An increase in the number of robberies in Zona Centro — the downtown sector of Tijuana — has aroused the ire of local businessmen who believe the uptick in crime is bad for business, especially …
July 20, 2011
Blog Entries
- Knotty But Nice
- Sexting
- Chula Vista Subcommittee To Discuss Synthetic Drugs
- Calm Before the Comic-Con Storm
- Keeping Gang-Affilliated Youth In Check
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- It Doesn't Need A Hole To Be A Donut
- Weird Geometry on Third Thursdays
- Appeals Court Reinstates Kelley Suit Against U-T
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- Burrito Barato: Señor Mango's
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- Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em at True North Tavern
- Cable Dump Reveals Vetting of Cambodians for San Diego Military Ops
- Solar Panels Offer Cooling Benefits
- Dogville
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- The Hillcrest Fire: Gwen's Story
- Art and Wine
- SD International Children's Film Festival Starts Sunday at Comic-Con
- Pride Parade Goeth Before Them All. Wrath Next? Greed?
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- Ramona Woman Escapes Masked Men
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- Red white and blue
- UC Presents Brave New World of Telematics
News & Stories
Crime Problem in Tijuana's Zona Centro Addressed
Borders Bookstores Prepare to Close
Tuesday, July 19, was an ordinary day in the National City Borders store. Customers at the Westfield Plaza Bonita location were browsing, studying, and drinking coffee. When asked, few people realized that the Borders chain …
July 20, 2011
Boeuf Bourguignon
Recipe by Rene Herbeck, executive chef, Au Revoir Bistro My dad was in the Foreign Legion and when he was in Vietnam, he met my mother. I was born there and lived in Vietnam until …
July 20, 2011
Dogs' Lifted Legs, Astrological "Facts," Kiwi Fruit
Heymatt: My dog lifts his leg to pee. My cats don’t. I don’t know about other animals. Why does my dog do that, or why don’t my cats do that? Do any other animals lift …
July 20, 2011
Good People
It’s going to take a little while to get there — “there” being the sports side of things. But, on the happy side of the street, we’re already two sentences closer. I’ll begin with Joel …
July 20, 2011
Punk Love at Awesomefest
Punk Love. “It actually started as a joke,” says Kyle Pagel. He is a promoter of punk shows and part owner of an indie punk label in Riverside called Muy Autentico. “There’s a guy we …
July 20, 2011
Summer stories
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>At a mock Hollywood party in one scene of Rodgers and Hart, the pleasant musical revue at the Carter Centre Stage, a drunken partygoer makes the bold confession: “I’m heterosexual!” This is a …
July 20, 2011
Hello, So Long, Au Revoir
I’d spent most of a hot muggy afternoon at the dentist’s office, getting inspected and x-rayed and filling out a long, nosy form that began with “Are you alive? Y/N.” The obvious thing to do …
July 20, 2011
Avenue Subs in Coronado
“Okay, Goldilocks. Have a nice hair day.” That’s me to Carla. It’s my day off. We’re in the Crown City — Coronado — for her date with Diane, “the greatest stylist in the universe.” “Hair …
A Little Help from Jenna Fischer
I regret missing A Little Help, which last fall won Best Narrative Feature at downtown’s San Diego Film Festival. Still, a pleasure deferred is not always lost, and the revelation of the picture is Jenna …
July 20, 2011
Sounds of Sunset Strip
On July 30, Lestat’s Coffeehouse will rock and jangle in homage to the Los Angeles music scene centered around the Sunset Strip during the mid 1960s, featuring music by Love, Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and …
July 20, 2011
F**ked Up Comes to Life
Toronto’s prolific Fucked Up is simultaneously the most punk rock and most un-punk rock band in the world. On the punk side, of course, there’s a name that’s unutterable on the radio or TV. There’s …
July 20, 2011
The Unintentionally Authentic Michael McGraw
“I’m an East Coaster,” says Pennsylvania native Michael McGraw at the Alibi in Hillcrest. “I have a little moodiness and I’ve come to embrace it. The music we’re making now is true to that.” McGraw …
July 20, 2011
Till We're Old and Gray
Blackout Party singer/songwriter Brian Holwerda chats with me between waiting tables at Café Japengo and finishing BP’s second album, Closed Mouth Don’t Get Fed. “In my late teens I played in a band called Fine …
July 20, 2011
"Clean Needles for Mice," by Regina Morin
Mickey Mouse has AIDS! The 64-year-old, four-fingered rodent with the big, black ears, was infected with HIV in the first experiment of its kind in the U.S.A. "I don't know how it happened," said the …
July 20, 2011
Grace Lutheran Church
Membership: 1450 Pastor: Jim Young Age: 65 Born: Los Angeles Formation: Concordia University, Seward, Neb.; University of Lincoln, Neb.; Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. Years Ordained: 35 San Diego Reader: How long do you …
July 20, 2011
Liturgy’s Transcendental Black Metal
If hell has a jukebox, it plays black metal. Taken as a whole, the genre’s anti-Christian, pro-Satan polemic — with distorted guitars, bursts of drumming, and vocals that resemble the howling of a tormented beast …
July 20, 2011
Successful pros at the 2011 Comic-con
“This is the first year that I’ll be coming in under a professional badge,” says local comic writer Carolyn Watson Dubisch. “My plans are to hand out preview copies of my books and, as dorky …
July 20, 2011
Lafayette Hotel
Originally known as Imig Manor, the Lafayette Hotel opened in 1946 and hosted Bob Hope as their inaugural guest. The hotel closed its doors 14 years later and, in 2010, began a $4 million overhaul …
July 20, 2011
Citizen Gores
Fans of the movie Citizen Kane will remember the “declaration of principles” read by publisher Charles Foster Kane, played by Orson Welles, to his prep-school buddy, Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), right after they take over …
July 20, 2011
Corporations Honor Issa, Filner, Hunter
The nonprofit Sunlight Foundation is out with some interesting new information about a relatively little-known but popular practice: big corporations and unions giving large sums of money to charitable activities favored by congressmembers, senators, and …
July 20, 2011
If You Don't Dig
A Medusa has moved into my neighborhood. I live in San Francisco, three blocks from Haight Street. I don’t go down there much because it’s sordid with shoe stores, out-of-towners, homeless folk, and all-purpose muckiness. …
July 20, 2011
Bilbray Hobnobs with T. Boone
GOP congressman Brian Bilbray, fresh from his skeet-shooting fund-raiser in the hunt country of Virginia last month, will soon be back among Southern California’s landed gentry with a genteel fund-raiser set for July 23 at …
July 20, 2011
Facial Party
The story is as old as Avon. A salesperson slips into your social sphere, and the “social” invitations follow. But these aren’t casual, gather-round-the-teapot chatter fests – they’re nets cast far and wide, for the …
July 20, 2011
Pet Peeves
We all have them — just like opinions and that other thing to which opinions are often compared. I’m speaking of pet peeves. You may deny it, like Debra Johns, 26, of Chula Vista, who …
July 20, 2011
Wall Street Thrives on Main Street Pain
Over the past two years, the economy and stocks have generally gone in opposite directions. In the economy, we have suffered the steepest downturn and the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, but since early …
July 20, 2011
San Diego’s Pink Army
Pink Army began as a trio of Tween girls in 2008 — Charisma Kain, Alicia Randolph, and Lia Johnson. The group is modeled after Disney Channel/Nickelodeon stars such as Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. “Our …
July 20, 2011
How Did We Get in This Mess at Southwestern College and Sweetwater Union?
On June 21, Sweetwater Union High School District bought out superintendent Jesus Gandara’s contract for $416,675. Last November, Southwestern College paid superintendent Raj Chopra $100,000 to walk away from his contract. Prior to the buyouts, …
July 20, 2011
Hilaire Belloc
Europe is the Church, and the Church is Europe. It is immaterial to the historical value of this historical truth whether it be presented to a man who utterly rejects Catholic dogma or to a …
July 20, 2011