If the American version Monopoly, the classic board game, seems a bit blasé nowadays, you might want to give Tijuanopóly a try. The city south of the border has just announced that it will be …
August 31, 2011
Blog Entries
- Sacha Boutros' Surprise for Sept. 22 CD Release @ Anthology
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- Learning Japanese at Forty
- No Jewish Deli Nearby? Go Online
- Spider Woman
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- Yippee..Captcha's Back and We Can Comment Again
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- Answer to EdBed's possum question
- Fundraiser for the Mixtec community Ixpantepec Nieves in Oaxaca Mexico at WorldBeat Center
- Blooming Underpass Pt 2
- Sound Off: Biggest Division Change
- Al's Always Open
- Starting a Movement: Craft Beer in Stadiums!
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- Bank Recipient of Treasury Funds Announces Merger
- Stronger for the Battle, Devilicious Keeps on Truckin'
- Smart Meters on Oceanside Streets
- Eating with Ghosts
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry Stopping in San Diego
- Audrey II: Fruitful and Multiplying
- Summer Movie Attendance Drops for the Fourth Straight Year
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- Oceanside Food Truck Fight
- Sheath Thy Sword
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- Feature: Local Company 3D Film Factory Looks to the Future
- Disaster Readiness in a Digital Age
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- FBI Busts S.F. Giants Worker Seeking San Diego Home Loan
News & Stories
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Homeric Hymn
O universal Mother, who dost keep From everlasting thy foundations deep, Eldest of things, Great Earth, I sing of thee! All shapes that have their dwelling in the sea, All things that fly, or on …
August 31, 2011
Seen on DVD: Confessions of a Superhero, Baghdad Cafe, Death to Smoochy
Shana Wride Director, Walter Cronkite Is Dead at San Diego REPertory Theatre If you love Absolutely Fabulous, then you’ll love the entire French & Saunders series. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, the comedy team responsible …
August 31, 2011
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Membership: 210 Pastor: Tony Wolfe Age: 63 Born: Parkersburg, West Virginia Formation: Union Theological Seminary, New York; Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Years Ordained: 33 San Diego Reader: What is your favorite subject on which to …
August 31, 2011
S.D. RV Storage
“I could get into this.” My hubby Patrick sat grinning at the wheel of a 31-foot camper we had borrowed for the family vacation. The Kelly family was touring Southern California, visiting relatives and using …
August 31, 2011
Pete’s Place’s Lights Out
Jägermeister and root beer schnapps...two not-so-great tastes that shouldn’t taste great together. But on any given Sunday during football season… And according to Matt Lowery, bartender at Pete’s Place, that’s how it started — with …
August 31, 2011
Candied Yams
Recipe by Bradrick “Coop” Cooper of Coop’s West Texas Barbecue I’ve always had this thing for cooking. I grew up in San Diego with my mom. She and my aunt owned a soul-food restaurant in …
August 31, 2011
Acqua Gets Off to a Heavenly Start
I woke up and — whoops — it was already mid-August. Nearly all my friends were vacationing in places with unbearable weather and aged parents. I wanted a little vacation of my own without those …
August 31, 2011
Art and Sound on Common Ground
“It seems natural that music and art go together,” says Irradio frontman Dan Dasher. “There is a big art scene in San Diego but not too many people know the names.” Dasher and co-coordinator Brigitte …
August 31, 2011
Space Junk, the One-Word Answer
Hey Matt: I have a great idea to send coffins into Outer Space so they can travel for 1 million to 100 billion years. This way we will donate our bodies to science and let …
August 31, 2011
A Tribute to Pauline Kael; The Debt Reviewed
Amid the 9/11 memorials, another salute is needed. This Saturday, September 3, marks a decade since Pauline Kael died at 82. She retired in 1991, ending 24 years as movie critic of The New Yorker. …
August 31, 2011
Lakeside girl's father becomes meth head, gives her Shakespeare
On any given Friday, around 5:00 p.m., I could hear Lynyrd Skynyrd or AC/DC blaring at a volume entirely inappropriate — even for Lakeside — from the rusted-out RV that would rumble to a stop …
August 31, 2011
Bull's Eye, Caffé Calabria
‘Fresh mozzarella?” says Giancarlo. “You eat it like a soft apple, while it’s still warm, and the warm milk oozes out and runs down your face. That’s the fresh mozzarella you can get in Italian …
August 31, 2011
Assault on a Galleon
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo never received full credit for exploring the Pacific Coast, complained historian Henry R. Wagner. In 1602, 60 years later, Sebastián Vizcaino sailed north, covered the same territory, and “arbitrarily changed” Cabrillo’s findings. …
August 31, 2011
Record-Release Roundup
John Meeks and Joanie Mendenhall will debut their From My Grave EP on September 3 at Tin Can Ale House. “We’ll play all the EP songs, plus a few you’ve never heard,” says Meeks, “as …
August 31, 2011
Mays Plays Musical Venues
“Boycott 4th&B!!!” That tweet could have come from a disgruntled ex-bouncer or a band that didn’t get drink tickets. It appeared August 21 on the Casbah’s Twitter stream and was gone the next day. The …
August 31, 2011
Apples to Apples
My buddy Mark and his girlfriend Liz recently moved from Pacific Beach to North Park and threw a housewarming barbecue to inaugurate their new place. Maybe 12 friends, many of them old pals from East …
August 31, 2011
Beyond the Lights with Nena Anderson
“I was raised in the idyllic beach town of Encinitas, the daughter of a surfboard shaper,” says singer/songwriter Nena Anderson, known for her soulful vocals, distinct phrasing, and charismatic stage presence. “Blues players like to …
August 31, 2011
Los Amigos Invisibles + Bostich + Fussible
Los Amigos Invisibles was discovered by accident. Their story begins in Venezuela in 1991. There they found a hometown audience still hungry for ’80s American disco, complete with glittery synth blasts, ubiquitous slap bass, and …
August 31, 2011
Tattoo school protest in Pacific Beach
Say the name Lisa Fasulo in a San Diego tattoo shop and you may get blank stares from shop owners, employees, and hangers-around. Mention the Learning Channel’s one-hour reality-style television program about Fasulo’s tattoo school, …
August 31, 2011
UCSD’s best football team
Mayor Jerry Sanders and other local pols seeking a hint about how much longer the Chargers intend to continue playing in San Diego might do well to take a look at a sponsorship deal cemented …
August 31, 2011
Chump Week
There is an ancient Division 1 athletic department tradition about opening the football season against certified wimps. The idea is to make sure you win the first game no matter how degrading it is to …
August 31, 2011
Goo Goos by the Bay
It was a trip back to ’90s adult-contemporary radio when Michelle Branch and the Goo Goo Dolls took the stage at Humphreys by the Bay on this beautiful summer night. Branch played all of her …
August 31, 2011
Join Us, by They Might Be Giants
Early copies of They Might Be Giants’ last CD, The Else, came with bonus disc Cast Your Pod to the Wind, a grab bag of 23 songs collected from the band's podcasts. The freebie proved …
August 31, 2011
MP3tunes Claims Victory in EMI Suit
“I get to keep my minivan,” says MP3tunes owner Michael Robertson, who is claiming a victory in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by record label/music publisher EMI Group Ltd. against him and his company in …
August 31, 2011
"Social Security," by Terence Winch
No one is safe. The streets are unsafe. Even in the safety zones, it’s not safe. Even safe sex is not safe. Even things you lock in a safe are not safe. Never deposit anything …
August 31, 2011
What About Us Handsome Furs?
Dan Boeckner has a great rock ’n’ roll voice, a craggy, croaking sound with a piercing tone on the top and some wavering vibrato on the low end. It sounds like a guy who’s shouting …
August 31, 2011