When Merrill Garbus records under the typographically difficult name tUnE-yArDs, she often builds her songs around a little ukulele, her remarkable voice, and looped samples. Loops are everywhere in music these days, of course, but …
June 22, 2011
Blog Entries
- Stone Hits South Park
- Free Outdoor Movies All Summer at Liberty Station
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- Surf's Up, On Broadway?
- Bank Patron Bites Robber
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- OK, Mr. Abrams, Super 8’s a Hit — Back to Star Trek Now?
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- Residents of Bird Rock Really Don't Want The Real World
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- Adam Lambert Joined Local Onstage
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- Indie Yoga - a Hot Refuge in Ocean Beach
- Aaaaaaand Part 4
- "Cool Zones" Provide Free Air Conditioning
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- Jeff Kaiser Doesn't Need Permission
- A Closer Look at the Trailer for Zookeeper, Part 3
- Salary Cap Issue May Keep Chargers in Town
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- A Closer Look at the Trailer for Zookeeper, Part 2
- Your Name Here: Fundraising for the Central Library
- A Closer Look at the Trailer for Zookeeper, Part 1
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- Activist Groups Call for End to War on Drugs
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- Summer Means 35mm Midnight Movies at The Ken!
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- Dept. of Cinematic Muses
- Manchester Didn't Rake in Big Bucks on Hotel Sale
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- Harry Reid Bashes Georgiou; San Diego Delegation Raises Cash
- The Wanted and the Unwanted
- "Oh, dread, he's up to my..."
- Life's a (Cobbled) Beach
News & Stories
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Gun Range, No Rapture
Well, the Rapture didn’t happen, but it did get me thinking about firearms. When the tribulation comes, I want to know how to shoot. Marc Halcon, owner of American Shooting Center in Kearny Mesa (858-279-7233; …
June 22, 2011
San Diego Live-Aboard
It’s at the point of being rare, talking to a stranger in a bar and realizing, from the start, that you’re having an interesting conversation. I’m at the Harbor Bar (that’s Pillar Point Harbor to …
June 22, 2011
Novels for Spring into Summer
One sometimes finds oneself slightly off balance when approaching a topic that may have short-term and changeable elements. I’m experiencing that somewhat this morning; the changeable element is the weather, not often that changeable in …
June 22, 2011
Autonomic for the People
Experimental 170-beat-per-minute music was popularized about two years ago by London drum-and-bass producers dBridge and Instra:mental via the Club Autonomic podcast. According to Futureproofing, an electronic-music blog, “Autonomic is a flood of outside influences entering …
June 22, 2011
Smoking Zone: Coop's West Texas Barbecue
Coop’s is the new barbecue with the buzz. Since opening last October, it’s already garnered one major huzzah (Candice Woo in San Diego Magazine’s “best restaurants” issue for best barbecue). On Yelp, it’s incited an …
June 22, 2011
Sweet Belt of Alpine
They sit in a row: Bad Boy, Duet, Odin’s Raven. We’re talking bottles. Beer. Alpine beer. Yum. “You first,” says Bro Bill. He’s Carla’s brother. “Ladies first,” I say, looking at Marjorie. She’s Bill’s glamorous …
The California Whirlwind, Part One
She thought she’d finally found a home. For two decades, Luisa Moreno abandoned her private life and championed the rights of workers. She zigzagged around the country, protesting, organizing, and negotiating for labor unions: garment …
June 22, 2011
The fate of a 19-year-old San Diego girl
It’s Friday night around 10:00 p.m. and I’m just getting off work. Before I lived on my own, 10:00 p.m. was too late to even think of going out. Now I know nothing good ever …
June 22, 2011
Blowing Gaskets with Euphoria Brass Band
The Euphoria Brass Band, a New Orleans–jazz outfit, is working out some rhythm parts on a Monday night in the band room at Mission Bay High School. When fully engaged, it is a brassy conflagration. …
June 22, 2011
Spending Like No Tomorrow
Another contractor picking up some sweet change from the City’s Centre City Development Corporation is the Portland, Oregon landscape architectural firm of Walker Macy, designer of that city’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, which local politicos lust …
June 22, 2011
Designer Genes: Craig Venter Negotiates with UCSD
Genomic-engineering pioneer Craig Venter appears to be on the verge of officially breaking ground on flashy new offices on state land at the UCSD campus, but university officials are reluctant to tell the public the …
June 22, 2011
Kerry Steigerwalt's Broke Law Firm Trying to Make Deals
On March 24, San Diegan Laura Perry received a letter from Kerry Steigerwalt’s Pacific Law Center, once San Diego’s best known, most notorious, and most aggressively advertised law firm. Perry, 73, had paid $2000 to …
June 22, 2011
Ted Nugent Still Kills and Grills
Lest we forget: Ted Nugent’s three-chord opening to “Cat Scratch Fever” was schoolin’ for a generation of adolescent guitarists during the late 1970s. You didn’t even have to know how to play the rest of …
June 22, 2011
Oil Speculators: Civil Complaint Names Nicholas Wildgoose of Fairbanks Ranch
From his $4.4 million estate behind the gates of Fairbanks Ranch, Nicholas J. Wildgoose couldn’t see the traffic streaming along I-5, one of America’s busiest freeways. But in 2008, the oil trader and his web …
June 22, 2011
The Stage
Erik Stage, owner of the Stage in the heart of the Gaslamp, calls the venue “three floors of entertainment in our haunted house of corridors and mezzanines.” In its third year, the Stage recently underwent …
June 22, 2011
Valley Center Teacher Who Allegedly Hosted Drunken Teen Party May Not Appear in Court
A 56-year-old schoolteacher accused of hosting a drunken teen party this month may not have to appear in court. Although Nancy Hildebrand was arrested just past midnight on June 12 on suspicion of supplying alcohol …
June 22, 2011
Nathan James & James Harmon
Oceanside’s Nathan James became a blues guitarist by mastering the Piedmont fingerstyle, which produces a complex ragtime sound and is created by thumbing the bass string while picking out a syncopated melody with the fingers. …
June 22, 2011
"Reuben Bright," by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living (and did right), I would not have you think that Reuben Bright Was any more a brute than you or I; For when …
June 22, 2011
Imperial Beach United Methodist Church
Membership: 124 Pastor: Phyllis Ashe Born: San Francisco Formation: Claremont School of Theology, Claremont; National University, La Jolla Years Ordained: 12 years. San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing your sermons? Pastor Phyllis …
June 22, 2011
St. Anselm of Canterbury
Therefore, Lord, you have given understanding to faith, grant me that I may come to understand (as much as You think best) that You exist, as we believe, and that You are what we believe …
June 22, 2011
Contemporary Occultism
“After four albums, we’re playing our first show,” says Eric Nielsen of High Mountain Tempel, who’ll make their stage debut June 25 at Kava. A duo featuring Nielsen (Maquiladora, Buzz or Howl) and Keith Boyd, …
June 22, 2011
Imported Coulter
For Lee Coulter, who was originally inspired by Simon and Garfunkel and Back to the Future (“I played the tennis racket to the soundtrack”), it’s about the music. And producing. And giving “Rockstar 101” lessons …
June 22, 2011
Rooms with a View
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>[T]he dominating mood among the middle-class graduates is one of passive acceptance of a decayed world, handed to them on a platter beyond meaningful repair. While the middle-class kids tend to view themselves …
June 22, 2011