TJ bridge crossers on the old pedestrian bridge hugged the rails as last weekend’s rain puddles threatened to soak their shoes. (Click photo below to enlarge)
November 9, 2011
Blog Entries
- New pfMENTUM Release: Dick Wood- Not Far From Here
- Watch CMA Awards 2011 Online, CMA Awards 2011 Live Stream Free
- Wednesday - 9th
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- Occupy San Diego to Take Legal Action Against City and Police
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- Kebabalicious!
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- Chamber of Commerce Sponsors Small Business Package
- KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando's Alexander "Labor" Payne Retrospective Continues Tonight!
- Sezio to Occupy North Park for Four-Day Weekend
- Reviews!
- Like Willie and Jimi Hendrix Combined
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- San Diego Beer Week: Day Eight
- Demolition, Construction & Renovation
- Efforts by San Diegan Help Critically Endangered Chupacabra
- Dig a Hole: Sid Melton
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- The Real Brett Ratner Oscar Resignation Story
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- I Hate Magicians
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- Sisyphus or Not
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- Predator Maker Linden Blue Blasts Barack Obama
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- Cost Doubles on High-Speed Rail
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- Jarabedepalo: Back for More at 4th&B
News & Stories
Shot in Tijuana: Border Crossers After the Rains
South Bay Power Plant Demo Stalled Due to Bankruptcy?
The ink had just dried on Dynegy’s South Bay LLC’s contract with the Port of San Diego to demolish Chula Vista’s defunct power plant when Dynegy Holdings filed for bankruptcy. Dynegy’s website says of the …
November 9, 2011
South Park Abbey’s Cause-Mo
The newest item on South Park Abbey’s menu, the Cause-Mo, is part of the Abbey’s effort to establish a cocktail presence at an establishment better known for its bonanza of Belgian potables. Since unveiling it …
November 9, 2011
The Bun Bo Hue Dossier
Nothing gets my Vietnamese friends’ blood boiling more than when some foodie calls bun bo hue “spicy pho.” They tell me, “Bun bo is about as close to pho as chicken noodle soup is to …
November 9, 2011
Taking Back 4th&B
The former owner of 4th&B, the 1500-capacity downtown concert venue, says he is in the process of taking the club back from its current owner and that he is suing Live Nation, the concert promoter …
November 9, 2011
Vokabulary
Vokab Kompany’s collaborative song “Burn It Down” (with Crush Effect, a local DJ/beat production trio) is serving as the soundtrack to a national TV commercial for Southern Comfort’s new Fiery Pepper liquor. However, Vokab’s official …
November 9, 2011
Working the Alaska pipeline and Prudhoe Bay
Chapter 1 I found my first year-round job at the age of 45. Birthday boy was broke, living in a downtown Oakland, California, apartment, and 23 days from eviction. Normally, this would not be a …
November 9, 2011
The Adventures of SailorDad
Title: The Adventures of SailorDad Address: sailordad.com Author: Thomas Permuy From: El Cajon Blogging since: September 2011 September 27, 2011: The Longest Week We’re all just going through the motions, trying to pass the time …
November 9, 2011
Is there really such a thing as luck?
Matthew Alice: Is there really such a thing as luck? My neighbor seems to keep winning money on scratch-offs all the time and I’ve only won ten dollars every once in a while. I can’t …
November 9, 2011
Birria in the Barrio
Call it the next best thing to Mexico. I’m in Barrio Logan, walking down Beardsley, past the Logan Heights Family Health Center Clinic. What I like — apart from the clinic and the half-dozen apartment …
November 9, 2011
Movie Review: J. Edgar, Melancholia
Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar needs a livelier title. May I suggest Anal-Retention Serenade? In this movie, a young American discovers his anti-Red obsession by finding Bolshevik propaganda flyers on the street and is soon proudly …
November 9, 2011
Lestat’s Can Have Chris Carpenter's Piano
“I write my songs with piano,” says Chris Carpenter, “so you’re going to hear a melodic singer/songwriter if you take an ear of me. I love the wide range of song possibilities on the piano. …
November 9, 2011
Is SWRV the MTV of Old?
In October, Music Choice announced the launch of SWRV (“swerve”) TV with Cox Communications in San Diego. Promoted as the first 24/7 interactive music video network, SWRV is available on Cox cable channel 900 as …
November 9, 2011
Los Cabos gun battle breaks out
As gun battles go in Mexico, it was nothing special. At 11:00 p.m., Friday, October 28, Mexican military authorities and the local municipal police cornered a group of sicarios, or gunmen, in a house located …
November 9, 2011
Sempra Lights Up the Pols
Sempra Energy also handed out some pre-Halloween treats to state politicians and utility regulators, including refreshments at San Diego’s Kensington Grill worth $29.79 on August 8 to Elaine Jennings, director for planning, preparedness, and emergency …
November 9, 2011
Big Four accounting firms do dirty work
The bank’s loans to Smith associates vastly exceeded bank regulators’ limits on insider transactions. The United States Comptroller of the Currency said the bank’s muddle of Smith-related transactions was “self-dealing run riot.”
November 9, 2011
This Cash Is for Martin Garrick, Joel Anderson
Solana Beach’s GOP assemblyman Martin Garrick, arrested in his state car for drunk driving in June, later pled no contest to driving with a blood-alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit. He was sentenced to …
November 9, 2011
Political Gifts of Green
Sempra Energy has been spreading around its campaign cash to a variety of local special interest groups, according to its recently filed state disclosure, including, on September 15, the county’s Democratic Party ($3000) and the …
November 9, 2011
Real Estate Is Warm and Cozy
New Jersey band Real Estate plays mid-tempo songs with three or four chords strummed on an electric guitar with a vocalist who’s so laid back it might take you awhile to notice when the band …
November 9, 2011
Dang, It's O’Brother
O’Brother, a five-piece from Atlanta, has three guitarists and a huge sound. I ask Johnny Dang how O’Brother manages to sound like a big stack of amps crammed into a small bag. “We don’t try …
November 9, 2011
A Sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh …
November 9, 2011