About 40 people attended the June 7 San Diego County Board of Supervisors' public hearing on the 2011-2012 budget. Four women at the 2 p.m. session urged supervisors to fund social services, salaries, and staffing. …
June 8, 2011
Blog Entries
- Aquapuke at the Park Gallery
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- Fore! She’s a Jolly Good Fellow
- Crime Data: Escondido PD, May 2011
- Eat Your Heart Out, Herbie Hancock
- Filner Is In
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- Rump Ready
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- Small Plates at Ken Grill
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- An Open Letter to Gerry Lopez, CEO and President AMC Entertainment
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- Greenroom Free Writers Workshop at the Imperial House
- Bypassing the Bridge
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- Border News: Spelling Bee; Ex-Mayor's Home Released; 10,000 Attend Support Rally
- Grant Grill Dishing the "Father-lode" for Dad's Day
- Top 20 Funniest Misheard Lyrics: San Diego Edition
- Switchfoot Bro-Am Lineup Announced
- Super 8 Run-Up: You Just Don't Get It, Do You?
- Super 8 Run-Up: Twitterer II: The Retweeting, or, free popcorn and an early release date for media-savvy social media mavens Just Like You!
- J.J. Abrams, miner for a heart of cinematic gold.
- Being a Dick
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- Recently Opened in Kearny/Clairemont Mesa
- Going Out on a High Note?
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News & Stories
San Diego County Board of Supervisors Accused of Neglecting Social Services
Turf's Sidecar
In the late ’40s and early ’50s, the Turf Supper Club was a magnet for bookies and horse-racing enthusiasts, according to bartender Stacey Sloate. “They [had] a group here that would go to both Del …
June 8, 2011
There Is No Black San Diego
Evelyn Irving-Jackson’s olive-green Hummer takes up two of the four pint-sized parking spaces in front of the 1100-square-foot Trinity House thrift shop. The ostentatious gas guzzler seems incongruous, not only with the size of the …
June 8, 2011
Garcia 3: Suitable for All Ages
With a name inspired by their role models the Jackson 5, the brothers of the Garcia 3 were age 7 (Angel), 9 (Hector), and 11 (Juan) when they founded a band last year. The boys …
June 8, 2011
Pizza Ain't a Pizza
“Got three minutes?” Mickey Gonzalez is lookin’ at me, and you just know he’s from back East ’cause he speaks in that big “You talkin’ to me?” voice. “I’ve got a fresh one in the …
June 8, 2011
San Diego dating service doesn't satisfy
Veruca Salt: I wanted to be the first to find a Golden Ticket, Daddy! Mr. Salt: I know, angel. We’re doing the best we can. I’ve got every girl in the place to start hunting …
June 8, 2011
The Tree of Life: Malick Wraps Big Images
Clutching a chainsaw, we visit a big, beautiful tree: The Tree of Life In 38 years, Terrence Malick has directed only five feature films. Even Stanley Kubrick, the Great Oz of take-it-slow cinema, achieved eight …
June 8, 2011
Hot Dogs Around Town
“Last time you bought hotdogs for a Saturday picnic, I was still tasting them on Monday,” grumped Patrick. “I don’t have the cast-iron plumbing that the kids have. So maybe this time, get some grown-up …
June 8, 2011
Revenge Songs
The Vindictive Bitches believe in settling scores. “If you fuck with someone, you get fucked with back,” says singer/guitarist Jesser Jaxx. “We played Mi Pueblo in Tijuana and some guy yelled out, ‘Show us your …
June 8, 2011
Frankie the Bull at Proud Mary's
What’s a Louisiana restaurant doing in a Ramada in a sterile business district near Montgomery Field? Well, it’s making a lot of pilots happy, and me, too. With Magnolia gone and Bud’s moved up to …
June 8, 2011
Casting Call for Good Guy
Even though we’re facing long odds, the NBA finals still have a shot at being good theater. As sports fans and drama students know, to be good theater you’ve got to have a good guy …
June 8, 2011
Train-Wreck Rock at Pink Punk Lotto
“It’s time to get weird! Play with strangers! Feel like part of a kinky experiment!” reads the poster for Pink Punk Lotto. A few days before the showcase, rocker, DJ, and PPL organizer “Swami” John …
June 8, 2011
The Gathering
Membership: 140 Pastor: Deron Higgins Age: 51 Born: San Diego Formation: Point Loma Nazarene University (Point Loma College), Point Loma; Bethel Seminary, Bethel University, San Diego Years Ordained: 25 years San Diego Reader: How long …
June 8, 2011
Accident Doctors and a Letter From a Storm Chaser
Hello, Matt: My friend in Florida was recently in an accident and she reported to me that her normal doctor would not see her for her accident-related injuries, that she had to see special “accident …
June 8, 2011
Simon Open Space Preserve
Simon Open Space Preserve, on the edge of the San Diego Country Estates housing development, is prototypical of other such parks and open-space preserves we’re likely to see established throughout the county’s rural areas during …
June 8, 2011
Humphries at Humphrey’s: Cats 'n' Jammers
On June 14, British-born Hillcrest resident and singer/songwriter Dave Humphries will perform at the opening of the Humane Society’s new North County small-animal facility. Located at 572 Airport Road in Oceanside, the new 30,000-square-foot building …
June 8, 2011
The Lamplighter
The Lamplighter feels like it’s been around forever. Its heady booze stink and retro aesthetic attest to a tradition of transgression, which often seizes the unwitting patron like a phantom and invokes all manner of …
June 8, 2011
Re-engineering at County's Health and Human Services hit
The worst thing about the job, Blanca tells me, is the chaos. “It’s not being able to control the influx of clients. It’s happening so fast that before I’m finished with one application I have …
June 8, 2011
Scripps Investments & Loans 17 percent return didn't last
"Speed is the name of the game,” boasted Jeffrey Lubin, head of a real estate lending operation, Scripps Investments & Loans, in a San Diego Magazine advertisement in September 2004. “We try to give real …
June 8, 2011
The Waterman Wins One
“Another Dustup for ‘Waterman’ and Police.” This was the headline May 19, 2011, in the Union-Tribune for a story by Kristina Davis. It was about the arrest of David “the Waterman” Ross, “two weeks after …
June 8, 2011
"Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness...," by John Keats
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of …
June 8, 2011
Young Widows: In and Out of Youth
Young Widows is a band from Louisville, Kentucky, and they play the kind of music that has kept their hometown on the indie-rock map since the days of Slint: moody, atmospheric, guitar-based stuff with vocals …
June 8, 2011
Lollipop Meat Puppets
Lollipop, the Meat Puppets’ new country-rockish CD, isn’t even close to the sun-baked 1990’s desert thrash that defined the trio. If you’re looking for anything akin to 1994’s Too High to Die, you won’t find …
June 8, 2011