure of San Diego State president Stephen Weber, coupled with the state’s financial crisis, will crimp research funding at the school, a group of professors there has launched the SDSU Principal …
September 8, 2010