On May 30 at about 10:00 a.m., San Marcos Walmart customers were petrified when a man raged through the store, threatening to "shoot the place up,” according to a trembling and tearful witness. She said …
June 1, 2011
Blog Entries
- Change of address / and moved chef
- He Offered Investors More Than 60% a Year
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- Sweet Cheeks Wants to Have Your Baby
- Eat Like the Founding Fathers
- But can you two-step in flip-flops?
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- Border News Translations: Free Meals; Fertilizer Theft; Pot Plants; Extortion
- Musician Profile : Gunnar Biggs
- Nosy
- X-Men — Xavier busts out the memory wipe
- Court Settlement in Favor of Mission Valley Mobile-Home Owners
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- Mayor Declares June "San Diego Craft-Beer Month"
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- X-Men = Stars Lite
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- The Donkeys Trot to Canada
- Juan Vargas Banks Big Labor Dollars on the Same Day His Labor-favored Bill Is Passed
- What's Missing?
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- Steve Martin Duped by German Art Forgers
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- Thriller Night!
- Cops Dodge Bullet
- Former Local Co-Creating Newest Star Trek Adventures
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- Locals Suing Courtney Love (Who Once Got Me Fired By Larry Flynt)
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- Projectionists Take Cues From Marks
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News & Stories
Angry Man Sparks Fear at San Marcos Walmart
DVD Review: The Station Agent, Garden State, The Hangover
Craig Bentley Film Producer, MonopolyDocumentary.com Tom McCarthy, the director of The Visitor and Win Win, started his directing career with The Station Agent. I can’t think of another director who’s so faithful to his characters …
June 1, 2011
Beer for Brontos
I am a Car3 — a Card Carrying Carnivore! I love the supple, greasy squish of tender, gastronomically compromised muscle tissue yielding beneath my molars. I enjoy the tart, grassy zing of goats’-milk chèvre, and …
June 1, 2011
SoundWave Crashes
The beach-front music venue that was known for 13 years as Cane’s has ceased operations. The 900-capacity Cane’s hosted Snoop Dogg, Prince, Linkin Park as well as local bands when previous owner Eric Leitstein ran …
June 1, 2011
Barbarians' Delight at Calypso Cafe
Only rich people and felons live behind walls, right? Society’s afraid of felons, and rich people are afraid of society. So, back to Medieval days! Walled cities! Uh, except now we call them gated communities. …
Record-Release Roundup
Downspell’s release party for their new full-length The Violent Majority happens Friday, June 3, at Brick by Brick. “It’s the kick-off to our West Coast tour with To Violently Vomit,” says singer Tyson Montrucchio. “The …
June 1, 2011
Why Women Scream
Hey, Matt: When we watch scary movies, my mom screams a lot but my dad doesn’t. When we go out to a movie, ladies scream but the men don’t. I think scary movies are pretty …
June 1, 2011
Gayngs: Yaught Rock?
Retro-minded indie rockers have already mined almost every other era of pop history, and so many are now exploring late-’70s soft rock. You know the stuff: melodic, expertly produced, and oddly impersonal — Hall and …
June 1, 2011
The Roost co-op in North Park
It’s 3:30 on a Monday morning and I’m upside down in a dumpster. My legs dangle in the air. I can’t see anything. What am I doing here? Is this really journalistic research or just …
June 1, 2011
Hangover II: Bigger, Louder, Dumber
The Hangover Part II At one point in The Hangover Part II , Zach Galifianakis puts a bottle beneath the robes of an elderly Buddhist monk as they ride together on a bus through the …
June 1, 2011
Jamie Lennox, Rockologist
“Rock and roll didn’t officially come to San Diego State University until the Buffalo Springfield concert in 1968. That was the first show that was actually called a rock and roll concert.” Jamie Lennox, 28, …
June 1, 2011
San Diego Golfing
As life has increased, golf has decreased for my man, Patrick. He developed his golf habit as a teenaged caddy at Annandale Country Club in Pasadena. He played three times a week then. Now he’s …
June 1, 2011
St. Mary Catholic Church
Membership: 15,000 Pastor: Richard Perozich Age: 60 Born: Clairton, Pennsylvania Formation: St. John Seminary, Camarillo, California Years ordained: 19 years San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing your sermon? Father Richard Perozich: I …
June 1, 2011
Lewis Falls
The recent opening of Highway 39 high above Azusa, after years of repair, allows hikers and campers to once again enjoy the beautiful Crystal Lake Recreation Area. Troubles began with the destructive Curve Fire of …
June 1, 2011
Take Cover
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>[T]he walnuts in the walnut chicken were burned and hence inedible, the Peking duck consisted of squares of apparently canned, fat-riddled duck, and each and every dish, regardless of how it had been …
June 1, 2011
An End to Point Loma’s St. Agnes Catholic Church?
St. Agnes Catholic Church became a parish when Father Manuel Rose arrived in 1933. Lately, several congregants have been discussing among themselves the possibility that the beloved Portuguese mainstay in Point Loma may be closing. …
June 1, 2011
Incest: The SEC and Wall Street
On May 11, the oft-bashed bureaucrats who supposedly regulate the securities industry finally could smile: the Justice Department convicted billionaire hedge fund operator Raj Rajaratnam of criminal insider trading. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which …
June 1, 2011
It Was Scary Up There on the Coronado Bay Bridge
What would you do at witnessing someone about to jump from the Coronado Bay Bridge? Consider the tale of real estate appraiser Bryan Knowlton, a 42-year-old resident of Kearny Mesa. On Thursday, May 12, Knowlton …
June 1, 2011
UCSD's HIV Privacy Gap
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that a research project conducted by UCSD’s Antiviral Research Center violated the privacy and confidentiality rights of an unspecified number of human research subjects taking …
June 1, 2011
La Jolla's Royalty Sample Jose Cuervo at UCSD
Termed-out GOP state senator Mark Wyland has set up a campaign committee to run for the Board of Equalization and is already picking up big money. Last week he collected $8000 from the California Ambulatory …
June 1, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.: Not Motor City
“Some people said they wouldn’t even listen to us because of the band name.” Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott, a Detroit-based indie-pop duo. Their first EP was called Horse Power, …
June 1, 2011
"Pollution," by Karen Stromberg
Dear God, I want you to know I feel so much better since I cleaned the fish tank. Every time I saw them sucking at the surface like a row of tenors, my guilt was …
June 1, 2011
Anonymous
The countenance of the Buddha is like the clear full moon, Or again, like a thousand suns releasing their splendor. His eyes are pure, as large and as broad as a blue lotus. His teeth …
June 1, 2011
All Tweet, No Action
In our busy-busy world, one must multitask. You can be homeless or you can work two jobs and live in debt for the rest of your life. That’s about the size of it. So, one …
June 1, 2011
The Irreplaceable John Kuhlken
“I just did music for fun back then,” says Sara Petite. “About six years ago, Martin from the Ould Sod asked me if I wanted to play at their amnesty benefit.” Petite and drummer John …
June 1, 2011
A Dram of Drummhicit at La Jolla Playhouse
According to Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley’s new play, Drummhicit — pronounced drum-hkkkt — is a single-malt Scotch. It’ll curl your nose and lacquer your teeth but is not ready for prime time. Neither is …
June 1, 2011
241 mariachi players missing
Crack Bust. A routine traffic stop on April 10 led to the arrest of a woman carrying 12 rocks of crack cocaine in her vaginal cavity. According to the report filed by officer Nicholas Juarez, …
June 1, 2011