For many years there were rotting bungalows along Florida Street, between University Avenue and Robinson Avenue. The San Diego Housing Authority gave a loan of $4,900,000 over two years ago to Florida Street Housing Associates, …
August 3, 2011
Blog Entries
- Thorsen Quartet Swings Sponge Bob Squarepants
- My Daily Journey 4
- The Who’s Tommy Is Selling Out
- She Showed Him the Moon
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- Vegan Happy Hour at Veg-N-Out
- Fat City? Fat Chance
- Former Chef at The Shores Sets Sail for Sycuan
- Chamber of Commerce Backs Pension Reform
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- Making it past 27
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- Reviews!
- SDPD Intelligence Hires ex-CIA Agent, Targets Somali Community
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- Stinking Bishop, Anyone?
- Guest Column: Norv Turner's "Notes on Camp" - Day 3
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- Brown Vetoes Paid Petitioner Restrictions
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- Apes on the Brain
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- SOHO Sues City Over Plaza de Panama Plan
- Organic panic
News & Stories
Construction Begins on Florida Street HousingWorks Apartments
Residents Displeased with 40th Street Promenade and Five Points Reconfiguration
A feisty crowd attended the Normal Heights Community Planning Group meeting August 2 to express displeasure with the sudden disruption of their lives caused by two projects: the 40th Street Promenade and the long-awaited reconfiguration …
August 3, 2011
Gloria Dei Lutheran
Membership: 125 Pastor: Matthew Richardt Age: 42 Born: Holt, Michigan Formation: Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Mich., Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.; U.S. Navy Chaplaincy (2002–2005). Years Ordained: 16 San Diego Reader: How long do …
August 3, 2011
Pear Chutney
Recipe by Colin Maclaggan, executive chef and owner, Avenue 5 Restaurant I’ve always enjoyed cooking. I grew up in Serra Mesa, and at family gatherings, the action was always in the kitchen. Even in college, …
August 3, 2011
Dreams of a Tropical Lagoon
On any regular Monday, most restaurants in San Diego are closed — on July 4, well, forget about it. That evening, Sam and I planned to see a movie in Hillcrest and wanted to get …
August 3, 2011
Ghetto Bread
Mike Altman says, “People tell me, ‘I’m from Brooklyn. These bagels better be good.’ I get that all the time.” When you call your business Brooklyn Bagel and Bialy, I guess you’ve gotta expect it. …
August 3, 2011
Girls with Grungy Guitars
When the Glossines came together in summer 2001, Kristin Warnken had just left the band Dizzy, for whom she played guitar (she’s also a drummer now). Bassist Amber Everson was a go-goth dancer at Sabbat, …
August 3, 2011
Driving after midnight in Poway, you will be stopped
"Basically,” says Aaron Meleen, a deputy sheriff traffic investigator working the night shift in Poway, “we don’t have much going on right now.” It’s a Monday evening, the onset of his 12½-hour shift, and we’re …
August 3, 2011
Reviews: The Tree, Cowboys & Aliens, The Guard, Another Earth
The Tree Sometimes a “small” film eclipses a big one that wins the limelight. As a life statement, The Tree of Life implodes from its cosmic Texan gas. Far more modestly, The Tree sends out …
August 3, 2011
Wobblestep
“It’s that altruistic beauty of the underground that rarely makes it to the mainstream,” says Wobble Events promoter Bryen Beglinger. “The mainstream is all about being treated like cattle by bouncers herding you in to …
August 3, 2011
Dispatch from the Front
Next week, the Box will report what happened with Blair Cannon’s August 5 midnight swim from Catalina Island to the mainland and provide an update on Monarch School and what they plan to do with …
August 3, 2011
Now You Know: Hargo
“Our whole thing is never doing the same thing twice,” says Eugene, Oregon, native Hargo Khalsa. “There are a lot of moods and a lot of energies on the record, and that’s something that we …
August 3, 2011
Larry and His Flask, Rehabilitated
Larry and His Flask are rehabilitated punks from Oregon. What was started as a scream-fest trio is now a six-piece fleshed-out hillbilly band that puts a torch to bluegrass and country and folk. The kicker …
August 3, 2011
Seen on DVD: Dumb and Dumber, I Saw the Devil, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Giovanna Maimone Actress, Hellbenders I’m a comedy fanatic. The Farrelly brothers are by far my greatest inspiration as a comedy writer. Their Dumb and Dumber pretty much set the mark for its genre of sick …
August 3, 2011
All’s Fair in the Lobbying War
A newly formed lobbying outfit in Sacramento has picked up some of San Diego County’s heaviest political hitters as clients, including one very influential public agency. According to state disclosure records, Capitol Strategic Advisors, LLC, …
August 3, 2011
Shake Tree.com and See What Falls Out
n November 2010, Bernard Smith (not his real name) of Tree.com Inc. asked Peggy Gartin, leader of SD Tweetup — a local socialnetworking group with over 1100 members — to help him assemble what he …
August 3, 2011
Will Southern Cal Newspapers Combine?
Platinum Equity, financial swingers from Beverly Hills, bought the Union-Tribune in March of 2009 for a song. Now San Diegans wonder if that song is “A Cottage for Sale.” On July 11 of this year, …
August 3, 2011
Call It Macaroni
Last time I saw Aaron Bowen, in 2007, he didn’t seem particularly happy. Now, seated at my dining-room table with his wife Kate, the Sweetwater High alum is beaming. “I was very depressed. My outlook …
August 3, 2011
Cashiered
Word last week that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus had stripped ex-captain and swift-boat veteran Wade Sanders of his Silver Star rekindled the memories of political watchers about the brief Democratic primary campaign for …
August 3, 2011
Weezer Is Not Silly
Last year, Seattle rocker James Burns started a halfway-serious online campaign to raise $10 million to get Weezer to break up. He didn’t raise a lot of money, but he got a lot of attention, …
August 3, 2011
Xenophanes
Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealings and adulteries and deceivings of one another. Since they have uttered many lawless deeds of …
August 3, 2011
Youth? Guitar!
“‘Don’t you worry there, my honey/ We might not have any money, but we’ve got our love to pay the bills.’” The Ingrid Michaelson song “You and I” purred from my lips, aimed at my …
August 3, 2011
Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog
What are you reading? “I just finished Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, by Ed Offley. I thought it was fascinating. …
August 3, 2011
Hash Browns?
There will be no Beastie Boys music played at Geezer’s weekend poolside gigs at the Handlery this summer. “We’re trying,” says singer-guitarist Adam Gimbel, “to turn it down a little for the family-ness of it.” …
August 3, 2011
Where the Bad Boys Are
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>Just as the people who live along the ocean shore are affected by the tides and the pull of the moon, the children of the street in inner territories like Shell Town and …
August 3, 2011
"Reconciliation," by Walt Whitman
Word over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, …
August 3, 2011